The House can move forward to consider three high-profile, hot-button legislative issues this week after a key panel finally voted, following overnight delays and Republican disagreements, to advance a rule related to spy powers, immigration funding, and farm aid.
The House Rules Committee voted 9-4 along party lines Tuesday evening on the rule that would set up debate and simple-majority votes on five legislative items Republicans are aiming to pass this week. That includes three major pushes that have divided the party and caused headaches for leadership for weeks or, in some cases, years: reauthorization of Section 702 of the ...