$515.7 Billion Omnibus Measure Approved by House

With two votes, the House voted to approve $484.7 billion in domestic discretionary and emergency spending (253-154 [1]) and $31 billion for spending on the conflict in Afghanistan (206-201 [2]).

The Senate will take up the bill today. It is expected that it will tack on about $40 billion in additional war funding. Unlike the House version, which prohibited any of the $31 billion war supplemental to be spent on operations in Iraq, the Senate's $70 billion war spending measure would fund both wars.