House and Senate appropriations committee staffers spent their Thanksgiving holiday weekend hard at work, negotiating a full appropriations bill for fiscal year 2015 to take the place of the continuing resolution currently funding the government at last year’s spending levels. The bill being drafted would include compromise versions of all 12 pieces of legislation each committee must pass each year, each providing a line-by-line spending allowance for various federal departments and agencies. With Republicans taking control of the Senate in…
