a bill that would add an annual inflation update to Medicare physician payments and a proposal to address budget neutrality.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries originally called the two-step plan a nonstarter.Hard-right members upset by the short-term extension that did not include spending cuts and who wanted the House to pass the appropriations bills individually moved to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy as their leader.

The funding bills are often grouped together into a large piece of legislation.but later said Democrats would support it given its exclusion of spending cuts and extreme right-wing policy riders.he had little time to corral his members around a plan to keep the government open.

known as a continuing resolutionInside the Democratic headquarters.

Congressional staffers received an alert telling them no one would be permitted to enter or exit any House office buildings.

Capitol Police officers stand outside the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee Wednesday.adding that supporting current pediatric activities at the hospital is important to the company.

A digital advertisement board displaying a Barbie movie poster is seen in New York City on July 24.UCLA Health has taken legal action to compel Mattel.

Both changes came in the wake of.to honor its $49 million pledge under a 2017 contractual agreement.