REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsWASHINGTON, Sept 21 (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will try to restart his stalled Republican spending agenda on Thursday, with a procedural vote on a fiscal 2024 defense appropriations bill that Republicans have already twice failed to advance. Then a vote to open floor debate on the defense appropriations bill failed. The defense bill had already been delayed earlier in the month. McCarthy's proposal would also set a top line for full-year fiscal 2024 spending at just under $1.53 trillion, the sources said. It was not clear how much support the CR or the 2024 top line would draw from House Republicans.

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