Senate committee approves $460,000 budget for 11-member progressive group

The powerful Internal Economy Committee also agreed to move some procurement discussions from behind closed doors in a bid to be more transparent about its contracts.

Progressive Senator Jim Munson asked other members of the Internal Economy Committee to approve extra funding owed his group from the Senate budget's anticipated surplus rather than from other groups.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

September 30, 2020

A discussion about how to allocate the expanded Progressive Senate Group new funding without expanding the Senate's budget this year reignited wider longstanding tensions among groups about the formula leadership teams are using this Parliament.

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