APPROPRIATIONS

The blame game is raging between Bush and Congress as various budget deadlines are essentially ignored. Bush and Congress are accusing each other regularly of failing to listen to proposals and fixes for everything from failing to respond adequately to the energy crisis to the slumping economy. There's a cut of about $1.8 in the Pacific Salmon Treaty appropriation, similar to last year, and the budget still fails to include Timber-Fish-Wildlife/Forests and Fish funding.

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Posted at 3:08 PM | Comments ( 0 )

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! OFF WE GO!
The 2008 Session of the Washington State Legislature convened at noon on Monday, January 14. Again this year, NWIFC will support your efforts to monitor and provide input on natural resource/environment-related bills and issues through the weekly publication of Leg-Com News. Here you will find brief articles intended to provide insight into the going’s on in the State Capitol, and all comments are welcome. Please let us know if you want to subscribe to this served, which is available to all NWIFC member tribes at no cost. Contact Suzanne Sund at (360) 438-1180, ext. 379, or at Ssund@nwifc.org. As always, we will greatly appreciate receiving any thoughts you might have on legislation, as well as requests for additional support on bills or any other legislative issue. For these purposes, please contact Steve Robinson at (360) 528-4347-office, (360) 951-2494-Cell or Srobinson@nwifc.org.

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APPROPRIATIONS
A hard push by Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV to work budget bills through weekends and even Veterans Day floundered, giving way to other pressing schedules, e.g., the presidential campaign, and making another continuing resolution to extend past November 16 very probable. Whether or not the bills will be rolled up into an omnibus remains to be seen. But with no real movement of appropriations bills that, too, remains a very distinct possibility—which could mean status quo funding for another year.

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Posted at 11:20 AM