I am pleased with this development.
House Cancels All But 4 Session Days
Bloomberg reports House Cancels Two September Session Weeks Ahead of Midterms
The House will no longer vote during the final two weeks of September as previously scheduled, sending lawmakers home early ahead of a competitive midterm election.
GOP leadership canceled the weeks of September 21 and September 28, which included eight voting days, per a notice from the office of Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.). After the Labor Day recess, the House will now only have four days in session before lawmakers go home for the remainder of the month and all of October.
“This Congress has done phenomenal work, and the members are jostling a lot of different priorities right now,” Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told reporters Thursday.
Lawmakers could reconvene if the Senate adopts a budget resolution that would clear the way for work on a party-line reconciliation bill that Republicans have talked about getting done before the midterms, the scheduling notice said.
There had been rising speculation that the House may cancel its votes, as Johnson has done in the face of logjams from an unruly conference or ongoing negotiations with the Senate. Leaders in both chambers had been receiving questions as to whether it was more productive to have members in Washington voting or at home campaigning in their districts.
House Schedule
- Currently on Labor Day Recess
- Labor Day Recess ends September 14
- Four Session days remain, Monday September 14 through Thursday September 17.
Excellent News
This is excellent news: No SAVE Act, no budget reconciliation, no military spending, no farmer aid, no spending for anything.
I propose a Congressional vacation for the rest of the year.
There is a small chance the Senate agrees to something and Trump calls back Congress, but otherwise this is it, gratefully.
Massie Chimes In
Save Act Odds
This sloppily titled Polymarket Save Act Contract reads …
This market will resolve to “Yes” if any bill, measure, or resolution that requires proof of U.S. citizenship as a condition for registering to vote or to vote in U.S. federal elections is passed by both chambers of the U.S. Congress and signed into law, or is otherwise enacted into U.S. federal law, by the specified date, 11:59 PM ET. Otherwise, this market will resolve to “No”.
Polymarket Save Act HR 22
As I have been saying since March, you have to have mush for brains if you thought H.R. 22 would ever get through the Senate.
Reconciliation Bill Odds
This sloppily-worded Reconciliation Contract just says House, not signed into law.
If it does not happen in September it won’t happen in October.
Even if it does happen in September, unless it is extremely narrow in scope, it has zero chance in the Senate. Even then, that’s a stretch.
Cancel Everything
Those of us tired of reckless Congressional spending are pleased with this turn of events.
I propose Speaker Mike Johnson cancel everything until next year when the 119th Congress starts on January 3.
That’s when all the Republican hypocrites will suddenly become fiscal conservatives again.
Democrats won’t get anything done either, except of course to make Trump’s life miserable with investigations and impeachments.
It will be a fun two years for writers.
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March 11: SAVE Act Silliness: Trump’s “Go for the Gold” Killed It
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Trump’s demands may mean no more reconciliation legislation this year, a welcome event.
That was quite the comment on June 18: Trump’s demands may mean no more reconciliation legislation this year, a welcome event.
True to form, Trump would rather have nothing than something if he cannot get his way on everything. This is likely to cost Republicans the Senate in the midterms.
GREAT!! No more good money after bad money to defense snake contracters! I can stomach so many other expenses bEfore those TRILLION $ WASTERS!
The only thing they’ve worked for and earned is their disapproval rating.
wow they have really earned their money this session. What a disgrace that this is the better result because if they are in session they can do more damage than good.
Besides himself who is Trump working for? It does not seem like it is the American people, certainly not democrats, the republicans look like they just kissed their sister. I think that leaves the Russians.
Trump works for Israel. You sound paranoid.
Zion Don is doing the best King Cyrus he can.
“the Russians”
lol. OK, Hillary.
In 1989 a movie entitled, “Weekend at Bernies” came out. It tells the story of two young insurance corporation employees who discover that their boss, Bernie, is dead after arriving at his house in The Hamptons. While attempting to convince people that Bernie is still alive until they can leave to prevent them from being falsely suspected for causing his death, they discover that Bernie had, in fact, ordered their killing to cover up his embezzlement.
It feels like it was foretelling the Mitch McConnell story. Anybody seen this boomer?
“This Congress has done phenomenal work, and the members are jostling a lot of different priorities right now,” Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told reporters Thursday.
Any examples of the “phenomenal work”? Full implementation of the War Powers Act? Resolving the Social Security funding issues? Getting the deficit and debt under control? Anything?
They kept the wealthy pedos out of prison. Not one left behind.
Well they did pass the NDAA with section 219 merging US and Israeli intelligence and military procurement. Priorities.
All these dc stooges care about is getting re-elected. Mostly a worthless group.
Massie is one of the few good ones, so of course Trump targeted him.