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The Daily Brief:
Legislative Snapshot
Saturday, September 9, 2017
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Recent Floor Activity
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Weekly Digest of the Congressional Record
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Congress Last Week
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Foreign Policy
Roy Blunt: 'Spoiled and reckless' Kim Jong Un is the Senate Intelligence Committee's top focus
North Korea, Afghanistan top Hill's fall national security agenda
Health Care Policy
Health Care Reform Flatlined. But Lawmakers Aren't Giving Up
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Senate panel launches 'modest' push to patch up Obamacare
Governors in both parties plead for Obamacare payments, flexibility
New Senate Obamacare repeal bill due Monday: senator
GOP senator: Bipartisan health care bill coming in 10 days
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Pending Activity
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Committee Activity
Intensifying Russia probes could pit Hill against Mueller
Pentagon backs McCain-Reed push for military base closures
House Republican subpoenas Justice and FBI seeking dossier information
Susan Rice meets with House intel committee on Capitol Hill
Senate panel to hold DACA hearing next week
Senate panel advances nomination of Quarles to Fed board
Floor Schedule
House Speaker Ryan expects tax plan this fall: NYT interview
McConnell urges Senate to pass Hurricane Irma aid bill 'very quickly'
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Senate Floor
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Program for Monday: Senate resumes consideration of the motion to proceed to consideration of H.R. 2810, National Defense Authorization Act, and votes on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to consideration of the bill at 5:30 p.m.
At approximately 3 p.m., Senate observes a moment of silence in remembrance of the lives lost in the attacks of September 11, 2001.
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Senate Committees
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Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Foreign Relations
Hearings to examine the nominations of Eric M. Ueland, of Oregon, to be an Under Secretary (Management), John R. Bass, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, and Justin Hicks Siberell, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Bahrain, all of the Department of State, and J. Steven Dowd, of Florida, to be United States Director of the African Development Bank.
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Hearings to examine the Fintech landscape.
Finance
Hearings to examine health care, focusing on issues impacting cost and coverage.
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Hearings to examine stabilizing premiums and helping individuals in the individual insurance market for 2018, focusing on state flexibility.
United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control
Hearings to examine adapting United States counternarcotics efforts in Colombia.
Joint Economic Committee
Hearings to examine the dynamic gains from free digital trade for the United States economy.
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Hearings to examine the nominations of Daniel J. Kaniewski, of Minnesota, to be Deputy Administrator for National Preparedness, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security, and Jonathan H. Pittman, to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Subcommittee: Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard Subcommittee
Hearings to examine reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, focusing on oversight of fisheries management successes and challenges.
Energy and Natural Resources
Subcommittee: Energy Subcommittee
Hearings to examine fostering innovation, focusing on contributions of the Department of Energy's national laboratories.
Intelligence
To receive a closed briefing on certain intelligence matters.
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Hearings to examine transportation innovation, focusing on automated trucks and our Nation's highways.
Environment and Public Works
Hearings to examine expanding and accelerating the deployment and use of carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration.
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Subcommittee: Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management Subcommittee
Hearings to examine the Office of Management and Budget's memorandum on the Federal workforce, focusing on OMB's ongoing government-wide reorganization.
Judiciary
Hearings to examine the long-term impact of immigration, focusing on exploring potential reforms to our Nation's guest worker programs and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, and their potential impact on the American economy and local communities.
Indian Affairs
Oversight hearings to examine high risk Indian programs, focusing on progress and efforts in addressing Government Accountability Office recommendations.
Thursday, September 14, 2017
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Hearings to examine nutrition programs, focusing on perspectives for the 2018 Farm Bill.
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Hearings to examine the scourge of Russian disinformation.
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Hearings to examine the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
Finance
Hearings to examine individual tax reform.
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Hearings to examine Federal Communication Commission's Lifeline Program, focusing on a case study of government waste and mismanagement.
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Hearings to examine stabilizing premiums and helping individuals in the individual insurance market for 2018, focusing on health care stakeholders.
Judiciary
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Ralph R. Erickson, of North Dakota, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, Donald C. Coggins, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, Dabney Langhorne Friedrich, of California, to be United States District Judge for the District of Columbia, Stephen S. Schwartz, of Virginia, to be a Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims, and Robert J. Higdon, Jr., to be United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
Foreign Relations
Hearings to examine United States policy options to support democracy in Venezuela.
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11TH
On Monday, the House will meet at 12:00 p.m. for morning hour and 2:00 p.m. for legislative business. Votes will be postponed until 6:30 p.m.
Legislation Considered Under Suspension of the Rules:
1) H.R. 3284 – Joint Counterterrorism Awareness Workshop Series Act of 2017, as amended (Sponsored by Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick / Homeland Security Committee)
2) H.R. 2453 – DHS Intelligence Rotational Assignment Program Act of 2017 (Sponsored by Rep. Mike Gallagher / Homeland Security Committee)
3) H.R. 2427 – Pathways to Improving Homeland Security At the Local Level Act, as amended (Sponsored by Rep. Val Demings / Homeland Security Committee)
4) H.R. 2470 – Homeland Threat Assessment Act (Sponsored by Rep. Mike Rogers / Homeland Security Committee)
5) H.R. 2468 – Unifying DHS Intelligence Enterprise Act, as amended (Sponsored by Rep. Scott Perry / Homeland Security Committee)
6) H.R. 2433 – Homeland Security Assessment of Terrorists Use of Virtual Currencies Act (Sponsored by Rep. Kathleen Rice / Homeland Security Committee)
7) H.R. 2443 – Department of Homeland Security Classified Facility Inventory Act, as amended (Sponsored by Rep. Lou Barletta / Homeland Security Committee)
8) H.R. 2454 – Department of Homeland Security Data Framework Act of 2017, as amended (Sponsored by Rep. Will Hurd / Homeland Security Committee)
9) H.R. 2442 – FIRST State and Local Law Enforcement Act, as amended (Sponsored by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee / Homeland Security Committee)
10) H.R. 2471 – TRACER Act, as amended (Sponsored by Rep. John Rutherford / Homeland Security Committee)
11) H.R. 931 – Firefighter Cancer Registry Act of 2017, as amended (Sponsored by Rep. Chris Collins / Energy and Commerce Committee)
12) H.R. 2611 – Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site Boundary Modification Act (Sponsored by Rep. French Hill / Natural Resources Committee)
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12TH AND THE BALANCE OF THE WEEK
On Tuesday and Wednesday, the House will meet at 10:00 a.m. for morning hour and 12:00 p.m. for legislative business.
On Thursday, the House will meet at 9:00 a.m. for legislative business. Last votes expected no later than 3:00 p.m.
On Friday, the House is not in session. No votes are expected in the House.
Complete Consideration of H.R. 3354 – Make America Secure and Prosperous Appropriations Act, 2018, Rules Committee Print (Subject to a Rule) (Sponsored by Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen / Appropriations Committee)
H.R. 3697 – Criminal Alien Gang Member Removal Act (Subject to a Rule) (Sponsored by Rep. Barbara Comstock / Judiciary Committee)
Additional Legislative Items are Possible
Printable PDF
Text of Bills for the Week of Sep. 11, 2017
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House Committees
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Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Powering America: Defining Reliability in a Transforming Electricity Industry
Sanctions, Diplomacy, and Information: Pressuring North Korea
"Building a 21st Century Infrastructure for America: Coast Guard Stakeholders' Perspectives"
"Recommendations of the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking"
Resiliency: The Electric Grids Only Hope
World Wide Threats: Keeping America Secure in the New Age of Terror. (Rescheduled)
21st Century Trade Barriers: Protectionist Cross Border Data Flow Policies' Impact on U.S. Jobs
VA Mail Management: The Case of the $11,257 Package
Joint Hearing with the Subcommittee on Monetary Policy and Trade entitled Examining the Relationship Between Prudential Regulation and Monetary Policy at the Federal Reserve
Securing the Peace After the Fall of ISIL
Securing the Peace After the Fall of ISIL
Occupational Licensing: Regulation and Competition
"Building a 21st Century Infrastructure for America: Rail Stakeholders' Perspectives"
Markup of…
- H.R. 210 (Rep. Don Young of AK), To facilitate the development of energy on Indian lands by reducing Federal regulations that impede tribal development of Indian lands, and for other purposes. Native American Energy Act;
- H.R. 424 (Rep. Collin Peterson), To direct the Secretary of the Interior to reissue final rules relating to listing of the gray wolf in the Western Great Lakes and Wyoming under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, and for other purposes. Gray Wolf State Management Act of 2017;
- H.R. 717 (Rep. Pete Olson), To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require review of the economic cost of adding a species to the list of endangered species or threatened species, and for other purposes. Listing Reform Act ;
- H.R. 1274 (Rep. Dan Newhouse), To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require making available to States affected by determinations that species are endangered species or threatened species all data that is the basis of such determinations, and for other purposes. State, Tribal and Local Species Transparency and Recovery Act ;
- H.R. 2603 (Rep. Louie Gohmert), To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to provide that nonnative species in the United States shall not be treated as endangered species or threatened species for purposes of that Act. Saving Americas Endangered Species Act or the SAVES Act.
- H.R. 3131 (Rep. Bill Huizenga), To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to conform citizen suits under that Act with other existing law, and for other purposes. Endangered Species Litigation Reasonableness Act; and
- H.R. 3668 (Rep. Jeff Duncan), To provide for the preservation of sportsmens heritage and enhance recreation opportunities on Federal land, and for other purposes. Sportsmens Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act or SHARE Act.
On Tuesday, September
12, 2017, the Committee will convene at 4:00 p.m. in 1334 Longworth House
Office Building for opening statements only. The Committee will reconvene on
Wednesday, September 13, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. in 1334 Longworth
House Office Building.
Wednesday,
September 13, 2017World Wide Threats: Keeping America Secure in the New Age of Terror. (Rescheduled)
A Legislative Proposal to Impede North Koreas Access to Finance
Big Relief for Small Business: Legislation Reducing Regulatory Burdens on Small Manufacturers and Other Job Creators
H.R. 3441, "Save Local Business Act"
The Presidents FY 2018 Budget Request for Afghanistan and Pakistan
"Building a 21st Century Infrastructure for America: Economic Development Stakeholders' Perspectives"
Modernizing FDAs Regulation of Over-the-Counter Drugs
H.R. 1721; H.R. 1900; H.R. 3122; H.R. 3656; H.R. 3657; and, a draft bill entitled Veterans Fair Debt Notice Act of 2017"
Serving Small Businesses: Examining the Effectiveness of HUBZone Reforms
Hearing on Reforming How the IRS Resolves Taxpayer Disputes
The Venezuela Crisis: The Malicious Influence of State and Criminal Actors
The Future of Democracy and Governance in Liberia
Thursday, September 14, 2017
Full Committee Hearing: Document Production
Tech Talks: How SBA Entrepreneurial Development Programs Have Evolved With Technology
Supporting Tomorrows Health Providers: Examining Workforce Programs Under the Public Health Service Act
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