Category: Legislative Updates
Legislative Update: CSBG and WAP Continuing Resolution Funding Update
-- NASCSP Staff -- The Senate is in the process of completing its work on the continuing resolution (CR) for the balance of fiscal year (FY) 2013, ending on September 30, 2013. The Senate Appropriations Committee has reported a bill which has proceeded to the floor for debate and a final vote. NASCSP was instrumental in persuading the Administration to seek a "budget anomaly" for the
Poverty Politics: Sequestration Scenarios
-- Mark Schmeissing, Senior Policy Analyst, NASCSP, and Brad Penney, General Counsel, NASCSP -- Last week at the NASCSP Annual Conference, much of the conversation was about the future of the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) and Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP). One of the major issues facing our Network is the impact of sequestration. Sequestration and CSBG: Sequestration
READ MORELegislative Update: Beware the Ides of March
-- Brad Penney, General Counsel, Advocates for the Other America -- “Beware the ides of March.” — Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare Sequestration will have major—and negative—impacts on energy and environmental management agencies. Here’s how it will affect all Americans. More families exposed to the cold and heat Children and seniors more vulnerable to air pollution Less
POLITICO: Poverty Gets More Attention in Obama's 2nd Inaugural Address
--Originally posted on POLITICO 44 and authored by Josh Gerstein, White House reporter for POLITCO-- President Barack Obama, who has drawn criticism from liberals for paying too little attention to poverty in his public rhetoric, made more mention of the subject Monday in his second inaugural address. "We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has
Legislative Update: Fiscal Cliff Impact on WAP and CSBG
-- By the Advocates for the Other America -- On January 1st, Congress narrowly averted going over the “fiscal cliff” by reaching a compromise on spending and tax increases. The final agreement temporarily spares programs like CSBG and WAP from automatic sequestration that was scheduled to take place January 1st by delaying the $110 billion in cuts for two months. Despite this provisional
