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The evidence in recent public-opinion polling and partisan statements shows in the public’s view; multiple polls in October–November 2025 indicate a plurality or majority faulting Republicans while si...
Proven misconduct allegations against Speaker Mike Johnson would most likely trigger a formal and intensify intra‑party pressure that could force his removal or resignation, but success would hinge on...
The War Powers Resolution of 1973 is a statute Congress passed to limit unilateral presidential military commitments by requiring consultation and setting a 60‑to‑90 day clock for forces engaged in ho...
The provided analyses offer overlapping but inconsistent lists of , with clearer consensus for several Senate chairs and a more fragmented portrait for House committee leadership. , while the House ch...
Key claims in the provided analyses disagree about who the principal negotiators are on the Senate and House sides of the current Continuing Resolution (CR) talks: one set credits senators Gary Peters...
House Republicans, led by Congresswoman Stephanie Bice, and House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole pushed a aimed at keeping the federal government open, arguing it would avoid the harms of a shutdown an...
The 2025 Continuing Resolution (CR) deadlock has prompted multiple stopgap offers and competing proposals but no single, broadly supported concession has resolved the impasse: Senate Democrats floated...
The available public-opinion evidence from October–November 2025 shows , but the public assigns responsibility to both parties and the president to significant degrees; multiple national polls in late...
Senate Democrats did introduce at least one formal continuing resolution-style bill in 2025: Senator Patty Murray’s S.2882, the "Continuing Appropriations and Extensions and Other Matters Act, 2026," ...
H.R.1968 was presented to the House of Representatives on , when Rep. Tom Cole formally introduced the bill; the bill text and multiple congressional records list that date as the bill’s introduction ...
The provided analyses converge on a clear finding: and were the central negotiators who brokered deals that resolved the 2024 budget impasse, with other congressional leaders and appropriations chairs...
Speaker Mike Johnson’s 2025 legislative calendar shows for final passage dates of major appropriations, the debt limit resolution, or specific immigration votes; instead, available reporting and gover...
The House effort on the 2025 continuing resolution (CR) was led publicly by the House Appropriations Committee under Chairman Tom Cole and driven by House Republicans who packaged a short-term, “clean...
Congressional leaders negotiate spending levels in a continuing resolution (CR) by balancing immediate demands to reopen the government with longer-term appropriations objectives, often opting to fund...
The most contentious riders in the current continuing resolution cluster around , health coverage changes tied to premium tax credits, and partisan reversals included in competing short-term funding p...
The House is advancing a short-term funding bill intended to keep the federal government open through a defined date while returning appropriations to “regular order”; House Republicans released a mea...