Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) unveiled legislation on Sunday night to keep the government funded into March, with Leader Schumer saying he plans to take steps to move the legislation through his chamber as soon as tonight – just days before a key shutdown deadline. The text of a two-tiered continuing resolution, which would fund the government past both shutdown deadlines through March 1 and March 8 will likely need bipartisan support in both chambers to pass through the House and Senate before Friday’s deadline, as conservatives from the House Freedom Caucus quickly denounced the legislation. If passed, it will mark the third short-term spending deal Congress has reached since September.
For today, due to snow in Washington, House GOP Leadership has canceled votes and first votes of the week in the House are now expected tomorrow at approximately 1:30 P.M.
The Senate is expected to convene at 3:00 P.M. and if enough Senators are present, the Senate will hold a vote in relation to the motion to discharge the Committee on Foreign Relations from further consideration of S.Res.504, requesting information on Israel’s human rights practices pursuant to section 502B(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. The Senate is also expected to potentially take up the Motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R.2872, the legislative vehicle for the Continuing Resolution.
