US House cancels voting on legislation due to snowstorm

  25 January 2016    Read: 1076
US House cancels voting on legislation due to snowstorm
The US House of Representatives has canceled voting on legislation this week, including one on overriding President Barack Obama`s health care veto, because of the severe winter storm that hit the eastern United States over the weekend.
The next vote by the House is expected on February 1, according to a statement issued by Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy`s office on Sunday.

The congressional chamber was already scheduled for a short week because Democrats are set to hold their annual legislative retreat beginning Wednesday in Baltimore.

More than 10,000 flights have been cancelled to and from the East Coast due to the snowstorm, making air travel back to Washington, DC a perilous prospect.

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