In this episode of Congress In Context, the Senate’s decisive 85-5 passage of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act demonstrates how bipartisan legislative machinery can directly address the national affordability crisis by streamlining local zoning and, for the first time, restricting private equity firms from outbidding families for single-family homes. Beyond the floor debate, the deployment of specific procedural levers—including cloture motions to break gridlock on judicial vacancies and a unanimous-consent agreement to fast-track a high-stakes vote on the War Powers Resolution—shifts the focus from political noise to the structural oversight of the federal judiciary and the executive’s authority to engage in foreign hostilities. These maneuvers illustrate a Congress ...