House appropriators to advance more fiscal 2026 bills

By Andres Picon | 06/23/2025 06:47 AM EDT

The House Appropriations Committee postponed action on the Interior-Environment bill to catch up on other work.

Tom Cole speaks during a hearing.

House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) wants the chamber to pass every fiscal 2026 spending bill before August recess. Francis Chung/POLITICO

House appropriators will pick up where they left off before last week’s recess with a vote on their Agriculture proposal and a flurry of markups for other bills.

The full House will also vote on its first fiscal 2026 spending bill: Republicans’ Military Construction-Veterans Affairs plan.

The Appropriations Committee has postponed its release of the Interior-Environment bill while the panel catches up on previously scheduled markups that were derailed by a former lawmaker’s funeral and other events earlier this month. Democrats are also introducing numerous amendments, forcing markups to go long.

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Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) is pursuing an aggressive markup schedule with the hope of getting all 12 fiscal 2026 spending bills across the House floor later this summer.

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