House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says the House will not take its scheduled recess next week if the government is still partially shut down.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is pushing the August recess to the third week of that month to give lawmakers time to catch up on a roster of unfinished legislation and a backlog of Trump administration nominees.
Election-year politics will rule the calendar when Congress returns from a seven-week recess. Lawmakers will have a little more than four weeks beginning Tuesday before they are scheduled to leave town again before the election.
The Obama administration is asking Congress to agree to an additional $1.2 billion to deal with the unaccompanied minors arriving at the Southwest border.
The Supreme Court on Thursday limited the president's power to fill high-level vacancies with temporary appointments, ruling in favor of Senate Republicans in their partisan clash with President Barack Obama.