2nd hurdle towards Culinary School. Now the President needs to sign it into law!
By J. Taylor Rushing
Posted: 06/26/08 10:24 PM [ET]
The Senate left town Thursday night for a week and a half after passing billions in domestic spending initiatives and a new GI Bill but falling a single vote short of passing Medicare legislation that would have prevented pay cuts to physicians.
The flurry of votes capped a day of dull inaction. Senators will now begin their Independence Day recess, following which they will take up legislation modernizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act on Tuesday, July 8. Partisan wrangling delayed action on housing legislation until after the recess.
The supplemental, which passed by a 92-6 vote, authorized a new GI Bill, Gulf Coast and Midwest flood recovery funds and an extension of unemployment benefits. It will be added to $165 billion that the House and Senate have already approved for U.S. military needs in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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