Votes stretching for hours. Spirited confrontations on the House floor. Rowdy committee hearings.
It was, in many respects, a chaotic week in the U.S. House of Representatives as Republicans set out to tackle a number of key priorities that exposed deep divisions within the conference.
In the end, Republicans muscled through their to-do list, temporarily extending the U.S.’ warrantless spying powers, approving a budget blueprint for their multi-billion dollar immigration enforcement package, and passing a sprawling farm bill. The House even passed a bill to re-open the Department of Homeland Security, finally ending a historic shutdown.
But it wasn’t pretty.
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