Congress Not Likely to Return Early for Disaster Relief

In a party line vote of 214-213, the House voted yesterday to impeach Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, marking the first time a Cabinet official has been impeached since 1876. Notably, the presence of Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), who has been away from Washington receiving medical treatment, pushed the vote over […]

Early this morning, the Senate passed a $95 billion foreign aid funding bill before gaveling out for the chamber’s two-week Presidents’ Day state work period. The funding bill — which includes aid for Ukraine, Israel, and the Indo-Pacific, the Senate Banking Committee’s Fentanyl Eradication and Narcotics Deterrence (FEND) Off Fentanyl Act, and $400 million for […]

Both chambers will be back in session for the early part of this week, but senators are not expected to stick around too long. As of the current schedule, the Senate is slated to be in session until at least Tuesday to complete consideration of the foreign aid supplemental before leaving for the chamber’s Presidents’ […]

The Senate will be in for legislative business throughout the weekend and into part of next week as it looks to pass the foreign aid supplemental funding bill before leaving for the Presidents’ Day state work period. While Leaders Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Mitch McConnell (R-KY) were hopeful to reach a “time agreement” for expedited […]

The Senate will meet today to hold a procedural vote on the recently introduced supplemental appropriations package, but this vote is almost certain to fail amid opposition from the GOP conference. As such, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) intends to call up an amended version of the supplemental that only includes funding for Ukraine, Israel, […]

There is growing pessimism on the prospects of passing the recently-introduced supplemental appropriations package amid mounting opposition from Senate Republicans. As of now, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is still planning to move forward with the first procedural vote tomorrow, which will almost certainly fail given the lack of support in the upper chamber. House Republican leadership, […]

Bill text for the long-anticipated supplemental funding bill for foreign aid and border security was released over the weekend ahead of floor action in the Senate this week. In addition to funds for Ukraine, Israel, and the U.S.-Mexico Border, the roughly $119 billion package includes a series of border security and immigration policy reforms, the […]

House Republican leadership is expected to press forward with a vote on a bipartisan package of business and family tax reforms this week. According to Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith (R-MO), the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act — which contains provisions around the Child Tax Credit (CTC), research and development (R&D) expensing, […]

House and Senate Appropriations Committee leaders made important progress toward a March 2024 government funding deal late last week, but much work remains ahead. Notably, Chairs Kay Granger (R-TX) and Patty Murray (D-WA) struck an agreement on funding allocations — otherwise known as 302(b)s — for all 12 spending bills in fiscal year (FY) 2024. […]

Senate Republicans met yesterday to discuss a path forward on supplemental funding for foreign aid and border security as negotiations on a bipartisan deal continue behind the scenes. According to reports out of Capitol Hill, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) cast doubt on whether an agreement would come to fruition, especially given the opposition […]

House leadership took a step toward consideration of a bipartisan tax package on the floor next week. Notably, text for the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act — which passed the Ways and Means Committee with near-unanimous support at the markup last Friday — was posted to the schedule late yesterday under items that “may be under […]

Congress has successfully provided appropriators with additional time to finalize and pass all 12 spending bills for fiscal year (FY) 2024 after passing another two-tiered continuing resolution (CR) last week. Depending on the overall level of bipartisan cooperation between the two sides, key policymakers will also be pushing for the inclusion of several pending legislative […]