During the hearings this summer, lawmakers assailed the regulator.
Congress will allow the National Weather Service to reallocate $36 million to stave off furloughs of 5,000 employees this summer, lawmakers said Wednesday.
Since the Alabama law went into effect last summer, lawmakers have acknowledged what they call "unintended consequences" and for months have been discussing the scope and nature of changes to the law.
If the measure is not approved by the House by early summer, lawmakers say it is likely to die this year because the Congressional session will be abbreviated for the Presidential nominating conventions and Congressional campaigns.
After a majority conservative government was elected last summer, lawmakers quickly renewed the call for a referendum in 2017 or earlier on whether Britain should stay in the European Union, raising the specter of the departure of one of the bloc's biggest members.
In 1990, lawmakers, led by then-Rep.
So in 2009, lawmakers adjusted the compensation law again.
Finally, in 2010, lawmakers in Sacramento overcame the supermajority rule.
Those changes would free up about $200 million this year, lawmakers say.
From 1946 through 2000, lawmakers retreated from programs that worked to rehabilitate criminals, she says.
