Today in Congress/Open Thread

post from Daily Kos on 22 September 2008 10:30:24 AM. © Daily Kos

In the House, courtesy of the Office of the Majority Leader:

FLOOR SCHEDULE FOR MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

House meets at 10:30 a.m. for Morning Hour; 12:00 p.m. for Legislative Business
Unlimited "One Minutes" Per Side
Last Vote Predicted: 7:00 p.m.

Votes will be postponed until 6:30 p.m.
Suspensions (31 Bills):
1) H.Res. 1287 - Commending the Honor Flight Network, its volunteers, and donors, for enabling World War II veterans to travel to our Nation's capital to see the World War II Memorial created in their honor (Rep. Moran (KS) – Veterans’ Affairs)
2) H.R. 6897 - Filipino Veterans Equity Act of 2008 (Rep. Filner – Veterans’ Affairs)
3) S. 1315 - Veterans' Benefits Enhancement Act of 2007, as amended (Sen. Akaka – Veterans’ Affairs)
4) H.R. 160 - Revolutionary War and War of 1812 Battlefield Protection Act (Rep. Holt – Natural Resources)
5) H.R. 2933 - Civil War Battlefield Preservation Act of 2008 (Rep. Gary Miller (CA) - Natural Resources)
6) H.R. 4828 - Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park Boundary Expansion and Redesignation Act of 2008 (Rep. Ortiz – Natural Resources)
7) H.R. 5853 - Minute Man National Historical Park Boundary Revision Act (Rep. Tsongas – Natural Resources)
8) H.R. 6176 - To authorize the expansion of the Fort Davis National Historic Site in Fort Davis, Texas (Rep. Rodriguez – Natural Resources)
9) H.R. 6159 - Deafy Glade Land Exchange Act (Rep. George Miller (CA) – Natural Resources)
10) H.R. 5335 - To amend the National Trails System Act to provide for the inclusion of new trail segments, land components, and campgrounds associated with the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail (Rep. Wamp – Natural Resources)
11) H.R. 3336 - Camp Hale Study Act (Rep. Lamborn – Natural Resources)
12) H.R. 3849 - Box Elder Utah Land Conveyance Act (Rep Bishop (UT) – Natural Resources)
13) H.R. 3299 - To provide for a boundary adjustment and land conveyances involving Roosevelt National Forest, Colorado, to correct the effects of an erroneous land survey that resulted in approximately 7 acres of the Crystal Lakes Subdivision, Ninth Filing, encroaching on National Forest System land (Rep. Musgrave – Natural Resources)
14) H.Res. 1374 - Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Grand Coulee Dam and recognizing its critical role in the national and economic security of the United States and the contributions of hydroelectric power to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions (Rep. McMorris Rodgers – Natural Resources)
15) H.R. 6685 - To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide an annual grant to facilitate an iron working training program for Native Americans (Rep. Lynch – Natural Resources)
16) H.R. 1907 - Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program Act (Rep. Saxton – Natural Resources)
17) S.J.Res. 45 - Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact (Sen. Levin - Judiciary)
18) H.R. 5352 - Elder Abuse Victims Act of 2008 (Rep. Sestak - Judiciary)
19) H.R. 6853 - Nationwide Mortgage Fraud Task Force Act of 2008 (Rep. Meek - Judiciary)
20) H.Res. 1438 - Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Azorean Refugee Act of 1958 and celebrating the extensive contributions of Portuguese-American communities to the United States (Rep. Nunes – Judiciary)
21) H.Res. 1464 - Recognizing and honoring the 50th anniversary of the founding of AARP (Rep. George Miller (CA) – Education and Labor)
22) H.R. 6890 – To extend the waiver authority for the Secretary of Education under section 105 of subtitle A of title IV of division B of Public Law 109-148, relating to elementary and secondary education hurricane recovery relief (Rep. Melancon – Education and Labor)
23) H.Res. _ – Recognizing the benefits of service-learning as a teaching strategy to effectively engage youth in the community and classroom, and supporting the goals of the National Learn and Serve Challenge (Rep. Platts – Education and Labor)
24) H.R. 642 – Honorable Stephanie Tubbs Jones College Fire Prevention Act (Reps. Tubbs Jones (OH)/Clyburn - Education and Labor)
25) H.R. 6370 - The Oregon Surplus Federal Land Act of 2008 (Rep. DeFazio – Transportation and Infrastructure)
26) H.R. 6524 - To authorize the Administrator of General Services to take certain actions with respect to parcels of real property located in Eastlake, Ohio, and Koochiching County, Minnesota (Rep. LaTourette – Transportation and Infrastructure)
27) H.Res. 1466 - Honoring Dr. Guion S. " Guy" Bluford, Jr. and the 25th Anniversary of his Historic Flight as the First African American in Space (Rep. Edwards (MD) – Science and Technology)
28) S. 2606 - To reauthorize the United States Fire Administration, and for other purposes (Sen. Dodd – Science and Technology)
29) H.Res. 1390 - Expressing support for the designation of a 4-H National Youth Science Day (Rep. Cardoza – Science and Technology)
30) H.R. 6323 - To establish a research, development, demonstration, and commercial application program to promote research of appropriate technologies for heavy duty plug-in hybrid vehicles, and for other purposes (Rep. Sensenbrenner – Science and Technology)
31) H.Res. __ - Honoring the 50th anniversary of the successful demonstration of the first integrated circuit and its impact on the electronics industry (Rep. Hall (TX) – Science and Technology)
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: 3:00pm
Morning Business with senators permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes each.

Votes:
There will be no roll call votes on Monday, September 22.

Another long week of suspensions ahead of us, this time to pass the hours while the leadership of the House works out the details of both a continuing resolution and the proposed taxpayer bailout of everything in the world.

And you want to hear something nuts? The Congress this week is going to pass a CR in order to keep the government funded, because they didn't pass most of the regular appropriations bills, reason being that they came to see it was ridiculous to hand over billions upon billions of dollars to this president, who uses his veto crayon to force Congress to pass bills with virtually no oversight and no controls over how the money is spent.

But what else will the Congress try to pass this week?

Yes, the $700 billion bailout with virtually no oversight and no controls over how the money is spent.

Plus a planned 69 Post Office namings, National XYZ days, etc.