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There are multiple reasons for why it has taken so long to get the first permanent ambassador confirmed and sent out to their post: administration sluggishness, the Senate’s reduced work schedule and the
Corrected Aug. 13 | Both parties’ messaging machines kicked into high gear this week, as lawmakers set out for an abbreviated recess and the promise of a packed schedule of high-stakes votes when
The Senate returns Sept. 13, and outside of an extraordinary circumstance where there is consent from both sides or an unprecedented situation where Congress gets adjourned by President Joe Biden, the schedule
But at least eight to 10 moderate House Democrats are privately expressing a willingness to vote against the budget if Speaker Nancy Pelosi does not schedule a vote on the Senate-passed, bipartisan
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has vowed not to put the bipartisan infrastructure package on the floor until she can also schedule the reconciliation package, with Biden’s other priorities, before the House
The announcement represents a four-day shift in the agency’s schedule — ahead of the agency’s self-imposed Aug. 16 deadline.
Now, the Senate, at least in theory, could set a schedule that skipped the last-minute cram sessions.
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.
The Senate Appropriations Committee is marking up the Military Construction-VA and Energy-Water bills this week, while an official schedule for the Defense bill has yet to be announced.
Timmons said in an interview that he looks forward to some of the other issues the committee plans to tackle, like better managing members’ time by creating new ways to schedule hearings or take
But one source familiar with the planning said Democratic support for the three new bills added to the schedule — Commerce-Justice-Science, State-Foreign Operations, and Legislative Branch —wasn’t locked
California also said it would be the first state to require state workers and workers in health care and other high-risk settings to either show proof they have been vaccinated or adhere to a weekly testing schedule
“However, NWC members also believe that this budget injects risk into the longer term schedule required to ensure modernization of the U.S. nuclear deterrent.”
Inhofe of Oklahoma, the committee’s top Republican, told CQ Roll Call he believes the two structures created by the bill are in direct conflict in terms of the schedule of their implementation and the
Schumer said little Wednesday about pleas from Republicans in the 22-member bipartisan group negotiating details of the $1.2 trillion legislation to schedule the vote next week, his actions hinted at his
If Democrats stick to that schedule, that means the budget resolution would be debated on the floor that first week of August.
Schumer has to be able to control the schedule,” Sen. Christopher S. Murphy, D-Conn., said. Murphy is not in the negotiating group, but others who are agreed.
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.
Schumer, pressed by reporters about such concerns, said his schedule provides plenty of time to finish the bill. “The bottom line is there’s plenty of time to get this done,” Schumer said.
The Senate Appropriations Committee hopes to begin markups of its spending bills the last week of July or first week of August, but has yet to release a schedule.