A key Republican lawmaker today announced that Congress will take no action during the lame duck session to pass any fiscal year 2017 appropriation bills and plans to extend a stopgap spending measure through the end of March, a move that will hand major decisions about the FY-17 budget to the incoming Trump administration and the next Republican-controlled Congress. A Nov. 17 statement from the office of House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY) said House and Senate leaders have...
