Under this system, the number of appropriations bills passed has to be equal to the number of subcommittees within the House and Senate Appropriations Committees.
Because of the 1974 Congressional Budget Act, the deadline for enacting these spending bills is always October 1.
Omnibus bills combine all twelve spending bills into one big package so that they're all voted on at once.
CRs are spending bills that also condense all federal spending into a single vote.
Appropriations committee members can work with party leaders and lobbyists to shovel their ever-growing legislative agendas into these massive bills, throw in handouts to their friends and donors, and send the thousand-page bills off to Congress just hours before the vote.
That's why a return to separate appropriations bills was a central demand of the House Republicans holding up McCarthy's Speaker vote earlier this year.
On a podcast last month, Gaetz said: "We made a commitment in January as part of the Speaker contest that we would not govern by having one up-or-down vote on every disparate agency of government through continuing resolutions or omnibus bills."
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