On Thursday the House passed HR
5089, the Strengthening Local Transportation Security Capabilities Act of
2018, by a strongly bipartisan vote of 397 to 1 (the
single Nay was a Republican). The bill was debated
on Monday, but the recorded vote was demanded and then delayed until Thursday.
As with HR
5074, this bill was considered on the floor ‘as amended’. Neither bill was
amended at the markup
hearing conducted earlier this month, but the reported
language for HR 5089 did include a minor revision of the language in §3(a). The revised language
added: “, as appropriate, from” before the words “the Office of Intelligence
and Analysis”. Minor, relatively inconsequential changes like this are not
uncommon in reported language coming out of committee.
The bill now waits for the Senate leadership to decide if the
bill will be considered in that body. Based upon the vote in the House, I do
not suspect that there will be any substantial opposition in the Senate. I
would expect to see the bill considered under the ‘without objection’ process;
no debate and no vote.
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