With agency money running out Saturday, the Senate approved legislation financing government through next Wednesday to give negotiators time to craft a final deal.
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The Democrats have been seeking to get Republican leaders, who control both houses of Congress, to take up legislation.
As a Friday deadline looms for Congress to get a new spending bill passed, and avert a government shutdown, lawmakers are trying to push that cutoff to the middle of next week.
The victims in attendance, which included family members of those killed at Sandy Hook Elementary, happen to be on Capitol Hill while lawmakers are negotiating a major budget deal to fund the federal government for 2016.
Negotiations on a year-end spending deal remained at a standstill on Wednesday. “We start with a position we want them all, and someplace in the middle we’ll meet”.
No. 2 House Democratic leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland indicated on C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” that Democrats could be open to bargaining on oil exports and gun violence research.
“We must insist that we can not have a bill leave the station that still has that ban in it”, Pelosi said today at a press briefing called to commemorate the third anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012.
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“If [the government’s] budget does not allow the CDC to compile that data, that information, so we can figure out how to more effectively address the public safety-requirements of the American people, then – I’m speaking for myself – it’s a budget not worth voting for”, Israel told reporters.
-CAMPAIGN SPENDING: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., seems likely to win a change in campaign finance law to lift spending limits by party committees of behalf of candidates for federal office.
Wolf has pointed the finger at House Republicans, a caucus that has grown more conservative as it has seen a series of recent electoral victories, leaving it with a 119-84 margin over Democrats.
“Once the public hears the president on the news say we need more gun controls, it tends to drive sales”, the Times quoted Larry Hyatt, owner of a gun shop in North Carolina as saying.
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Reed, R-Indiana, left a Thursday afternoon meeting with Senate GOP leaders promising no agreement on the more than a half-dozen bills that are central to the budget package.
