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The next votes in the House are scheduled for Monday, Dec. 10, at 6:30 p.m. In the Senate, the next roll call votes are expected Wednesday afternoon, but a time has not been set.
Record numbers of voters turned out on Nov. 6, and yes, they voted for change.
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the drug industry’s main trade group, spent just under $6 million in the third quarter, outpacing its spending from 2017.
On Wednesday, the House returns at :noon for morning hour, and 2 p.m. for legislative business, with first votes postponed until 6:30 p.m.
The Forest Service had approximately $196 million in fire suppression funds remaining as of Aug. 6.
As in May, the farm bill received no Democratic support because of provisions to reshape SNAP into a program that requires able-bodied adults who are not responsible for children aged 6 or younger
More than 65 percent of SNAP recipients are children, seniors, the disabled, or adults with dependent children under the age of 6.
Watch: Farm Bill Defeat Leads to Confusion on the House Floor [jwp-video n=”1″] The farm bill would have required able-bodied adults who don’t have children under age 6 to work or participate
As that Tuesday deadline arrived and negotiators left a meeting around 6:30 p.m. without an agreement, moderates continued to signal they would possibly reach 218 signatures later that evening.
The Senate is expected to take a week away from D.C., for a district work period the week of August 6, before returning for the balance of the month, according to the revised schedule.
Those discussions continued around 6:30 p.m.
They oppose provisions that would retool and expand food stamp work requirements to able-bodied adults ages 18 to 59 who are not parents of children age 6 and younger.
Excluded from the work requirement would be participants over age 59, the disabled, pregnant women and people responsible for children under age 6.
When Roll Call reviewed the CBO’s most recent estimates for that 10-year period, combined with actual results through fiscal 2016, the discrepancy had grown to 6 percent.