Look Ahead to the Week of April 29: Negotiators Reach Compromise on FAA Reauthorization - Both the House and Senate are in session this week. Early Monday morning, congressional negotiators announced they reached a...more
Look Ahead to the Week of April 15: Will Aid for Israel Pass? Both the Senate and House are in session this week. Over the weekend, Iran launched a coordinated attack on Israel in response to an Israeli airstrike on Iran’s...more
4/16/2024
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Both the Senate and House are in session this week. The House returns from recess beginning with a focus on reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which expires on April 19. Its...more
4/9/2024
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Both the Senate and House are in session this week. House Republicans are returning from their annual retreat with plans to consider legislation that would counter President Biden’s climate policies as well as promote...more
3/19/2024
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Look Ahead to the Week of March 11: The House Goes After TikTok - Both the Senate and House are in session this week, although the House will adjourn early as Republicans head to West Virginia on Wednesday for their annual...more
Look Ahead to the Week of March 4: The State of the Union and Government Spending - Both the Senate and House are in session. This week, Congress will attempt to pass the first tranche of government spending bills after...more
3/5/2024
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Look Ahead to the Week of February 26: A Partial Government Shutdown Looms on Friday - Both the Senate and House return this week, and once again Congress finds itself on the cusp of a partial government shutdown....more
2/26/2024
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Look Ahead to the Week of February 12: Will Congress Pass a Foreign Aid Funding Bill? Both the Senate and House are in session this week. Although the Senate was originally scheduled to be in recess, Senate Majority Leader...more
Look Ahead to the Week of February 5: Moment of Truth for Border Deal - Both the Senate and House are in session this week, although the lower chamber will wrap up votes early as House Democrats depart Wednesday for their...more
2/6/2024
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Look Ahead to the Week of January 29: Can a Deal Be Reached on the Border? Both the House and Senate are in session this week. Key Senate negotiators are still working to reach an agreement on a national security package...more
Look Ahead to the Week of January 22: Senate Focuses on National Security Supplemental The Senate is in session this week, but the House is out. Last week, President Biden signed an additional temporary spending bill to...more
1/23/2024
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Both the House and Senate are in session this week, though weather conditions across the nation could create logistical complications with an almost evenly divided House and Senate. The House has already postponed votes on...more
Both the House and Senate are in session this week. On Sunday, congressional leaders–including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA)–announced that a topline spending deal has been...more
The House has left for the holidays, but the Senate has returned to attempt to reach a bipartisan agreement on President Joe Biden’s national security supplemental package, which would provide additional aid to Ukraine and...more
Both the House and Senate will be back in session this week. Lawmakers are still working on coming to an agreement on President Joe Biden’s national security supplemental spending package, which would provide additional aid...more
Both the House and Senate will be back in session this week. Lawmakers are still working on coming to an agreement on President Joe Biden’s national security supplemental funding plan, which would provide additional aid to...more
Both the House and Senate will be back in session this week after passing a bipartisan “laddered” continuing resolution before the Thanksgiving holidays that would fund the government through January 19 and February 2, 2024....more
Both the House and Senate will be in session this week. The House is continuing to push forward on fiscal year 2024 appropriations bills this week before government funding expires on November 17. House Republicans unveiled...more
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