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A Foreign Relations subcommittee will hold a hearing Wednesday on the efforts to combat Ebola, and the Senate Agriculture Committee has a hearing on Thursday’s schedule that seems sure to attract
But in the end, Paul’s home-state GOP colleague, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, used his unique ability to control the floor schedule to win the day.
September is going to be a tighter schedule, however, given the chamber doesn’t reconvene until Sept. 9.
Even if Schrader’s bill moves forward that way, leadership seems to want to avoid letting the consensus calendar drive the schedule and circumvent other rules and procedures in the process.
That ambitious schedule leaves the Senate less than a month to hold a vote on Esper’s nomination and fill one of the most important cabinet positions, which has been vacant since former Secretary
[jwp-video n=”1″] While the Democratic National Committee has not announced the specifics of the 2020 debate schedule beyond Houston in September, it might not be too early to make plans to visit
The Senate is expected to be out of session for five weeks, starting Aug. 5, and the Armed Services Committee won’t schedule a confirmation hearing until the chamber receives the necessary paperwork
[jwp-video n=”1″] Given the current Senate schedule, which has the chamber out most of August, Shelby suggested the Appropriations Committee would focus its time writing and marking up the larger
Accordingly, top lawmakers are starting to downplay the prospect for leaving town on schedule. “The House is not going home.
The jostling between McConnell and Schumer over the schedule ahead of the July Fourth recess is the first time there has been a public expression of concern about significant and contentious votes
The others include rules, schedule and calendar, shared services like purchasing, franking and communications and technology.
In order to avoid such an outcome, Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Jim Risch, R-Idaho, agreed to schedule a committee markup next week for two bills from Menendez related to Saudi Arabia accountability
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
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
More nominations in Senate The Senate floor schedule this week will look familiar, with McConnell having moved before the recess to limit debate on a full week’s worth of nominations, including a
“The one big advantage whoever the majority leader is has, is the schedule,” he said. “You all know that can sometimes be enormously significant.
Combine that with a light schedule that has them working little more than three days at a time in Washington, and you get a complacent, lifeless chamber that shows little respect for actual discourse and
Warren is among the presidential candidates on the schedule at the National Action Network’s national convention in New York City.
But his schedule for doing so would depend on how quickly DOJ can scrub it for grand jury information “that by law cannot be made public,” he said.
Perry and DeVos will also testify before their respective House Appropriations subcommittees this week, as appropriators in that chamber have a busy schedule of hearings on fiscal 2020 spending requests