House Speaker Mike Johnson said that Republicans have passed 1,000 measures in the 119th Congress and that almost 700 of them are still stacked in the Senate hopper as Democrats prepare to take both chambers in January.
Almost 700 of them are stacked up in the hopper in the Senate right now. Why? Because the Senate Democrats refused to move any legislation, Johnson told reporters. They did not want to give the president or Republicans any more wins as we went into this election cycle.
The backlog sits in a Republican-controlled Senate led by Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota, where most bills still need 60 votes to clear a filibuster. Johnson listed unfinished business including the farm bill, the NDAA, FISA authorities, a reconciliation bill, and government funding, and said, They didnt even pass a single Appropriations Bill in the Senate. He pledged that the House will stay here around the clock if necessary to push things over.
Johnson described the House as one of the most productive chambers, the most productive houses in the history of the institution, certainly in the modern era, and called the Senate a stone wall. He said he had been told the Senate reached cloture to move forward on a permitting bill, a procedural step short of final passage, and added, So, the question is for the Senate, not the House. Republicans lose their majorities on January 3, 2027.
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