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</p> The move by the House toward a two-week continuing resolution means there would be enough of a gap, Durbin said, even with other priorities such as the farm bill conference report.
</p> The Senate took action in May, passing a separate bill targeting the system in place to deal with harassment allegations.
</p> “The $1.6 billion … the language is broader than just a wall, so I think that that could probably be agreed upon, which was a figure in the Senate bill,” the Maryland Democrat told reporters.
</p> The bill released Monday would push the deadline by which Congress needs to pass a spending package for the remaining 25 percent of this year’s agency budgets from Dec. 7 to Dec. 21 and would provide
Instead of starting from scratch, the bill will draw from numerous existing proposals — including some that have languished for years during GOP control.
</p> The law was set to expire Sept. 30, but it was extended through Dec. 7 under a stopgap spending bill that expires this week. Text of the latest short-term spending deal was released Monday.
</p> House lawmakers were scheduled to vote on 14 bills under suspension of the rules this week, in addition to the farm bill conference report and a fiscal 2019 spending package.
Bill Shuster, who is retiring after reaching his term limit as chairman.
</p> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Met with the Laborers Local 477’s Brad Schaive and his Emergency Response Team that spent Saturday night and all day Sunday cleaning up my hometown.
</p> The 116th Congress won’t convene for another month, and Cruz is already angling to incrementally advance the president’s proposal in the fiscal 2020 defense authorization bill.
</p> Roll Call delved into its archives to remember the former president’s days in D.C.
</p> As president, Bush led an international coalition to victory in the first Persian Gulf war in 1990-91, only to lose his bid for re-election the following year to Democrat Bill Clinton primarily because
</p> Here’s the entire week in photos:</p>Acting Architect of the Capitol Christine Merdon, right, and Nikki Swanson, district director at the Willamette National Forest, make remarks before the U.S.
</p> McCaskill is a rare breed of Democrat, one who won statewide election in Missouri twice even though a Democratic nominee for president has not carried the state since Bill Clinton from neighboring
</p> Let’s back up for a second.
</p> Cornyn added that Republicans are also still talking with South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott about concerns he has with the nominee.</p> “We’re still talking to Sen. Scott.
</p> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Did you ever see an investigation more in search of a crime?
(Bill Clark/Roll Call file photo) There’s a domino effect that frees up offices for newcomers.
By Jerel Flint</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> <p class="p1">Democratic Sens. Chris Coons and Cory Booker and GOP Sen.
</p> “One of his main tools was an earmark,” Bill Shuster said of his father. “He used it as a hammer. My major tool is a hug.”</p> Both proved successful.