Amendment Announcement for HR 5893 and HR 5894 – FY 2024 CSJ and LHH Spending

Yesterday, the House Rules Committee announced the amendment deadlines for two additional spending bills:

• HR 5893, the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations (CJS) Act, 2024, and

• HR 5894, the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations (LHH) Act, 2024

The amendment deadline for HR 5893 is Monday, November 6^th and the deadline for HR 5894 is Friday, November 3^rd.

These were the last two appropriations bills introduced in the House (on October 6^th). Neither bill has been marked up in Committee, so no report is available. Technically, the two bills were just referred to the Appropriations Committee for consideration last week. Typically, appropriations bills are ‘written’ by the Committee with hearings by the appropriate subcommittee and the full Appropriations Committee. They are usually first published as reported versions of the bill with the committee report published at the same time. That process was not followed in the case of these two bills.

I will have brief reports on the two pieces of legislation later this week.

The Rules Committee also published a meeting notice for tomorrow to formulate the rule for the consideration of three other spending bills, HR 4820 – THUD, HR 4821- IER spending, and an as of yet unnumbered spending supplemental for Israeli security.