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Zero for October Given the pressure from the left, fueled by worries Republicans will control the Senate come January, there is but one question: Do advocates of a more aggressive confirmation schedule
[Budget package taking shape as Democrats eye aggressive schedule] And, according to budget experts, reconciliation procedures appear to require lawmakers to vote for a specific debt limit amount
“Yes, it’s a tight schedule, but I think most probably more it has to do with politics and the fact that you’re going to have the Senate vote again on another budget resolution, and that budget resolution
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
“If you look right now at the schedule for the balance of the June work period is DOD, great outdoors, a couple circuit judges. … I don’t know how you can wedge that in there,” Thune said.
Van Hoose said hiccups in the program included unanswered questions for farmers who are sole proprietors with occasional hired workers about how to calculate eligible income based on the Schedule
Democrats say the directives set an aggressive schedule for unions to bargain and limit the time unions have to perform official duties “by over 91 percent in some cases,” the bill says.
Schedule up in the air The Senate was expected to reconvene Monday to consider Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act legislation (HR 6172), but the chamber’s schedule was up in the air for the rest
Congress followed up in the 2018 farm bill, legalizing hemp by removing it from the federal government’s Schedule I controlled substances list, where pot remains even though a majority of states have
The House is scheduled to vote this week on the five-year bill, which members of the House and Senate from both parties agreed to early Saturday morning, but the Senate schedule is less certain.
With an ambitious schedule for appropriations bills in September, floor time has been a major hurdle for getting the bill to the floor.
The question may be how to shoehorn the measure on to the schedule before the next recess.
Gun-related legislation backed by President Donald Trump now has enough support to clear the Senate, increasing pressure on Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky to schedule a vote on the measure
The chairman offered no guarantees, saying he does not know how a markup “fits into the schedule.”
On the floor, McConnell has twice sought to put a slate of appeals court nominees on the schedule within a day after the Judiciary Committee advances them, something Democrats say shortchanges senators
That means under the planned schedule there will be just eight legislative days for the House before the next government funding standoff, with the continuing resolution that became law Friday morning
Confirmation votes continue In the meantime, confirmations are expected to dominate the floor schedule, with preference given to judicial nominees, the vast majority of whom will be lifetime appointees
Despite the tight schedule in front of them, House Republicans were optimistic after Brady’s announcement Wednesday and see the task ahead as doable.
Under a current law baseline, which is different from a current policy baseline, it is assumed that the temporary tax cuts will expire on schedule, providing additional revenue to the government
Murkowski said she expects to schedule a vote on the nominees, along with the nomination of David Bernhardt to be Interior deputy secretary, the week of June 5, when the Senate returns from its Memorial