This week: Reconciliation bill back on track, at least for now
Wednesday to set the ground rules for floor debate on the measure after releasing an updated committee print version of the legislative text overnight.
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Wednesday to set the ground rules for floor debate on the measure after releasing an updated committee print version of the legislative text overnight.
The measure would punt, for now, on the overall size of offsetting spending cuts, but the text clearly states a preference for a minimum $2 trillion in cuts over 10 years.
The first four appropriations bills are close to being completed, Senate Minority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., said Monday.
Before passing the package, the Senate adopted by voice vote a substitute amendment offered by Appropriations Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., that replaced the text of the House-passed Military Construction-VA
The Agriculture bill — which would be the first to go a final passage vote under the tentative schedule leadership is considering — would see additional cuts totaling $2.8 billion.
Lawler, whose district went for Biden by 10 points, said Sunday on ABC 7’s Up Close with Bill Ritter that he supports the framework of the bill but needs to finish reviewing the text.Â
Progressive lawmakers said they wanted to see the actual text and also wanted assurances it could pass the 50-50 Senate, with some even calling for a Senate vote first on the final text, which may
The House passed its first batch of appropriations bills Friday after a truncated process with big batches of en bloc amendment votes, foreshadowing a similar whirlwind of activity on the floor next week
But he allowed it was possible lawmakers end up with a December stopgap at first and another extension later if necessary. “I don’t support any idea of a CR.
They could weigh in on Second Amendment rights for the first time in almost a decade.
Just days before the march, Congress incorporated the bill’s text into the fiscal 2018 omnibus spending legislation that authorized $75 million in school safety grants for fiscal 2018, and $100 million
Judge Neil Gorsuch included a line in his first remarks as a Supreme Court nominee that signals just how closely his approach to deciding cases aligns with the late Antonin Scalia, the polarizing and reliably