Jamie Dupree
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Here is your list of the 17 absent Senators for the first vote of the week (10R, 6D, 1Indy)
Rep. Nancy Mace R-SC will not run in the snap GOP primary for Senate on August 11 in South Carolina to replace the late Lindsey Graham R-SC on the November ballot
Here is the U.S. House schedule (legislative work days in gold). This week the House & Senate are both in session. That won't happen again until the week of September 14. (The House is out from July 24-Aug 31. The Senate breaks from Aug 7-Sep 14)
Sen. Jon Ossoff D-GA in a letter to HHS Secretary RFK Jr on the cyclosporiasis outbreak: "The Trump Administration is actively undermining food safety."
Tucked into the House CR to December 4 are a pair of death gratuity payments to the heirs of Rep. David Scott D-GA and Sen. Lindsey Graham R-SC
The House Budget Committee has approved a budget framework for a brand new $95 billion reconciliation plan ($73b - defense, $12b farmers, $10b SAVE America grants). Budget resolution vote expected next week in the House.
🚨 House easily approves a bill to make daylight saving time permanent - but the measure faces an uncertain future in the Senate.
For the first time in 16 years, the Senate has failed to start debate on a major defense policy bill - 60 votes were needed. Back in 2010 it was the GOP that led a filibuster - this time it's Democrats.
Darline Graham Nordone has been sworn in to fill the remainder of the term of her late brother, Sen. Lindsey Graham R-SC
19 House members - 10 Republicans and 9 Democrats - missed the first votes of the week in the House - even though they had been off since June 30.
On the Senate floor, the desk of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham R-SC is covered in black cloth and topped with a vase of white roses
Sen. Lindsey Graham R-SC had just returned from Kyiv, where he met with Ukraine's President. Graham died from a heart attack early this morning.
Trump: "I will not sign the Housing Bill" (but he doesn't use the word veto). The plan becomes law at midnight without his signature.
Comical scene as Sen. Pete Ricketts R-NE literally just fast-walked his way out of the Capitol rather than stop for a few questions from reporters after today's pro forma session.
Not the video that Maine Democrats want to see from their Senate nominee Graham Platner
AP says Rep. Diana DeGette D-CO will lose her primary to a Democratic Socialist challenger who wasn't even born when DeGette first won a seat in Congress in 1996
First elected in 1996, Rep. Diana DeGette D-CO is in trouble tonight in her primary in Denver
In Colorado, Sen. Michael Bennet D-CO has lost his bid for Governor, defeated in the Democratic Primary by state AG Phil Weister
Rep. Tom Kean R-NJ says he missed nearly 3 months of work on Capitol Hill due to treatment for depression. "Thank you for your patience. Thank you for your understanding."
Supreme Court rules on transgender athletes www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
🚨 U.S. Supreme Court upholds laws which allow states to count ballots that are postmarked by Election Day - but arrive in the mail after that. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
On the schedule for next week, the House will vote for the second time this year on a non-binding resolution celebrating the Big Beautiful Bill (which they now call the Working Families Tax Cut)