A measure approved generous funding highway and bridge projects, community development grants and housing assistance to the poor running fierce Republican opposition in the Senate.
The bill appears likely to fall Thursday thwart Republican discontent, legislation needed to break the budget limit is called automatic spending cuts budget sequestration.
"Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY, said:" Voting funding legislation, in flagrant violation of the budget reform has been agreed by both accurate and completely the wrong direction, China's mobile.
A more serious companion legislation pulled off the floor Wednesday because senior lawmakers said the lack of a vote Republican leaders. Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Rep. Harold Rogers, R-KY, said that now is the time to go back to the drawing board and came up with a compromise with congressional Democrats and the White House.
Taken together, these two measures illustrate the possible failure by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and the Democrats in the Senate is responsible for budget policy shortcomings. The question now is 12 spending bills passed by Congress, the annual day-to-day work of the government.
House Republican leaders pulled the measure, from the floor of the conservatives and moderates against detection. Democrats unite against the bill and slashed by Amtrak, transportation and housing programs, community development grants.
"Some people have a hard time voting for any appropriations bill, then there are some people (who) this could be a tough vote, Amtrak and block grants and stuff, said:" Rep. Tom Mulai Grantham, R clothes A China, the author of transportation and housing initiatives. Top Republican aides like Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia and California Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy believe that the measures have been destroyed, because there is not enough time in the House's crowded schedule.
Without a broader House-Senate budget agreement, both houses of Congress has been working to promote the 12 appropriations bills in the House, but with little success, almost no different in the Senate version.
The Senate measure has been drafted two years ago, was originally known as enacted budget agreement to reflect the higher level of the budget. However, the agreement called for called sequestration, automatic spending cuts if Congress can not pass up deficit reduction, as well as the House spending bill has been drawn these archived level, more than $ 90 one billion - a huge, insurmountable differences about of $ 1 trillion budget for daily agency business.
Congressional leaders in Washington this week, five weeks of vacation, leaving the mess to deal with in the fall. Republican leaders have tried to establish a budget showdown this summer need to pass legislation to increase the government's $ 16.7 trillion borrowing limit. But the government's financial performance was better than expected delayed into the fall showdown.
President Obama said he would not negotiate the debt ceiling, as he promised two years ago, he repeated his House and Senate in closed session last Wednesday on Capitol Hill allies.
House and Senate transportation measures reflected a broader dysfunction in Washington budget. The two sides to reverse paralysis sequestration cuts, but tax increases sought Obama and his Democratic allies and cut the so-called mandatory programs such as Medicare and food stamps by the Republicans claim a partisan stalemate is no indication that the fracture.
Transport measures in the House by Republican move cut cut an additional $ 4 billion U.S. dollars, plus remittances from domestic programs and deeper into the Pentagon. This allows traffic arrangements for the $ 1 billion, or about 18 percent, lower than the Senate bill.
Rogers, they are usually in his public statements cautious, abnormal harsh explosion, said in the House adjourn the debate measures reflect a failure of Republicans follow up their commitments binding legislation to cut spending.
"With this action, the House of Representatives refused to continue the implementation of the budget adopted just three months ago, very," Rogers said. He said the failure of transportation and housing measure Republicans to pass appropriations bill in line with the level of sequestration cuts first major attempt, and said that the bill's failure means it is a new approach.
"House of Representatives, the Senate and the White House must come together as soon as possible a comprehensive compromise repealing sequestration, hobbled off this country from the financial crisis, the financial crisis path, reducing the deficit and debt, and provides a realistic topline discretionary spending a responsible way - up - government funding levels, "Rogers said.
On this point, at least one protocol.
D-Wash Sen. Patty said, "Murray:" partisan bill in the House Transportation and Housing collapse prove that their steroid sequestration bill is not going to work, and we will need a bipartisan agreement to replace the seal. The Senate bill's lead author.
 



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