In the House, courtesy of the Office of the Majority Leader:
First Vote Of The Week: Monday 6:00 p.m.
Last Vote Predicted: Friday p.m.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2010
On Monday, the House will meet at 2:00 p.m. for legislative business with votes postponed until 6:00 p.m.
Suspensions (10 Bills)
- H. Res._ - Providing for the concurrence by the House in the Senate amendment to H.R. 5566 with an amendment - Prevention of Interstate Commerce in Animal Crush Videos Act of 2010 (Rep. Gallegly - Judiciary)
- H.Res. 716- Recognizing Gail Abarbanel and the Rape Treatment Center (Rep. Kennedy - Judiciary)
- Senate Amendment to H.R. 5283 - Help HAITI Act of 2010 (Rep. Fortenberry - Judiciary)
- S. 1376- International Adoption Simplification Act (Sen. Klobuchar - Judiciary)
- H.R. __- Marine Sergeant Michael H. Ferschke, Jr. Memorial Act (Rep. Duncan - Judiciary)
- H.R. __- To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to toll, during active-duty service abroad in the Armed Forces, the periods of time to file a petition and appear for an interview to remove the conditional basis for permanent resident status (Rep. Lofgren - Judiciary)
- H.R. 5264- Department of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2011 (Rep. Conyers - Judiciary)
- H.Res. __- Honoring the 30th Anniversary of the Bayh-Dole Act (Rep. Conyers - Judiciary)
- S. 3689- Copyright Cleanup, Clarification, and Corrections Act of 2010 (Sen. Leahy - Judiciary)
- H.Res. __- Recognizing and honoring the 50th anniversary of Ruby Bridges desegregating a previously all-white public elementary school (Rep. Lewis (GA) - Judiciary)
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2010 AND THE BALANCE OF THE WEEK
On Tuesday, the House will meet at 12:30 p.m. for Morning Hour debate and 2:00 p.m. for legislative business. On Wednesday and Thursday, the House will meet at 10:00 a.m. for legislative business. On Friday, the House will meet at 9:00 a.m. for legislative business.
Suspensions (23 Bills)
- H.Res. 1475- Congratulates the town of Tarboro, North Carolina, on the occasion of its 250th anniversary (Rep. Butterfield - Oversight and Government Reform)
- H.Res. 1428- Recognizing Brooklyn Botanic Garden on its 100th anniversary as the preeminent horticultural attraction in the borough of Brooklyn and its longstanding commitment to environmental stewardship and education for the City of New York (Rep. Clarke - Oversight and Government Reform)
- H.R. 5758- To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2 Government Center in Fall River, Massachusetts, as the "Sergeant Robert Barrett Post Office Building" (Rep. Frank - Oversight and Government Reform)
- H.Res. 1529- Commending Bob Sheppard for his long and respected career as the public-address announcer for the New York Yankees and the New York Giants (Rep. McCarthy (NY) - Oversight and Government Reform)
- H.R. 5655- To designate the Little River Branch facility of the United States Postal Service located at 140 NE 84th Street in Miami, Florida, as the "Jesse J. McCrary, Jr. Post Office" (Rep. Meek - Oversight and Government Reform)
- H.R. 5702- To amend the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to reduce the waiting period for holding special elections to fill vacancies in the membership of the Council of the District of Columbia (Rep. Norton - Oversight and Government Reform)
- H.R. 6278- Kingman and Heritage Islands Act of 2010 (Rep. Norton - Oversight and Government Reform
- H.R. 5367- D.C. Courts and Public Defender Service Act of 2010 (Rep. Norton - Oversight and Government Reform)
- S. 3567- A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 100 Broadway in Lynbrook, New York, as the "Navy Corpsman Jeffrey L. Wiener Post Office Building" (Sen. Schumer - Oversight and Government Reform)
- H.Res. 1494- Congratulating the champion, finalists, and all other participants in the 83rd Annual Scripps National Spelling Bee (Rep. Sutton - Oversight and Government Reform)
- H.R. 6237- To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1351 2nd Street in Napa, California, as the "Tom Kongsgaard Post Office Building". (Rep. Thompson (CA) - Oversight and Government Reform)
- H.R. 6387- To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 337 West Clark Street in Eureka, California, as the "Sam Sacco Post Office Building" (Rep. Thompson - Oversight and Government Reform)
- H.R. __- To improve certain administrative operations of the Office of the Architect of the Capitol (Rep. Brady (PA) - House Administration)
- H.Res. __- Congratulating the engineers, scientists, psychologists, and staff of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for helping to successfully rescue 33 trapped Chilean miners from a collapsed mine near Copiapo, Chile (Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson - Science and Technology)
- H.Res. 1677- Condemning the Burmese regime's undemocratic upcoming elections on November 7, 2010 (Rep. Manzullo - Foreign Affairs)
- H.J.Res. 94- Recognizing the 20th anniversary of the outbreak of the Gulf War and reaffirming the commitment of the United States towards Gulf War veterans (Rep. Michaud - Foreign Affairs)
- H.Con.Res. 259- Recognizing the 500th anniversary of the birth of Italian architect Andrea Palladio (Rep. Pascrell - Foreign Affairs)
- H.Con.Res. 327- To recognize and support the efforts of the USA Bid Committee to bring the 2018 or 2022 Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup competition to the United States (Rep. Van Hollen - Foreign Affairs)
- H.Res. 1654- Expressing support for "Undergraduate Research Week" (Rep. Holt - Education and Labor)
- H.Res. 1652- Expressing support for National Principals Month (Rep. Davis (CA) - Education and Labor)
- H.Res. 1641- Celebrating September 30, 2010, as the 60th Anniversary of Impact Aid (Rep. Hirono - Education and Labor)
- H.Res. 1655- Expressing support for "National Farm to School Month" (Rep. Holt - Education and Labor)
- H.Res. 1648- Supporting the goals and ideals of National Adoption Day and National Adoption Month by promoting national awareness of adoption and the children in foster care awaiting families (Rep. Oberstar - Ways and Means)
Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment to H.R. 1722 - Telework Enhancement Act of 2010 (Rep. Sarbanes – Oversight and Government Reform)(Subject to a Rule)
- 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:
Monday:
Convenes: 2:00pm
There will be a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes each.
There will be no roll call votes during Monday's session of the Senate.
The Senate will be in session the week of November 15-19, 2010.
Wednesday:
As a reminder, on Wednesday, September 29, Senator Reid filed cloture on the motion to proceed to the following bills:
- S.3815, the Promoting National Gas and Eletric Vehicles Act of 2010;
- S.3772, The Paycheck Fairness Act; and
- S.510, The FDA Food Safety and Modernization Act.
Senators should expect the next roll call vote to occur at a time to be determined on Wednesday, November 17, 2010.
The first vote will be on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to S.3815, the Promoting National Gas and Eletric Vehicles Act of 2010.
So, for those of you who wanted to see the 111th Congress come roaring out of the gate in the post-election session, we have 33 suspensions on the calendar for you! Be assured that no matter what political storms we may have to weather, post offices will never go wanting for new names! At least there's one more good BANANAS Alert we can issue: H.R. 5283, the Help HAITI Act. Yes, they needed to try to cram a bad acronym into that one, believe it or not. If you ask me, the "Help Haiti Act" would have been perfectly descriptive. But apparently that wasn't good enough, and now we've got the Help Haitian Adoptees Immediately to Integrate (HAITI) Act." That's a lot better, don't you think? I thought it might be difficult for adoptees to integrate after their homes were destroyed by a series of natural disasters just by changing federal law to make it easier, but this new name will probably fix everything. So, that's good!
The Senate actually comes out with a more aggressive schedule than the House this week, with cloture votes due on three pieces of legislation. Not that they actually expect to get to those votes before Wednesday. Why start on Monday when you've only got about two weeks of work left, right? Heck, you're just going to end up leaving again at the end of the week, anyway. Come to think of it, that's true every week, isn't it? I'm gonna talk to my boss about that.
But really, given the realities of the filibuster and the short time table, is there anything the Congress could actually be doing at the end of its session? Well, there's a path available to them to possibly use reconciliation to get one last major act through, but chances are there's just no appetite for that. Reconciliation? Really? Well, yeah. Here's the theory.
The week's full committee schedule appears below the fold. For fans of the unusual, remember that the ethics "trial" of Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY-15) begins today at 9 am EST. It's really an "adjudicatory hearing," but in all appearances, it'll look largely like you'd expect a trial to look, so that's what the media is going with. Here's an explanation, if you'd like to catch up. And if you'd like to look in on it, Sunlight Live will be on the case. You usually don't see video coming out of the ethics committee (formally known as the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct), so this is a rare treat, so to speak.