With a current stopgap spending measure due to expire on March 18, House Republicans on March 11 introduced a further, three-week extension that includes an additional $6 billion in spending cuts, including a proposal to zero out the General Services Administration's new construction account.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said that Senate Democrats had agreed to the House GOP's proposal, and said that the cuts in the bill had been "already proposed by Democrats."