The 119th Congress in 2026 will pick up right where it left off at the end of 2025, addressing the issue of health care costs and trying to avoid another government shutdown.

Congress convenes tomorrow for 2026, but without any publicly discernible agenda. Allow us, then, to offer some resolutions on its behalf, in hopes that Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Benton, and Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-Jefferson, might take heed.

The Senate war powers resolution has a chance of passing next week as all Democrats and Rand Paul are expected to vote for it.