Welcome to the News Hour. The House of Representatives has returned to Washington for the first time in nearly two months, set to vote to end the nation's longest ever government shutdown.

This is a live look at the House floor as they debate the shutdown deal ahead of votes expected later tonight.

Our congressional correspondent, Lisa Desjardin, is back from Capitol Hill and joins us now. It's always good to see us. So, Lisa, the big question, does Speaker Johnson have the votes? Most Democrats will be no, but House Republicans say they do have the votes. Here's how Speaker Johnson put it earlier today. I just want to say that we're very optimistic about the vote tally tonight. We think this is going to happen, and we're sorry that it took this long.

So Republicans are going to deliver for the people.

We're ready to get back to our legislative agenda.

We have a very aggressive calendar for the remainder of this year.

Helping him is Johnson has committed to allow a vote later on to take out an unpopular provision in this deal. That's that provision

that allows senators who were not notified, but investigators accessed their phone data,

allowing those senators to sue for up to $500,000. That is very unpopular in the House. And

Speaker Johnson is going to allow a vote to take that out later. So that kind of quelled some dissent on that end.

But otherwise, it does look like for now this is on a glide pass to track, to be signed by the president tonight,

and then government would open fully tomorrow.

Democrats, as you well know, made this about health care, the spike in the Affordable Care Act subsidies. We know

that many Americans are about to see their premiums increase. What are Republicans saying about

that? Right. Our congressional producer, Kyle Maduro, has been talking to people with me today

about this. I want to talk about the landscape in general. The House is really the heavy lift here

when it comes to dealing with health care problems.

Now, we spoke with some key members today.

There are many who don't just want these extended, but instead want broader reform in the system.

One of those, for example, is South Dakota's Dusty Johnson.

Well, the Democrats have been asking for the subsidies to be extended as they're in law today.

That's not going to work.

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