After a White House meeting yesterday with the four congressional leaders that yielded no progress, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) says he expects the Senate to begin voting at 5 P.M. today on competing Democratic and Republican proposals to fund the government, but both proposals are expected to fail to advance, putting Washington…
Read More With less than thirty six hours until the government shuts down, President Donald J. Trump is scheduled to meet with the top four congressional leaders Monday in a high-stakes sit-down at the White House that could determine whether the federal government shuts down this week. Funding is set to run out at 12:01 A.M. Wednesday…
Read More Earlier today, the House passed the Republicans’ short-term government funding bill ahead of the September 30th deadline to avert a shutdown. The final tally was 217-212. Ultimately, all but two Republicans supported the President Donald Trump-backed spending bill with Representatives Thomas Massie (Kentucky) and Victoria Spartz (Indiana) voting no. Nearly all Democrats who were present…
Read More Democrats are gearing up to reject a GOP stopgap funding bill and potentially spark a government shutdown. What happens then, no one seems to know. Two weeks ahead of the key deadline, party leaders are staking out a rhetorical hard line demanding that their Republican counterparts come to the negotiating table to discuss concessions on…
Read More President Donald Trump and GOP leaders need the support of at least seven Senate Democrats to break a filibuster to keep the government open past September 30th. To entice Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York), they’re advancing a straight extension, which was released yesterday, of government funding until November 21st – without poison pills…
Read More House Republicans just released text for a stopgap bill that funds the government at current levels through November 21st and boosts security funding for public officials. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) said the House plans to vote “by Friday” on the measure, saying it “will keep the government funded and operating at current levels while we…
Read More As the Senate continues to try to clear nominations, the upper chamber will take up Confirmation of Executive Calendar #113, Tyler Clarkson, of Virginia, to be General Counsel of the Department of Agriculture, Confirmation of Executive Calendar #172 Gadyaces Serralta, of Florida, to be Director of the United States Marshals Service, Confirmation of Executive Calendar…
Read More As the Senate continues its slog to process outstanding nominations, today the upper chamber will take up Confirmation of Executive Calendar #182 Thomas Gaiser, of Ohio, to be an Assistant Attorney General, Confirmation of Executive Calendar #95 Joseph Kent, of Washington, to be Director of the National Counterterrorism Center- Office of the Director of National…
Read More The Senate will spend today continuing to process through a list of 135 outstanding nominations by taking up Confirmation of Executive Calendar #110 Earl Matthews, of Virginia, to be General Counsel of the Department of Defense, Confirmation of Executive Calendar #94 William Kimmitt, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, Confirmation…
Read More The Senate is back in session for the week and hoping to make some progress on both the government funding process and President Donald J. Trump’s backlog of almost 150 nominees before heading home for August recess. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) is hoping to get the first appropriations package through the chamber…
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