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.
