The House on Tuesday passed a stopgap bill to prevent a government shutdown, sending the unconventional two-step continuing resolution to the Senate and marking the first major hurdle Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) has cleared since winning the gavel. The chamber approved the short-term funding measure in a 336-95 vote, days before Friday night’s shutdown deadline…. Read More
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) and House Republican leaders are moving to pass a two-step stopgap government funding bill under a fast-track process that will require support from Democrats, an attempt to work around GOP opposition that threatened to tank the bill on a procedural vote. A scheduling notice from House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana)… Read More
With less than ten days until the government shuts down, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) told key Republican members of the House on Wednesday that he will decide hopefully within the next two days on a path to avert a potential government shutdown. The Republican-controlled House and Democratic-led Senate have just over a week to… Read More
The House and Senate are both in session today, with government funding set to run out in just 11 days. Congress looks like it’s actually getting further from, not closer to, a solution as House Republicans were hoping to sort things out at a private meeting this morning, but at the moment their two leading… Read More
House Democrats are lining up in overwhelming opposition to a Republican package combining Israel aid with cuts to IRS funding, setting the stage for a partisan clash over an issue that has typically enjoyed broad support from both parties. At a closed-door meeting in the Capitol Thursday morning, House Democratic leaders urged their members to… Read More
The Senate convened today at 10:00 A.M. The upper chamber is expected to consider the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024 (H.R. 4366). The House is expected to reconvene at 12:00 P.M. and will work on H.R. 4364 – Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2024. The Rules Committee will meet at 4… Read More
In his first major move, House Speaker Mike Johnson, (R-Louisiana), is using the bipartisan goal of providing aid to Israel to pick a fight with President Joe Biden. A new bill House Republicans released Monday includes $14.3 billion in emergency funding for Israel while rescinding the same amount of IRS funding from the Inflation Reduction… Read More
After three weeks without a speaker, the House voted Wednesday afternoon to elect Representative Mike Johnson of Louisiana. Johnson secured the gavel without losing any GOP votes with a final tally of 220 votes for Johnson and 209 for House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York). The little-known congressman was first elected in 2016, representing… Read More
House Republicans elected two speaker-designates in the span of ten hours Tuesday, but they failed again to fully unite the conference around a new leader, leaving the House without a speaker for the 21st day in a row. Just four hours after House Republicans selected Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minnesota) as their third speaker-designate in… Read More
House Republicans have just nominated Tom Emmer of Minnesota to be their now third candidate for speaker. The GOP gathered behind closed doors this morning to vote by secret ballot and choose among seven contenders. In the fifth and final round of voting, Emmer defeated Mike Johnson of Louisiana with a vote total of Emmer,… Read More
