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At the Races: Not the way they drew it up
Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., the speaker’s race is taking up all the oxygen in the House, where the schedule is effectively frozen.
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Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., the speaker’s race is taking up all the oxygen in the House, where the schedule is effectively frozen.
As senator, would you support efforts to schedule Xylazine as a controlled substance? LISA MATTHEWS: Not a nonprofit, but I serve the public.
Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., said it is "certainly going to be harder" to avoid a shutdown.
Aggressive appropriations schedule Meanwhile, House Republican leaders at the closed-door conference meeting laid out an aggressive schedule for October consideration of seven of the chamber’s remaining
He said he was still hoping to avoid a partial government shutdown as members "that have been holding off all this time blaming everybody else, will finally, hopefully, move off."
plans to take up a stopgap funding measure this week after members of the fractious GOP conference warned there would not be enough votes to pass a continuing resolution to avert a partial government shutdown
The key divide was where to set the annualized funding rate for the month of October on the measure, which would avert a partial government shutdown after Sept. 30.
Two weeks before a looming government shutdown and while a lone senator held promotions in the upper ranks of the military hostage, Senate Majority Leader Charles E.
The threat of a partial government shutdown, and its potential political impacts, may not resonate unless it actually happens.
Scalise made a full recovery from the shooting and kept up a busy work schedule since then.
Caught in the middle: Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., attempting to avert a government shutdown while warding off a conservative group that has threatened to try ousting him if he does not toe their
Another provision would automatically trim spending by 1 percent below current-year levels as part of stopgap funding needed to avert a partial government shutdown if appropriations bills don’t become
But neither bill was included in the weekly schedule sent out Friday by Scalise’s office, and a person familiar with the status of the border security legislation confirmed it had been delayed.
“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.