“We have just been through a very difficult week,” House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) Yet the Senate has adjourned with no votes planned until the end of the month, unless a deal is somehow struck. Trump’s actions blocking Pelosi’s travels and the House votes have presumably nixed any other congressional travel. House Democrats had already approved seven bills that would have reopened the entire government. Democrats agreed to hold a full vote on the same bill Wednesday, and Scalise acknowledged Butterfield had done nothing wrong.

Source: Washington Post January 19, 2019 16:03 UTC