{"id":5597,"date":"2025-08-22T08:59:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T12:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=5597"},"modified":"2025-08-22T08:59:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T12:59:50","slug":"senate-appropriators-reject-house-cuts-to-congressional-funding-for-capitol-hill-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/senate-appropriators-reject-house-cuts-to-congressional-funding-for-capitol-hill-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate appropriators reject House cuts to congressional funding for Capitol Hill operations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Before leaving Washington for the August recess,\u00a0the Senate<\/a>\u00a0advanced the annual legislative branch spending bill. The measure proposes\u00a0$4.97 billion<\/a>\u00a0in spending on the upper chamber and the various legislative branch agencies, an increase of $257 million, or 5.4%, from this year. The bill amounts to a rebuke of the lower spending proposed by appropriators in the House of Representatives. But this is no big spending bill. Most of the various legislative branch agencies will receive\u00a0funding<\/a>\u00a0lower than they\u00a0requested<\/a>…. (Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before leaving Washington for the August recess,\u00a0the Senate\u00a0advanced the annual legislative branch spending bill. The measure proposes\u00a0$4.97 billion\u00a0in spending on the upper chamber and the various legislative branch agencies, an increase of $257 million, or 5.4%, from this year. The bill amounts to a rebuke of the lower spending proposed by appropriators in the House […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[165],"tags":[174],"class_list":["post-5597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","tag-the-washington-examiner"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-1sh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5599,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597\/revisions\/5599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}