Rep. Kurt Schrader (D-OR) sent a “Congressional Update” email to his constituents while appearing to visit constituents across his district despite being on four-week-long horseback riding vacation, which took months of planning during the House’s August recess.
President Donald Trump announced Monday evening that Republican and Democrat leaders in Congress had agreed to a budget deal that also raised the debt limit.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) announcement on Tuesday that Congress’s August recess is scaled back to one week so lawmakers can address President Donald Trump’s executive and judicial nominations and pass spending bills is a blow to Democrats who want the time away for fundraising ahead of the midterm elections.
Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) gave an exclusive interview to Breitbart News Tuesday on Capitol Hill, discussing the successful push to get Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to cancel the Senate’s August recess.
On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Hugh Hewitt,” Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-TX) vowed the Senate “will stay as long as it takes,” to get Appeals Court nominees through, “including the month of August.” Cornyn said there has been “unprecedented foot-dragging
During an interview on Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report with Bret Baier,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) stated that two weeks from now, he will have a more definitive answer about the Senate cancelling its planned
President Donald Trump endorsed the idea that the Senate should not get an August break if they failed to move a funding bill foward.
Sen. Luther Strange (R-AL), the freshman senator from Alabama, is urging his Senate colleagues to skip August recess to work just as hard as the president on issues such as health care and tax reform.
Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) discussed the possibility of Congress skipping the August recess given its lack of progress on some key Trump agenda items, including health care and tax reform. Transcript as follows:
Congressional Republicans do not seem too unhappy that there may not be an August recess this year.
Republicans in Congress, having largely failed to enact any big money items of the agenda on which they were elected, are reportedly considering scrapping the August recess in an effort to pass some parts of their agenda.
This week Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin blamed a delay in healthcare reform for likely pushing the “aggressive timeline” for President Donald Trump’s tax reform back until after congress’ August recess.
