Congress Update

Daily Digests – House • Senate — Prayers — Committee Reports

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Zelensky Speaks to Congress, Asks for Fighter Jets, No-Fly Zone — Full Text

Zelenskyy Invokes Pearl Harbor, 9/11 In Plea To US Lawmakers • Zelensky challenges conscience of Congress, lights new fire under Congress — with limits • Congress gives standing ovation to Zelensky • Members of Congress Praise Ukrainian President’s Speech • ‘Throw On My Uniform’: Congress Reacts To Zelenskyy’s Emotional Speech • Five takeaways from Zelensky's virtual address to Congress

'Protect our sky': Zelensky calls for no-fly zone • Pelosi rejects


Senate — Daily Leader Remarks • Actions begun, passed, declined

Senate approves making Daylight Saving Time permanent — S. 623
• Push to make daylight savings time permanent has longtime backers • What's really happening when we change our clocks • On year-round DST, Congress is springing into error • What would change

Shalanda Young confirmed as OMB director — 61-36

Senate votes to nix mask mandate for public transportation — 57-40

Senate passes resolution supporting Putin war crime probe — S.Res. 546


House — Bills • Actions passed

House votes to bolster efforts to educate public about Japanese American internment camps — H.R. 6434

After Zelenskyy speech, House passes bill to revoke normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus — H.R. 7108

House passes CROWN Act, banning race-based hair discrimination — H.R. 2116

In Context: Protecting the sunshine with our clocks

In 2007, Rep. Bill Sali of Idaho gave a speech on the House floor in which he suggested an “Obesity Reduction and Health Promotion Act” proposing “that the force of gravity by the force of Congress be reduced by 10 percent.”

He didn't introduce the bill, but he was making a point about the futility of defying natural law even as some in Congress sometime seem to think, as he put it, “The force of Congress can be brought to bear and justified to suspend those natural laws which would otherwise control important matters.”

Congress has never managed to change the law of gravity, but it is trying to change when the sun rises and sets.