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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.
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
Lawmakers chose to delay the discussion of border wall funding, leaving the Military Construction-VA spending bill off this week’s schedule.
The tentative current schedule for the remainder of 2019 sets up a similar possibility, with a five-week recess that’s scheduled to start the first full week of August and run through the week that includes
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The House is adding two days to its schedule next week to ensure the government is funded by Feb. 15, when the current continuing resolution expires.
/p> Once a temporary funding resolution was reached Friday, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said he planned to urge Republicans to go on their retreat this weeks, since that was the time allotted in the schedule
In the end, Hoyer agreed to vacate the vote that had passed by voice vote and schedule a roll call vote for next week: “… Having said that, their [GOP leaders’] mistake led to their members not being able
Hoyer asked unanimous consent to vacate proceedings by which the CR was passed and schedule a recorded vote on it for Wednesday.
Trump’s official schedule for Tuesday lists a 12:30 p.m. meeting with unnamed members of Congress. The White House has not announced other details.
Complicating everything is a truncated schedule in the House, with lawmakers out until Wednesday, at least for the moment.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy stated the obvious on Thursday when he noted that the chamber’s schedule for next week remains “fluid and subject to change.”