Bush, who has made restraining government spending a central theme of his campaign and first budget, will need the support of Young and Stevens to make good on his pledges of fiscal discipline. The first week back from the Memorial Day recess, the House Agriculture and Interior Appropriations subcommittees are scheduled to mark up their bills, and send them to full committee for markup the following week. During the week of June 18, the Transportation and Energy and Water appropriations bills are slated for full committee markup, while the supplemental and Agriculture bills are penciled in for floor votes.
Appropriators also hope to file the supplemental conference report that week.
The last week before the August recess, the week of July 30, the Treasury-Postal and Legislative Branch bills are slated to be on the floor.