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Admin June 10, 2025
The House will consider legislation related to transportation safety, maritime security, and government transparency. The chamber will also vote on resolutions condemning recent acts of antisemitic violence. Additionally, the House is expected to vote on ...
Admin July 15, 2025
This week, the House of Representatives is expected to consider a range of legislation related to cybersecurity, communications infrastructure, natural resources, and national defense. The House will also take up legislation on hydropower relicensing, solar energy development, wetlands conservatio...
Admin August 05, 2025
Both chambers of Congress are now in their annual summer recess. They will reconvene on Tuesday, September 2. Last Friday, the Senate passed its first package of fiscal 2026 spending bills. The "minibus" bill combines the Military Construction-VA (...
Admin August 12, 2025
Both chambers of Congress are now in their annual summer recess. They will reconvene on Tuesday, September 2. Upon their return, lawmakers will resume work on the twelve annual appropriations bills required to fund the federal government. At present, the government is operating under a C...
Admin August 26, 2025
On Friday of last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its ...
Admin September 03, 2025
Congress returns from its August recess today facing a tight timeline to fund the government. Current funding for fiscal year 2025 expires at the end of this month, as the government is operating under a Continuing Resolution (CR), a temporary funding measure that maintains existing funding levels...
Admin September 10, 2025
This week, the House will consider a series of transportation and infrastructure measures, including legislation related to grain standards, aviation safety, and river basin commissions. Lawmakers will also take up several that address various aspects of transportation and supply chain efficiency....
Admin September 17, 2025
This week, the House will take up measures to advance legislation on water resources and veterans affairs. Later in the week, attention will shift to major energy and public safety priorities. Key energy bills include the Guaranteeing Reliability through the Interconnection of Dispatchable Power A...
Admin September 25, 2025
Both the House and Senate are in recess this week in observance of Rosh Hashanah, leaving Washington without a clear plan to avert a government shutdown when current funding expires at midnight on September 30. They are both scheduled to return on Monday September 29. Before adjourning F...
Admin September 30, 2025
The Senate returned to Washington on Monday, while the House is not scheduled to reconvene until October 7. All eyes are on the looming government shutdown. Current funding ends at midnight tonight, and unless leadership of both parties and the president can come to a deal, the governmen...
Admin October 09, 2025
Amid the current government shutdown, the House plans to remain out of session while the Senate prepares for another round of votes on a stopgap funding measure known as a continuing resolution (CR). As this issue was going to print, the votes were scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Monday evening. ...
Admin October 21, 2025
The federal government shutdown has now entered its fourth week with no resolution in sight. The House has been out of session since late September, and Speaker Mike Johnson reaffirmed last Friday that lawmakers will not return this week, reiterating his stance that he will "not come back and...
Admin October 28, 2025
The federal government shutdown has now entered its fifth week with no resolution in sight; it has been shut down for 27 days as this article was going to print. The House remains out of session, as it has been since late September, and Speaker Mike Johnson has affirmed multiple times that lawmake...