Review - Rules Committee to Look at HR 4394 – FY 2024 EWR Spending

The House Rules Committee will hold a rule hearing this afternoon that would include HR 4394, the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies [EWR] Appropriations Act, 2024. The deadline for submitting amendments for the Committee to consider including in the Rule was last Friday, 122 amendments have been submitted.

Three of the 122 amendments may be of specific interest here:

#	Version	Author
19	Version 1	Hudson (NC)
28	Version 1	Fallon (TX)
115	Version 1	Walberg (MI) , Latta (OH)

Moving Forward

The Rules Committee meets at 4:00 pm EDT. Barring some drama from the three Republican 11 representatives on the Committee, a rule will be formulated for this and HR 4364, the Legislative Branch spending bill. The House will begin taking up the two bills on Tuesday.

Commentary

The House was scheduled to start a two-week District Work Period. Normally, this would be a break from Washington while the two appropriations committees started work on an omnibus spending bill. It appears that McCarthy still intends on attempting to pass standalone bills. Between the time the Senate needs to act on these bills and the individual conference committees needed to reconcile the House an Senate versions, this will take up every bit of the time to the new November 17^th deadline.

 

For more information about the upcoming meeting, including the details of the three amendments, see my article at CFSN Detailed Analysis - https://patrickcoyle.substack.com/p/rules-committee-to-look-at-hr-4394 - subscription required.