Senate appropriators aim to unveil unreleased spending bills
Source: Roll Call
Posted November 21, 2025 at 3:36pm
At least one of the Senate’s yet-to-be-unveiled fiscal 2026 appropriations bills could be released next week, even though lawmakers will be in their districts for the Thanksgiving recess. There is a good chance the Senate will post its version of the Energy-Water bill, one of the four the Senate has not yet released, House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole, R-Okla., said Friday.
The issue was discussed when the top four House and Senate appropriators met Thursday, Cole said. “I don’t know about the other three, but we raised a lot of questions about Energy and Water, since we’ve actually passed that one across the [House] floor,” he said.
Senate appropriators are aiming to release that bill and potentially more of the outstanding bills — Financial Services, Homeland Security and State-Foreign Operations — next week, a source familiar with the plan said. But that plan is not final, the source said.
House Appropriations ranking member Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., said Friday that the lawmakers discussed the outstanding Senate bills and that Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, said the text could be posted early next week. The Senate Appropriations Committee isn’t expected to hold formal markups on any of the remaining bills, a step that is typically bypassed when bipartisan support is lacking.
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