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Winners and losers: Who came out on top — and who didn’t — in the Texas House’s committee assignments

There were only so many chair positions to go around, with 30 committees for 88 Republicans, making it inevitable that some would miss out on plum appointments.

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Angling for open Appropriations seats set to ratchet up - Roll Call

There could be four vacant House Appropriations Committee positions for Republicans, and six open seats for Democrats.

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Former Rep. David Hobson, longtime appropriator, is dead at 87 - Roll Call

Rep. David L. Hobson, R-Ohio, who served nine terms before retiring after the 2008 elections, died Sunday, his family announced.

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An unusual choice for House Freedom Caucus leader takes reins - Roll Call

A senior Appropriations Committee member would have been among the last choices to lead the House Freedom Caucus at the time it was founded.

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Cole secures Appropriations gavel ahead of fraught budget cycle - Roll Call

Rep. Tom Cole secured the House Republican Conference's backing Wednesday morning to become the next Appropriations Committee chairman.

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Cardinals shuffle likely under House Appropriations shake-up - Roll Call

Rep. Tom Cole’s likely ascension to the Appropriations Committee gavel would open up a key subcommittee chairmanship.

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Granger won't seek reelection in 2024 - Roll Call

House Appropriations Chairwoman Kay Granger, R-Texas, will not run for reelection. She faced term limits on her committee leadership position.

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Senate leaders struggle to keep pace with ‘minibus’ amendments - Roll Call

The Senate is playing “whack-a-mole” trying to deal with amendments on a package of three fiscal 2024 spending bills.

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Jim Jordan is out. Here are the three Texas Republicans who helped keep him from the speaker’s gavel.

Reps. Kay Granger, Tony Gonzales and Jake Ellzey were firm in their opposition to Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan.

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GOP Steering panel postpones meeting to fill Appropriations seat - Roll Call

The House GOP panel responsible for committee assignments indefinitely delayed its planned Monday meeting to fill an Appropriations seat.

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Leaving Congress, Rep. Chris Stewart looks back on his first shutdown

The Utah Republican, who resigned this week after a decade in office, has seen his share of funding battles.

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No Help for California Youths Denied Mental Health Care

As insurers reject coverage amid soaring anxiety and depression, a bill to help children and teens is quietly killed.

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Jockeying for Rep. Stewart’s Appropriations seat in full swing - Roll Call

Retiring Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, will leave open a coveted seat on the Appropriations Committee, and the scramble to fill it has begun.

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Big shoes filled as Senate appropriators spread earmarks wealth - Roll Call

The retirement of several titans of congressional appropriating hasn't slowed down the Senate's appetite for earmarks.

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Recess arrives with Schumer touting contrast with the House

The Senate needs bipartisanship to run, and showed it with an overwhelming defense bill vote and action by the Appropriations Committee.

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House GOP anti-spending fervor may not apply to member pay raise

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans would give lawmakers their first pay increase in nearly 15 years under a spending bill for the upcoming fiscal year that the Appropriations Committee approved last month.

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House GOP anti-spending fervor may not apply to member pay raise - Roll Call

House Republicans left out the traditional language blocking a cost-of-living increase from this year’s Legislative Branch spending bill.

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Meet the House members who voted against the debt limit deal - Roll Call

Much of the debt limit bill opposition came from the far right and left wings of Congress, but there were some surprising “no” votes.

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Appropriators face close votes on spending bills in committee - Roll Call

Rep. Steve Womack said Tuesday that lining up support from GOP panel members for appropriations markups remains “a work in progress.”

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Markups? Floor votes? Senate appropriators say ‘yes we can’

WASHINGTON — New Senate Appropriations Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., knows that returning the chamber’s appropriations process to regular order “won’t be a walk in the park,” as she said during a news conference last week.

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Markups? Floor votes? Senate appropriators say 'yes we can' - Roll Call

Senate Appropriations Committee leaders are vowing to mark up fiscal 2024 spending bills in committee and move them across the Senate floor.

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