{"id":414,"date":"2026-09-03T17:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T17:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=414"},"modified":"2026-09-03T17:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T17:43:07","slug":"speaker-johnson-in-reversal-cancels-house-votes-leaving-few-days-in-session-before-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=414","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Johnson, in reversal, cancels House votes, leaving few days in session before midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2026-09-03\/Getty_MikeJohnson_090326.jpg\" alt><figcaption>U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) (C) speaks to members of the media on Sept. 2, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8212; With\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">government funding in the rear view<\/span>, the House on Thursday canceled votes for the last two weeks of September, leaving just four days of legislative business before the Nov. 3 midterm elections &#8212; a reversal from Speaker Mike Johnson&#8217;s comments on the matter earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">After a vote series Friday morning, lawmakers will fly home for a district work period over the Labor Day holiday, as well as the Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas, Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The House is scheduled to return on Sept. 14 for four days of legislative business &#8212; leaving on Sept. 17 for six full weeks of campaigning ahead of the midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The sparse floor schedule is not particularly unusual for an election year &#8212; but is a reversal of Johnson&#8217;s position earlier this week when he told reporters that he did not intend to cancel any scheduled legislative business this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;Republicans are here to work,&#8221; Johnson told reporters on Tuesday when pressed if GOP Rep. Thomas Massie&#8217;s prediction of a schedule change might come to fruition. &#8220;We have a schedule, a calendar that&#8217;s been out for a year. We are abiding by that calendar. We are going to work all the way through September and every day that&#8217;s on the calendar, so long as people like him don&#8217;t stop the progress.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But earlier this week, the House passed government funding through Dec. 11\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0clearing the speaker&#8217;s top\u00a0legislative\u00a0priority\u00a0ahead\u00a0of the election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Lawmakers will return again for a lame duck session on Nov. 9 &#8212; scheduling five more weeks of legislative business before the end of the 119th Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) (C) speaks to members of the media on Sept. 2, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) &#8212; With\u00a0government funding in the rear view, the House on Thursday canceled votes for the last two weeks of September, leaving just four days of legislative business before the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}