The House of Representatives could vote Tuesday on a 21-day stopgap budget unveiled Monday by House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) to keep the Department of Energy and the rest of the federal government open through March 11.
“This Continuing Resolution [CR] – the product of bipartisan, bicameral negotiation – extends funding through March 11 to keep government up and running while Congress completes our important work,” DeLauro said in a Monday press release.
The Further Additional Extending Government Funding Act would provide a spending adjustment to prevent schedule delays on the Columbia Class Submarine, according to a summary of the bill. Potential proportional spending on the submarine project would not exceed $1.6 billion, according to the bill, H.R. 6617.
Aside from that change, the measure is much like the current CR, scheduled to expire Feb. 18, which largely keeps funding at fiscal 2021 levels for the semi autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration, at $19.7 billion, the DOE Office of Environmental Management at $7.6 billion, an upward adjustment for the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning fund — and the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy, at $1.5 billion.
The short duration of this proposal would appear to support speculation reported in The Washington Post and elsewhere that Democrats and Republicans are near agreement on a spending deal to keep the government open through the rest of fiscal 2022, which ends Sept. 30.
The stopgap measure was reported out of the House Rules Committee late Monday apparently clearing the way for Tuesday consideration on the House floor.
