The House continues to be in a committee work week and will reconvene on Tuesday, May 11th for votes. The Senate met at 10 a.m. and will take up the nomination of Jason Scott Miller for deputy OMB director for management and the nomination of Janet McCabe for deputy EPA administrator. The Senate is also… Read More
The House is in a committee work week this week during which time House Republicans have their GOP retreat in Orlando, Florida. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (D-California) is hoping to use the Orlando meeting to unify his members around a policy agenda that can pave their road back to the Majority. The retreat will… Read More
The House and Senate are both out today. The Senate will reconvene on Monday, however the House will be in committee work weeks the next two weeks and will reconvene for votes on Tuesday, May 11th. After President Joe Biden kicked off the first day of his climate change summit yesterday by declaring that the… Read More
The House has convened and is considering H.R. 51 – The Washington, D.C. Admission Act. The bill would grant statehood to Washington, DC, a Democratic priority that faces obstacles to final passage even with the party now in control of both chambers of Congress and the White House. House Democrats passed the bill last year… Read More
The House met at noon for legislative business and is set to pass legislation that aims to prevent the White House from instituting expansive travel bans like the one former President Donald J. Trump imposed on predominantly Muslim countries, and would explicitly bar any such edict based on religion. The No Ban Act would restrict… Read More
The Senate met at 10 a.m. and resumed consideration of S.937, COVID–19 Hate Crimes Act. The Senate will vote Wednesday on the legislation which addresses a rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Monday. The bill introduced by Senator Mazie Hirono, (D-Hawaii), and Representative Grace Meng, (D-New York), would… Read More
President Joe Biden is meeting with a bipartisan and bicameral group of 10 lawmakers today to discuss the American Jobs Plan. All of those House and Senate members slated to attend are former governors and mayors. From the Senate: Senators John Hickenlooper (D-Colorado), Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hampshire) Angus King (I-Maine), Mitt Romney (R-Utah), and John… Read More
The Senate is out. The House met at 9:00 a.m. for legislative business and is finishing consideration of the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act. This afternoon, the President will host H.E. Suga Yoshihide, Prime Minister of Japan, for an Official Working Visit as well as for an expanded bilateral… Read More
The House met at 12 p.m. for legislative business and will resume consideration of H.R. 7 – Paycheck Fairness Act. Breathing new life into legislation that died in the McConnell led Senate under the Trump administration, Democrats on Tuesday advanced the bill they say would close lingering loopholes in federal equal pay laws on the… Read More
The House met at 10 a.m. for morning hour debate and at 12 p.m. for legislative business. The House will consider seventeen bills under suspension of the Rules including S. 578 – FASTER Act of 2021, as well as the Rule for H.R. 7 – Paycheck Fairness Act and H.R. 1195 – Workplace Violence Prevention… Read More
