Battle lost, but war not over on feds’ omnibus budget bill

The Senate passed the government's massive bill, but experts say the Upper Chamber has drawn attention to the problem of omnibus bills.

Although opposition Senators failed to amend the government's massive and sweeping omnibus budget implementation bill last Monday night, top political observers say the Senate has managed to draw attention to the issue that putting too many public policy items unrelated to the budget in one bill ...

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