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FBI Director Kash Patel and former CDC Director Susan Monarez facing lawmakers highlight this week's Congressional Hits and Misses.

The Senate shot down dueling versions of a short-term funding patch Friday before leaving town for a weeklong recess.

Top Senate Republicans and Democrats reached a deal to hold votes Friday on competing approaches to averting a partial government shutdown.

The change was backed by an advisory panel whose members were handpicked by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Congress is on the verge of a showdown over a bill to keep the government open after Sept. 30, with the House expected to vote Friday on a stopgap funding bill.

Democrats are urging action to avoid the year-end expiration of expanded subsidies for buying health insurance on government-run exchanges.

“When I was last here, I explained how we would drive down those trends, and it is working,” Mayor Muriel Bowser told a House panel Thursday. 

Catch up on the political news of the past week in the latest At the Races newsletter, including the topics of crime and campaigning.

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