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The top House Republican said Thursday that his conference is eager to get a COVID-19 relief bill done, but he held firm that an approximately $500 billion measure introduced by Senate Majority Leader
</p> Schatz said he would oppose another stopgap bill at this point. “I think deadlines are good and I think we should stick to the 11th,” he said.
</p> “We will win the majority in two years,” he told CQ Roll Call after his election as ranking member Thursday.
</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> There’s a computer system that members-elect and staff can peruse, which includes some key details about the office suites, including if the office is eligible for new carpet
</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> Veto threats Trump had threatened to veto the bill if it required name changes at military installations that honor Confederates, such as Fort Benning in Georgia, where two
</p> The Armed Services Committee is central in the showdown now playing out to approve a final version of that Pentagon policy bill before Congress adjourns for the remainder of the year.
</p> Whether that proposal advances — and early indications from the White House and from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who released his own targeted bill late Tuesday, are that it will not
</p> In announcing the calendar, House Majority Leader Steny H.
Shelby thinks another short-term stopgap funding bill is likely given lingering disagreements on an omnibus package wrapping together $1.4 trillion in unfinished agency budgets for the fiscal year that
</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> “We first met in 1969, when I was working for a freshman senator named Marlow Cook and he worked down in the executive branch.
</p> The main bill on the House floor this week is a measure to decriminalize marijuana and provide a process for expunging marijuana-related convictions.
Republicans had included a $300 weekly benefit through Dec. 27 in their earlier bill.
</p> Devil in the details Outside experts aren’t so rosy.
, but in recent years it has become a substantive vote that would actually amend the bill if adopted.
</p> DeLauro, Lowey and Pelosi learned the appropriations ropes together during the 1990s. The trio was so close they became known as the “DeLoSis.”</p> Former Rep. James P.
</p> Those differences weren’t all that great in dollar terms.
</p> Stabenow’s remarks also come as pressure rises among House Democrats to reach a deal. </p> House Majority Leader Steny H.
</p> The wall is one of the signature policy demands the Trump White House has pushed over the last four years, and it is unlikely Trump will sign a bill that does not include construction money.
</p> Maximizing support Getting such an expansive bill through the Senate would be difficult.
</p> But the White House’s veto threat on the broader bill — which also included funding for the departments of State, Agriculture and Interior and the EPA — didn’t include the VA funds in a list of specific