Both the House and Senate will be in session this week. The House is continuing to push forward on individual fiscal year 2024 appropriations bills this week, with plans for a vote on the House GOP’s Transportation-Housing...more
Both the House and Senate will be in session this week. Last Wednesday, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) was elected Speaker of the House. All 220 House Republicans voted in favor of Johnson, and 209 Democrats voted against him. The...more
Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC), the speaker pro tempore, has announced a speaker candidate forum for later Monday, with the official election process beginning Tuesday. Meanwhile, last Friday, President Joe Biden sent to...more
Both the House and Senate will be in session this week. However, activity in the House has ground to a halt over the past few weeks after Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was ousted from his position as Speaker by members of his...more
Both the House and Senate will be in session this week, after narrowly averting a government shutdown over the weekend. In what came as a surprise to almost everyone, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) offered a clean...more
Both the House and Senate will be in session this week. Last week, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) failed to pass a temporary stopgap spending bill. Some members of the conservative Freedom Caucus members opposed the...more
Both the House and Senate will be in session this week. Over the weekend, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) released a stopgap spending bill to fund the government through October 31, including an 8% cut to nondefense...more
Both the House and Senate will be in session this week. Senate appropriators plan to bring to the floor a three-bill package funding Agriculture-FDA, Military Construction-VA, and Transportation-HUD for fiscal year 2024. The...more
The Senate has returned from its August recess, but the House will not be back in session until next week. Late last week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) distributed a letter to his conference indicating that...more
Both the House and Senate are in session this week before leaving for their August recess. The Senate will continue working through its version of the National Defense Authorization Act, which will differ starkly from the...more
Both the House and Senate are in session this week. Last week, the House narrowly passed its version of the annual defense spending bill, which would authorize $886.3 million for national security, in line with the debt...more
Both the House and Senate are in session this week before they leave for a two-week recess that coincides with the July Fourth holiday. The Senate will continue to focus on the confirmations of President Joe Biden’s...more
Both the House and Senate are in session this week. Last week, the House ground to a halt after a group of 11 hardline conservatives derailed floor consideration of various Republican-led bills in a display of their deep...more
Both the House and Senate are in session this week after intense negotiations to raise the debt limit. President Joe Biden signed into law the Fiscal Responsibility Act on Saturday. The deal suspends the debt ceiling until...more
After weeks of wrangling and negotiating, President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) were finally able to reach a debt limit deal. House and Senate leaders have called both bodies back in session following...more
The House is in session, and the Senate is out. Senators have been told to remain on standby and be prepared to return to Washington quickly in case a deal is reached on raising the debt limit. In the past week, it was...more
Both the House and Senate are in this week. On Tuesday, President Biden will meet again with top congressional leaders, including House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senate...more
Both the House and Senate are in this week. On Tuesday, President Joe Biden will meet with top congressional leaders, including House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senate...more
The Senate is in, but the House will be gone for a one-week recess. During the break, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) will lead a 20-member bipartisan congressional delegation to Israel. Last week, McCarthy was able to...more
Both the House and Senate are in this week. The House plans to vote on Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) proposal for raising the debt limit, which was published last week. The plan would increase the debt ceiling by $1.5...more
Both the Senate and House will be in session this week before leaving for a two-week recess. House Republicans are taking steps this week to move the GOP’s signature energy overhaul package, which is their attempt to cut red...more
Both the Senate and House will be in session this week, although votes in the House are delayed until Wednesday while Republicans are in Florida through Tuesday for their annual policy retreat. The upper chamber will vote on...more
The Senate is in session, but the House will be gone for a one-week recess as Republicans head to Florida for their annual policy retreat. The upper chamber will focus on nominations that have garnered bipartisan support due...more
The Senate is planning to vote Wednesday on a measure to block a local law revising Washington, D.C.’s criminal code. The D.C. law would update the definitions of criminal offenses, create new grades of sentences based on the...more
The House and Senate both return this week with a busy schedule. The House will wrap up votes by Wednesday so the Democratic Caucus can head to Baltimore for their planning retreat, which President Joe Biden is expected to...more