Word: stopgaps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON: Unable to reach agreement on a broad spending plan to fund government agencies and departments for the last six months of fiscal year 1996, Congressional Republicans passed another stopgap measure to keep government operations going through April 24. The measure, passed by Senate on a 64 to 24 vote and the House on a voice vote, awaits President Clinton's signature. The bill provides funds to operate dozens of agencies and departments. It also provides the $198 million requested by President Clinton to repair war damage in Bosnia. The White House has declined to say whether President Clinton will...
...this week to work out the details on how to provide more than $160 billion to fund the nine Cabinet Departments and numerous other federal agencies. The long-awaited compromise would bring to an end an ongoing crisis that has triggered two partial government shutdowns and has required 11 stopgap spending measures since last fall...
...Administration and Congressional officials may be getting closer to resolving the budget deadlock that has partially shut down government for the past two weeks. White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta emerged from a three-hour meeting with Republican leaders on Friday, announcing the possibility of a stopgap spending measure that would send federal employees back to work while a budget is finalized. "The general tone has shifted among the principals," says Congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty. "They seen to be coming out of the negotiating rooms happy, rather than angry. So it looks like some progress is being made." Facing...
...matter who got the best of whom--polls continued to show that the President won the public debate over the shutdown--the deal only provides stopgap funding for the Federal Government until Dec. 15. By that time, the two branches will have to come to terms over permanent appropriations bills for the current fiscal year or else face another crisis. Serious budget negotiations are set to begin as soon as President Clinton vetoes the massive G.O.P. plan that finally cleared Congress on Monday...
Call it a basic disagreement between the parties. Call it a constitutional crisis between the branches. But most of all, call it the formal and contentious opening of the 1996 presidential-election campaign. Key parts of the Federal Government shut down on Tuesday after President Clinton vetoed stopgap spending-and-borrowing legislation enacted by Congress. Clinton objected because Republicans had ladened the measures with restrictions intended to force him into accepting the huge spending cuts at the heart of their balanced-budget plan. The standoff continued throughout the week, overshadowing all but final congressional passage of the budget plan itself...