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House Republicans are weighing an ambitious plan to pass a 12-bill appropriations package for fiscal 2018 ahead of the August recess, top GOP appropriators told CQ Roll Call on Thursday.
The package effectively would be an instant omnibus — one that consists of 12 spending bills written by the GOP-controlled House Appropriations Committee.
House appropriators would need to mark up their bills at a breakneck pace in order to bring a full package to the floor before the August recess, which is scheduled to begin the week of July 31. That would be a tall order any time and especially when work on the fiscal 2018 budget and appropriations has lagged months behind schedule. The 2018 fiscal year begins Oct. 1 and lawmakers have just 12 legislative days planned when both chambers will be in session in September.
At a closed-door Republican conference meeting Thursday morning on budget policy, Rep. Tom Graves, chairman of the Financial Services Appropriations Subcommittee, tested the idea of bundling the 12 appropriations bills into a single package “that identifies our priorities and aligns along with the president’s priorities.” That would occur immediately after the usual markups in subcommittee and committee, so that a single bill would be presented to the House for an up-or-down vote.
- See more at: House Appropriators Float 12-Bill Omnibus Before Recess
But, I'm pretty sure that it is more important to focus on the executive office.
The package effectively would be an instant omnibus — one that consists of 12 spending bills written by the GOP-controlled House Appropriations Committee.
House appropriators would need to mark up their bills at a breakneck pace in order to bring a full package to the floor before the August recess, which is scheduled to begin the week of July 31. That would be a tall order any time and especially when work on the fiscal 2018 budget and appropriations has lagged months behind schedule. The 2018 fiscal year begins Oct. 1 and lawmakers have just 12 legislative days planned when both chambers will be in session in September.
At a closed-door Republican conference meeting Thursday morning on budget policy, Rep. Tom Graves, chairman of the Financial Services Appropriations Subcommittee, tested the idea of bundling the 12 appropriations bills into a single package “that identifies our priorities and aligns along with the president’s priorities.” That would occur immediately after the usual markups in subcommittee and committee, so that a single bill would be presented to the House for an up-or-down vote.
- See more at: House Appropriators Float 12-Bill Omnibus Before Recess
But, I'm pretty sure that it is more important to focus on the executive office.
