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scheduled for February, was postponed because the dates bumped up against the Feb. 15 deadline Congress set for itself to complete the fiscal 2019 appropriations bills and avoid another partial government shutdown
While sprinkled into the floor schedule alongside several marquee bills from Democrats’ “For the People” agenda — which would change laws if the Senate were inclined to take them up or President Donald
-Mexico border wall, according to a senior administration official, or over 50 percent more than Trump’s $5.7 billion fiscal 2019 demand that led to the longest government shutdown in history.
House leaders installed the full slate of six Democrats and six Republicans as of Feb. 12, and Kilmer says he’s working to hire staff and schedule hearings, along with the panel’s top Republican,
Congress paused to celebrate the former dean of the House, even though it had a busy schedule Thursday that included voting on an appropriations package averting a Saturday government shutdown.
Federal workers and lawmakers are already thinking about Friday, the deadline for a spending deal to avert another partial government shutdown.
The House is adding two days to its schedule next week to ensure the government is funded by Feb. 15, when the current continuing resolution expires.
Ken Buck introduced a bill that would block lawmakers from traveling on the taxpayer dime during a shutdown.
OMB itself was among the government agencies subject to the prolonged partial government shutdown, and the budget submission wouldn’t normally come out ahead of the president’s State of the Union
The bill is finally working its way through the legislative process, after facing a Democrat-led blockade during the partial government shutdown.
House Republicans also had postponed their retreat, initially scheduled for Jan. 30 — Feb. 1 in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., due to the shutdown.
Wexton’s resolution was not on the floor schedule for the week because it was not introduced until Monday.
Hoyer, who controls the floor schedule, and Appropriations Chairwoman Nita M.
During their weekly colloquy to lay out the schedule for the coming week, Majority Leader Steny H.
Department of Homeland Security and United States Secret Service to explain that there would be absolutely no problem regarding security with respect to the event,” the president told the speaker amid their shutdown
The logistics of the annual State of the Union address are in limbo, caught up in the partial government shutdown that has stretched into a second month.
Hoyer asked unanimous consent to vacate proceedings by which the CR was passed and schedule a recorded vote on it for Wednesday.
President Donald Trump has invited some more moderate House Democrats to the White House Tuesday to discuss border security and how to end the partial government shutdown, but at least two of the invited
The majority leader’s office sent out a notice about the schedule change to members shortly after the pen and pad.
The colloquy is a House tradition in which the majority leader and minority whip dialogue on the floor about the upcoming floor schedule and then big policy issues facing Congress.