The Latest Breaking News from Appropriations

Senate appropriations bills for the upcoming fiscal year contain more than 3,100 earmarks totaling almost $7.8 billion.

Senate Appropriations Chair Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., underwent a second surgery Tuesday after fracturing his hip in a fall in late June.

House Appropriations Chair Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., wants the House to pass all 12 of its appropriations bills before the August recess.

Senate Democrats suddenly found themselves Thursday potentially without a critical vote they will need in their uphill effort to pass a major tax and spending reconciliation package before the August recess.

A health scare showed Democrats Thursday how hard it may be to pass a partisan tax and spending package in an evenly divided Senate.

The Republican Study Committee has taken an official position against earmarks, although more than half of their membership requested them.

Negotiations on a spending ceiling to govern the fiscal 2023 appropriations process have ground to a halt.

​WASHINGTON — The Senate Republican Conference will lose some prolific earmarkers to retirement next year, as the party faces some soul-searching over whether to keep the practice if they retake one or both chambers after November’s midterms.

The Senate Republican Conference will lose some prolific earmarkers to retirement next year, which may prompt a second look at the practice.

House appropriators are about to begin markups on fiscal 2023 spending bills and CQ Roll Call's David Lerman and Paul M. Krawzak outline what lies ahead.

WASHINGTON — The House adopted a $1.6 trillion discretionary spending cap for the upcoming fiscal year, clearing the way for appropriators to start moving the fiscal 2023 spending bills through that chamber as bicameral talks reconvene on a framework for bills that can pass the Senate as well.