What's Congress Voting On? Week of October 9, 2017
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The House will return from its three-day weekend on Tuesday to consider a number of bills renaming post offices and a border patrol checkpoint before its work week begins in earnest on Wednesday.
Then the agenda will include bills to extend an energy conservation exemption for smoke alarms and similar devices, award cash bonuses to federal employees who find unnecessary costs to cut, and permanently allow judicial reviews of decisions by the Merit Systems Protection Board related to whistleblowers. It will end its week considering a disaster relief bill and legislation protecting federal whistleblowers from retaliation.
The Senate will next convene for legislative session on Monday, October 16.
Check here throughout the week to see the vote results and updates to the schedule.
Schedule subject to change. All times Eastern.
House
Monday
- No votes are expected.
Tuesday after 6:30pm (all suspensions)
H.R. 294: To designate the facility of the United States Post Office located at 2700 Cullen Boulevard in Pearland, Texas, as the "Endy Ekpanya Post Office Building" Passed by voice vote.
H.R. 452: To designate the facility of the United States Post Office located at 324 West Saint Louis Street in Pacific, Missouri, as the "Specialist Jeffrey L. White, Jr. Post Office" Vote postponed.
H.R. 1858: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4514 Williamson Trail in Liberty, Pennsylvania, as the "Staff Sergeant Ryan Scott Ostrom Post Office" Passed 397-0.
H.R. 2254: To designate the facility of the United States Post Office located at 2635 Napa Street in Vallejo, California, as the "Janet Capello Post Office Building" Passed by voice vote.
H.R. 2302: To designate the facility of the United States Post Office located at 259 Nassau Street, Suite 2 in Princeton, New Jersey, as the "Dr. John F. Nash, Jr. Post Office" Vote postponed.
H.R. 2464: To designate the facility of the United States Post Office located at 25 New Chardon Street Lobby in Boston, Massachusetts, as the "John Fitzgerald Kennedy Post Office" Passed 395-0.
S. 1617: To designate the checkpoint of the United States Border Patrol located on United States Highway 77 North in Sarita, Texas, as the "Javier Vega, Jr. Border Patrol Checkpoint" Passed by voice vote.
Wednesday after 12pm
S. 190: Power and Security Systems (PASS) Act Passed by voice vote.
S. 920: National Clinical Care Commission Act Passed by voice vote.
H.R. 378: Bonuses for Cost-Cutters Act of 2017, as amended Passed by voice vote.
H.R. 2229: All Circuit Review Act Passed by voice vote.
H.R. 2105: NIST Small Business Cybersecurity Act of 2017, amended Passed by voice vote.
H.R. 2763: The Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Improvements Act of 2017, as amended Passed by voice vote.
H.R. 2196: To amend title 5, United States Code, to allow whistleblowers to disclose information to certain recipients Passed by voice vote.
H.R. 2989: Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Commission Act, as amended Passed by voice vote.
H.R. 3031: TSP Modernization Act of 2017, as amended Passed by voice vote.
H.R. 3243: FITARA Enhancement Act of 2017 Passed 418-0.
H.R. 2302: To designate the facility of the United States Post Office located at 259 Nassau Street, Suite 2 in Princeton, New Jersey, as the "Dr. John F. Nash, Jr. Post Office" Passed by voice vote.
H.R. 452: To designate the facility of the United States Post Office located at 324 West Saint Louis Street in Pacific, Missouri, as the "Specialist Jeffrey L. White, Jr. Post Office" Passed 418-0.
Thursday between 12pm and 4:30pm
S. 585: Dr. Chris Kirkpatrick Whistleblower Protection Act of 2017 Passed 420-0.
H.R. 2266: Making additional supplemental appropriations for disaster relief requirements for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2018, and for other purposes Passed 353-69.
Motion to go to conference on H.R. 2810: National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2018 Adopted 414-8.
Friday
- The House has cancelled votes on Friday.
Senate
- The Senate will not be in legislative session.
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— Eric Revell
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