Niels Lesniewski
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This week: Senate takes final votes before elections (opens the original)
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Senators are plotting their exit for the fall midterm campaign season, but their work on Capitol Hill isn’t quite finished yet. The first vote of what’s expected to be the Senate’s final workweek before the elections will be Monday on passage of a bipartisan bill to set rules of the road for name, image and likeness concerns in college sports. It appears likely to be the last major piece of legislation to advance before Election Day. “The NIL era is here,” Senate Commerce, Science and Transporta
Senate plots its final week before elections with potential data center electricity vote (opens the original)
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The Senate will return next week to wrap up business before the November midterm elections, seeking to take action on an affordability issue and score a political win for an endangered Republican incumbent. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., told reporters Thursday that a wide array of bills could potentially come to the floor next week. He specifically noted a test vote on legislation known as the Ratepayer Protection Act, which is intended to address rising electricity prices by requir
At the Races: AI voted? (opens the original)
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Welcome to At the Races! Each week we bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who’d like to get this newsletter? They can subscribe here. By Niels Lesniewski, Mary Ellen McIntire and Daniela Altimari Fears about unregulated artificial intelligence are not showing signs of overtaking economic concerns as the top issue for voters this year. But dire warnings, like Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s recent admonition that a “swarm” of AI agents “could be capable of t
Pre-election agenda may prove too ambitious for Congress (opens the original)
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With college football season in full swing, lawmakers in Congress could take up student athlete compensation issues facing intercollegiate athletics. They could follow last week’s 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks with legislation to address a lapse in surveillance powers. They could try to sort through the thicket of cryptocurrency regulations. But the safe bet might be on them doing none of that. The reality is that the House and Senate don’t have a lot on the fall agenda they absolutel
House plans quick September exit (opens the original)
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House Republicans are scrapping the last two weeks the chamber was scheduled to be in session before the midterm elections. Under the revised schedule announced Thursday, the House will return for votes the evening of Monday, Sept. 14, a week after Labor Day, for what is now expected to be only a one-week session before members return to their home districts. President Donald Trump signed a stopgap spending bill on Wednesday that will keep the government open through Dec. 11, which some argue
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