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Reporters 鈥� and Congress 鈥� work to beat the clock
Stephen Humphries
Humorous science-fiction author Douglas Adams once wrote, 鈥淚 love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.鈥�
The Monitor鈥檚 Caitlin Babcock doesn鈥檛 enjoy the same leeway with deadlines. Neither does Congress. On Thursday, Caitlin wrote a late-breaking update about a last-minute vote on Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which was due to expire Friday. With a recess looming, Congress has been burning midnight oil. It passed a bill on Thursday to end a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. Lawmakers sometimes manage to come together when facing cutoffs, Caitlin told me during a call from the Capitol basement. Real deadlines encourage concessions and compromises to get bills across the finish line聽鈥撀爋r to add extensions.
鈥淚 think that played out in the Farm Bill, which was the furthest Congress has advanced any Farm Bill since 2018,鈥� Caitlin said.
