Calder Clouds Return as Senate Pushes on Confirmations and Farm-Bill Talks

Privately funded restoration of Alexander Calder’s 'Mountains and Clouds' will see the hanging clouds reinstalled in the Hart Senate Building after the August recess, while the Senate advances a busy docket: Republicans blocked a Democratic bid to stop Trump’s IRS audit-immunity deal, several Trump nominees (Labor’s Sonderling, CDC’s Schwartz, and ASPR’s Kaufman) moved closer to confirmation, and lawmakers plan to attach year-round E15 ethanol provisions to the farm bill, all amid ongoing budget talks and the looming August recess.