Today in Congress
by David Waldman
Wed Nov 04, 2009 at 06:18:07 AM PST
In the House, courtesy of the Office of the Majority Leader:
FLOOR SCHEDULE FOR WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2009
House Meets At... 10:00 a.m.: Legislative Business
First Vote Predicted... 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Last Vote Predicted... 6:00 – 7:00 p.m."One Minutes" (15 per side)
H.R. 3639 - Expedited CARD Reform for Consumers Act of 2009 (Rep. Maloney – Financial Services) (Subject to a Rule)
Suspensions (6 Bills)
- H.Res. 868 - Honoring and recognizing the service and achievements of current and former female members of the Armed Forces (Rep. Davis (CA) - Armed Services)
- H.Con.Res. 139 - Congratulating the first graduating class of the United States Air Force Academy on their 50th graduation anniversary and recognizing their contributions to the Nation (Rep. Lamborn - Armed Services)
- H.Res. 856 - Recognizing the Commissioning of the USS New York LPD 21 (Rep. Nadler - Armed Services)
- H.Res. 880 - Recognizing the efforts of career and technical colleges to educate and train workers for positions in high-demand industries (Rep. Cassidy - Education and Labor)
- H.Res. 752 - Recognizing the tragic loss of life that occurred at the Cherry Mine in Cherry, Illinois, on its 100th anniversary and the contributions to worker and mine safety that resulted from this and other disasters (Rep. Halvorson - Education and Labor)
- H.Res. 878 - Expressing support for the goals and ideals of National Family Literacy Day (Rep. Platts - Education and Labor)
Postponed Suspension Votes (4 Bills):
- H.Res. 858 - Congratulating the Inter-American Foundation on its 40th anniversary and recognizing its significant accomplishments and contributions (Rep. Engel - Foreign Affairs)
- H.Res. 839 - Condemning the illegal extraction of Madagascar's natural resources (Rep. Blumenauer - Foreign Affairs)
- H.Res. 863 - Recognizing the scourge of pneumonia, urging the United States and the world to mobilize cooperation and prioritize resources to fight pneumonia and save children's lives, and recognizing November 2 as World Pneumonia Day (Rep. Shea-Porter - Foreign Affairs)
- H.Res. 641 - Recognizing the 60th anniversary of the founding of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Rep. Ros-Lehtinen - Foreign Affairs)
- 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:
I dunno. For some reason, there was no floor schedule posted for today when I sat down to put this together last night, and it's still not there.
But the previous day's schedule tells us they're in the post-cloture period on the Reid-Baucus substitute amendment to the unemployment insurance extension bill. That could last up to 30 hours from yesterday's 5pm vote. And that'd only be the end of the process as far as the substitute amendment goes. If Republicans wanted to cause more trouble, they could still filibuster the bill itself, and cost us all another few days while we wade through that procedure. And why wouldn't they? They just wasted a week on forcing a cloture vote that garnered just two votes against, so the game-playing is fairly naked and obvious here. So we can probably expect the Senate to be spending its day on unemployment benefits. Again.
In other news: there are still seven appropriations bills that need taking care of, and we're still not quite there on the health insurance reform thingy. But we've got full tanks of congratulations, honors, recognition and condemnation ready to roll for 10 suspensions on the House schedule, this early November Wednesday morning.
Today's committee schedule appears below.
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