House Republican leaders have unveiled an aggressive schedule to pass their annual spending bills over the summer, hoping to get the budget finalized before the November election and avoid a repeat of the intraparty fallout that resulted in last year’s appropriations process. 

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) announced his proposed schedule to GOP lawmakers during a closed-door meeting on Wednesday morning that would complete all 12 appropriations bills in June and July, starting with Military Construction and Veterans Affairs in the week of June 3. Under the schedule, lawmakers would be finished by Aug. 1