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More Bills on the House Floor This Week

In our weekly newsletter, we feature the most important legislation that Congress is considering, but a steady flow of non-controversial bills passes through Congress each week too. It’s worth keeping an eye on.
Here are some of the bills the House plans to consider this week:
H.R. 44 – The Guam World War II Loyalty Recognition [...]

Silly Season, Part C

Silly season on Capitol Hill. It’s that special time of year when Congress nears the end of its scheduled session and decides to do all its work at once. Dozens of bills fly across the House floor with little debate.
They’re not all bad bills, but nothing prevented Congress from addressing them [...]

Silly Season, Part Deux

While a financial bailout proposal is debated among congressional leaders, silly season continues. The House has been passing bills hand over fist. Here are the bills that went to the floor on Friday, including a bill to spend more than $500 per U.S. family. Up later today, the bills that raced through [...]

Silly Season on Capitol Hill

Congress has all the planning skills and foresight of a teenager.
Y’know how when mom and dad are coming back from their weekend away, the kid tries to do all the chores for the weekend in the last hour? That’s Congress.
So as we wrap up the current Session, Congress is racing to do all [...]