In the House, courtesy of the Office of the Majority Leader:
FLOOR SCHEDULE FOR THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 2010
House Meets At... 10:00 a.m.: Legislative Business
First Vote Predicted... 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Last Vote Predicted... 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
"One Minutes" (10 per side)
Complete Consideration of H.R. 5072 - FHA Reform Act of 2010 (Rep. Waters – Financial Services)
Suspension (1 Bill):
- S. 3473 - To amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to authorize advances from Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (Sen. Reid - Transportation and Infrastructure)
Postponed Suspension Vote (1 Bill):
- H.Res. 1121 - Congratulating Clinton County and the county seat of Wilmington, Ohio, on the occasion of their bicentennial anniversaries (Rep. Turner - Oversight and Government Reform)
- 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:
Convenes: 9:30am
Following any leader remarks, the Senate will turn to the motion to proceed to S.J.Res. 26, a joint resolution disapproving a rule submitted by the EPA relating to the endangerment finding and the cause or contributing findings for greenhouse gases. There will be 6 hours for debate equally divided and controlled between Senators Boxer and Murkowski, or their designees. The time beginning at 9:45am will be controlled in 30 minute alternating blocks of time, with Senator Murkowski controlling the first block of time.
If all time is used, the vote on the motion to proceed to S.J.Res. 26 would occur at approximately 3:45pm.
If the motion is successful, there would be up to 1 hour for debate prior to a vote on the joint resolution.
Hmm. Just one suspension and one postponed suspension? Could they be planning on adjourning for the weekend this afternoon, without moving on to the Small Business Lending Fund Act that was tentatively scheduled for this week? I know! You're on the edge of your seat! Well, maybe this will keep you in it: read the Whip's Office summaries of the FHA Reform Act and the small business lending bill here.
On the Senate side, a brief time out from the tax extenders bill for Lisa Murkowski's (R-AK) resolution of disapproval on EPA greenhouse gas regulation. As we've discussed in the past, the vote may be a freebie for Senators looking to express their "serious concerns" over such regulatory reach, particularly if they need to put on a show for greenhouse-intensive industries back home, since actually putting the resolution into force means passing it in both houses and getting it signed by the President. Or, I guess, overriding a potential veto, which of course requires a 2/3 vote in each house. And although nothing's beyond the realm of possibility in the age of triangulation, it's still probably pretty unlikely that the White House will cooperate in blocking the EPA in this.
Today's committee schedule appears below the fold, though it doesn't include today's expected meeting of the House-Senate conference committee to settle differences on the Wall Street reform bill, scheduled for today at 2:15. The committee's meeting is set to be covered by C-SPAN3, viewable here. Though it'll be transparent in the sense that its official meetings will be broadcast, as I've said before, it's still the case that unofficial meetings need not be, and that's where most dealmaking is likelyto really take place, only to be ratified officially in front of the cameras. Still, a camera is a camera, and that's usually a pretty good thing.
UPDATE: The Sunlight Foundation will be reprising their very popular webcasting feature that they debuted during the White House health care summit. That is, they'll be showing the conference video along with C-SPAN3, but adding captioning beneath each speaker just how much campaign money each has gotten from the financial services industry, live and as they speak. Interesting! You'll find that webcast on their site starting at 2:15.