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This section covers federal lawmaking in the United States — bills moving through Congress, committee actions, floor votes and the procedural decisions that determine what passes and what stalls. Reporting follows legislation from introduction through enactment or failure.

Congress Faces Lame-Duck Scramble Before Dec. 11

Congress Faces Lame-Duck Scramble Before Dec. 11

With eight weeks left in the Republican-controlled 119th Congress, lawmakers must extend government funding and address a stalled defense and infrastructure agenda.

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Bill introductions and their sponsors, committee hearings and markups, vote counts and the negotiations that shift them, procedural moves that advance or block legislation, and the final votes that determine a bill's fate run through the coverage on a regular basis. New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston and Phoenix are the major population centers whose congressional delegations carry weight in legislative outcomes and whose constituents the coverage reaches. The gap between a bill's introduction and any final action can span months or years, producing sustained coverage of the same legislative vehicle across multiple sessions. Conference negotiations and reconciliation procedures generate some of the most detailed legislative coverage, since they are where the final terms of major bills are actually resolved.