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Senate convenes with pomp and circumstance, and no drama
“Instead of surprise, late night sessions and unpredictable recesses, senators got a set schedule.
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“Instead of surprise, late night sessions and unpredictable recesses, senators got a set schedule.
But after spending an “uneventful night” in the hospital, Leahy and his wife Marcelle planned to fly to Vermont Saturday morning for “a full schedule of planned events in the days ahead,” the statement
While the House isn’t scheduled to return until after the November elections, the Senate schedule calls for reconvening in October.
While he has generally kept the House on schedule in recent years to pass all but a few of the more controversial bills in the summer, the Senate has not brought bills to the floor or in recent years even
I know I expect to be on the phone with a lot of people during that time — whenever that August break is,” Leahy said, alluding to the somewhat opaque Senate floor schedule.
If the House approves the seven-bill package, it will head to the Senate where appropriators in that chamber have yet to schedule markups, though Senate Appropriations Chairman Patrick J.
Leahy hasn’t announced a markup schedule yet, but Tilton said earlier this week that the panel may start considering its versions of the fiscal 2022 spending bills in late July or early August before
Hoyer’s timeline makes sense given a truncated congressional schedule the following week in the run-up to the shutdown deadline.
Hoyer announced Thursday that a bill to reauthorize and overhaul surveillance authorities was being pulled from the floor schedule.
Hirono were to return home, they would also face the two-week quarantine and by the time that period ended, Hirono said she may have to turn around and head back to Washington, depending on the Senate schedule
Apportionment is usually used to allocate funds to agencies on a schedule that spaces out how quickly they are spent.
There’s no doubt that a combination of the end-of-the year schedule and jet fumes is greasing the wheels on some of these deals.
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
September is going to be a tighter schedule, however, given the chamber doesn’t reconvene until Sept. 9.
The Financial Services measure is on the schedule and the Legislative Branch bill may be added.
The procedural maneuvering could wreak some havoc on the Senate schedule, with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky potentially having to dedicate long stretches of floor time to the disapproval
“We know … Kavanaugh was there because it’s his schedule and here is Judge and here is P.J.
Republican leaders want to schedule a floor vote for Monday or Tuesday on Kavanaugh’s confirmation “unless something derail[s] it along the way,” according to Senate Republican Conference Chairman
His bill is one of the three on the schedule for Thursday’s Appropriations Committee meeting.
Regardless, appropriations leaders in the House and Senate have set a rigorous schedule, with the House panel’s first full committee markup expected May 8.