Craig Caplan
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@CSPAN Capitol Hill Producer. Reads Congressional Record every day. Former @RTCACapitolHill Chair. Philly fan since birth. @AmericanU. #FlyEaglesFly
3rd term Long Island, New York GOP Congressman Andrew Garbarino, who served as House impeachment manager against former DHS Sec. Mayorkas with TN GOP Rep. Mark Green, was selected by the House GOP Steering Committee over 3 other candidates to succeed him as Homeland Security Cmte…
House impeachment managers Green (TN), McCaul, Biggs, Higgins, Cline, Guest, Garbarino, Greene (GA), Pfluger, Hageman and Lee (FL) walked the articles of impeachment against DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas from the House to the Senate.
Schumer from Senate floor on Thune ahead of tomorrow's expected first Senate vote of the year to begin work on 2026 federal spending bills: "Yesterday, the Republican Leader gave an interview where he said he’d like to see more bipartisanship when it comes to appropriations. He…
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Thune from Senate floor ahead of tomorrow's expected first Senate vote of the year to begin work on 2026 federal spending bills: "I said last year that I was committed to bringing appropriations bills to the floor through regular order. And we are in the process of doing exactly…
.@LeaderJohnThune: "It was deeply disappointing to hear the Democrat leader threaten to shut down the government if Republicans dared to pass legislation to trim just one-tenth of 1% of the federal budget."
Following Thune's talks today with Trump on potentially cancelling the Senate's August recess, the Majority Leader just filed cloture on more of the President's judicial & executive nominations, setting up floor votes for later this week, including Zachary Bluestone to serve on…
House unanimously passed bipartisan VA accountability legislation in response to last year's VA budget shortfall requiring the VA to provide quarterly budget briefings in person to Congress for the next 3 years, which must include information on any budget shortfalls the VA may…
CBO now estimates the new OBBB reconciliation law increases the budget deficit by $3.4 trillion over the next 10 years
Estimated Budgetary Effects of Public Law 119-21, to Provide for Reconciliation Pursuant to Title II of H. Con. Res. 14, Relative to CBO’s January 2025 Baseline cbo.gov/publication/61…
July 21, 2025: Jeffries 71 days ahead of the federal government funding shutdown deadline.
.@RepJeffries: "You have Trump administration officials, like the author of Project 2025, saying that we should walk away as Republicans from the appropriations process, which means they want to shut down the government."
House Speaker Mike Johnson just announced there are now 431 total voting members in light of Tennessee 7th District GOP Rep. Mark Green's resignation, effective at midnight. There are now 219 Republicans, 212 Democrats and 4 vacancies: Connolly (D-VA11), Green (r-TN07), Grijalva…
Rep. Craig (D-MN) today on losing her bet with Rep. Goldman (D-NY) on the 2024 WNBA finals between the NY Liberty & MN Lynx; Loser had to wear the winning team’s jersey on the House floor: "MN didn't lose Game 5, the WNBA took it from them. And I'll be dammed if I ever put on a…
"A phantom foul ... The contact, it was embellished. Marginal at worse. But the whistle blew. And the game and the title was handed to New York on a silver platter...The fix being called in... The WNBA wanted the Liberty to win...The WNBA chose a winner." - @RepAngieCraig (D-MN)
House today will consider 2 Senate-passed veterans-related bills, that if approved by the House would be sent to the WH. PRO Veterans Act, introduced in response to the recent VA budget shortfall, requires the VA to provide quarterly budget briefings in person to Congress, which…
News of the day from then-President Biden & Vice President Harris one year ago today. x.com/craigcaplan/st…
Letter from President Biden “I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term.”
What’s not on the House floor schedule for their last work week before the August reccess?
Not scheduled for the House floor this week: - Appropriations bills - The Epstein resolution that Rules reported out last week