House: Appropriations, Flood Insurance & Climate Change in Congress It sounds like legislators are stepping up to the challenge (maybe) of flood insurance. The House plans to pass its versions of appropriation bills this month. The Senate hasn’t started working yet on its version of spending bills. There is a lot of talk about climate…
Supplemental The FY19 Disaster Supplemental has been signed into law. Click here for the bill. An important distinction in the language is whether or not the funds in each section pertain to natural disasters, or the named storm events. The $19.2 billion dollar bill provides a total of $3.3 billion to the Corps of Engineers…
China to the White House – “Stop the Tariffs or We’ll Stop Buying Your Debt” That’s one way to stop this never-ending commitment to post-disaster spending. Congress has finalized its negotiations for the 2019 Disaster Supplemental bill, H.R. 2157. Trump says he supports it. The $19.2 billion dollar bill provides a total of $3.3 billion…
Energy & Water Appropriations In the midst of Appropriation season, the President, in a rare move, provided Congress with a ‘revised budget’ which included funding for both the Great Lakes and the Florida Everglades under the original budget proposed by the Administration. Everglades: Trump had originally requested $63 million – New Figure $200 million Great…
Energy & Water, Interior & EPA Appropriators are looking at raising overall budget caps to allow the increases in spending that legislators are pushing for. Both Interior-EPA and the Energy & Water bills are expected to have significant (~4%) increases from FY19 based on the House bills. Energy & Water FY19 – $44.6 FY20 –…
The House has passed a supplemental bill – HR 2157: $19.1 Billion dollars – A 12% increase from $17 billion in 2018 – What will next year’s be? We can only hope for fewer wildfires and fewer hurricanes, but there is a lot Congress can do to prepare for future expenditures (which we consider inevitable)…
Here’s what to look for when Congress acts on Corps FY20 Appropriations: We expect the House Subcommittee on Energy & Water Development Appropriations to meet later this month to come up with the House version of the Corps’ budget for the next fiscal year. The President proposed an average 31% reduction across all business lines…
This month on the WaterLog Podcast we dive into the Disaster Supplemental, discuss the Democrats’ big infrastructure plans, and the new WRDA18 guidance and much more…
Website Update **We have updated our Guide to the Corps on our website.** The House Supplemental Appropriations bill is still in committee, HR 2157, but the bill is now registered as a companion bill to the Senate’s version S 572. Nancy Pelosi wants an infrastructure bill that is ‘at least #1 trillion’ She…
Today Nita Lowey, Chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee, introduced a new supplemental disaster appropriations bill: The previous version, HR 268, stalled in the Senate over complications with funding Puerto Rico and other issues. The new bill, HR 2157, does support Puerto Rico, but it also includes $3 billion to address urgent needs resulting from…