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The House will reconvene from its Columbus Day recess briefly today to pass a short-term increase in the debt ceiling to enable the Treasury to continue borrowing money to pay the bills for two months.  The measure, the product of a last-minute deal struck in the Senate, offers only a temporary reprieve, and it is…

Both the House and Senate are now in recess for the Columbus Day Holiday.  The Senate will reconvene at 3:00 P.M. on Monday, October 18th and will resume consideration of the nomination of Christine P. O’Hearn to be United States District Judge for the District of New Jersey.  The House will reconvene for a vote…

Both Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) have reached an agreement to extend the debt ceiling into December and Senators could vote on the deal as soon as today.  The agreement would increase the debt ceiling by $480 billion, which based on Treasury Department estimates would extend…

A  short time ago, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) told Republican colleagues at lunch that he will make a new offer to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) on a path forward to raising the nation’s debt limit, marking the start of long-awaiting negotiations between the two leaders.  As of now, the Senate…

As the debt ceiling standoff continues, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) set up a vote on Wednesday to increase the federal government’s borrowing ceiling, but didn’t lay out how Democrats planned to pass a bill without Republican votes.  Leader Schumer warned earlier Monday that lawmakers must act by the end of the week…

House progressives refused to vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill on Friday, which the Senate approved in August, because there was no deal on the Democrats’ larger reconciliation package.  After progressives and moderates failed to break their stalemate over the two pieces of legislation last week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) on Sunday…

The House remained in session overnight, after House Democratic Leadership postponed the vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill because of a progressive blockade after days of increasingly bitter feuding among liberal and moderate factions in the party.  Members were sent home and told there would be no further votes until Friday morning which served to…

Democrats face a consequential Thursday on Capitol Hill as they scramble to avert a government shutdown at midnight and salvage two crucial pieces of President Biden’s domestic agenda imperiled by deep internal divisions. The Senate just passed the continuing resolution 65 to 35 on the eve of the new fiscal year, to extend government funding…

This week will be a consequential week, as the House and Senate work to address both infrastructure bills, funding to keep the government open, and the looming debt ceiling.  The House will now vote Thursday on the Senate-passed bipartisan infrastructure bill, pushing back an originally planned vote for today that Democratic moderates had demanded as…

House Democrats are hoping to vote next week on both pieces of President Joe Biden’s far-reaching domestic agenda: a bipartisan infrastructure bill and a much larger social benefits package, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) announced Friday.  In a Dear Colleague to Democrats distributed today, the Speaker stopped short of guaranteeing both votes next week but laid…