House to Vote on FY18 Appropriations Minibus in September

The House Rules Committee released the bill text and report language for an eight-bill appropriations minibus this week. Amendments are due by next Friday 8/25 at 10:00 am. The eight bills included in the minibus are: Agriculture, Commerce-Justice-Science, Financial Services, Homeland Security, Interior-Environment, Labor-HHS-Education, State-Foreign Operations, and Transportation-HUD.

The Rules Committee will meet the week of September 4th to grant a rule to provide a structured amendment process for floor consideration of the minibus. The rule will not make in order amendments that have offsets or transfers between bills (e.g. members cannot transfer funds from an account in the Agriculture division to an account in the Interior division).

The notice from the Rules Committee also mentioned that they struck a provision from the FY18 Financial Services Appropriations bill that would ensure Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients are eligible to be employed by the federal government.

The House Rules Committee also plans to use a self-executing rule to roll the text of the four appropriations bills passed in July (Defense, Energy & Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction-Veterans Affairs) into the eight-bill minibus creating a 12 bill omnibus for final vote.

While this movement by the House Rules Committee is a good indication that they have the 218 votes needed for passage on the floor, the omnibus isn’t expected to go far in the Senate where 60 votes are needed. The Senate Appropriations Committee has marked up and approved six of its 12 annual spending bills, but it is unclear if any of these bills will see floor time in September. A continuing resolution (CR) is likely come September 30.

Eight-Bill Minibus Bill Text:

https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-115hr3354rh/pdf/BILLS-115hr3354rh.pdf

Eight-Bill Minibus Report Language:

https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CRPT-115hrpt238/pdf/CRPT-115hrpt238.pdf

Status of FY18 Appropriations Spending Bills

Subcommittee House Action Senate Action
Agriculture Subcommittee: June 28

Full Committee: July 12

Subcommittee: July 19

Full Committee: July 20

Commerce Justice Science Subcommittee: June 29

Full Committee: July 13

Subcommittee: July 25

Full Committee: July 27

Defense Subcommittee: June 26

Full Committee: June 29

Floor: July 27

Energy & Water Subcommittee: June 28

Full Committee: July 12

Floor: July 27

Subcommittee: July 19

Full Committee: July 20

Financial Services Subcommittee: June 29

Full Committee: July 13

Homeland Security Subcommittee: July 12

Full Committee: July 18

Interior Subcommittee: July 12

Full Committee: July 18

Labor HHS Subcommittee: July 13

Full Committee: July 19

Legislative Branch Full Committee: June 29

Floor: July 27

Full Committee: July 27
MilCon-VA Subcommittee: June 12

Full Committee: June 15

Floor: July 27

Subcommittee: July 12

Full Committee: July 13

State Foreign Ops Subcommittee: July 13

Full Committee: July 19

Transportation HUD Subcommittee: July 11

Full Committee: July 17

Subcommittee: July 25

Full Committee: July 27

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