The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology will convene a hearing before the full committee: “A Review of the Administration’s Federal Research and Development Budget Proposal for Fiscal Year 2021”.
Witness: Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier, Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Date: Thursday, February 27th, 2020
Time: 10:00 am EST
Place: 2318 Rayburn House Office Building
To watch the hearing, please visit the Committee Website.
The Administration is expected to released its annual budget request for FY2021 on Monday, February 10th, which is on time. The President’s Budget Request, known as the PBR outlines the Administrations’s spending goals and priorities for the coming fiscal year. Each federal agency will release more detailed breakdowns of their budgets subsequent to the PBRs release.
Once the PBR is released, the busy Congressional budget and appropriations season begins in Washington, DC. The appropriations process is lengthy usually lasting through the summer.
For a full rundown of the appropriations process, see our guide.
The president signed the two FY2020 appropriations package late Friday, officially averting a shutdown. There are approximately only nine months left in the current fiscal year, as FY2021 starts October 1, 2020.
Earlier today, the Senate cleared the two packages of FY2020 spending bills, which were approved by the House on Tuesday.
The Senate approved the eight-bill “non-security” measure first and then followed that up with the four-bill “security” package.
The bills will now be sent to the President for his signature.
The House passed two spending packages of nearly $1.4 trillion to fund federal agencies through FY20. The current federal funding continuing resolution expires at midnight Friday.
The Senate is expected to clear the pair of bills for President Donald Trump’s signature later this week.
The bipartisan agreement provides $49 billion in extra funding across the government and includes sweeping policy provisions, including to raise the legal age of tobacco purchases to 21, reauthorize PCORI, extend the Ex-IM bank for seven years, and repeal of several health taxes in Obamacare.