Read More—Read more about the special election from some of my colleagues, including Haley Byrd’s recent dispatch from the trail and David Byler’s analysis for what the close race means for the upcoming midterm elections.

The White House on Monday issued a slate of proposals designed to improve school safety, nearly a month after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida.

The administration expressed support for new programs to train and arm school personnel to fight back in a shooter situation and called on states to implement “Extreme Risk Protection Orders,” which allow law enforcement to obtain a court order to confiscate firearms from individuals “who are a demonstrated threat to themselves or others.” The White House also plans to expand federal mental health programs.

The proposed reforms are a far cry from the sweeping changes Trump promoted last month in the weeks following the shooting, when he repeatedly called to raise the age of purchase for a rifle to 21 and castigated Republican lawmakers for being “afraid of the NRA.” The White House maintains that Monday’s proposal does not represent the full scope of their school safety plans, but rather involves only those policies which they think can be passed quickly with broad congressional support.

Looking Ahead—Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the powerful 32-year-old heir apparent to the Saudi throne, will meet with President Trump at the White House on March 20. “The president looks forward to discussing ways to strengthen ties between the United States and Saudi Arabia, and to advance our common security and economic priorities,” said Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

Republicans on the House Intelligence committee announced Monday they were wrapping up their yearlong investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election after finding no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. My colleague Jenna Lifhits reports:

That initial finding is one of more than 40 in a draft report spanning over 150 pages that Republicans said would be shared with Democrats for review and comment on Tuesday. The draft report is also expected to describe “how anti-Trump research made its way from Russian sources to the Clinton campaign” and “problematic contacts between senior intelligence community officials and the media.”

Monday’s announcement effectively marks the end of the panel’s probe, which has been mired in partisan discord since at least March 2017. Special counsel Robert Mueller is still investigating 2016 election interference, as is the Senate Intelligence Committee.

“We will now be moving into the next phase of this investigation, working with the minority on a report to give the American people answers to the questions they’ve been asking for over a year,” said Texas congressman Mike Conaway, who along with Tom Rooney and Trey Gowdy has headed up the investigation for several months.

Democrats are expected to disagree with some of the findings in the Republicans’ draft. The panel’s top Democrat, Adam Schiff, described the end of the investigation as “another tragic milestone for this Congress.”