Today in Congress

The House is not in session today.

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

Convenes: 10:00am

Resume consideration of H.R.3590, Health Care Reform. Following leader remarks, the first 3 hours will be equally divided between the two Leaders or their designees and controlled in alternating 45 minute blocks of time. The Majority will control the first block of time. No motions or amendments are in order during the controlled time.

What happens after the controlled time? Well, we know what's pending, anyway:

Upon disposition of the below listed amendments, the following will be in order next:

- Lincoln amendment (Executive Compensation) [PDF]; and

- Republican Motion to Commit the bill HR3590 to the Committee on Finance with instructions to report the same back to the Seante with changes that do not include cuts in payments to home health agencies totaling $42.1 billion. [PDF]

Apparently there's no agreement on time or voting thresholds on either of these, though. So they could spend all day on them after the controlled time and still not come to a vote. But they've managed to get to votes -- all with 60 vote thresholds -- on several amendments and two similar Republican motions to commit, so you'd think they'd get to one for these. But then again, they haven't. Have they just not gotten around to it? Or are they having some particular difficulty?

Don't know. Tune in and see.