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All the “no” votes came from Republicans, but passage wasn’t really in doubt after Democratic leaders agreed to drop language in the original House-passed version that would have suspended the debt ceiling
Congress moved closer to a partial government shutdown Monday after Senate Republicans blocked a temporary spending bill over their opposition to a debt limit suspension Democrats attached.
Friday, and a remembrance event with members of Congress is set for Tuesday morning.
It would be catastrophic if Congress did not raise or suspend the debt ceiling sometime before the end of October, Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen told lawmakers this week.
If the debt ceiling isn’t raised or suspended in time, Treasury would be forced to fall back on whatever cash is left on hand and incoming revenue on a day-to-day basis.
Budget deals in 2019, 2018 and 2015 suspended the debt limit after lawmakers arrived at agreements on setting discretionary spending on defense and nondefense programs, giving each side wins on their policy
That litigation was effectively suspended in recognition of the fact that the Supreme Court might resolve the matter.
But that hasn’t stopped members of Congress from jumping the gun with their gripes and grandstanding.
Around a dozen members of Congress have direct experience with redistricting litigation in their previous lives as voting rights attorneys and state legislators, writes CQ Roll Call’s Michael Macagnone
The government will likely run out of borrowing authority sometime in October or November unless Congress takes action to raise or suspend the debt limit, the Congressional Budget Office warned Wednesday
The regular order process would allow Congress to use another suspension, rather than a straight dollar amount, which seems likely to be required under reconciliation.
The need so outstrips the funds available that local public housing authorities charged with distributing the vouchers can have yearslong or suspended waiting lists for subsidies.
A U.S. intelligence assessment released to Congress on Friday confirmed that military pilots over the years had observed, and in some cases recorded, more than 100 instances of high-speed craft whose origin
The legislative branch’s insight into the Wuhan Institute of Virology may be limited since Congress does not have access to the lab’s internal records.
Lawmakers also suspended or relaxed their scope-of-practice laws.
Congress and the White House might be forced to deal with the debt limit before the August recess. Treasury Secretary Janet L.
In recent laws postponing the debt limit from taking effect, Congress has added language barring Treasury from borrowing more than was necessary to pay for federal programs and from “increasing the
A federal appeals panel heard arguments Tuesday on whether a former Capitol Police sergeant, Officer Jodi Breiterman, should have been suspended and later demoted for sending to the media a photo of a
Several states and members of Congress have indicated they may challenge the census results in court. Monday’s release follows months of trouble for the decennial count.
Political action committees of many companies and lobbying groups said they would pause some or all contributions after rioters broke into the Capitol on Jan. 6 to stop Congress from certifying Joe