Both the House and Senate are back in session today at the same time since the second week of July. While much has happened since then, both chambers will spend this week and next week trying to wrap up legislative work prior to the August recess which begins next Friday, August 2nd. On the Senate… Read More
Key Senate and House negotiators unveiled a long-awaited bill Monday to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration (TEXT; SECTION BY SECTION) for the next five years, a major must-pass item ahead of the May 10th deadline. The deal would boost funding intended to avert close-call collisions on runways, improve air traffic controller staffing, maintain the current… Read More
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) reiterated after his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky this morning that any aid for Ukraine must be coupled with border security. The statement comes even as a bipartisan group in the Senate has struggled to come to a consensus on border security, a reality that is preventing the United States… Read More
Both the House and Senate are in session today with less than two weeks to go before the August recess. The Senate is expected to reconvene at 3:00 P.M. and will take up the nomination of Rachel Bloomekatz to be United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit and the will then move on to… Read More
With a final vote of 314-117, H.R.3746, Fiscal Responsibility Act, to raise the debt ceiling overwhelmingly passed the House last night with under two-thirds of the Republican conference voting for it and more Democrats voting for the bill than GOP lawmakers. After Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) failed to secure the necessary Republican votes to pass… Read More
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) said Wednesday that he is optimistic that congressional negotiators could reach a deal to raise or suspend the debt ceiling in time to hold a House vote on it next week. Negotiators are aiming to hammer out an agreement before President Joe Biden’s scheduled return to Washington on Sunday from… Read More
The Senate Budget committee is holding a hearing that Democrats have dubbed the “The Default on America Act: Blackmail, Brinkmanship, and Billionaire Backroom Deals,” where senators are discussing the House bill to raise the debt ceiling that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) has said is “dead on arrival” in the Senate. Among the… Read More
The Senate convened at 10:00 A.M. and resumed consideration of the nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget, post-cloture. The Senate is also considering the nomination of Susan Tsui Grundmann to be a Member of the Federal Labor Relations Authority for a term of five years. Senators… Read More
Senator Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) raised new doubts on Monday about an emerging compromise on the $1.85 trillion climate change and social safety net bill, warning that he had serious reservations about the plan and criticizing liberals in his party for what he called an “all or nothing” stance on it. Senator Manchin found fault… Read More
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) on Wednesday said the stonewalling by Senate centrists has disrupted the Democrats’ timeline for moving President Biden’s domestic agenda, leaving open the possibility that the House will punt once again on an infrastructure vote scheduled for Thursday. The Speaker said she still intends to stage the infrastructure vote on Thursday, but… Read More
