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A Step Forward

By a vote of 92 to 2, the Senate yesterday agreed to debate a package of four FY2020 spending bills.  As noted yesterday, the bundle is a Senate substitute to a set of House-passed bills and includes the following measures:  Agriculture, Commerce-Justice-Science, Interior, and Transportation-Housing and Urban Development.

Even if the Senate does ultimately approve the package, what happens after that still remains a mystery, as the second set of bills that may be considered contains some of the most controversial ones, including the Defense and Labor-HHS measures.

The continuing resolution signed into law in late September runs out November 22.