Regulations and Government
Congressional Observer: April 2003
There was good news and bad news concerning appropriations for those 11 of 13 government agencies that have been impatiently waiting and enduring the agony

There was good news and bad news concerning appropriations for those 11 of 13 government agencies that have been impatiently waiting and enduring the agony of eight continuing resolutions that allowed them to operate with Fiscal Year 2002-level funding.

The good news was that Congress finally signed off on a 3,000-page FY2003 Omnibus Appropriations Act on February 14, which lumped funding for those 11 agencies into the one bill. The total cost amounted to $397.4 billion for FY2003, which began last October 1 and will end September 30.