House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-OK) unveiled on Monday the chamber’s “minibus” spending bill that contains funding for major parts of the federal government ahead of the spending deadline.

Congress has roughly three weeks to pass an appropriations bill or a stop-gap continuing resolution (CR) to stop another government shutdown at the end of the month. Cole and the Appropriations Committee released the minibus spending bill that contains the Interior, Energy-Water, and Commerce-Justice-Science bill, which could get a vote in the House as soon as Thursday.

Cole said that the appropriations minibus helps bolster national…

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