Both the House and Senate are expected to be in session through Friday this week before adjourning for the two week Independence Day recess. Both chambers Armed Services Committees will launch their full-committee markups of the annual National Defense Authorization Act on Wednesday, the House in a public meeting and the Senate in closed session. …
Read More Both the Senate and House are scheduled to end their work weeks with a relatively light day. The Senate is expected to take up the nomination of Nusrat Jahan Choudhury to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York and also vote on a Motion to invoke cloture on the nomination…
Read More The House advanced a slate of bills Tuesday afternoon, bringing a floor blockade to an end after a tentative agreement was reached between Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) and hardline conservatives who had brought the chamber floor to a halt in retaliation over how GOP leadership handled the debt ceiling deal. The stalemate is at an…
Read More A small bloc of conservative Republicans are holding the floor of the House of Representatives hostage, forcing Republican leaders to cancel votes for the rest of the week. For the second straight day, the conservatives blocked several leadership-backed bills from moving forward Wednesday in protest of Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-California) handling of the debt deal…
Read More A revolt from conservatives thrust the House floor into a state of limbo again Wednesday morning, with Republican leaders forced to delay a second try at advancing a rule GOP Conservatives shot down one day earlier. The underlying legislation stalled by the defeated rule included two measures to prohibit federal bans of gas stoves and…
Read More House Republicans are taking up legislation this week aimed at preventing bans of gas stoves, with the conference set to consider two bills: one that would prohibit the use of federal funds to ban stoves, and another that calls for blocking an Energy Department rule that institutes energy conservation standards for some consumer products, which…
Read More The Senate spent much of the day yesterday trying to broker a deal among the chamber’s 100 members to speed up the voting schedule on the legislation to raise the debt ceiling, H.R.3746, Fiscal Responsibility Act. The final vote in the Senate was 63-to-36 and as in the House, Democrats carried the measure to passage,…
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 The House of Representatives is on track to vote Wednesday night on a bill to suspend the nation’s debt limit through January 1, 2025, as Congress races to prevent a catastrophic default. If the House passes the bill tonight as expected, it would next need to be passed by the Senate before it can be…
Read More Negotiators for the White House and congressional Republicans had a second extended negotiating session late into last night, in addition to the one that lasted four hours in the afternoon. A debt limit deal is still not yet close for House Republicans and the White House as House members leave Washington and the risk of…
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