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House adds days next week to accommodate government funding deadline
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.
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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.
Hoyer, who controls the floor schedule, and Appropriations Chairwoman Nita M.
/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
Hoyer, who controls the floor schedule, and Appropriations Chairwoman Nita M.
During their weekly colloquy to lay out the schedule for the coming week, Majority Leader Steny H.
“It would be so very sad for our Country if the State of the Union were not delivered on time, on schedule, and very importantly, on location,” the letter said.
Hoyer asked unanimous consent to vacate proceedings by which the CR was passed and schedule a recorded vote on it for Wednesday.
The majority leader’s office sent out a notice about the schedule change to members shortly after the pen and pad.
The colloquy is a House tradition in which the majority leader and minority whip dialogue on the floor about the upcoming floor schedule and then big policy issues facing Congress.
“This action is necessary so that the American people can receive their tax refunds on schedule,” Pelosi said in a weekend statement.
Hoyer of Maryland] that we will have the budget resolution to the floor by the first part of April, and that’s the schedule he wants,” Yarmuth said.
The death on Nov. 30 of Bush and the subsequent funeral in Washington scrambled the latter part of the schedule, and the speaker’s team secured a later date, Dec. 19, for his goodbye at the Library
Hoyer hashed out the coming week’s schedule — such as it is, since the only time they know they need to be in Washington is Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. — the two engaged in a little good-natured banter, noting
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.”
House Democrats have released the chamber’s floor schedule for 2019, which includes 130 days in session over 33 weeks and was tailored to accommodate the influx of lawmakers with young families joining
The speaker sets the majority party’s agenda and controls the floor schedule. The gavel holder is also the lead negotiator for the House in matters involving the Senate and the White House.
Trump offered a preview of several campaign rallies on his schedule this week, saying without his tariffs on foreign goods “we wouldn’t be standing here.”
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