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The first votes of the 116th Congress will be to elect a speaker — expected to be longtime Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi — and then to adopt a rules package.
Congress and President Donald Trump are basically giving up on reaching a deal to end the government’s partial shutdown for 2018, throwing in the towel until the New Year and a new Congress.
President Donald Trump has signed legislation overhauling the process for responding to claims of harassment on Capitol Hill.
“I hope Senate Democrats will work with the White House on an agreement that can pass both Houses of Congress and receive the president’s signature,” McConnell said.
Republicans on Thursday said such rhetoric emboldened them in seeking to put the measure on the floor.
On Tuesday, he explained why. “Here’s the thing,” Schiff said in an interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
“It’s highly speculative as to whether those payments, reprehensible [as] the entire matter was, I think it’s a stretch to say that … it violated federal campaign finance rules,” Faso said.
The measure still needs House approval, which Tester has acknowledged is unlikely to come this Congress.
There was agreement that the Democrats’ House rules package will not include any mention of term limits and that any changes would be debated in the context of caucus rules.
A sentencing hearing for Wolfe on a charge of lying to the FBI is set for a Washington courtroom on Dec. 20 — a year after Wolfe left his job — and he plans to address the judge.
Advocates are lobbying President Donald Trump to sign the bill if the Senate clears it. But Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah has questions about whether science backs up the policy.
In the case, the court could accomplish part of what some conservative members of Congress have sought to do legislatively.
House Democratic leadership aides have said that women’s reproductive health issues will be a priority in the next Congress.
He also gets to select the top Republicans on the House Rules and Ethics committees but has yet to announce those picks. Appropriations Texas Rep.
Dreier spent more than three decades in Congress, including many years as chairman of the House Rules Committee.
Democrats have been frustrated for the last two years as they have been unable to stop the Trump administration and congressional Republicans from dismantling many environmental protections, including
Grassley is expected to be the next chairman of the Finance Committee, putting the Iowa Republican at the center of the storm in the 116th Congress on what could be divisive debates over tax, trade and
colleagues on issues where we agree,” Schumer said.
“A blanket exemption from fire safety rules for any ship is inappropriate,” Garamendi, the ranking member on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Coast Guard panel, said in a statement
Ryan, for conducting “business as usual” the past two years instead of shaking up Washington after the voters elected President Donald Trump to do just that.