According to Congress Daily (subscription req’d), the Senate Appropriations Committee will go to work this week: ...the panel [is] scheduled for a marathon session Thursday to consider legislation funding the lion's share of federal discretionary spending, or nearly 78 percent of the total $872.8 billion allotted to the panel for FY07. On tap are the Defense, Labor-HHS, Military Construction and Transportation-Treasury measures... Well, good luck with all that. With only one appropriations bill (Homeland Security) passed by the full Senate, it is unlikely we’ll see a full compliment of spending bills before the end of the fiscal year on September 30th.