Author: SUSAN FERRECHIO Washington Examiner

The House will cut its traditional August recess short to vote on a $3.5 trillion budget framework the Senate is poised to pass this week. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told lawmakers in a memo Tuesday they must return the week of Aug. 23, nearly a month earlier than planned, to “consider that budget resolution”…

Senate Democrats this week plan to begin debating a $3.5 trillion budget resolution that would pay for universal preschool, free community college, paid family and medical leave, and expanded Medicare benefits as well as provide a pathway to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer wrote to fellow Democrats early Monday…

A $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill cleared a procedural hurdle Sunday, setting up a final vote by Tuesday or sooner on a measure President Joe Biden and Democrats hope to tout as a major bipartisan achievement that will create jobs and provide much-needed funding for roads, bridges, water projects, and broadband access. The Senate convened for…

Speaker Nancy Pelosi won’t be reconsidering her decision to block two Republican appointees from a special committee tasked with investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, even though it prompted GOP leaders to walk away from participating entirely. The California Democrat told reporters Thursday that Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Jim Banks of…

Congress will take the first steps toward passing a major infrastructure spending bill, capping off years of bipartisan efforts to find a way to fix the nation’s aging roads, bridges, and waterways. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will hold a test vote as soon as Wednesday on a $1 trillion infrastructure bill that was authored…

The Senate will take up major parts of an infrastructure package in July and lay the groundwork for passing a massive social spending bill later in the year in a push that may lead to the cancellation of its traditional summer recess. The Senate returns next week after two weeks off, but some lawmakers and…

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Congress will begin moving legislation that would provide a pathway to citizenship for the nation’s illegal immigrants “over the next few months.” The move comes as the Biden administration struggles to cope with a massive surge of illegal immigrants across the southern border that Democrats blame on the nation’s…

The House Thursday began voting to pass a pair of gun control measures that would expand and provide more time for conducting gun background checks. A bill to expand background checks passed 227-203, with just eight GOP votes in the Democrat-controlled House. The legislation now heads to the Senate, where the newly empowered Democratic majority…