Holder goes into details about how the Justice Department is working on meeting the mass budget cuts in a letter to Senator Barbara Mulkuski (Chairwoman of Committee on Appropriations).

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The pushback came a day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested more stimulus spending might be needed, and the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee said he had already instructed his staff to begin working on a bill.

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The House appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security, which includes FEMA, will come up in the Senate Appropriations Committee on September 6, according to the Senate aide.

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