Political Quotes

“On Monday, the House will meet at 12 p.m. for legislative business. No votes are expected in the House on Monday. On Tuesday, the House will meet at 9 a.m. for morning-hour debate and 11 a.m. for legislative business. I would remind Members that Monday is expected to be a travel day following the holiday. So, Monday we will have business on the floor, but we will have no votes on the floor. On Wednesday and Thursday, the House will meet at 9 a.m. for morning- hour debate and 11 a.m. for legislative business. On Friday, the House will meet at 9 a.m. for legislative business. We will consider several bills, Madam Speaker, under suspension of the rules, a large number of suspension bills, in fact. The complete list of suspension bills will be announced by the close of business tomorrow. The House will consider, as well, next week a continuing resolution for fiscal year 2021. Madam Speaker, the House has passed 10 of its appropriations bills of the 12 appropriations bills we have. Sadly, the Senate has not passed a single bill out of committee, has not voted on a single appropriations bill in its committee. As a result, clearly, we will not be able to conclude the appropriations process, and we will have to have a CR to make sure that government stays serving the American people. Hopefully, we can reach a bipartisan agreement, and there will not be a controversial continuing resolution.…”