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The United States Senate Committee on Appropriations is a standing committee of the United States Senate. It has jurisdiction over all discretionary spending legislation in the Senate. The Senate Appropriations Committee is the largest committee in the U.S. Senate, with 30 members in the 117th Congress.
In the United States Congress, an appropriations bill is legislation to appropriate [1] federal funds to specific federal government departments, agencies and programs. The money provides funding for operations, personnel, equipment and activities. [2] Regular appropriations bills are passed annually, with the funding they provide covering one ...
The U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense is one of twelve subcommittees of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations. Military defense spending is the largest individual component of federal discretionary spending, [1] making the Defense Subcommittee one of the more powerful Appropriations subcommittees.
The Senate on Friday approved a $460 billion package of spending bills in time to meet a midnight deadline for avoiding a shutdown of many key federal agencies, a vote that gets lawmakers about ...
An appropriations bill is a bill that appropriates (gives to, sets aside for) money to specific federal government departments, agencies, and programs. The money provides funding for operations, personnel, equipment, and activities. [1] Regular appropriations bills are passed annually, with the funding they provide covering one fiscal year.
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., characterized the election bill demand as a "political scare tactic" and a "poison pill."
The House and Senate now consider appropriations bills simultaneously, although originally the House went first. The House Committee on Appropriations usually reports the appropriations bills in May and June and the Senate in June. Any differences between appropriations bills passed by the House and the Senate are resolved in the fall. [2]
The United States Senate Committee on Appropriations has joint jurisdiction with the United States House Committee on Appropriations over all appropriations bills in the United States Congress. [1] Each committee has 12 matching subcommittees, each of which is tasked with working on one of the twelve annual regular appropriations bills.