Budget Battle Resumes
10 November 2004: AIP FYI #145: First Things First: Congress Attempts to Wrap-Up FY 2005 Budget Bills, AIP
“The FY 2005 VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies bill is very problematic. In order to get the Senate bill out of committee, appropriators designated $2 billion as “emergency” spending for VA health care and NASA, money that did not count against the spending cap.”
