Congress · 116th Congress
Fine print issues snag tentative pact on coronavirus relief bill
Hoyer sent out the House’s schedule for Thursday.
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Congress · 116th Congress
Hill leaders seek to clinch spending, coronavirus aid deals
The House returns to Washington on Wednesday but is not planning to vote on the omnibus until Thursday at the earliest, according to its weekly schedule.
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Negotiators wrapping up omnibus deal, plan to file Tuesday
If that schedule holds, the House could be ready to vote on the bill as early as Wednesday, though the path of a snowstorm that weather forecasters are anticipating may affect that timing.
Congress · 116th Congress
Bipartisan coronavirus relief package not winning GOP converts
Hoyer said as he announced the schedule update on the floor.
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Cannon renovation expected to go $137 million over budget
The price tag for the Cannon House Office Building renovation project continues to rise as one leg of the construction effort lags years behind schedule, an Architect of the Capitol inspector general report
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Road ahead: House takes up ‘Tiger King’ and marijuana bills while seeking spending deal
Senate schedule Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is keeping his chamber occupied confirming judges and other nominees even though the Kentucky Republican’s party lost the White House.
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Coronavirus relief talks bleed past deadline amid lingering doubts
But his pledge to schedule floor action “at some point” left plenty of wiggle room for the timing of any future vote.
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U.S. Agency for Global Media unrecognizable under Trump ally
Such was Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Jim Risch’s determination to fulfill Trump’s wish that the Idaho Republican broke with decades of bipartisan tradition on the committee to schedule a confirmation
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Stopgap funding back on track, House vote possible Tuesday night
He said the vote would likely be on an amended version of the bill House leaders had to pull from the floor schedule earlier in the day.
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Trump to announce SCOTUS pick Saturday, with Senate GOP moving ahead with vote
The Senate Judiciary Committee, led by Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., will undoubtedly move as quickly as possible to gather background resources and schedule confirmation hearings, but it remains
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Road ahead: Stopgap spat and Supreme Court tension dominate week
The House has a packed schedule of committee hearings, including a Natural Resources session Friday on Puerto Rico’s options for nonterritory status. Jennifer Shutt and Paul M.
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House Democrats prep fallback option on stopgap funding
The noon Friday deadline to file the legislation was intended to keep the House on schedule to take up the bill early next week. The Rules Committee has scheduled a meeting at 1 p.m.
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House Democrats worry last legislative message before election lacks COVID relief
Hoyer said he intentionally left the schedule for the last week of September open to allow time for action on coronavirus relief.
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Hoyer: House eyeing vote on stopgap funding bill next week
Hoyer’s timeline makes sense given a truncated congressional schedule the following week in the run-up to the shutdown deadline.
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Road ahead: CR decisions, judicial nominations and anti-discrimination legislation
Hoyer said in a “Dear Colleague” letter last month announcing the September floor schedule. “They are based on the premise that everyone ought to have a fair and equal chance to make it in America.”
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Road Ahead: Coronavirus aid, spending deadline loom, but slow start expected for Congress’ return
The House is not in session this week — a change from the original schedule for the year — and is instead categorizing it as a committee work week.
Congress · 116th Congress
Marijuana, discrimination bills on House’s September agenda, CR expected to avert shutdown
The measure would remove marijuana from the list of Schedule 1 controlled substances in all instances where it is referenced in current law, and apply this change retroactively.
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The 2020 fight over the Postal Service underscores its long-unaddressed challenges
DeJoy asserted that the Postal Service has been able to move more mail on time and on schedule since he took the helm. “And, we accomplished this in a cost-effective manner,” he said.
Policy · 116th Congress
Shaheen asks for watchdog probe into Census Bureau schedule
[Census Bureau to halt counting efforts a month early] “I believe that this deviation in schedule is driven not by expert opinions of career Census Bureau employees but by external pressure
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House won’t take votes Labor Day week, citing COVID-19 concerns
“The September schedule will follow the same format as June and July, so that we can conduct our necessary work while protecting public health,” Hoyer said in a release.