Congress Not Likely to Return Early for Disaster Relief

Yesterday afternoon, President Joe Biden took the unprecedented step of ending his re-election bid amid lagging poll numbers and mounting calls within his own party to step aside following his lackluster debate performance last month. With less than four months until the general election — and less than a month until the Democratic National Convention […]

Congress will return for legislative business next week, starting with the House on Monday. Leadership is currently targeting passage of four fiscal year (FY) 2024 appropriations bills on the floor next week, including Financial Services and General Government (FSGG), Agriculture-FDA, Interior-Environment, and Energy-Water Development. However, after the Legislative Branch bill unexpectedly failed on the House […]

The Senate will meet for legislative business today as Democrats look to move another bill on reproductive health. The Reproductive Freedom for Women Act (S. 4554) is void of any notable policy changes, instead expressing the sense of Congress that access to abortion and other reproductive health care should be supported following the Supreme Court’s […]

The House will convene today to tee up floor consideration of the chamber’s fifth spending bill for fiscal year (FY) 2025. Lawmakers are expected to begin debate on the FY 2025 Legislative Branch spending bill following final up-or-down votes on legislation that seeks to curtail energy efficiency regulations for refrigerators and dishwashers. Meanwhile, the House […]

Lawmakers will return to Washington on Monday to kick off the July work period. In the House, the primary focus will be clearing fiscal year (FY) 2025 government funding bills that have been reported out of the Appropriations Committee, starting with the Legislative Branch measure next week. The panel will also hold full committee markups […]

Last week, House lawmakers passed three fiscal year (FY) 2025 spending bills to close out the June work period. The House has now passed four of its twelve spending bills for FY 2025: Military Construction-VA, Defense, Homeland Security, and State-Foreign Operations. Appropriations committee activity and floor action will resume on the House side during the […]

The House is wrapping up legislative business for the week with final up-or-down votes on three appropriations bills. Once lawmakers are finished debating amendments to the fiscal year (FY) 2025 Defense bill, the House will hold a final vote on that legislation plus the funding measures for Homeland Security and State-Foreign Operations. Assuming these all […]

House lawmakers will return on Tuesday to close out the June work period. On the floor, the chamber is set to take up the fiscal year (FY) 2025 spending bills for Defense, Homeland Security, and State-Foreign Operations. Assuming these measures pass along party lines, the House will have passed four out of the 12 appropriations […]

Before the chamber gaveled out on Tuesday, senators unanimously passed legislation to reauthorize a series of fire safety grant programs and the U.S. Wildfire Administration. The bill also contains a bipartisan package of nuclear-focused provisions that seek to streamline the nuclear licensing process and bolster the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) workforce, among other things. Senate […]

Senators will gavel in for legislative business, and votes are possible with respect to a bill to reauthorize a series of fire safety grant programs and agencies. Specifically, the Senate is expected to take up a procedural motion that would place the Fire Grants and Safety Act on President Biden’s desk for signature. This legislation, […]

The Senate will gavel in for a brief week of legislative business due to the Juneteenth federal holiday on Wednesday. While they are in session this week, senators are expected to prioritize votes on pending judicial nominations, starting with Katherine Oler to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. […]

Both chambers will resume legislative business tomorrow. In the House, lawmakers will pause consideration of pending government funding bills as they look to kick off consideration of the fiscal year (FY) 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). More than 1300 amendments have been filed to the annual defense policy bill, and the Rules Committee will […]