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| Lame Duck and Appropriations Congress is near the end of a Lame-Duck session of Congress that ends this Friday. As this issue was going to press, Congress was negotiating a short-term Continuing Resolution (CR) (to Feb. 9) to prevent a partial government shutdown on Friday night. The cause of the threatened shutdown is because the President is demanding $5 billion for a wall at the border with Mexico. The House funding bill already has $1.6 billion; Senate Democrats do not want to add any more. Seven of the 12 funding bills have not been signed into law. The Labor, HHS, Education Funding bill, which contains most funding for disability programs, has already been signed into law. Unfortunately, the funding bill that provides money for Justice programs, including the $2 million to implement the Kevin and Avonte's Law, is one of the bills not yet signed. The short-term CR means that the new Congress will have to resolve the remaining differences in these bills when it begins in January. Read the entire issue for more updates on other legislation that may pass in the Lame Duck impacting people with autism such as the Money Follows the Person program, the ACE Kids Act, and news on the US Commission on Safety in Schools just published and much more... |
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