{"id":10864,"date":"2025-07-02T00:16:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-members-scramble-to-return-to-dc-for-megabill-vote\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:16:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:16:49","slug":"house-members-scramble-to-return-to-dc-for-megabill-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-members-scramble-to-return-to-dc-for-megabill-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"House members scramble to return to DC for megabill vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Some House members are going to great lengths to make it back to to Washington for a vote on the Republican megabill after severe weather canceled dozens of flights.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson are pushing to advance the Senate-approved version of Republicans\u2019 agenda bill before July 4 \u2013 setting up a condensed timeframe for a House vote.<\/p>\n<p>Many members had already returned to their districts and are now scrambling to return. But over 200 flights into Reagan National Airport were either cancelled or delayed Tuesday, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightaware.com\/live\/cancelled\/today\/DCA\" target=\"_blank\"><u>flight-tracking service<\/u><\/a> FlightAware.<\/p>\n<p>Members in some cases are pting for a long road trip back into town before 9 a.m. Wednesday, the earliest voting is expected to begin.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) hosted a virtual town hall at the beginning of what he said was a 14-hour drive from his suburban Chicago home to Washington.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got some gas money, we got some snacks, and away we go,\u201d he said in the town hall. \u201cMy GPS says I\u2019m going to be there just in time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) said she\u2019s planning to drive from Charleston, South Carolina to the capital \u2013 nearly an <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NancyMace\/status\/1940183270764818476\" target=\"_blank\"><u>eight-hour drive<\/u><\/a>, according to a screenshot of her GPS that she shared on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Russell Fry (R-S.C.) is planning to drive through the night back to Washington, he said in a video posted to X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe moment is too important to sit around and wait at an airport,\u201d Fry <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepRussellFry\/status\/1940169832168603666\" target=\"_blank\"><u>said while driving<\/u><\/a> from Myrtle Beach, SC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some House members are going to great lengths to make it back to to Washington for a vote on the Republican megabill after severe weather canceled dozens of flights. President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson are pushing to advance the Senate-approved version of Republicans\u2019 agenda bill before July 4 \u2013 setting up a condensed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}