Appropriations Bills

A photograph of the Senate Appropriations Committee Room

The Appropriations Committee reviews budget requests from the president, solicits testimony from government officials, and drafts funding legislation that gets reported to the full Senate. The Senate then works with the House to pass all appropriations bills by October 1, the beginning of the fiscal year.

For more detail on the process, read:

The Congressional Appropriations Process: An Introduction (pdf)

Authorization/Appropriations Process (pdf)

Legislative Histories

Tables list appropriations bills, hearings, and reports by fiscal year. For FY2017 and future years, tables will link to Congress.gov.

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Budget

The VRD page, Budget provides access to the searchable, full text of the budget.

Definitions

Continuing Appropriations

Active Legislation

To find a list of issues currently being discussed in the U.S. Senate see, Active Legislation .

Committee Created

Learn the history of the committee from an essay by the Senate Historical Office.