SENATE RESOLUTION: Fiscal Year Spending Resolution (Passed)

[Sestak]

Keep in mind fiscal year restarts at the end of September/start of October. This amendment forces spending passed in the July-August Congress of 2019 to wait until FY 2021 to add new spending, while spending passed in September 2019 would be able to go into effect less than a month later with the commencement of FY 2020.

[Sestak]

Keep in mind fiscal year restarts at the end of September/start of October. This amendment forces spending passed in the July-August Congress of 2019 to wait until FY 2021 to add new spending, while spending passed in September 2019 would be able to go into effect less than a month later with the commencement of FY 2020.

Why would a spending bill passed later be able to go into effect earlier?

Because the amendment Yankee introduced pushes the earliest time back by a year only for the Congress starting in July.

[Sestak]

Now you've gone to the other extreme and are overly punishing October. What did Halloween ever do to you?

[Sestak]

Anyway I suggest language along the lines of "unless passed in the period commencing at the start of the congress elected in June and terminating at the end of the same fiscal year".