AI-Summary – News For Tomorrow
With only two session days remaining before the fiscal year ends on September 30th (and Yom Kippur), Congress faces pressure to act quickly. The House aims to address members’ security concerns and counter a “left-leaning commission” potentially limiting presidential appointments. They will also consider a bill lowering the age for trying minors as adults in D.C. for serious felonies. Meanwhile, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is set to advance at least 32 nominations, including Mike Waltz as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The Senate is also working to pass the fiscal 2026 defense authorization bill amidst the looming deadline.
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There are only two scheduled session days for Congress the following week, with the fiscal year ending on Sept. 30, a day ahead of Yom Kippur. So there’s ample incentive to try to get as much done as possible before the end of the current week.
Johnson said he had been speaking with members and “trying to calm the nerves, to assure them that we will, we will make certain that everyone has a level of security that’s necessary, that the resources will be there for their residential security and their personal security.”
“We cannot allow an unaccountable, left-leaning commission to restrict the Constitutional power of the President to limit appointees to soft-on-crime and biased judges that better align with their political agenda,” the office of House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., said in announcing the week’s schedule.
There’s also a bill on the House floor agenda that would reduce, to 14 years, the age at which minors can be tried as adults for committing certain serious felonies in D.C.
Senate could confirm many nominations
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is due to meet Wednesday morning to advance at least 32 nominees — including some previously reported and returned to the committee for procedural reasons — setting up another potential en bloc package for floor consideration following the new process.
The headliner on the Foreign Relations Committee schedule is former Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., who served as national security adviser early in the current Trump administration and who is now the president’s nominee to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
The fiscal 2026 defense authorization bill is also still outstanding on the Senate floor, but it was not immediately clear whether there would be a catch-all agreement on amendments that would allow the Senate to invoke cloture and reach a vote on final passage before the time crunch created by the government funding deadline and the planned recess.
David Lerman contributed to this report.
