{"id":1981871,"date":"2023-07-25T03:19:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T07:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/time-crunched-senate-races-to-pass-defense-bill-before-august-recess\/"},"modified":"2023-07-25T03:21:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T07:21:59","slug":"time-crunched-senate-races-to-pass-defense-bill-before-august-recess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/time-crunched-senate-races-to-pass-defense-bill-before-august-recess\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate races against time to pass defense bill before August break."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftime-crunched-senate-races-to-pass-defense-bill-before-august-recess%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1981871&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Senate Races Against the \u200dClock to Pass Annual Defense Bill<\/h2>\n<p>The Senate is facing a tight deadline as it races to pass its annual \u2062defense \u2062bill before\u200c the August recess. With \u200bjust three days left, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is hoping that senators won&#8217;t stand in the way of passage, \u2064even\u2062 if it means canceling their flights home.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2063Senate\u2062 operates by unanimous consent, allowing any senator to\u200d delay the bill.\u200d To address \u2063this, Schumer has allowed a series of votes \u2064on legislation\u200d from both sides of \u2063the\u200d aisle, with the amendments being attached to the National Defense Authorization Act.<\/p>\n<p>Last\u2062 week, \u2062the\u200b Senate focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-threatens-appropriate-action-against-jan-6-committee-2\/\" title=\"Trump Threatens \"Appropriate Action\" Against Jan 6 Committee\">votes related<\/a> to NATO, Ukraine, and a\u2063 bipartisan package addressing\u200c various <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/time-crunched-senate-races-to-pass-defense-bill-before-august-recess\/\" title=\"Senate races against time to pass <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-joins-with-schumer-to-block-potential-trump-veto-of-defense-bill-keep-big-tech-protection\/\" title=\"McConnell Joins With Schumer To Block Potential Trump VETO Of Defense Bill, Keep Big Tech Protection\">defense bill<\/a> before August break.&#8221;>issues including\u2062 artificial intelligence<\/a> and \u2063competition with China. However, with a compressed\u200c timeline, the\u200d Senate has \u2062little \u2064room to finish up as voting\u200c resumes this \u2064week.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans are \u2063expressing dissatisfaction\u2062 with Schumer&#8217;s \u200cmanagement of the floor, concerned that there won&#8217;t \u200dbe enough \u200btime for \u2064all\u200c desired GOP \u200damendment votes. Despite this, if \u200dSchumer is flexible with\u200c his Republican\u2064 counterparts, the bill is expected to pass by Thursday.<\/p>\n<h3>Avoiding Drama\u200c and Finding Common \u2063Ground<\/h3>\n<p>The Senate \u200cis working to avoid\u2063 the drama that unfolded in the GOP-led House during the passage\u200c of \u2062its version of the defense bill. While the legislation is bipartisan, a few controversial\u200c amendments\u2063 led House\u2064 Democrats to vote against it en masse.<\/p>\n<p>Although Senate Republicans lack the power\u200d to\u2064 advance their own \u2064social agenda, Schumer is\u2063 yielding\u2062 some ground to accommodate the\u200c minority. The \u200dfirst\u2062 manager&#8217;s package adopted by the Senate included 51 measures, 30 of \u2064which were GOP-sponsored or bipartisan. Negotiations for additional amendment votes are \u2064ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>While Schumer is willing to allow a vote on at \u2062least\u200c one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-german-court-rules-lockdown-restrictions-were-constitutional\/\" title=\"Top German Court Rules Lockdown Restrictions Were Constitutional\">controversial measure<\/a>, the focus is on ending the\u200c blockade rather than passing\u200c the bill. The drama, if any, is expected to be tamer in \u2062the\u200d Senate compared to \u2064the House.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u200d the amendment \u2064votes granted\u2064 by\u2063 Schumer could \u2063still lead to \u200clate nights for\u200d senators. The goal is to accomplish as many votes as possible \u2062within\u200c the limited time frame.<\/p>\n<h3>A Busy Agenda Awaits Congress<\/h3>\n<p>Once Congress returns from \u2064the August recess, there will be a \u2062long \u2062to-do list. In addition to\u200b striking a deal \u200bon the defense bill \u2062and\u2064 funding defense priorities, Congress must also complete all appropriations \u2064bills \u200cto avoid \u2062a\u200b government shutdown \u2063by September 30.<\/p>\n<p>Another item on the agenda is \u200cthe five-year reauthorization of the\u2064 Federal Aviation Administration.<\/p>\n<p>With the clock ticking, the Senate faces a challenging task of passing the defense \u200cbill and addressing\u200d other pressing matters before the August recess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate must pass its defense bill in three days before the August recess. This self-imposed deadline allows the chamber to focus on other tasks in September. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) seems to be taking a calculated risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1981872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1981871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1981871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1981872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}