Daily Digests: M 11/3 • T 11/4 • W 11/5 • Th 11/6 • F 11/7
Senate — Votes — Legislation: New: 88 (D, R), Action: 11, Voted: 3, Passed: 9 — News
M 11/3/2025 — Prayer, Digest, Record All–SLR, PDF • Chronicle • Summary
T 11/4/2025 — Prayer, Digest, Record All–SLR, PDF • Chronicle • Summary
W 11/5/2025 — Prayer, Digest, Record All–SLR, PDF • Chronicle • Summary
Th 11/6/2025 — Prayer, Digest, Record All–SLR, PDF • Chronicle • Summary
F 11/7/2025 — Prayer, Digest, Record All–SLR, PDF • Chronicle • Summary
House — Legislation: New: 105 (R, D)
T 11/4/2025 — Prayer, Digest, Record All PDF, Extensions All PDF • Activity
F 11/7/2025 — Prayer, Digest, Record All PDF, Extensions All PDF • Activity
- House Record — Friday, 11/7/2025
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2:02:50 p.m. - DISTRICT WORK PERIOD - Pursuant to clause 13 of Rule I, the Chair announced the Speaker's designation of the period from Monday, November 10, 2025, through Sunday, November 16, 2025, as a "district work period".
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National Security — Committees: Senate, House
Senate Dems press Trump to 'personally provide clarification' on nuclear tests after Wright remarks
Senate resolution would support limits on AI chip sales to China (S.Res. 490)
Military — Committees: Senate, House
SASC Republicans gripe about spotty Pentagon communication, fire shots at Pentagon’s policy chief over information sharing
Tuberville backs sending US troops into Nigeria to protect Christians
Foreign Policy — Committees: Senate, House
Mast comes under pressure to approve Trump's directive to lift Syria sanctions There’s a bipartisan and bicameral group that is increasingly cautious about fully repealing sanctions, arguing the government headed by Ahmed al-Sharaa, who remains a U.S.-designated terrorist, has more to prove in demonstrating commitments to inclusive governance, protection for minorities, religious freedom and justice.
Federal Spending — Committees: House, Senate — FY 2026 bills, table
Shutdown now longest ever
Johnson says funding extension date under discussion as Nov. 21 draws closer, leaders will meet, Speaker Johnson throws cold water on December end-date discussions continue • Pressure builds to punt full-year spending bills into next year
Johnson refuses to promise House vote on extending enhanced ACA subsidies
Scalise Corrects the Record on Schumer claims
Cracks Appear in the Democrat Coalition
Shutdown Shenanigans: Study Reveals Just How Hard Media Outlets Work To Keep Americans In The Dark • Speaker Johnson: Democrats Continue Gaslighting the American People: voting 14 times to close the government, and then blaming Republicans for closing the government
WSJ: Travel Industry Sounds Alarm
FAA to cut a tenth of flights starting Friday, ramping up in the coming days and weeks. By midday Friday, 1,226 flights had been canceled across the U.S., according to FlightAware. • More than 1,000 flights already canceled at US airports amid shutdown • ‘We Just Cannot Manage’: Duffy Warns Shutdown Will Force Airspace Closures • US travelers endure second day of flight cuts as government shutdown lingers • Government shutdown: ATC union head says it'll take weeks to recover: National Air Traffic Controllers Association President Nick Daniels: "We've been in this shutdown for so long at this point, I don't think we'll actually see the damage until well after the shutdown ends, seeing air traffic controllers resign from this career and profession," he said. "Even if they open the government today, we won't see the pay that we deserve, that we've rightfully earned for over two to two and a half months."
Mixed reports on SNAP disbursement amounts during shutdown: 100% • 50% • 0% • November SNAP payments update: While SNAP reductions like this November’s have never come into play, there is a decades-old federal regulation for how they should be carried out. • Court order to fully fund SNAP requires depleting a roughly $5 billion SNAP contingency fund for November benefits which would cost about $9 billion. • USDA to fully fund November food stamps as it appeals court order • Supreme Court temporarily pauses ruling on November SNAP payments: In an order released to reporters at 9:17 p.m. EST on Friday night, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued the administrative stay that the government had requested, giving the court of appeals time to weigh in on the Trump administration’s motion for a stay pending appeal. “This administrative stay will terminate forty-eight hours after the First Circuit’s resolution of the pending motion, which the First Circuit is expected to issue with dispatch.” • Judge McConnell’s Order for Trump Admin to Pay SNAP, Stayed by Supreme Court Arguably, the most liberal member of the United States Supreme Court stayed the order of Rhode Island Federal District Court Judge John McConnell’s order that required the Trump Administration to pay SNAP benefits immediately.
Fetterman leans on fellow Dems to reopen government: “It’s an absolute failure what occurred here the past month,” he said, as SNAP funding was expected to lapse Saturday and health care premiums are likely to rise due to the expiring ACA tax credits. “And now things are really going to land. • Fetterman: Democrats 'own' shutdown
How Congress could end shutdown and save face “Besides ACA subsidies, Democrats have also demanded there be specific language in a budget bill that requires Trump to spend funds as Congress intended to.” Sen. Murphy: “I’m interested in far more than a promise or a failed vote” • 8 Democrats sit at center of potential deal to end government shutdown Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), Jon Ossoff (Ga.), Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.)
Democrats tight-lipped on shutdown off-ramp as pressure grows • Democrats divided over cutting deal to end shutdown • Democrats torn over shutdown endgame after election victories Health insurance subsidies, the length of the continuing resolution and Democratic efforts to restrict mass firings and White House efforts to cancel congressionally approved funds remain points of contention.
Senate Dem divide emerges as progressives warn against ending shutdown A group of moderate-leaning Democrats continue to meet with Republicans and have inched closer to a deal that would break the impasse. • Group of Senate Democrats eye abandoning shutdown fight — but get pushback “There’s a plan, we’ve all kind of semi-agreed to it and we’re now seeing not whether Schumer will support it but whether he will not blow it up,” said a senator, who requested anonymity to discuss the negotiations, referring to Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.). “This may well be the most consequential moment in American history since the Civil War,” Sanders declared on the Senate floor Tuesday evening.
Key Democratic negotiator casts doubt on reaching shutdown deal soon • House Republican predicts shutdown will last beyond Thanksgiving
Iowa’s Ernst Says It’s Time to Return $65 Billion in Unspent COVID Slush Funds to Treasury
Monetary Policy — Committees: House, Senate
How the Shutdown Poses Risks to the Entire Economy “The shutdown isn’t just slowing the flow of information — it’s putting the economy in the hands of data we can’t fully trust.”
Executive — Committees: House, Senate
Bipartisan lawmakers question Trump administration on alleged drug boat strikes • WH: Venezuela strikes fall short of triggering legal limits
Arctic Frost: Blackburn demands Judge Boasberg testify before Senate panel: Accompanying her post was an order from Boasberg directing Verizon to remain silent as to a subpoena for phone records.
Congress leads reversal of land use rules amid BLM director questions
WH: Nominations Sent to the Senate — BLM, NRC
WH: Nomination Sent to the Senate — NASA
Judiciary — Committees: Senate, House
Texas Republican files articles of impeachment against Judge Boasberg over Arctic Frost: The articles are related to revelations that Boasberg ordered AT&T and Verizon not to notify lawmakers of subpoenas for their phone records in former special counsel Jack Smith's Arctic Frost investigation for at least a year.
Congressional Judiciary chairs urge SCOTUS to address possible ethics violations by federal judges: The letter specifically refers to anonymous statements federal judges have made to The New York Times that appear to smear the Supreme Court, and describes the relationship between the high court and lower courts as a “war zone.”
Health Care Policy — Committee: Senate
House moderates propose framework for extending ACA subsidies amid shutdown: extending Affordable Care Act subsidies for two years and placing an income cap for high earners.
ACA premiums outpacing enhanced tax credits: The Federal government pays 93% of premiums with extra tax credits and 80% without — tax credit expiration “accounts for only 4 percent of the expected 20 percent average premium increase next year.”
Congress — Committees: House, Senate
Trump calls for ending Senate filibuster as shutdown clears 1-month mark, Sparks Alarm • Trump summons GOP senators to White House to call for end to filibuster: “I think it’s very important. We have to get the country open. And the way we’re going to do it this afternoon is to terminate the filibuster,” Trump said in remarks from the State Dining Room. “And it’s possible you’re not going to do that. And I’m going to go by your wishes,” Trump added. “You’re very smart people. We’re good friends. But I think it’s a tremendous mistake. It would be a tragic mistake, actually. It’s time.” • Trump urges GOP senators to change Senate rules to reopen government Trump, referring to congressional Democrats: “I just got back from Japan. I talked about the kamikaze pilots. I think these guys are kamikaze — they’ll take down the country if they have to.” • Referring to Senate Republicans: “And it’s possible you’re not going to do that, and I’m going to go by your wishes. You’re very smart people. We’re good friends,” he said. “But I think it’s a tremendous mistake. Really. It would be a tragic mistake.” • Trump resumes push to end Senate filibuster: Democrats previously called for eliminating the filibuster under President Joe Biden and Trump has warned that they will do so anyway when they return to power. • Republican support for eliminating filibuster picks up steam after Trump pressure • Killing the Filibuster Hands All the Power to Liberal Republicans
Capitol Police says it has arrested suspect for allegedly threatening to kill a member of Congress
Congressional Budget Office hacked in 'security incident'
Rep Massie marries former staffer for Sen Paul
Watchdog files ethics complaint against Rep Crockett over financial disclosures: "Given the inconsistencies in Rep. Crockett’s filings, an immediate investigation is warranted," FACT Executive Director Kendra Arnold said
Retiring: Garcia • Golden • Pelosi
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Committee Activity — Meetings: 15 • Reports: 13 • Legislative action this week:
All committee legislative action • Senate (Subcommittees) • House (Subcommittees)
Grassley probes Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Ford Foundation for tax law compliance: “According to recent reports, [your organizations], through grants and direct payments, have funded the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its allies”: Sen. Chuck Grassley
Jim Jordan launches House Judiciary probe into phone companies tied to Jack Smith's Arctic Frost: Jordan sent the letters to AT&T and Verizon demanding documents and communications related to Smith's subpoenas.
House committees threaten subpoena over no-show ActBlue official in fundraiser fraud probe: Republicans launched an investigation earlier this year into the fundraising giant over concerns about fraud prevention policies which uncovered lax security measures that allowed foreign donations to American political campaigns.
Floor Outlook
Senate
Thune suggests Senate could remain in DC in effort to end record-long government shutdown
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12 noon, Saturday, November 8, 2025
Program for Saturday: Senate will be in a period of morning business.
Roll call votes are possible during Saturday's session of the Senate.
Next week had been scheduled as a State Work Period for Veterans Day, 11/11
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The House meets in Pro Forma sessions during district work periods.
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