Senate Floor Activity Headlines
Senate Confirms Vought as White House Budget Chief
Senate rejects broad restrictions, chooses minimal new restrictions on weapons for law enforcement
Senate passes Defense policy bill
Senate passes bill to prevent debt collectors from garnishing stimulus checks
House Floor Activity Headlines
House holds moment of silence for John Lewis
House votes to curtail Insurrection Act powers
House passes bill to repeal travel ban
House votes to remove Confederate statues from Capitol
House sends bipartisan public lands bill to Trump for signature
Yoho apologizes after confrontation with Ocasio-Cortez — Floor Speech
On House Floor, Democratic Women Call Out Abusive Treatment by Men — Floor Speeches
House sends four spending bills to Senate, defying Trump veto threat
National Security
GOP Sen. Cramer to oppose controversial Pentagon nominee unless he gets concessions
Mother pushes Congress for change after son’s ‘preventable’ death in military accident
Foreign Policy
US Senate Report Accuses China of ‘Digital Authoritarianism’
First Amendment
This week, Senator Merkley of Oregon spoke on the Senate floor on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday to request unanimous consent to amend the Defense bill to add a “limitation on use of federal law enforcement officers for crowd control.”
Over Tuesday and Wednesday, Senator Merkley accused President Trump of intervening “to create an image of chaos, to air it on far-right television, scare the country, turn them into campaign ads,” of saying, “If I can recreate conflict in Portland, well, I can run a campaign on fear,” of “dress(ing) up his Federal forces to look like White extremists on the streets of Portland,” and that “President Trump coordinated this deployment of secret police and attacks on peaceful protesters to create a big conflagration, a big explosion of protests in Portland.”
Senator Cramer of North Dakota called out these comments Wednesday evening saying, “What we have been witnessing tonight is a diatribe—in some cases, fantasy but, in every case, an exaggeration and, in many cases, a fabrication.” Thursday, Senator Merkley expressed indignation that his colleagues on the other side would be offended.
Please pray for wisdom in dealing with difficult circumstances in cities across America, and truth in how they are reported and discussed.
“But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.” (James 3:17)
Federal Spending
Life issues in Fiscal Year 2021 Omnibus Approprations
Inside Mitch McConnell's phase four coronavirus relief proposal
Coronavirus negotiations kick off
GOP aims to top Democrats’ school funding bid in virus aid plan
McConnell previews GOP coronavirus relief bill
Leaders Debate New Coronavirus Relief Plan
As coronavirus aid talks stumble, Senate GOP mulls possible fallbacks
Congress wrestles with expiring unemployment benefits
GOP virus aid package: Payroll tax cut out, restaurant deduction in
Performance venues might get pandemic aid as their doors remain closed
Senate GOP punts coronavirus package to next week
Vulnerable Senate Republicans push to include clean energy in next coronavirus stimulus
Executive
Supreme Court Rejects House’s Bid To Speed Campaign For Trump’s Financial Records
Technology Policy
Breaking up TikTok's billion-dollar parent company could be the best way to save it
Congress
John Lewis, 1940-2020
John Lewis remembered as humble leader who loved friends and enemies
Chair of Georgia Democrats Nikema Williams tapped to succeed Rep. John Lewis
U.S. Rep. John Lewis to lie in state in Capitol Rotunda
John Lewis memorial: Family releases details of 6-day celebration of his life
Lowey’s would-be Appropriations Committee successors use spending bills to make their cases
Castro launches bid for House Foreign Affairs Committee gavel
Sherman joins race for House Foreign Affairs Committee gavel
Manchin Says He Will Oppose Abolishing The Filibuster If Democrats Retake The Senate
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