Road ahead: Impeachment suspense drowns out government funding debate – By Niels Lesniewski (Roll Call) / Nov 18 2019
There’s a full schedule of open hearings at the House Intelligence Committee
Seldom does an imminent deadline to avoid a government shutdown fly under the radar, but that might happen this week with most eyes on impeachment hearings in the House.
Congress will need to pass another continuing resolution to keep the government funded past Thursday, as leaders of the House and Senate Appropriations panels look to finalize subcommittee allocations for the delayed fiscal 2020 bills, in conjunction with top leadership and representatives from the administration.
On Friday, House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer formally announced plans for a CR running through Dec. 20.
While the stopgap spending will headline House and Senate floor action, the middle of the week will be jampacked with impeachment hearings at the House Intelligence Committee, as Democrats continue their attempts to convince the American public that President Donald Trump tried to bribe Ukraine to open investigations into his political rivals by withholding U.S. security assistance and a White House meeting with new Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
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