Senate Appropriations Subcommittee Markup Scheduled

The Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 appropriations bill that covers Social Security has been reported out of the House Appropriations Committee and should come up on the floor of the House of Representatives in the near future. The Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee that covers the Labor-HHS-Education bill that includes Social Security has scheduled a markup session for Tuesday, July 28. This does not guarantee that the appropriations bill will be enacted by October 1, 2009, the beginning of FY 2010, but Congress is making much more progress towards that goal than in other recent years.