Tag: appropriations

January 25, 2019

More details emerge on refuges reopening during shutdown

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is using previously appropriated funds and recreational fee dollars to partially re-staff some National Wildlife Refuges for 30 days during the ongoing partial government...

January 16, 2019

USFWS opens 38 refuges despite government shutdown

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is using previously appropriated — but unspent — money to reopen and re-staff 38 priority refuges around the country, despite the ongoing partial government...

January 10, 2019

Shutdown continues as 116th Congress begins

With 800,000 federal workers furloughed or working without pay, Washington D.C., is quieter than normal, even as new member of Congress and their families flock to the city as the...

January 3, 2019

115th Congress ends without federal budget, LWCF, RAWA

The lame-duck Congress was unable to reach agreement on the federal budget by the Dec. 21 deadline, sending some federal government agencies into a shutdown. While final budgets for the...

August 16, 2018

Senate passes Interior-EPA appropriations bill

The Senate has passed the appropriations bill (H.R. 6147) for the Interior, Environment and Related Agencies as part of a small omnibus package, or “minibus,” with the Agriculture, Financial Services-General...

July 31, 2018

‘Minibus’ carries Interior-Environment bill through Congress

The House of Representatives has passed a so-called ‘minibus’ package (H.R. 6147) containing the Interior-Environment and Financial Services-General Government appropriations bills. The White House released a statement expressing support for...

June 20, 2018

Senate committee approves Interior spending bill

On Thursday last week, the Senate Committee on Appropriations unanimously approved a $32.6 billion Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for fiscal year (FY) 2019 (S. 3073) Only one...

June 13, 2018

House Appropriations Committee passes Interior spending bill

The House Appropriations Committee has approved a $35.25 billion spending bill for the Interior Department, the Environmental Protection Agency and related agencies for fiscal year 2019. The committee approved the...

May 31, 2018

Western and Southwest sections weigh-in on border wall

The Western and Southwest Sections of The Wildlife Society collaborated on a letter to their regions’ congressional representatives about the potential effects of the proposed border wall on wildlife along the...

May 30, 2018

Cooperative Research Units may see increased funding

The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies advanced a fiscal year 2019 spending bill with report language that would provide $19.29 million for the Cooperative Research Units...