Daily Digests: T 3/19 (PDF) • W 3/20 (PDF) • Th 3/21 (PDF) • F 3/22 (PDF)
Senate — Votes — Legislation: New: 149 (D, R), Action: 26, Voted: 2, Passed: 25 — News
T 3/19/2024, Log — Record PDF • Summary
W 3/20/2024, Log — Record PDF • Summary
Th 3/21/2024, Log — Record PDF • Summary
F 3/22/2024, Log — Record PDF • Summary
House — Legislation: New: 132 (R, D), Scheduled, Action: 23, Voted: 12, Passed: 19 — News
T 3/19/2024, Log — Record PDF, Extensions PDF • Activity, Votes
W 3/20/2024, Log — Record PDF, Extensions PDF • Activity, Votes
Th 3/21/2024, Log — Record PDF, Extensions PDF • Activity, Votes
F 3/22/2024, Log — Record PDF, Extensions PDF • Activity, Votes
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Foreign Policy — Committees: Senate, House
Netanyahu clashes with Democrats: 'Schumer's statements are wholly inappropriate', Slams Schumer's Call for His Ouster • Swing State Democratic Senators Mum on Schumer's Call for Israelis To Depose Bibi • Just a Third of Senate Dems Say They Back Schumer's Call for New Israeli Elections • Biden thinks new elections are ‘up to the Israeli people’ to decide: John Kirby • Schumer’s Folly: Schumer defends his controversial speech, says Israel’s ‘future could well be over’ without US support • Speaker Johnson says he is considering inviting Netanyahu to address Congress
Johnson, Scalise, McCaul Statement on Negotiations to Free Hostages Held by Hamas
Focus sharpens on China’s tech
Graham visits Ukraine
Budget — Committees: House, Senate
Virginia Rep. Cline says RSC budget proposal retains Hyde Amendment
Federal Spending — Committees: House, Senate — FY 2024 bills, table
CBO: Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (H.R. 2882) • Member pay increase blocked (H.Res. 1102, H.R. 2882) • contains earmarks • Funds Teen Trans Programs, Abortion to 22 Weeks • bans pride flags
Congress cuts federal prison infrastructure funding (P.L. 118-42)
Schweikert (R-WA) on U.S. borrowing $98.3k per second: On US demographics, “We know it is coming. It is not a black swan. It is what they nicknamed a white swan. It means you see it and you still don't do anything about it” • US debt interest is modeled to be $1.076 trillion in FY 2024 • suggests a “wearable” health monitor to “get data off you for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week” as possibly “a way to take down the debt” largely caused by health care costs — Editor note: $34,578,032,221,509.83 is the U.S. national Debt to the Penny as of 3/21/2024. When that comes due, there is going to be immense pressure to get out from under that debt. Even if 24/7 health monitoring isn't mandated, it could easily become a requirement for the government to pay for health care costs, even for people who have already “paid in” to Medicare.
Granger to hand off House Appropriations gavel early
Executive — Committees: House, Senate
Speaker Johnson: Biden’s Anti-Energy Crusade Must End
Manchin praises Biden on energy
Fischer on Electric Vehicles: The manufacturing of EVs produces at least 60 percent more carbon emissions than that of gas-powered cars. • an electric car emitted about a quarter more particulate matter than to a hybrid car because of tire wear. • A Consumer Reports survey found that new EVs have 79 percent more problems than internal combustion cars. • Electric vehicle charging stations malfunction … one in five charging sessions at public stations failed to deliver any charge at all. • They make electric vehicles 30 percent heavier, on average, than gas-powered cars. … Because they are so heavy, electric vehicles crash with up to 50 percent more impact, smashing through and destroying roadside barriers. Our current safety infrastructure can't stop an EV, and that is a major problem—especially for other drivers. • EVs pose special risks to first responders … Their batteries contain so much energy that any contact with fire can cause them to explode. … can reignite a fire in a battery even after it has been put out. One fire chief described an EV fire as a “trick candle.” • The EV industry is effectively run by the Chinese Communist Party. … Afghanistan is home to large lithium reserves, one of the minerals essential for EV batteries. With the United States out of the picture, Chinese mining companies have flooded Afghanistan. • These so-called “clean” cars use dirty manufacturing methods. … The massive demand for cobalt only encourages that industry to keep using inhumane and environmentally irresponsible mining methods. … This phenomenon stretches across Africa into Asia. • Biden finalizes crackdown on gas cars, forcing more than half of new car sales to be electric by 2030 • McConnell: The EPA's new emissions standards are so stringent that they would require electric vehicles make up two of every three vehicles on the consumer market within 8 years, regardless of whether charging infrastructure is ever available. • Barrasso: President Biden seems to want to regulate every room in the house of the American people. He started in the kitchen with our stoves, continued throughout the house, and now he is headed to the garage. • Manchin slams Biden for ‘reckless’ EV mandate telling people ‘what kind of car’ they can have • Manchin: The administration's electric vehicle policy has been held completely captive by the activist environmental groups and the radical advisers in the White House. (S.Amdt. 1725)
Biden wants to guarantee the vast majority of American families access to high-quality child care for no more than $10 a day
WH: Press Release: Letter to the Speaker of the House and President of the Senate: Designation of Funding as Emergency Requirements in Accordance with Section 6 of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024
WH: President Biden Names Forty-Seventh Round of Judicial Nominees and Announces One New Nominee to Serve as U.S. Marshal
WH: President Biden Announces Key Nominees
WH: Nominations Sent to the Senate
Judiciary — Committees: Senate, House
McConnell answers Schumer's call to find ways to restore trust in the judiciary: Cotton's bill to end nationwide injunctions (S. 2464, 116th) • Schumer is asking the Judicial Conference for further explanation
Cortez Masto finds judicial nominee ‘Deeply concerning’ • Manchin opposes
Manchin launches his ‘own little filibuster’ against Biden’s judicial nominees
Justice — Punishing Evil, Praising Good (Romans 13:3-4; 1 Peter 2:14)
Johnson, congressional leaders honor surviving WWII Ghost Army members with Congressional Gold Medal • Speaker Johnson Remarks
Commerce Policy — Committees: Senate, House
Virginia, Maryland senators renew Reagan National Airport flight slot debate
Agriculture Policy — Committees: Senate, House
LaMalfa: if there is food on your plate, remember it came from a farmer.
Health Care Policy — Committee: Senate
GOP Sen. Johnson presses HHS sec. for unredacted COVID-19 origin records
Major health bills fail to make cut amid competing priorities
Science/Technology Policy — Committee: House, Senate
Foreign app bill does not clarify that it does not apply to any U.S. company unless it is majority owned/controlled by persons or entities from a foreign adversary country (H.R. 7521)
Congress — Committees: House, Senate
Senate Republicans begin to chart post-McConnell future • Republicans and Democrats break with party leaders to eye younger senators for top jobs • Lankford to seek Senate leadership post in next Congress
Key House Republican acknowledges discussions about finding 'more effective Speaker' than Johnson
Capitol Police creating center to tackle lawmaker protection
Senate Finance Committee chair faces call to resign over wife's major stock holdings
Campaign to Ban Members of Congress from Stock Trading Heats Up
A new era for CRS? Lawmakers propose more data, less ‘bicep work’
Retiring: Gallagher, in April, leaving one-vote majority
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Committee Activity — Meetings: 79 • Reports: 1 • Legislative action this week:
All committee legislative action • Senate (Subcommittees) • House (Subcommittees)
HHS Secretary Becerra questioned about FY 2025 HHS budget: Social programs, Marijuana, Surprise billing, Nurse staffing standards, Medical devices • Ways and Means Committee Meeting—7 key moments, Docs, Congress.gov • Appropriations Subcommittee Meeting, Docs, Congress.gov
Committee news this week: Senate • House (Google News)
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The Senate is in a State Work Period from March 25 through April 5, 2024.
Pro forma schedule:
- Tuesday, March 26, 5 p.m.
- Thursday, March 28, 10 a.m.
- Monday, April 1, 10 a.m.
- Thursday, April 4, 2 p.m.
3 p.m., Monday, April 8, 2024
Program for Monday: Senate resumes consideration of the nomination of Susan M. Bazis, of Nebraska, to be United States District Judge for the District of Nebraska, and votes on the motion to invoke cloture thereon at 5:30 p.m.
Friday, 3/22, Senate began consideration of three nominations:
- Susan M. Bazis to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Nebraska
- Robert J. White to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan
- Ann Marie McIff Allen to be to be U.S. District Judge for Utah
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The House is in a district work period from Friday, March 22, 2024, through Monday, April 8, 2024.
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Our Weekly Call to Repentance:
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