Tag: Appropriations

Senate Legislative Activity

The Senate will convene on Monday, June 20, at 3:00pm. Following any Leader remarks, the Senate will resume consideration of H.R.2578, Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act. The pending cloture motions on amendments will ripen at 5:30pm, at which time the Senate will have up to four roll call votes:

• Grassley amendment #4751;

• Murphy amendment #4750;

• Cornyn amendment #4749; and

• Feinstein amendment #4720

If cloture is invoked on any of these amendments, there will be up to 30 hours of debate on each amendment on which cloture is invoke prior to a vote on that amendment, after which the Senate will move on to a cloture vote on the next amendment.

House Legislative Activity

On Monday, June 20, the House will meet at 2:00pm in pro formasession, with no votes expected.

On Tuesday, June 21, the House will meet at 12:00pm for morning hour and at 2:00pm for legislative business, with votes postponed until 6:30pm. The following legislation will be considered under suspension of the rules:

• H.R. 5525 – End Taxpayer Funded Cell Phones Act of 2016;

• H.R. 4369 – To authorize the use of passenger facility charges at an airport previously associated with the airport at which the charges are collected;

• H.R. 5388 – Support for Rapid Innovation Act of 2016;

• H.R. 5389 – Leveraging Emerging Technologies Act of 2016;

• S. 2133 – Fraud Reduction and Data Analytics Act of 2015;

• H.R. 4902 – To amend title 5, United States Code, to expand law enforcement availability pay to employees of U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Air and Marine Operations;

• H.R. 2395 – Inspector General Empowerment Act of 2016, as amended;

• H.R. 4639 – Thoroughly Investigating Retaliation Against Whistleblowers Act, as amended;

• H.R. 4372 – To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 15 Rochester Street, Bergen, New York, as the Barry G. Miller Post Office;

• H.R. 2607 – To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 7802 37th Avenue in Jackson Heights, New York, as the “Jeanne and Jules Manford Post Office Building”;

• H.R. 4010 – To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 522 North Central Avenue in Phoenix, Arizona, as the “Ed Pastor Post Office”;

• H.R. 4777 – To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1301 Alabama Avenue in Selma, Alabama as the “Amelia Boynton Robinson Post Office Building”;

• H.R. 4925 – To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 229 West Main Cross Street, in Findlay, Ohio, as the “Michael Garver Oxley Memorial Post Office Building”;

• H.R. 4960 – To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 525 N Broadway in Aurora, Illinois, as the “Kenneth M. Christy Post Office Building”;

• H.R. 5028 – To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 10721 E Jefferson Ave in Detroit, Michigan, as the “Mary Eleanora McCoy Post Office Building”;

• H.R. 4590 – Fiscal Year 2016 Department of Veterans Affairs Seismic Safety and Construction Authorization Act, as amended;

• H.R. 5317 – To designate the Department of Veterans Affairs health care center in Center Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, as the “Abie Abraham VA Clinic”;

• H.R. 3936 – VET Act, as amended;

• H.R. 5170 – Social Impact Partnerships to Pay for Results Act, as amended;

• H.R. 5447 – Small Business Health Care Relief Act of 2016;

• H.R. 5452 – Native American Health Savings Improvement Act; and

• H.R. 5456 – Family First Prevention Services Act of 2016