The chamber was originally scheduled to be in session for the full month of September.
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House Republican leadership canceled the last two weeks of September votes on Thursday, meaning that after members depart the Capitol later this month they will not return until after the November midterm election.
“This is a change from House GOP leadership’s previously announced schedule,” Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-Massachusetts) wrote in an update.
House lawmakers are now set to leave Washington on Sept. 17 rather than Oct. 1 for their break before the midterm elections.
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