House Insists on Minibus Before Holidays
House Republican appropriators insist they can pass full-year funding bills before they leave town for the holidays at the end of the week, but they face incredibly difficult odds.
GOP lawmakers have little time left on the clock. Congress breaks for the holidays at the end of this week and won’t return to Washington until the new year. And Democrats — whose support will be necessary for any full-year bills to be signed into law — haven’t been looped into House Republicans’ ambitious plans.
Rep. Rosa DeLauro (Conn.), the top Democrat on the House ...