Guest Column From Appropriations Vice Chair Patrick Leahy, On The Budget Showdown
January 12, 2018
January 12, 2018
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 -- The office of Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vermont, issued the following column:
Once again Congress finds itself lurching toward another manufactured made-in-Washington crisis. We are four months into a new fiscal year, and our government is still operating under last year's fixed funding levels with little flexibility to adapt to today's world. We have not reauthorized the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), putting the health care of 9 m . . .
Once again Congress finds itself lurching toward another manufactured made-in-Washington crisis. We are four months into a new fiscal year, and our government is still operating under last year's fixed funding levels with little flexibility to adapt to today's world. We have not reauthorized the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), putting the health care of 9 m . . .