BCRA unlikely to survive the Parliamentarian? Hold your horses.

Congress remains out for August recess but conservatives face a high-stakes window when they return to Washington. With the House back in session on August 31 and the Senate on September 14, conservatives have just a short runway to deliver any last wins before Congress goes out of session in October for the midterms. First, […]

The House and Senate are both out of session. The House will return on August 31 and the Senate will return on September 14.  Before the Senate left town for their August recess, it passed a continuing resolution (CR) that funds the government until December 11 of this year. This CR blocks a critical rule […]

With the House now gone for the August recess, the Senate is now juggling multiple priorities as it grinds through the last couple days of its session.  Sen. Mike Lee has thrown down the gauntlet, pledging not to let the Senate recess until there is a viable path forward for passing the SAVE America Act. […]

The Senate is in session this week and is scheduled to be in session through the end of next week. The House is out for August recess and will return to Washington on August 31. Funeral services for Sen. Lindsey Graham took place here in D.C. on Tuesday with a short ceremony in the U.S. […]

The House and Senate are both back in session this week.  This is the last week that both chambers of Congress will be in session before the August recess begins. The House is scheduled to depart for the August recess this Thursday, returning August 31, while the Senate is scheduled to remain in session until […]

The House and Senate are both back in session after the Independence Day recess. The Congress returns to a shocked Washington in the wake of the sudden and unexpected passing of Senator Lindsey Graham. The governor of South Carolina, Henry McMaster, selected Graham’s sister, Darline Graham, to finish out his term. In a post on […]

The House and Senate are in recess this week.  Realistically, there are 12 legislative days left between now and Election Day. This calculation removes the fly-in days, which are usually the first day of the in-session week with only one vote, and the fly-out days later in the week, due to their relative insignificance in […]

Do you know what it means to be an American? Of course—and yet, a majority of the Supreme Court is still confused. This week, the Court issued a catastrophic decision to uphold permanent birthright citizenship for the children of illegals simply because they were born on U.S. soil. As we celebrate America’s 250th birthday, the […]

The House and Senate are both back in session this week. The House is moving to fast-track the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, a bill the Administration is already touting as a win. The President had indicated earlier that he would sign the legislation, should it make its way to his desk. However, he […]

This week the Senate is in session and the House is in recess.  The Supreme Court is nearing its summer recess with only a couple more weeks to go. We can expect the Court to release decisions on several high-profile cases, including:  For many Americans, following SCOTUS decisions has become a favorite pastime. But what […]

The House and the Senate are both in session this week.  An 18-hour voting session ended early last Friday morning with the Senate finally passing a reconciliation bill that funds ICE and Customs and Border Protection. The House now has its turn to pass the bill this week. If they do, it will be off […]

The House and Senate are both back in session this week after the Memorial Day recess. The House returns to tackle the Agriculture Appropriations Act; crack down on fraud in student loans; eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in federal childcare programs; and make sure the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) welfare program is provided […]

The House and Senate are both out of session this week for the Memorial Day recess. They will return to Washington next week with 24 days left of both chambers in session before the month-long August recess.  The weaponization of the federal government during the Biden Administration returned to the front burner in Washington last […]

The House and Senate are in session this week. All eyes are on the Senate, where the chamber is expected to try and pass the “skinny” $71.7 billion reconciliation bill, which will fund U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP). These are the last two remaining parts of the Department […]

The House and Senate are back in session this week, and will be back again in Washington next week. As the Senate returns to Washington, it will take up a reconciliation bill to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and potentially also provide security funding for the new East Wing […]

The House and Senate are out of session this week but return next week for a two-week sprint before Memorial Day weekend. Last week, the House and Senate pushed through a significant number of policies, setting up a busy summer. First, the House of Representatives passed a 45-day extension of FISA along the Senate’s budget […]

The House and Senate are in session this week.  The House was originally scheduled to be out of session, but changed the schedule as a result of the King’s address to Congress. The House will now be in recess the week of May 4. The House is scheduled to have an ambitious week with the […]

The House and Senate are back in session this week—-and will be in session next week when King Charles of England makes a historic address to Congress. This marks the second time a British monarch has addressed Congress.  The House and Senate are still tussling over how to proceed with the funding of the Department […]

The House and Senate are back in session this week and the following two weeks. In the House this week, House leadership is looking to push through a clean extension, with the support of President Trump, of The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 or better known as FISA. This is the program that was […]

The House and Senate are in session this week. The House schedule was slightly impacted due to the forecasted storms that swept through the mid-Atlantic earlier this week. They will return next week before heading back home to their districts and states for the two week Easter recess that extends from March 30 through April […]

The House is out of session this week, while the Senate is in. Last week, the House once again passed a bill that would have funded the Department of Homeland Security. As of now, despite an increasingly uncertain time domestically and swelling lines at the airports, the funding bill remains blocked by Senate liberals. House […]

Last night, President Trump gave what can only be described as one of the most patriotic State of the Union speeches in recent memory. It also happened to be the longest in history at 1 hour and 47 minutes. Another surprising event from the speech was the press corps’ inability to stand and be proud […]

The House and Senate are out this week, but return next week. Parts of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are experiencing a lapse in funding, as a result of liberals in the Senate who are seeing this as an opportunity to try and extract policy changes to ICE and CBP. Due to the sensitive […]

The House and Senate are back in session this week. Both are scheduled to be in recess next week, but funding the Department of Homeland Security could play a role in bringing them back to finding a funding source. This week, the House is scheduled to consider Congressman Chip Roy’s legislation, the SAVE America Act, […]