Their efforts include providing funds military pay and SNAP benefits.
appears increasingly likely because of a budget impasse in Congress, several Ohio legislators are proposing bills meant to ease its effects.
U.S. Rep. Max Miller, a Rocky River Republican, blamed five to seven of his GOP colleagues for impasse. He said 98% of Republicans in the House of Representatives wanted to approve a fiscally conservative funding bill and said a tiny minority are opposing it “to elevate” themselves. According to the American Federation of Government Employees union, during the last partial government shutdown, 800,000 federal employees went five weeks without a paycheck, with half forced to work without pay and another half locked out of their jobs. The U.S. economy also took an $11 billion hit.they’re working to avoid a shutdown but also working on legislation that would mitigate its effects, though passage seems unlikely before the Oct.
Sykes teamed up with Nebraska Republican Rep. Don Bacon to introduce a second bill called the “Pay Our Military Act,” which would ensure pay continues to our servicemen and women during a government shutdown. Brown is a cosponsor of that bill. U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, a Dayton Republican who chairs the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and serves on the Armed Services committee, teamed up with the House Judiciary Committee’s top Democratcalled the “It’s About Time Act” that would align the federal government’s funding schedule with the calendar year.
“We cannot allow the critical operations at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to be threatened by senseless shutdowns,” Turner added.
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