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作者：凯特琳·伊莱克 政治记者
凯特琳·伊莱克是哥伦比亚广播公司新闻网驻华盛顿特区政治记者。她曾供职于《华盛顿考察家报》和《国会山报》，并入选2022年美国国家新闻基金会保罗·米勒华盛顿报道奖学金项目。
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华盛顿讯 ——众议院议长迈克·约翰逊周三取消了原定于周四在众议院进行的投票，提前结束本周工作周，让议员们返乡，直至11月中期选举结束。
议员们将离开华盛顿超过六周，避开选民投票前可能引发争议的投票和党内内讧。约翰逊此前已取消了9月最后两周的投票安排。
“众议院已经完成了工作，”来自路易斯安那州的共和党议员约翰逊在国会山对记者表示，“现在是时候让我们的议员返回各自选区，向美国民众阐述他们的主张了。”
在离城之前，众议院预计将就两项法案进行投票：一项是对俄罗斯实施新制裁的法案，另一项是保护消费者免受数据中心能源成本影响的法案。但议员们集体离开华盛顿也将导致一些悬而未决的议题陷入停滞，直至选举后议员们返回国会。
南卡罗来纳州共和党众议员拉尔夫·诺曼表示，取消周四的投票“令人无法接受”。
“本届国会期间，众议院已经取消了至少63个预定投票日，仅本月就有9天，而现在我们又要离开华盛顿直到选举结束，”他在X平台上写道，“国父们从未设想过我们会休这么长时间的假，同时还能领取薪酬。如果国会议员想回家竞选，而不是履行纳税人送我们来此要完成的工作，那么他们的薪酬应该由竞选团队支付，而非美国纳税人。我们还有工作要做。”
在初选中输给特朗普支持的挑战者的肯塔基州共和党众议员托马斯·马西于周二提出了八项针对国防部长皮特·赫格斯的弹劾条款，理由是其在伊朗问题上的战争行为。该决议具有特权地位，意味着约翰逊有两个立法工作日来处理此事。周四的投票取消将该议题推迟到11月初，约翰逊此前暗示共和党届时将采取行动扼杀该弹劾案。
约翰逊表示，有关取消周四投票是为了避免针对赫格斯的弹劾投票的说法“荒谬可笑”。
“这只是某个想要博眼球的人的宣传噱头。当然，它会立刻被搁置，”他说。
在周二晚间接受CNN采访时，马西表示他并未提前告知共和党领导人自己的计划。
“我不想暴露自己的意图，”他说，“我谁都没告诉。我担心他们会设法阻止我在众议院讲坛上花1小时20分钟宣读这些弹劾条款。”
约翰逊还驳回了民主党人提出的取消休会、以便就人工智能的快速发展采取行动的呼吁。近期，人工智能行业领袖和研究人员对该技术可能带来的灾难性威胁发出警告，民主党议员呼吁约翰逊让众议院继续开会，以便通过监管人工智能的立法。
“面对人工智能行业专家自身日益增长的担忧，国会不应在未采取果断措施保护美国民众的安全和福祉之前离开华盛顿，”众议院少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯周一表示，“共和党人完全放弃了在人工智能领域负责任地立法和参与公共政策制定的责任。”
国会议员们提出了多项旨在解决他们对人工智能担忧的提案，但在立法行动方面尚未达成共识。反对对该行业实施更严格限制的人士警告称，监管可能会使美国在与中国的竞争中处于劣势。
约翰逊并未表现出通过人工智能监管法案的紧迫性，而特朗普总统在周一的一系列发帖中表示，保障人工智能安全所需的只是一位“强势”总统。
“如果我今天召开紧急会议，召集众议院所有人说‘我们来监管人工智能’，在场没人知道该怎么做，”约翰逊在周二的每周新闻发布会上表示。
约翰逊主张人工智能企业应该能够“自我监管”。
“他们不需要政府告诉他们放慢速度。如果他们想放慢速度，他们自己会这么做，”他说。
约翰逊已呼吁与人工智能行业高管和白宫举行会议，并表示预计会议将在下周初召开。
“立法机构的本能是用繁文缛节和过度监管掩盖问题，”约翰逊周一表示。
在另一个议题上，国会尚未更新一项关键的间谍情报授权法案，即《外国情报监控法》第702条，该条款已于6月到期。
总统有争议的任命比尔·普尔特尔——联邦住房金融局局长——临时监管美国情报机构的决定，使该法案的更新进程复杂化。杰伊·克莱顿于8月宣誓就任国家情报总监，但自那以来参众两院大部分时间都处于休会状态。
就目前而言，参议院计划会期持续至9月底。
参议院正在推进一项全面的大学体育法案，名为《保护大学体育法案》，其中包含关于运动员姓名、形象和肖像权以及转学资格的监管条款。参议员们也即将就一项两党支持的审批改革全面方案达成协议。
“如果参议院齐心协力推进这些重要立法，我会提前48小时通知众议院复会，”约翰逊说。
House cancels votes, cutting week short before adjourning until after midterms
2026-09-16 2:54 PM EDT / CBS News
By Caitlin Yilek Politics Reporter
Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship with the National Press Foundation.
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Washington — House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday canceled votes in the chamber that were planned for Thursday, cutting the work week short and sending members home until after the November midterm elections.
Lawmakers will be away from Washington for more than six weeks, avoiding potentially controversial votes and intraparty fighting before voters head to the polls. Johnson previously canceled votes for the last two weeks in September.
“The House has done its work,” Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, told reporters at the Capitol. “It’s time for our members to go home to their districts and make their case to the American people.”
Before leaving town, the House is expected to vote on legislation to impose new sanctions on Russia and a bill to shield consumers from data center energy costs. But lawmakers’ exodus from Washington will also leave some outstanding issues in limbo until they return following the elections.
Rep. Ralph Norman, a Republican from South Carolina, said canceling Thursday’s votes is “unacceptable.”
“The House has now canceled at least 63 scheduled voting days this Congress, including nine days this month alone, and now we’re leaving Washington until after the election,” he wrote on X. “The Founders did not envision taking this much time off and still getting paid. If Members of Congress want to go home and campaign instead of doing the job taxpayers sent us here to do, then their campaigns ought to be paying them, NOT the American taxpayer. We still have work to do.”
Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, who lost his primary to a Trump-backed challenger, on Tuesday introduced eight articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the Iran war. The resolution is privileged, meaning Johnson has two legislative days to act on it. The cancellation of Thursday’s votes pushes the issue to early November, when Johnson indicated Republicans will move to kill it.
Johnson said it was “ridiculous” to suggest that canceling Thursday’s votes was meant to avoid the vote on impeaching Hegseth.
“It’s a publicity stunt by someone who wants attention. It will immediately be tabled, of course,” he said.
In an interview with CNN on Tuesday night, Massie said he did not give GOP leaders a heads-up about his plan.
“I didn’t want to show my hand,” he said. “I didn’t show it to anybody. I was afraid that they would do something to subvert me getting on the floor for an hour and 20 minutes and reading these articles.”
Johnson also rebuffed calls by Democrats who wanted to cancel the recess to address rapid advancements in artificial intelligence. After AI industry leaders and researchers raised alarm about potentially catastrophic threats posed by the technology in recent weeks, Democratic lawmakers called on Johnson to keep the House in session until they can pass legislation to rein in AI.
“Congress should not leave town until something is done decisively to protect the safety and the well-being of the American people, in the face of growing concerns being raised by experts within the artificial intelligence industry itself,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Monday. “Republicans have completely abandoned their responsibility to legislate and engage in public policy efforts in a responsible fashion in the area of artificial intelligence.”
Members of Congress have offered a number of proposals to address their concerns about AI, but there is no consensus about legislative action. Opponents of more stringent constraints on the industry warn that regulations risk putting the U.S. at a disadvantage in its competition with China.
Johnson hasn’t expressed an urgency to pass AI guardrails, and in a series of posts on Monday, President Trump said all that’s needed to safeguard AI is a “strong” president.
“If I called an emergency session today and I brought everybody in the House and said, ‘Let’s regulate AI,’ nobody in the room knows yet what that should look like,” Johnson said at his weekly news conference Tuesday.
Johnson argued that AI companies should be able to “self-police” and “self-regulate.”
“They don’t need the government to tell them to slow it down. If they want to slow it down, they should,” he said.
Johnson has called for a meeting with AI executives and the White House, saying he expected one would come together by early next week.
“The reflex of the legislative bodies is to cover things up with red tape and in hyperregulation,” Johnson said Monday.
On another front, Congress has yet to renew a key spy authority, known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which expired in June.
The president’s controversial choice of Bill Pulte, the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, to temporarily oversee the nation’s spy agencies complicated its renewal. Jay Clayton was sworn in as the director of national intelligence in August, but both chambers have been on recess for a majority of the time since then.
The Senate is scheduled, for now, to be in session through the end of September.
The upper chamber is working to pass a sweeping college sports bill, titled the Protect College Sports Act, that includes regulations around name, image and likeness rights and transfer eligibility. Senators are also nearing a bipartisan deal on a permitting reform overhaul.
“If the Senate works together and moves some of these important pieces of legislation, I will bring the House back on 48-hours’ notice,” Johnson said.