Source: Jennifer Shutt, ROLL CALL, 4/9/19


The House set an overall spending cap of nearly $1.3 trillion for appropriators in that chamber to write their fiscal 2020 bills, adopting a “deeming resolution” on Tuesday as part of the rule governing floor debate on separate spending caps legislation — although that legislation hit a snag on Tuesday.  The tally was 219-201, with no Republicans voting for the rule and seven Democrats voting 'no.’ Trouble on the rule boded ill for the House leadership-backed bill to set discretionary limits for the next two years, however.

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