Special election for Texas’ 18th District heads to all-Democratic runoff
Greg Abbott’s decision to schedule the special election in November, leaving district residents without a representative in Washington for eight months and counting.
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Organizations that believe in DEI should follow Major League Baseball’s lead
Peruse any MLB team’s schedule, lineup and even the rest of the MLB careers webpage, and it sure looks like they’re not attempting to go back to a pre-Jackie Robinson era.
Trump can make immigration moves on his first day back in office
Eric Ruark, director of research for NumbersUSA, a conservative group that wants to reduce immigration, said Trump could immediately eliminate the CBP One app, which allows migrants to schedule appointments
Biden faces hurdles to match Trump on judicial appointments
Collins, a law professor at George Washington University, said the remaining schedule is not a lot of time, considering every nominee eats up precious session time.
Campaigns · 118th Congress
At the Races: Meanwhile, on the House battlefield
If you’re looking down the ballot, there are five states on the travel schedule with Senate races in either the Tilt or Lean Democratic column: Arizona, Michigan, Nevada and Wisconsin, along with Pennsylvania
Senate Democrats look to close judicial confirmation gap
"One big issue is just the schedule of when they’ll be in town," said Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond School of Law who follows judicial confirmations.
Will GOP conclude Joe Biden, proxy war president, needs a House partner?
The schedule of any wartime president could understandably slip by minutes or even hours. Biden is not exactly a wartime commander in chief.
‘Stop demonizing government,’ 20-year veteran Senate chaplain urges
Away from Capitol Hill, Black keeps a full schedule as a guest preacher at churches and other religious venues across the country, with his office regularly getting five invites a day for outside engagements
Biden in Belfast to commemorate Good Friday Agreement
Biden will begin his schedule Wednesday, meeting with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak before delivering remarks at Ulster University’s Belfast campus and then departing for the Republic of Ireland.
Congress · 118th Congress
Senate’s slow start to 2023 rolls on
The light floor schedule gave plenty of opportunities for news conferences and a few hearings, and for members of the Intelligence Committee to receive briefings, even if they were frustrated on a bipartisan
Congress · 117th Congress
Doctors lobby Congress for Medicare payment bump, again
Doctors’ groups lobbied for Congress to add more money to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule rather than reverse pay increases for underpaid specialties and were successful in the past two years
Campaigns · 117th Congress
Biden, Harris prepare for traditional Labor Day events
Both states with presidential visits on the Labor Day schedule feature must-watch Senate races, with Wisconsin Democratic Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes challenging incumbent Republican Sen.
Heard On The Hill · 117th Congress
New House chaplain keeps praying through the turmoil
The mission remains pretty much the same: Provide pastoral counseling to the House community, schedule guest chaplains and arrange memorial services for members of the House and its staff.
Congress · 117th Congress
House passes bill to award Congressional Gold Medals to Capitol, DC police
(@mtgreenee) March 8, 2021 Democratic leaders decided to pull the suspension bills from the schedule because of the floor time it would have taken, roughly 45 minutes per vote because of COVID-19 voting
Opinion · 117th Congress
The risks of a fragile majority
It’s one thing to schedule something, it’s another to get it done. And I don’t think you’ll get it done unless you can see some real effort put into meaningful bipartisanship.”
Congress · 116th Congress
Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court
Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has not announced a schedule for confirmation hearings, but has announced he backs a confirmation vote on the floor before the election
Opinion · 116th Congress
In a fractious holiday season, are there glimmers of hope?
So, how about a Hallmark movie refuge, as the insistent card-store clerk kept asking as she pressed a schedule into my reluctant hands?
Congress · 116th Congress
Foreign aid rider tangles up final spending talks
The Mexico City issue temporarily stalled movement on the Senate’s State-Foreign Operations bill, with Shelby having to pull the measure from the panel’s schedule initially.
Congress · 116th Congress
When sanctions become weapons of mass disruption
While there has been little rush by congressional leaders this year to schedule votes on any of these bills, if there is a major fresh outrage from Moscow, lawmakers are likely to feel they need to
Congress · 116th Congress
Democrats release new anti-hate bill, ready vote to end Omar controversy
His office sent the text of the resolution out around 1:15 p.m. with a schedule update saying the House would vote on it around 3:15 p.m., giving lawmakers two hours to review the seven-page resolution