House Rules Committee sets emergency meeting to consider 2013 funding bill

By Pete Kasperowicz - 03/04/13 05:05 PM ET

The House Rules Committee will meet on Tuesday to approve a rule for H.R. 933, the continuing spending resolution for the rest of 2013.

The meeting is being designated as an "emergency meeting" because Republicans just posted the text of the bill on Monday. Usually a few legislative days are allowed between the posting of a bill and a Rules Committee hearing on that bill.

The legislation funds the government for the rest of the year at $982 billion, and includes a full appropriations bill for the Defense Department and Military Construction/Veterans Affairs. It redistributes $10.4 billion within the Defense Department and places it in an operations and maintenance budget, which will DOD more flexibility to deal with the sequester.

Barring some agreement, the Obama administration will reduce spending further by $85 billion as required by the sequester, and take it from the $982 billion provided in the bill.

The House is expected to approve the rule for the bill on Wednesday, and approve it on Thursday.