Averting a shutdown. Congress gets back to work. And an old problem needs solving again. Muddy and messy. Deplorable conditions at the Burning Man Festival. Ukraine shakes up its military leadership. How a new Defense Minister could make a difference in the war with russia. The u. S. Senate returns To Washington Today Facing A Packed Schedule and a ticking clock. Pressure is building on the u. S. Capital, lawmakers a few weeks left to make a deal and avoid g shutdown. Members of the u. S. House arent back until next week, but conservative republican hardliners are already pressuring House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy to stick to strict guidelines on any deal. They dont want to make any concessions, but mccarthy and the white house are seeking a shortterm bill that would put a bandaid on the problem for now, moving the issue months down the road. Cnns Priscilla Alvarez has more details on those negotiations. Reporter as Congress Returns from recess this month, the white house is asking lawmak
World. Im paula newton. Ahead on cnn newsroom, a budget battle brewing on capitol hill. Congress set to return tuesday. It will face the potential of a Government Shutdown if congress cant reach a deal on spending by the end of the month. A major shakeup in kyiv after more than 18 months of war. President zelenskyy announces plans to replace his Defense Minister. Burning man chaos continues. Thousands still trapped in the Nevada Desert after heavy rain turned the Festival Site into a mud pit. It is back to business this week for the u. S. Senate as its august recess comes to an end. Now washington is set to become a Pressure Cooker in the coming weeks as lawmakers attempt to avoid a Government Shutdown yet again. They only have until october 1st to come to an agreement. A little shall we say that it will not be easy. Members of the u. S. House arent back until next week, in fact. Conservative republican hardliners are already pressuring House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy to stick to strict g
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congress. and it s interesting that the rules for republican members of the house aren t really all district on this front. just being formally charged with a crime is not actually enough to make you have to resign from your committees. it doesn t just have to be any charge, it has to be a felony charge. and not just any felony charge it has to be that you ve been charged with a felony that could result in you serving more than two years in prison. again, it s not a very high low bar, right? jeff gordon berry is charged however with three felonies, that could each put him in prison for five years. so even under the not so strict rules that congress has to abide by, he has still fallen afoul. and so he will not serve on committees anymore. including the one on which he was the ranking republican member. there s no word yet on whether house republicans will seek to make 14 very resigned his seat, for now he s office committees,
property taken from a black family in the 1920s, returned to the rightful owners. the new law that made that happen nearly a century later. as we do say good morning, everybody. i m kendis gibson. it is october 2nd. october is here. it feels like summer still though in many places. three more months. i m lindsey reiser. you have your pumpkin spice yet? no-no. not exactly. not at all. i have pumpkin bread waiting for the oven. hard and fast. i ll get on board with that maybe in march. we have a team of reporters and analysts following the latest for us this morning, we will begin this morning with the democratic deadlock on president biden s agenda. while the president and speaker nancy pelosi are projecting confidence that both bills will pass, some mothers in the house aren t quite on the same page. the two of them issuing statements overnight, using phrases like deeply regrettable. and profoundly disappointed. they sound like they like what happened yesterday.