House Calendar Cuts Leave CLARITY Act Facing Election Delay

House Republican leaders have removed the weeks of Sept. 21 and Sept. 28 from the voting calendar, cutting eight previously scheduled legislative days and leaving representatives with just four voting days before they leave Washington on Sept. 17.

The shortened calendar sharply reduces the odds of finishing the CLARITY Act before the Nov.

3 midterm elections, even as the Senate moves toward its own procedural vote days earlier.House Majority Whip Tom Emmer’s office notified Republican members that leadership had scrubbed the weeks of Sept. 21 and Sept. 28 from the schedule.

Leadership did not cite the CLARITY Act as the reason for the change, but the compressed session leaves little runway for the House of Representatives to process anything the Senate sends back.