The appropriations status table is the running scorecard of the twelve annual federal spending bills: one row per bill, showing how far each has moved in the House and the Senate, from subcommittee to committee to the floor to the President's desk. When someone asks "where do the appropriations bills stand," the status table is the answer, in one view.
The official versions
The Congressional Research Service publishes the reference version at crsreports.congress.gov, tracking every bill's markup dates, report numbers, floor votes, and public law numbers. Congress.gov keeps a similar table for each fiscal year. Both are authoritative and both are built for researchers: dense, abbreviated, and updated on their own schedule.
The live version here
Approps maintains a plain English FY2027 appropriations status table at the tracker. Every bill shows its House and Senate position as three steps, subcommittee, full committee, and floor, with the vote counts and dates, verified against the official sources above. The stopgap chain sits below it, because in most years the continuing resolution is the bill that actually matters at the deadline.
How to read one
Three things tell you where the year is heading. First, the House and Senate columns move at different speeds; the House usually marks up and passes bills first, and the Senate often packages several bills together late in the year. Second, a bill that has passed both chambers in different forms still is not law; the versions must be reconciled and signed. Third, the count that matters is bills signed into law before the fiscal year ends September 30. Most years that number is zero on deadline day, which is why the continuing resolution exists.
Where each number comes from
Every status on the Approps table links to a primary source: the committee's own markup notices, official roll call votes, and congress.gov bill records. Nothing is inferred from news reports alone. The shutdown page computes the live answer to the deadline question from the same data.