Senate Legislative Activity

The Senate will convene on Monday, September 19, at 3:00pm. Following any Leader remarks, the Senate will resume consideration of the motion to proceed to H.R.5325, the legislative vehicle for the short-term Continuing Resolution (CR). At 5:30pm, the Senate will vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R.5325.

House Legislative Activity

On Monday, September 19, the House will meet at 2:00pm in pro forma session. No votes are expected.

On Tuesday, September 20, the House will meet at 2:00pm 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:

  1. H.R. 670 – Special Needs Trust Fairness and Medicaid Improvement Act;
  2. H.R. 5963 – Supporting Youth Opportunity and Preventing Delinquency Act, as amended;
  3. H.R. 4887 – To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 23323 Shelby Road in Shelby, Indiana, as the “Richard Allen Cable Post Office”;
  4. H.R. 5150 – To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3031 Veterans Road West in Staten Island, New York, as the “Leonard Montalto Post Office Building”;
  5. H.R. 5309 – To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 401 McElroy Drive in Oxford, Mississippi, as the “Army First Lieutenant Donald C. Carwile Post Office Building”;
  6. H.R. 5356 – To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 14231 TX–150 in Coldspring, Texas, as the “E. Marie Youngblood Post Office”;
  7. H.R. 5591 – To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 810 N US Highway 83 in Zapata, Texas, as the “Zapata Veterans Post Office”;
  8. H.R. 5612 – To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2886 Sandy Plains Road in Marietta, Georgia, as the “Marine Lance Corporal Squire Skip Wells Post Office Building”;
  9. H.R. 5676 – To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 6300 N. Northwest Highway in Chicago, Illinois, as the “Officer Joseph P. Cali Post Office Building”;
  10. H.R. 5798 – To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1101 Davis Street in Evanston, Illinois, as the “Abner J. Mikva Post Office Building”;
  11. H.R. 5889 – To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1 Chalan Kanoa VLG in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, as the “Segundo T. Sablan and CNMI Fallen Military Heroes Post Office Building”;
  12. H.R. 4419 – District of Columbia Judicial Financial Transparency Act;
  13. H.R. 5037 – District of Columbia Courts and Public Defender Service Voluntary Separation Incentive Payments Act;
  14. H.R. 5687 – GAO Mandates Revision Act of 2016;
  15. House Amendment to S. 1550 – Program Management Improvement Accountability Act, as amended;
  16. H.R. 5690 – GAO Access and Oversight Act of 2016;
  17. H.R. 5785 – To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for an annuity supplement for certain air traffic controllers;
  18. H.R. 5625 – Modernizing Government Travel Act;
  19. H.R. 6004 – MGT Act;
  20. H.R. 5713 – Sustaining Healthcare Integrity and Fair Treatment Act of 2016, as amended;
  21. H.R. 3957 – Emergency Citrus Disease Response Act of 2016;
  22. H.R. 5659 – ESRD Choice Act of 2016, as amended;
  23. H.R. 5613 – CAH Act of 2016, as amended;
  24. H.R. 5320 – Social Security Must Avert Identity Loss (MAIL) Act of 2016;
  25. H.R. 5946 – United States Appreciation for Olympians and Paralympians Act of 2016;
  26. H.R. 2285 – Prevent Trafficking in Cultural Property Act;
  27. H.R. 5523 – Clyde-Hirsch-Sowers RESPECT Act;
  28. H.R. 6007 – To amend title 49, United States Code, to include consideration of certain impacts on commercial space launch and reentry activities in a navigable airspace analysis, and for other purposes;
  29. H.R. 5977 – To direct the Secretary of Transportation to provide to the appropriate committees of Congress advance notice of certain announcements, and for other purposes;
  30. H.R. 5944 – To amend title 49, United States Code, with respect to certain grant assurances, and for other purposes;
  31. H.R. 5957 – Federal Aviation Administration Veteran Transition Improvement Act of 2016;
  32. H.R. 5147 – BABIES Act;
  33. H.R. 6014 – To direct the Federal Aviation Administration to allow certain construction or alteration of structures by State departments of transportation without requiring an aeronautical study, and for other purposes, as amended;
  34. H.R. 3937 – To designate the building utilized as a United States courthouse located at 150 Reade Circle in Greenville, North Carolina, as the “Judge Randy D. Doub United States Courthouse”; and
  35. H.R. 5859 – Community Count­er­ter­ror­ism Preparedness Act, as amended

On Wednesday and Thursday, September 21-22, the House will meet at 10:00am for morning hour and 12:00pm for legislative business. On Friday, September 23, the House will meet at 9:00am for legislative business, with last votes expected by 3:00pm. The following legislation will be considered under suspension of the rules:

  1. H.R. 2315 – Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 2015;
  2. H.Con.Res. 122 – PROTECT Patrimony Resolution, as amended;
  3. H.R. 4712 – Strengthening the Department of Homeland Security Secure Mail Initiative Act, as amended;
  4. H.R. 5094 – STAND for Ukraine Act, as amended;
  5. H.R. 3924 – Global Development Lab Act of 2016, as amended;
  6. H.R. 5064 – Improving Small Business Cyber Security Act of 2016, as amended;
  7. H.R. 470 – Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest Land Adjustment Act of 2016, as amended;
  8. H.R. 5883 – Clarification of Treatment of Electronic Sales of Livestock Act of 2016, as amended;
  9. H.R. 5391 – Gains in Global Nuclear Detection Architecture Act, as amended;
  10. H.R. 5459 – Cyber Preparedness Act of 2016, as amended;
  11. H.R. 5346 – Securing our Agriculture and Food Act, as amended;
  12. H.R. 5460 – First Responder Access to Innovative Technologies Act, as amended;
  13. H.R. 5065 – Bottles and Breast­feed­ing Equipment Screening Act, as amended; and
  14. H.R. 5943 – Transit Security Grant Program Flexibility Act, as amended

The House will also consider:

  1. H.R. 3438 – REVIEW Act of 2016 (Subject to a Rule);
  2. H.R. 5461 – Iranian Leadership Asset Transparency Act (Subject to a Rule);
  3. H.R. 5719 – Empowering Employees through Stock Ownership Act (Subject to a Rule); and
  4. H.R. 5931 – Prohibiting Future Ransom Payments to Iran Act, Rules Committee Print (Subject to a Rule)

The House may also consider H.R.1309 – Systemic Risk Designation Improvement Act of 2015 (Subject to a Rule), as well as other legislative items.