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With the House already recessed and the Senate potentially facing a shortened legislative window, the amount of major legislation Congress can complete before the November elections is increasingly limited. The Senate’s immediate agenda includes college sports and NIL legislation, potential action on energy permitting reform, and possibly the Ratepayer Protection Act addressing data center electricity costs. For businesses and associations following federal policy, the next several weeks will largely be focused on determining what legislation can move before the election and what issues will have to wait for the lame-duck session or the next Congress. The November elections will ultimately determine the makeup of the 119th Congress’s final legislative session and shape the policy agenda for the next Congress.