This is the time in an election cycle when congressional leaders must decide what\u2019s doable before the November vote \u2014 and what\u2019s not. And \u201cthere\u2019s a lot right sitting out there,\u201d Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford, the No. 5 GOP senator, told Semafor.<\/p>\n
There are some things Republicans say are a must: The GOP sees the party-line immigration bill as vital given Democratic opposition to funding ICE and Border Patrol. What\u2019s more, Congress needs to extend expiring surveillance powers by June 12, avoid an October government shutdown, and deal with mounting Iran war powers resolutions.<\/p>\n
There are also ongoing negotiations over cryptocurrency and housing legislation, as well as growing support for lowering insulin prices and dealing with college sports name, image, and likeness rules. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., the top Democrat on the Senate Commerce Committee, told Semafor she\u2019s \u201cstill talking\u201d about a college sports bill with Chair Ted Cruz, R-Texas, but isn\u2019t yet as \u201coptimistic\u201d as him. \u201cI think he\u2019s saying that because the House\u201d pulled their bill, she said.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s more to navigate: Lawmakers are still trying to pass surface transportation and farm bills before they expire in September \u2014 and the Senate still needs to figure out how to address the House-passed year-round E15 sales bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the time in an election cycle when congressional leaders must decide what\u2019s doable before the November…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-666121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}