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Conference committee moves to shift some appropriations into individual bills, starting with health-care funding
Summary
The H.493 conference committee agreed in principle to move certain appropriations out of the conference budget and into the companion bills (for example, moving S.126 health-care funding into the healthcare bill) so that money would 'follow the bill.'
The H.493 conference committee on May 8 discussed a procedural approach to place program funding in the substantive bills that will carry program language rather than tracking the money only on the bottom-line budget. Committee members proposed taking the Senate general-fund money for the health-care bill (S.126) and putting it directly into that bill;…
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