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Rand Paul who supports the president’s position, said Monday he plans to object if the Senate tries to schedule a quick vote on overriding Trump’s expected defense policy bill veto.
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.
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.
[jwp-video n=”1″] The House floor schedule reserves time for voting on a relief package this week.
Internal agency emails released in the lawsuit show career officials raising alarms about inaccuracies introduced by the shortened schedule.
But the effort, a rare majority-filed discharge petition led by moderate Republicans, forced the-then GOP leadership to work on the issue and eventually schedule immigration votes that ultimately failed
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.
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.
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.
Hoyer’s timeline makes sense given a truncated congressional schedule the following week in the run-up to the shutdown deadline.
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.”
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.
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.
Hoyer is expected to announce full details of the return schedule and legislative agenda on a Monday morning call with the Democratic Caucus.
She pinned the norms-breaking split physical on Trump’s expected busy 2020 schedule.
The marathon hearing schedule will conclude Thursday morning with testimony from Fiona Hill, the former NSC senior director for Europe and Russia.
“I would advise members on both sides of the aisle not to schedule any business outside of Washington, D.C. between the 16th and the 20th,” Hoyer said in his weekly floor colloquy.
Questions on court pick The other headline item on the Senate floor schedule is the potential confirmation of Steven J. Menashi to be a judge on the powerful New York-based 2nd U.S.
Cummings, the Oversight chairman who died Oct. 17, clearing the schedule Thursday and Friday for memorials and rescheduling depositions for the weekend and into this week.
Veronica Escobar, who represents the border area of El Paso, to create an ombudsman and institute accountability standards for the Homeland Security Department is back on the schedule.