Top Line Take Aways: The potential for a full government shutdown will dominate all discourse in Washington and drown out pretty much everything else that needs to get done in September. Speaker McCarthy is currently floating a 30-day Continuing Resolution (CR) to his members, while Senate Republican Leader McConnell has said he expects a CR […]
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Top Line Take Aways: House and Senate Leadership are trying to cram an awful lot of legislation into three weeks before recessing for the summer. It’s inevitable that something will slip until Congress returns in September. We unpack everything we hear will see floor action in July below and you’ll get a sense of what […]
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Top Line Take Aways: · We have a deal! Improbable as it may seem, a Congress whose two chambers are separated by six votes and the White House came forward for a major bipartisan bill with major repercussions for federal spending. Will this kind of deal-making last? We doubt it. · The debt limit negotiations […]
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Top Line Take Aways: We are barreling toward a debt ceiling standoff with no realistic end in sight. Readers should not count on an extraordinary procedural process like a “Discharge Petition” to solve the problem, as we outline below. The House Calendar is getting tight with only twelve legislative weeks before programs and spending authority […]
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