Yesterday with both the House and Senate in session there
were 68 bills introduced. Of those, I will be covering one here in this blog:
HR
6992 To reauthorize the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards Program
of the Department of Homeland Security. Rep.
Katko, John [R-NY-24]
This is the long awaited CFATS reauthorization bill from the
House. Katko is a Subcommittee Chair in the House Homeland Security Committee
and an influential member of the Energy and Commerce Committee. This means that
there is a good chance that this bill will be addressed in each Committee in a
timely manner.
Neither of Katko’s two cosponsors are members of either of
those two committees. I had hoped to see a senior Democrat as a cosponsor of
the House bill to show that there would be bipartisan support for the bill.
Interestingly, the two cosponsors {Rep Moolenaar (R,MI) and Rep Cuellar (D,TX)}
are members of the House Appropriations Committee. This might indicate a
potential move to include the language in this bill in the final spending bill
of the year; the DHS minibus that will be taken up after the election.
It will be interesting to see how similar this bill is to S
3405, the Senate CFATS reauthorization bill.
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