After the Senate Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee postponed the markup of its bill yesterday because of an expected amendment on abortion, the full committee has also officially postponed its consideration of the measure, originally scheduled for tomorrow. In addition, the committee has dropped from its agenda its consideration of the State-Foreign Operations bill over issues related to federal support for international organizations that provide abortion or services/ referrals related to abortion. The committee is still scheduled to take up the subcommittee-approved Defense bill as well as the Energy and Water Development measure, which has bypassed the subcommittee.
As noted earlier today, it remains to be seen how Democrats will respond to the Defense bill at the full committee level over the Administration’s moves to divert funds from defense installations and projects for a wall on the Southern border. In addition, the Democrats have also expressed their displeasure at the Republicans’ 302(b) allocations for the different bills.
The Office of Federal Relations will have more later this week.