The House of Representatives is officially off to an early start for its summer recess – a five-week period when lawmakers are back home in their districts focusing on local issues and their own re-election bids. They will return on Sept. 9 – exactly three weeks from the deadline to fund the government in the...
The fight to avoid a government shutdown is again bringing out the fault lines within the House GOP’s razor-thin majority. House Republican leaders sought to avoid another messy, drawn-out battle over federal funding this year by rolling out an ambitious schedule to pass all 12 individual appropriations bills before the annual August recess. That effort...
