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Jan 27, 2026
🚨🧵 1. It’s wrong that all spending bills go through just one committee in the Senate—the Committee on Appropriations The House of Representatives does the same thing This thread attempts to explai...
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A senator argues that concentrating all federal spending bills in a single Senate committee is inefficient and unfair, creating excessive workload, excluding knowledgeable lawmakers from the process, and enabling rushed passage of unread legislation. He proposes that each authorizing committee should have jurisdiction over funding for agencies within their expertise area instead.
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