Annual Homeland Security 2010 Spending Bill Pending
September 30, 2009 – 9:14 am
Disputes over several issues are holding up the annual Homeland Security spending bill, including funding for border fencing and the construction of a biodefense facility. And with the new fiscal year three days away, Republicans are seizing on the stalled bill to accuse Democrats of putting the nation’s security at risk. House Appropriations Chairman David Obey, D-Wis., said on Friday that “significant substantive differences” remain in reconciling the House and Senate versions of the fiscal 2010 Homeland Security Appropriations bill. Until the differences are resolved, appropriators plan to continue funding the department at current levels under a continuing resolution to keep the federal government operating when the new fiscal year begins on Thursday. One outstanding difference concerns an amendment in the Senate bill that would require the department to build 700 miles of reinforced double-layered physical fencing along the Southwest border, Obey’s office said on Monday.
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