Overview
- Speaker Mike Johnson told lawmakers to return immediately so the House can take up the Senate’s shutdown-ending bill, with a vote expected as soon as Wednesday.
- The FAA ordered flight-capacity cuts last week because of air-traffic-control shortages, contributing to thousands of delays and cancellations across major hubs in New York, Chicago, Atlanta and Washington.
- Rep. Derrick Van Orden is riding a motorcycle roughly 950 miles from Wisconsin to Washington, while Reps. Rick Crawford and Trent Kelly opted to carpool rather than risk unreliable flights.
- Some lawmakers are still flying when possible, including a group from Arizona whose Washington-bound flight was briefly diverted to remove a disruptive passenger.
- The Senate approved the measure on Sunday and sent it to the House, and if it passes there it would go to President Donald Trump for his signature; recent delays already slowed Senate voting when Sen. John Cornyn arrived late from a flight.