- House passes annual defense policy bill in last-minute sprint, sending it to Joe Biden (usatoday.com)
- House Passes Aid Bill for Israel but Not for Ukraine (nytimes.com)
- Morocco earthquake: death toll passes 2,600 as foreign aid teams fly in (theguardian.com)
- Ohio House passes bill to require insurance coverage for childhood hearing aids (news5cleveland.com)
- In a rebuke to hard-line House reactionaries, Senate passes defense policy bill void of most GOP culture-war demands (washingtonpost.com)
- Israel formally declares war; combined death toll passes 1,000 (washingtonpost.com)800 Gaza targets hit and ‘hundreds of fighters’ killed, says Israel, as death toll from Hamas attacks climbs (theguardian.com)Widespread condemnation across globe for Hamas attack on Israel (theguardian.com)
- Senate Passes Bipartisan Defense Bill, Setting Up a Clash With the House (nytimes.com)
- House passes bill to avert government shutdown, sends to Senate (washingtonpost.com)Speaker Mike Johnson, an Unyielding Conservative, Yields (nytimes.com)Hard-Line House Right Wingers Furious At Speaker Mike Johnson For Avoiding Shutdown (huffpost.com)
- US avoids government shutdown as Senate passes stopgap funding bill (theguardian.com)Biden signs stopgap funding bill to avert US shutdown (theguardian.com)McCarthy 'played them': Dems hail speaker for defying 'MAGA cult' (rawstory.com)Democrat Jamaal Bowman pulled fire alarm on Capitol Hill before House vote (theguardian.com)Inside McCarthy’s Shutdown Turnabout That Left His Speakership at Risk (nytimes.com)House GOP Sneaks Pay Raise for Themselves in Shutdown Bill (meidastouch.com)Rep. Gaetz says he'll try to remove Speaker Kevin McCarthy from his post this week (cnn.com)
- Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin passes on Senate, announces House reelection run (npr.org)









