The US House is attempting to reconcile conflicting budget bills. A bill that contained disaster funding was defeated earlier this week, when a number of republicans voted against it. South Dakota Congresswoman Kristi Noem supported the bill…
The House then early this morning passed a stop gap funding bill keeps the government open until mid November, but with out disaster funding. Noem says she isn’t sure if she can support a disaster bill that doesn’t have spending off sets…
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2011/09/Kristi-Noem-923b.mp3|titles=Kristi Noem 923b]Noem says they will be looking for cuts else where in the budget before the disaster bill comes up for another vote…
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2011/09/Kristi-Noem-923c.mp3|titles=Kristi Noem 923c]The House bill has about three point six billion dollars in disaster aid, which is about half of what the Senate wants.
(courtesy WNAX Yankton)