The House Ways and Means Committee last night approved a handful of amendments before moving the House operating budget proposal to the floor. Most notably for WSU was an amendment that would limit how much money the university would have to hold in reserve as a sort of performance incentive fund. Originally, the proposal called […]
Discussions continue today between the White House, Senate, House of Representatives and the two political parties to come to terms on a long-term Continuing Resolution (CR) which would fund the federal government for the remainder of fiscal year 2011. The current short-term CR will expire this Friday, April 8th and the hope is that a […]
Leaders in the state House of Representatives yesterday afternoon released their proposed operating and capital budget proposals and it’s expected the Senate will soon follow with theirs. The operating budget proposal, which would close a budget shortfall of more than $5 billion mostly through major spending cuts, would cut WSU’s state appropriation by about $109 […]
It’s day 79 of this year’s legislative session and the big news of the week is still to come. Leaders in the House of Representatives could release their budget proposal any day now. But given the great complexity and difficulty in plugging this year’s multi-billion-dollar budget gap, this release has been delayed. We’ll post an […]
One of the questions I get most often from Pullman centers around the status of the higher education regulatory reform package in the Legislature. And it’s routinely one of the most difficult to answer. By way of background, last year our state’s universities were asked to develop a list of measures that might offer some […]
It’s the 72nd day of this year’s 105-day legislative session and there’s much to report. Last week the state’s Economic and Revenue Forecast Council issued a new quarterly report that stretched the state’s multi-billion dollar budget gap even wider. For the remainder of the current two-year budget cycle, which ends June 30, the report reduced […]
The current Continuing Resolution will keep the Federal Government running until April 8th. There were several WSU congressionally directed projects included in either the House or Senate appropriations bills the following items have been removed during the Continuing Resolution process and will not be funded in the FY2011 appropriations. In addition to reducing “earmarks” Congress […]
The 2nd Continuing Resolution H.J. Res 48 By a vote of 271 to 158, the House cleared H.J. Res. 48, the three-week continuing resolution (CR) that would keep the government funded through April 8. The current CR expires this Friday evening. The Senate is expected to pass this CR also by the end of this […]
It’s the 64th legislative day and it kicks off a week that followers of the legislative process have been awaiting – if not eagerly. At noon on Thursday the state’s Economic and Revenue Forecast Council is scheduled to release its latest quarterly forecast of state tax collections. It’s this report that legislators will use to […]
Appropriations Committee Introduces Three Week Continuing Resolution – Bill will Prevent Government Shutdown, Cut $6 Billion in Spending WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers today introduced a Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the federal government at current rates for three weeks -until April 8 – while cutting $6 billion in spending. The legislation […]