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Senate Adjourns Without Election Integrity Vote

Countdown: 33 Days To Midterms

Oct. 1 (UPI) — The U.S. Senate adjourned Wednesday until after the November elections, allowing those facing re-election to go home and campaign.

Senators, however, left a lot of unfinished work that they will have to scramble to finish in November and December. They are scheduled to return Nov. 9 and will only be in session for eight days in November and 14 days in December, and that’s counting Fridays, which aren’t typically Senate work days, The Hill reported.

Just before they adjourned, they voted to approve Keith Sonderling, President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of labor.

Republicans used their last day in session forcing Democrats to vote on two bills to ask states to consider new ways to protect taxpayers from the expense of upgrading water infrastructure for data centers and to ban members of Congress from buying publicly traded stocks. Democrats blocked both bills mostly along party lines. They called the effort “toothless” show votes.

Majority Leader John Thune said the Republicans were successful in the effort.

“Given the overwhelming support for this measure in the House,” Thune said of the data center bill, “it’s difficult to conclude that Senate Democrats blocked this bill for any reason other than the desire to deny Republicans another win in an election year, which is a pretty poor reason.”

Republicans in the Senate are worried about the elections.

“No matter how much you love us as Republicans, we’re in control,” Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., said. “If you can’t pay the bills, you’ve got a real problem with us.”

The most impactful legislation the Senate has passed in the last few weeks was an overhaul of college sports.

“I can assure you that moms and dads out there across America, when they lie down to sleep at night, they’re not worried about the football coaches,” Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said last week.

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said senators in tight races wanted to get home as soon as possible, The Hill reported.

“I think we’ll have a net loss. I think it’s unlikely we’d have the same numbers. The margins will be thinner,” he said.

Tillis added that keeping vulnerable senators in Washington hurts them.

“Every time you’re here, it’s a fundraiser you can’t host or it’s a town hall you can’t speak at. We need to get them back in the state. Invariably, the people who want to stick here, they all have one thing in common: They’re not up [for reelection] this cycle,”he said.

https://www.breitbart.com/news/senate-adjourns-until-november/

Jobless Claims Fall to 197,000 in Best Year Since 1969

Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, continuing the best year for job security in nearly sixty years.

The Labor Department said Thursday that new applications for unemployment benefits dipped to 197,000, down from 198,000 in the prior week. (The prior week’s claim was revised up by 1,000.)

The four-week moving average of claims fell to 200,000, an extraordinary low level by historical standards, down from 202,500 in the prior week.

So far this year, jobless claims have averaged just under 210,000. This is the lowest average for the January through September period since 1969. From 1970 until this year, there was never a January through September period in which claims were this low.

The government reports continuing claims as well as initial claims. For the week ended September 19, these fell by 11,000 to 1,701,000, the lowest in three years. The previous week’s level was revised down by 7,000 to 1,712,000. The 4-week moving average was 1,723,750, a decrease of 18,500 from the previous week’s revised average.

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2026/10/01/jobless-claims-fall-to-197000-in-best-year-since-1969/