House adjourns for six-week recess with mounting to-do list

The House adjourned for its annual summer recess one week early, leaving behind a mounting to-do list that lawmakers must return to when they reconvene in September.

Lawmakers left Washington after votes on Thursday morning with less than half of their annual spending bills sorted out despite an a ggressive appropriations schedule that sought to have all 12 bills passed by the end of the month. Now members will only have three weeks to pass some sort of spending bill to keep the government open before fiscal 2024 ends.