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The House is the first gatekeeper for SPEED, and it has now opened that gate. - Passed the SPEED Act and kicked the fight to the Senate
Washington keeps saying it wants to “build faster.” On December 18, 2025, the House put that promise into a blunt instrument: it passed the SPEED Act, a bill designed to squeeze environmental reviews into tighter boxes and make lawsuits harder to use as a brake.
Updated Dec 19, 2025
A fractured, narrowly divided House became the first institution to formally rebuke Trump’s order. - Site of bipartisan pushback using rare discharge petition to advance repeal bill
Donald Trump tried to rewrite federal labor law with a single March executive order, yanking collective bargaining rights from most of the civil service under a sweeping "national security" label. On December 11, the House — powered by a rare discharge petition and 20 Republican defections — voted 231–195 to tear that order up.
Updated Dec 12, 2025
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