House takes up a package of appropriations bills this week that includes provisions to speed the repeal of the Obama-era “waters of the United States” rule and slash spending on next-generation biofuels.
 
GOP leaders struggling to make progress on their spending bills for fiscal 2018, which starts Oct. 1, have decided to combine bills that include funding for the Department of Energy and the Army Corps of Engineers as well as the Defense Department.
 
Republicans on both sides of the Hill are eager to show progress on major issues. The effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act is hanging by a thread in the Senate, while a 2018 budget resolution critical to enacting tax reform appears to be short of votes in the House. The budget resolution, which is critical to GOP hopes to enact tax reform, would require $10 billion in cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
 
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