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The federal budget process occurs in two stages: appropriations, which set overall spending limits by agency or program, and authorizations, which direct how federal funds should (or should not) be used. Appropriation and authorization provisions are typically made for single fiscal years. A reauthorization bill like this one renews the authorizations of an expiring law.
Introduced:
Jan 28, 2015
Status:
Passed House
on Oct 27, 2015
This bill passed in the House on October 27, 2015 and goes to the Senate next for consideration.
To reauthorize the Export-Import Bank of the United States, and for other purposes.
The bill’s titles are written by its sponsor.
Summary
House Democrats and a portion of the Republican House majority teamed up last week to win an important battle in the fight to bring back the Export-Import bank, a quasi-governmental agency that provides subsidies to foreign companies buying American goods.
On Monday, October, 26, 2015, the bipartisan coalition successfully used a rare procedural maneuver to call up legislation reauthorizing the ...
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Civic Impulse. (2016). H.R. 597 — 114th Congress: Export-Import Bank Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2015. Retrieved from https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/hr597
“H.R. 597 — 114th Congress: Export-Import Bank Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2015.” www.GovTrack.us. 2015. September 30, 2016 <https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/hr597>
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Prognosis Details
This bill has a . . .
15% chance of being enacted.
Only about 21% of bills that made it past committee in 2013–2015 were enacted.
Factors considered:
The sponsor is on a committee to which the bill has been referred, and the sponsor is a member of the majority party.
There is at least one cosponsor from the majority party and one cosponsor outside of the majority party.
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