In the House, courtesy of the Office of the Majority Leader:
FLOOR SCHEDULE FOR THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2009
House Meets At... 10:00 a.m.: Legislative Business
First Vote Predicted... 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Last Vote Predicted... Evening
"One Minutes" (10 per side)
Conference Report on H.R. 3288 – Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010 (Rep. Obey – Appropriations) (Subject to a Rule)
H.Res. 962 - Same Day Consideration Rule - Waiving a requirement of clause 6(a) of rule XIII with respect to consideration of certain resolutions reported from the Committee on Rules (Rep. Slaughter – Rules)
Continue Consideration of H.R. 4173 – Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009 (Rep. Frank – Financial Services) (Subject to a Rule)
Postponed Suspension Votes (3 Bills):
- H.R. 4017 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 43 Maple Avenue in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, as the "Ann Marie Blute Post Office" (Rep. McGovern - Oversight and Government Reform)
- H.Res. 35 - Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should provide increased Federal funding for continued type 1 diabetes research (Rep. Gene Green - Energy and Commerce)
- H.Res. 55 - Expressing support for the designation of a National Prader-Willi Syndrome Awareness Month to raise awareness of and promote research into this challenging disorder (Rep. Royce - Energy and Commerce)
- 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: 10:00am
Resume consideration of H.R.3590, Health Care Reform.
The time until 1:00pm will be for debate only with the time equally divided. Following Leader remarks, the time until 11:00am will be controlled between the two Leaders or their designees. The time from 11:00am and 1:00pm will be controlled in 30-minute alternating blocks of time. The Majority will control the first block and the Republicans will control the next block.
In the House, we'll see that consolidated appropriations bill we've been anticipating, since we've been running on continuing resolutions for two months, there are still half a dozen appropriations bills unfinished, and health insurance reform is taking up most of the Senate's available time.
After that, it's back to the "Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act." But first, they'll have to deal with the fact that the New Democrat [sic] Coalition has once again intervened at the last minute on financial regulatory reform on behalf of the banks, and threatened to defeat the rule governing debate of the already watered-down bill unless it's watered down some more. Same stunt they pulled on consumer mortgage relief before we shipped Ellen Tauscher out of the House.
But in order to accommodate their tantrum, they'll also have to pass a resolution waiving the rule against considering a rule on the same day it was reported out by the Rules Committee. Thanks for the extra work, New Dems.
So those are the steps:
- Adopt resolution waiving the House Rule against considering a special rule on the same day it was reported;
- Adopt the new rule for the bill, allowing the watering-down amendments to be offered;
- Proceed to debate on the bill and let the New Dems water it down some more with their amendments;
- Feed Teabagger outrage.
On the Senate side, it's more health insurance reform. No agreement on votes yet for today, and they didn't manage any yesterday, either. Looks like it's a holding pattern until Democrats decide what exactly the deal is with the deal they keep saying they're agreeing to.
Hope that one doesn't feed Teabagger outrage, too.
Full committee schedule appears below the fold.
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