Riders: "$1 Trillion Spending Deal Aims To Avert Government Shutdown"

"Congressional appropriators [Tuesday] night unveiled a $1 trillion spending bill to fund most government agencies through the end of the year, making slight cuts to U.S. EPA while boosting spending at the Departments of Energy and the Interior.

The fiscal 2015 spending bill, posted just after 8 p.m. yesterday, will be considered this afternoon by the Rules Committee, which will set up a House vote tomorrow. It remains to be seen whether the Senate also will be able to reach an agreement to vote on it tomorrow in order to prevent the government from shutting down, but aides expected that a shutdown would be avoided, via quick passage of the mammoth spending bill or a one- or two-day continuing resolution, if necessary.

'After months of thorough, business-like, sometimes tough but always civil negotiations, we have reached a responsible, bipartisan and bicameral agreement on funding for government operations for 2015,' House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) and Senate Appropriations Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) said in a joint statement last night. 'More than two months into the fiscal year, it's time we end government on autopilot so we can turn our focus to meeting the day to day needs of Americans and long-range needs of the nation.'"

Nick Juliano, Manuel Quiñones, and Annie Snider report for E&E Daily December 10, 2014.

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