When President Joe Biden on April 10 signed into law a House Republican-initiated measure ending the national emergency enacted in 2020 in response to the pandemic, it marked the second time he has approved a bill launched in the Republican-led lower chamber of Congress.
Democrats retained control of the Senate after the 2022 midterms, leading to widespread doubt about whether the Republican-led House of Representatives would see any bill it passed become law. But that’s not how things have gone in the three months since the 118th Congress convened.
In addition to the two Republican-initiated bills which Biden signed, McCarthy and the GOP leadership team, working with a thin 222–213 majority have succeeded in passing six of the 11 major bills party leaders promised just before the 118th Congress first convened on Jan. 3. They also celebrated the Senate passage of a bill blocking Biden’s Waters of the United States proposal before the president vetoed the bill April 6….