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“I want to thank Congressional leadership who supported the bill and the overwhelming majority of Senators and Representatives in both parties who voted to avert a rail shutdown,” Biden said in a
Seventy-two was one they touted, the number of “yes” votes — a rare overwhelmingly bipartisan tally — on a sprawling stopgap spending measure that averted a pre-midterm-elections government shutdown
And some of them left sooner than others, even as the chamber worked to finish some key business, like avoiding a government shutdown and compensating families of 9/11 victims.
The Senate passed a short-term spending measure Thursday, sending to the House a bill that would avoid a partial government shutdown next week and boost aid to Ukraine.
Senate negotiations on a House-passed temporary spending bill to prevent a partial government shutdown on Saturday, which were still dragging on as this newsletter went out, have given Republicans
Legislative items pile up, and the threat of a calamitous event like a partial government shutdown or default brings lawmakers to the negotiating table before the holiday break.
This year’s matchup, delayed until late September due to COVID-19 and the Washington Nationals schedule, comes at a tense time on the Hill.
As a partisan fiscal standoff deepened, Democrats said they were determined to avoid a shutdown when the new fiscal year begins Friday.
strikes a discordant note next to the intense political brinkmanship currently unfolding in Congress, where the parties are already trading recriminations over the possibilities of another government shutdown
Hoyer, told reporters he planned to announce the reconciliation bill as a “possibility” for next week’s floor schedule.”
“Yes, it’s a tight schedule, but I think most probably more it has to do with politics and the fact that you’re going to have the Senate vote again on another budget resolution, and that budget resolution
On top of that, Congress is facing yet another potential government shutdown, negotiations on police reform collapsed Wednesday, a sizable chunk of the GOP still refuses to acknowledge the validity of
The House passed a catchall budget package Tuesday that’s intended to avoid a partial government shutdown and debt limit crisis, but it seems likely to come back for a do-over once the Senate works its
Appropriations Committee members called for bipartisan agreement between both chambers and the White House on spending toplines in order to avoid a series stopgap bills or yet another partial government shutdown
the public a year ago and congressional staffers were scrambling to acquire and set up laptops in anticipation of mandatory remote work, every announcement and “Dear Colleague” letter explaining the shutdown
To accommodate the time it will take to prepare the reconciliation package for floor action, Hoyer has adjusted the House schedule for next week, switching from a Monday-through-Thursday work week