The House stayed up late, setting aside the TRAIN Act for a midnight session to pass a continuing appropriations bill only slightly changed from the one that failed the day before. The House-passed measure still offsets disaster relief funding, this time with cuts to the program many Republicans until recently were begging for money from?by which I mean the program that also funded the Solyndra loan guarantees.
The Senate wrapped up work on amendments to and passage of the trade bill, H.R. 2832, for which there is no short title. It's just, "A bill to extend the Generalized System of Preferences, and for other purposes." Woohoo! Well, whatever. It's done, along with H.R.2338, the Child and Family Services Improvement and Innovation Act, sent over by the House just the other day.
Looking ahead to today:
The House schedule was late in arriving last night due to the extended session. But they're expected to continue work on the TRAIN Act, set aside yesterday, and then quickly adjourn for the week. (Or more likely, adjourn to a series of pro forma sessions spread out over the next week.) A little move we'll call "my way and the highway." The play here is to hand the Senate a continuing appropriations bill they don't like, and stick them with a shutdown if they won't accept it. We'll see how that goes.
The Senate actually has nothing scheduled but waiting for the continuing appropriations bill from the House. Well, that and actually considering that bill. Except that what's coming from the House is apparently unacceptable to the Senate, where Democrats have rejected the notion of offsetting natural disaster relief, as House Democrats did before them. The Senate could pick up another House-passed vehicle and use that to send back a different CR, and just say that if the House skips town on its job, that's on them. Like I said, we'll have to wait and see whether anyone wants to play rough.
Today's floor and committee schedules appear below the fold.
Source: http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/xsG9475Dg7w/-Today-in-Congress
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