MCC Biggest Disagreement between House and Senate Appropriations Bills

July 15, 2009

Posted by Sheila Herrling in MCA/MCC, Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance Tags: Appropriations, Budget, Congress, UN

Last Thursday the House passed a $48.8 billion FY10 State, Foreign Operations Appropriations bill (H.R. 3081), $3.2 billion below the President’s request (not including $1.9 billion in advanced FY09 supplemental funding). The bill included $1.4 billion for the MCC, just a hair below the President’s $1.43 billion request. The Senate Appropriations Committee delivered a slightly lower amount of overall funding, $48.7 billion (again, not including advanced supplemental funding). Read More…

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MCC Thrown a Lifeline in FY09 Omnibus Bill

February 25, 2009

Posted by Sheila Herrling in Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance Tags: Appropriations, Budget, Congress, On the Hill

Picture this. A guy falls off the deck of a cruise ship. The captain throws him a life saver but can’t stop the boat. Everyone on the deck is yelling at him to do this and do that. The poor guys swims for his life just to grab onto the life saver. And there he floats waiting to see if the captain will ever reel him him. That poor guy is the MCC in the FY09 State and Foreign Operations section of the Omnibus Appropriations Bill (page 49).
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