The package to end the shutdown will include one bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security at current levels, with $1.3 billion for border security, through Feb. 8.
Federal workers and contractors forced to stay home or work without pay are experiencing mounting stress from the impasse affecting hundreds of thousands of them.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has promised a floor vote this week, even as the FBI continues to probe Brett Kavanaugh’s background.
The vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee was set for 1:30 p.m. Friday, Republican Chairman Chuck Grassley announced as the panel gaveled to order. Emotions running high, several Democratic senators walked out for a time in protest.
Sometimes showing anger, other times fighting back tears, the conservative jurist launched a bristling attack on the “national disgrace” of his treatment by Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Denouncing his accusers for launching “smears, pure and simple,” Brett Kavanaugh said Monday he’ll continue fighting for Senate confirmation to the Supreme Court, even as a second woman asserted a long-ago sexual assault.
A second allegation of sexual misconduct has emerged against Judge Brett Kavanaugh, a development that has further imperiled his nomination to the Supreme Court, forced the White House and Senate Republicans onto the defensive and fueled calls from Democrats to postpone further action on his confirmation.
Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said she was “appalled” by the president’s morning tweet.
The development came after President Trump showered sympathy on his Supreme Court nominee and as Senate Republicans and Democrats fought over who should testify.
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Friday sought to defuse a potential threat to his confirmation as a handful of key senators remained silent on whether they would vote for him.
Tapping into heightened security fears after the Paris terrorist attacks, House Republicans -- joined by Democrats -- rebuffed President Barack Obama on Thursday and overwhelmingly approved legislation that would effectively halt the resettlement of refugees from Syria and Iraq to the U.S.
The new speaker faces pressure from Republicans in Congress -- and on the presidential campaign trail -- to stop the program that expects to resettle at least 10,000 Syrian refugees this fiscal year.
