In the House, courtesy of the Office of the Majority Leader:
FLOOR SCHEDULE FOR WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2010
House Meets At: 10:00 a.m.: Legislative Business
First Vote Predicted: 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Last Vote Predicted: 5:00 – 6:00 p.m.
"One Minutes" (15 per side)
The House will meet at 10:00 a.m. for legislative business. Following "One Minutes," the House will recess in order to accommodate the Democratic and Republican Organizing Meetings. At approximately 4:00 p.m., the House will reconvene and resume legislative business.
Disposing of the President’s Veto of H.R. 3808- Interstate Recognition of Notarizations Act of 2010 (Rep. Aderholt – Judiciary)
Suspensions (6 Bills)
- H.Res. 1677 - Condemning the Burmese regime's undemocratic upcoming elections on November 7, 2010 (Rep. Manzullo - Foreign Affairs)
- H.J.Res. 94 - Recognizing the 20th anniversary of the outbreak of the Gulf War and reaffirming the commitment of the United States towards Gulf War veterans (Rep. Michaud - Foreign Affairs)
- H.Con.Res. 259 - Recognizing the 500th anniversary of the birth of Italian architect Andrea Palladio (Rep. Pascrell - Foreign Affairs)
- H.Con.Res. 327 - To recognize and support the efforts of the USA Bid Committee to bring the 2018 or 2022 Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup competition to the United States (Rep. Van Hollen - Foreign Affairs)
- H.Res. 1648 - Supporting the goals and ideals of National Adoption Day and National Adoption Month by promoting national awareness of adoption and the children in foster care awaiting families (Rep. Oberstar - Ways and Means)
- S. 3774 - Extending the deadline for Social Services Block Grant expenditures of supplemental funds appropriated following disasters occurring in 2008 (Sen. Cornyn - Ways and Means)
Postponed Suspension Votes (3 Bills)
- H.R. 5758 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2 Government Center in Fall River, Massachusetts, as the "Sergeant Robert Barrett Post Office Building" (Rep. Frank - Oversight and Government Reform)
- H.Res. 1715 - Congratulating Joe Paterno on his 400th win as Penn State Nittany Lions football head coach (Rep. Thompson (PA) - Education and Labor)
- H.Con.Res. 329 - Recognizing the 35th anniversary of the enactment of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 (Rep. George Miller - Education and Labor)
- Conference Reports may be brought up at any time.
Motions to go to Conference should they become available.
Possible Motions to Instruct Conferees.
In the Senate, courtesy of the Office of the Majority Leader:
Covnenes: 9:30am
Following any Leader remarks, there will be a period of morning business until 11:00am with the time equally divided and controlled between the two Leaders or their designees. Of the majority’s time, Senator Harkin will control 15 minutes, Senator Dodd will control 15 minutes, and Senator Mikulski will control 5 minutes.
At 11:00am, the Senate will resume consideration of the motion to proceed to S.3815, "The Promoting Natural Gas and Electric Vehicles Act of 2010", and immediately proceed to vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to the bill.
If cloture is not invoked, the Senate would proceed immediately to a cloture vote on the motion to proceed to S.3772, Paycheck Fairness Act.
If cloture is not invoked again, the Senate would proceed immediately to a cloture vote on the motion to proceed to S.510, the Food Safety bill.
If cloture is invoked on any of the motions to proceed, there would be up to 30 hours for debate on the motion.
Senators should expect up to 3 roll call votes to begin at 11:00am.
Six new suspensions in the House, plus three votes left over from earlier. And here's an interesting note: Disposing of the President’s Veto of H.R. 3808. Remember that? Well, the House needs to deal with that non-pocket veto, because it's been returned to them as the initiating body. Now, nobody wants that bill passed at this point, but the House needs to take it up anyway, just to assert their right to do so. Actual pocket vetoes, if they even exist anymore, are anathema to the Congress, since they purport not to be subject to override. By taking up this "protective return," as White Houses have taken to calling them (in an effort not to cede the alleged power of the pocket veto), the House can at once make the statement that they regard this as a routine veto, but also move to table its consideration rather than bother with a vote on something they don't actually want to pass. So, I guess that's what they'll do.
On the Senate side, they're open for business. So that can only mean one thing: cloture votes on motions to proceed, in the hopes that 30 hours later, we might get a vote on whether or not to start debate on getting to some business.
And the chances of that happening are so good, that they've stacked up three such cloture votes in a row, so that they'll actually have something else to do if any or all them fail.
Do not reform this body. It is perfect!
Today's committee schedule appears below the fold. Have at it! Check out the last ditch efforts to get stuff on the record before the two-year ice age on the horizon.