When a Shutdown Amounts to a Mulligan
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</p> Watch: Working the Weekend — Highlights from the Shutdown Floor Debate</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> Under pressure Liberal groups have blasted Senate Minority Leader Charles E.
</p> Schumer: GOP Majority Has 17 Days to Reach Deal on DACA</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> The plan, according to aides and lawmakers, is to obtain public support from Trump for the bill, forcing Senate Republican
Banks</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> <p class="p1">Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., says the ongoing shutdown is doing “absolutely nothing to generate bipartisan progress.”
</p> The House on Monday evening quickly passed a stopgap funding bill that will reopen the government through Feb. 8 by a 266-150 vote, sending the bill to President Donald Trump, who signed the continuing
</p> The group also reported lobbying on a bill that would withhold funds for U.S. military action against North Korea unless authorized by Congress.
“I think the statement that the majority leader made this morning was an important step, a commitment to bring a bill to the floor … I think he used the term ‘level playing field.’ ”</p> In his opening
of the Deferred Action for Childhood Immigrants, or DACA, program as well as border security after the expiry of the next stopgap spending bill (assuming there’s not another shutdown).
House Majority Whip Steve Scalise returned to the Capitol Monday after surgery and a 12-day hospital stay to cast a “yes” vote on a stopgap spending bill that will reopen the government through Feb. 8.
Bill Nelson is running; and Michigan, home of Sen. Debbie Stabenow.
House Democratic leaders are not whipping the stopgap spending bill to reopen the government through Feb. 8, freeing members to vote how they wish, members and aides said Monday.
</p> On Friday, five Democrats, four of them up for re-election this year in states that President Donald Trump won, bucked their party and voted to advance a House-passed GOP bill to fund the government
</p> Watch: McConnell Laments Democratic Stall Tactics to Federal Nominees</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> During a confirmation hearing Thursday for Anne Marie White, tapped to serve as assistant secretary
</p> Tester said Monday his concerns were about the unreliability of a short-term funding bill.
stopgap bill the chamber is planning to vote on around 1 a.m.
the expiry of the next stopgap spending bill (assuming there’s not another shutdown).
</p> Sen.
</p> “The way to find out what the president wants on [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals] is to pass a bill, to bring a bill to the floor.
Charlie Dent, said when asked if Republicans would revolt if a DACA bill that couldn’t get majority support from the majority party was put on the floor.