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Tuesday votes are scheduled on a bill to sell a small parcel of land in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in Wisconsin and another to codify the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Great Lakes Mass Marking Program, which was created for the mass marking of hatchery-produced fish in the Great Lakes Basin.
Summer break might come early for the House, as Speaker Mike Johnson faces a Jeffrey Epstein problem that just won’t quit.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Thursday he would send lawmakers home a day early for a five-week summer recess to avoid a political fight over files on disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
House Republicans on Monday advanced a hulking effort to overwrite a swath of D.C. laws and restrict local spending, touching facets of city life from health care to public safety in a move that frustrated local leaders who have few options to stave off federal intervention.
Republican members of the Appropriations Committee approved an amendment to a spending bill that would rename the venue after the first lady.
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GOP's 'Crypto Week' descends into record-breaking congressional chaos and mounting frustration
Congressional chaos ensued as GOP leadership faced multiple revolts over cryptocurrency bills, setting a new record for the longest House vote while racing to pass spending cuts.
Tennessee Republican Mark Green completed his final day in Congress on July 20, creating the fourth vacancy in the U.S. House of Representatives.