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Regardless of the reopening schedule, the biggest factor in happy hour culture could be the return of workers to the Hill.
“Everything’s not complete but we’ve got our markup schedule, and we’ll go from there,” Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard C. Shelby, R-Ala., said Tuesday.
CNN checks in with these lawmakers who have had to deal with a government shutdown, impeachment proceedings and now a global pandemic. When mothers are in the House: Rep.
The No. 2 Democrat, who is in charge of the floor schedule, outlined his legislative priorities for the year in an interview with CQ Roll Call.
But what about the government shutdown that always seems to be an end-of-year lump of coal for both chambers? For the first time in nearly a decade, it’s completely off the table.
CQ budget and appropriations editor Peter Cohn explains why a long-running standoff over spending limits is complicating passage of a stopgap measure needed to avoid a government shutdown come Christmas
There also were indications from the president’s staff that he will not trigger another government shutdown later this week.
Seldom does an imminent deadline to avoid a government shutdown fly under the radar, but that might happen this week with most eyes on impeachment hearings in the House.
debates on border wall spending and whether the president should keep the ability to transfer military funds to border wall construction, the two issues most likely to lead to a stalemate and another shutdown
secretary Stephanie Grisham panned Wednesday’s hearing as “boring” and wasteful, saying lawmakers instead should be addressing Trump’s proposed trade pact with Mexico and Canada, striking a government shutdown-averting
There’s also a full hearing schedule for the week, with FBI Director Christopher Wray and outgoing acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan at the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
A source with knowledge of Trump’s plans, however, said he intends to sign a stopgap spending bill needed before Sept. 30 to avert another government shutdown.
The floor situation was shaping up as another setback to an appropriations process that remains months behind schedule, with no funding yet in place for the fiscal year that begins in less than two
She said the partial government shutdown was largely to blame.
House lawmakers have been warned that late-night votes are on the schedule as they work through floor consideration of a five-bill package that amounts to about $990 billion in discretionary spending
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,
to see a shutdown.