The House and Senate are back from the August recess Tuesday with no shortage of work to do this week, let alone the month of September.
Senators start Tuesday afternoon with a procedural vote to limit debate on taking up the fiscal 2026 defense authorization bill, one of the pieces of must-pass legislation on the fall agenda.
As reported out of the Senate Armed Services Committee on a 26-1 vote, the bill would authorize $32.1 billion more that President Donald Trump requested for defense and national security spending. When the committee released a summary of the bill in July, Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., called the current threat environment the most dangerous “since World War II.”
