Situational Awareness
On Sunday evening, House Republicans unveiled a semi-clean stopgap spending bill to fund the government through Dec. 20. The compromise measure was the result of bipartisan negotiations by House appropriators spurred on by a failed vote last week on a six-month continuing resolution that included controversial legislation that would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections, even though it’s already illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections. The compromise continuing resolution includes more than $200 million for the Secret Service to increase security for presidential candidates ahead of Election Day. It would also replenish FEMA’s disaster fund without providing specific extra funding for disaster relief.
In a Dear Colleague letter announcing the continuing resolution, which is set to get a House floor vote by Wednesday, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) acknowledged that “shutting the government down less than 40 days from a fateful election would be an act of political malpractice.” Lawmakers are scheduled to depart Washington, D.C., for a month-long recess on Friday, during which they will return to the campaign trail full-time. After passing a short-term spending patch to avert a government shutdown, Congress will be out of session until Nov. 12.
In addition to the continuing resolution, House lawmakers will consider a slate of legislation covering natural resources, public security, STEM and healthcare. Across Capitol Hill, the Senate will consider Rose E. Jenkins’s nomination to the U.S. Tax Court.
House Education & Workforce Chair Subpoenas DOL Acting Secretary Julie Su
Education and the Workforce Committee Chair Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) today served a subpoena on Acting Secretary of U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Julie Su, seeking information about the Biden administration’s rulemaking on worker classification. In a press release announcing the subpoena, Foxx criticized DOL for failing to provide the committee with data that supports the agency’s claims about “rampant” worker misclassification. The GOP committee majority has remained active on DOL’s final rule titled, “Employee or Independent Contractor Classification Under the Fair Labor Standards Act,” which went into effect in March.
Foxx threatened to issue a subpoena last month after Su failed to “substantively respond” to written questions regarding the number of misclassification enforcement actions and investigations the agency has had to take since President Biden took office. The committee majority’s letter to Su could precede a request for DOL officials to testify before the committee on the rulemaking effort. To date, the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections has held one hearing on the independent contractor rule with industry stakeholders.
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