STAT+: What’s in the last-minute flurry of health care bills?
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- Congress is in joint session for the last time until September 14, with lawmakers scrambling to pass health care legislation alongside other priorities before the recess
- Each chamber will hold solo sessions during part of the period, meaning the joint window for passing bills is narrowed further than the recess date alone implies
Why it matters: The September 14 return date and the split-sessions carve-out create a hard deadline: lawmakers are explicitly scrambling to move health care bills before joint session ends, and anything not cleared this week waits until fall.
