Well, it was a total madhouse yesterday on Daily Kos Radio, but easily our best day ever. How could it not be? We had the hottest topic in the country, extended hours of coverage, plus for the first time, the ability to have you join in the fun with a call-in number. Thanks for that bit of engineering goes to the brain trust of Netroots Radio, most especially yuriwho, who rigged the system up, and winkk, who agreed to make himself available to facilitate a three-hour call-in marathon. If you missed the show, you can listen to the podcast(s) here. And what a party it was! We had calls from brooklynbadboy, Bill in Portland Maine, Joan McCarter, Militarytracy, and several other community members who stopped by.  But if you ask me, this was the best part: when Monica from Maryland called to tell us how glad she was that she was listening when we got it right and CNN got it wrong:

Join us this morning for yet another early morning drop-in from DemFromCT, who’ll not only let us know what’s happening in the world of polling, post-SCOTUS, but also offer us a sneak preview of his upcoming Sunday essay, the subject of which I think you’ll find pretty fascinating.

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Recapping yesterday’s action:

The House turned away from appropriations business for the day, instead mopping up postponed votes on suspension bills, and then considering the contempt of Congress resolution against Attorney General Eric Holder, plus the resolution authorizing the Oversight Committee to go to court to seek a declaratory judgment enforcing its subpoenas. Both measures passed easily, with the bulk of the Democratic Caucus following the Congressional Black Caucus’s lead in walking out of the chamber in protest of the contempt vote.

The Senate once again held no roll call votes, using the flood insurance bill to keep the wheels turning, but all the while working on finalizing a deal to pass that bill, a student loan fix, and the surface transportation conference report. That deal does finally appear to have come together, and will likely be embodied in a single measure rolling them all into the conference report.

Looking ahead to today:

The House will convene early, and likely make its first order of business to dispense with the transportation conference report, along with the other bills wrapped up in it. Since they were already scheduled to be in for some votes on Friday, they may then return to the Transportation/HUD appropriations bill and finish that up before adjourning for the July 4th week.

The Senate will also convene early, and most likely stay in a holding pattern until the House can send over whatever deal package has been worked out. There’s some chance the Senate may be able to vote earlier, if they can get unanimous consent to do so (that is, to vote on the package notwithstanding having not received the papers from the House, I guess). But the plan is to wrap this all up before the weekend, and break camp.

Today’s floor and committee schedules appear below the fold.

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