House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) speaks with reporters as he returns to the U.S. Capitol after a meeting at the White House May 21, 2025. (Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images)
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.
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“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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The official , maintained by House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana), shows that the House was supposed to be in session the week of Sept. 21 and Sept. 28.
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When House lawmakers came back to Washington earlier this week after a monthlong August recess, they quickly passed a stopgap measure to keep federal agencies funded until mid-December. The funding bill averts the threat of a government shutdown ahead of the midterm elections.
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