Today in Congress

In the House, courtesy of the Office of the Majority Leader:

House meets at... 10:00 a.m.: Legislative Business
Fifteen "One Minutes" Per Side

Last Vote Predicted... 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

Suspensions (3 bills)

1)     H.R. 35 - Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2009 (Rep. Towns – Oversight and Government Reform)

2)     H.R. 36 - Presidential Library Donation Act of 2009 (Rep. Towns – Oversight and Government Reform)

3)    S.J.Res. 3 - Ensuring that the compensation and other emoluments attached to the office of Secretary of the Interior are those which were in effect on January 1, 2005. (Oversight and Government Reform)

In the Senate, courtesy of the Office of the Majority Leader:

Convenes: 11:30am
Morning Business with senators permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes each.

The Senate will recess from 12:30pm until 2:15pm to allow for the weekly Democratic caucus luncheon.

Light floor schedule today. Electoral vote count tomorrow. The first two bills listed for the House are those I told you abouton Monday, in This Week in Congress. They're unfinished business from last Congress.

The third bill is the Ken Salazar version of the Saxbe Hillary Clinton fix that Adam B. told you about a few weeks ago.

Yesterday in Congress, I milled around with all the folks in town for the swearing in, and gawked like a tourist at the Members I saw: Sens. Mark Udall (D-CO), Ken Salazar (D-CO), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Joe Lieberman (WTF-CT), John McCain (R-AZ), Sen.-designate Michael Bennett (D-CO), and Reps. John Salazar (D-CO-03), Diana DeGette (D-CO-01), Patrick Murphy (D-PA-08), Alan Grayson (D-FL-08), Jared Polis (D-CO-02) and former Reps. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL-05), and Pat Schroeder (D-CO).

That's not news, but I thought I'd throw it in there just for fun, to spice up a slow-ish morning after the big opening day. So yes, we have visual confirmation that those people we see on C-SPAN are real.