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      "title": "Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) FY2019 Appropriations: Independent Agencies and General Provisions",
      "summary": "The Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) appropriations bill includes funding for more than two dozen independent agencies. Among them are the \nConsumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC),\nElection Assistance Commission (EAC),\nFederal Communications Commission (FCC),\nFederal Election Commission (FEC),\nFederal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA),\nFederal Trade Commission (FTC),\nGeneral Services Administration (GSA),\nNational Archives and Records Administration (NARA),\nOffice of Personnel Management (OPM),\nPrivacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB),\nSecurities and Exchange Commission (SEC),\nSelective Service System (SSS),\nSmall Business Administration (SBA), and\nUnited States Postal Service (USPS).\nPresident Trump\u2019s FY2019 budget request included a total of $3 billion for the independent agencies funded through the FSGG appropriations bill, including $282 million for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) (which is considered through the Agriculture appropriations bill in the House and the FSGG bill in the Senate). \nIn the 115th Congress, the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations reported FSGG appropriations bills (H.R. 6258, H.Rept. 115-792 and S. 3107, S.Rept. 115-281) and both houses passed different versions of a broader bill (H.R. 6147) that would have provided FY2019 appropriations. The House-passed H.R. 6147 would have provided a combined total of $1.4 billion for the FSGG agencies, while the Senate-passed H.R. 6147 would have provided $2.3 billion. In both cases, the largest differences compared to the President\u2019s request were in the funding for the General Services Administration (GSA). No full-year FY2019 FSGG bill was enacted prior to the end of FY2018. The FSGG agencies were provided continuing appropriations through December 7, 2018, in P.L. 115-245 and through December 21, 2018, in P.L. 115-298. No final bill, however, was enacted and funding for FSGG agencies along with much of the rest of the government lapsed on December 22, 2018. No further FY2019 appropriations occurred prior to the 116th Congress.\nIn the 116th Congress, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 21 and H.R. 648, both containing six full FY2019 appropriations bills, including FSGG provisions. H.R. 21 was identical to the Senate-passed H.R. 6147, while H.R. 648 was based on a prospective conference report from the 115th Congress and contained $2.5 billion for the FSGG independent agencies. The Senate did not act on either of these bills. \nOn February 14, 2019, both the House and the Senate agreed to a conference report (H.Rept. 116-9) for H.J.Res. 31, containing seven appropriations bills providing full FY2019 funding for the government\u2019s operations that had not been previously funded. This included FSGG provisions nearly identical to H.R. 648. The President signed the resolution on February 15, 2019, enacting it into law as P.L. 116-6. P.L. 116-6 provides a total of $1.9 billion in appropriations for FSGG independent agencies.",
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      "title": "Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) FY2019 Appropriations: Independent Agencies and General Provisions",
      "summary": "The Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) appropriations bill includes funding for more than two dozen independent agencies. Among them are the \nConsumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC),\nElection Assistance Commission (EAC),\nFederal Communications Commission (FCC),\nFederal Election Commission (FEC),\nFederal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA),\nFederal Trade Commission (FTC),\nGeneral Services Administration (GSA),\nNational Archives and Records Administration (NARA),\nOffice of Personnel Management (OPM),\nPrivacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB),\nSecurities and Exchange Commission (SEC),\nSelective Service System,\nSmall Business Administration (SBA), and\nUnited States Postal Service (USPS).\nPresident Trump submitted his FY2019 budget request on February 12, 2018. The request included a total of $3 billion for the independent agencies funded through the FSGG appropriations bill, including $282 million for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) (which is considered through the Agriculture appropriations bill in the House and the FSGG bill in the Senate). \nThe House Committee on Appropriations reported a Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.R. 6258, H.Rept. 115-792) on June 28, 2018. Total FY2019 independent agencies funding in the reported bill would be $1.2 billion, with another $255 million for the CFTC included in the Agriculture appropriations bill (H.R. 5961, H.Rept. 115-706). The combined total of $1.4 billion would be about $1.6 billion below the President\u2019s FY2019 request, with the largest difference in the funding for the GSA.\nH.R. 6258 was included as Division B of H.R. 6147, the Interior appropriations bill, when it was considered by the House of Representatives beginning on July 17, 2018. The bill was amended numerous times, shifting funding among FSGG agencies but not changing the FSGG totals. H.R. 6147 passed the House on July 19, 2018.\nThe Senate Committee on Appropriations reported a Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2019 (S. 3107, S.Rept. 115-281) on June 21, 2018. Independent agency funding in S. 3107 totaled $2.3 billion, about $0.7 billion below the President\u2019s FY2019 request, with the largest difference in the funding for the GSA. The Senate passed a version of H.R. 6147 on August 1, 2018, including the text of S. 3107 as Division B of the amendment in the nature of a substitute (S.Amdt. 3399).\nNo full-year FY2019 FSGG bill was enacted prior to the end of FY2018. The FSGG agencies were provided continuing appropriations until December 7, 2018, in Division C of P.L. 115-245.",
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