

House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) in September 2013. (Melina Mara/Post)

An agreement on an omnibus spending package to fund the federal government for the remainder of the fiscal year will be finalized this weekend, according to a top appropriator.

House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) said that negotiators should finalize their work on the $1.012 trillion agreement over the weekend, allowing the House and Senate to begin holding votes next week. The agreement is not expected to be publicly announced until Monday at the earliest.

"This is a trillion-dollar bill. Using Reagan's definition of a trillion — it's a 67-and-a-half-mile-high stack of $1,000 bills — a lot of money. A year's work in 30 days time with Christmas and New Year's in it. So our staff is running on fumes. But we're nearing the end," Rogers told reporters.