Yesterday with both the House and Senate in Washington there
were 132 bills introduced. Of these 8 may receive further attention in this
blog:
HR
265 Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug
Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 2019, and for other purposes. Rep.
Bishop, Sanford D., Jr. [D-GA-2]
HR
266 Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment,
and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for
other purposes. Rep. McCollum, Betty [D-MN-4]
HR
267 Making appropriations for the Department of Transportation, and Housing
and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 2019, and for other purposes. Rep.
Price, David E. [D-NC-4]
HR
269 To reauthorize certain programs under the Public Health Service Act and
the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to public health security
and all-hazards preparedness and response, to clarify the regulatory framework
with respect to certain nonprescription drugs that are marketed without an
approved drug application, and for other purposes. Rep.
Eshoo, Anna G. [D-CA-18]
HR
327 To prohibit entities from requiring individuals to submit to
arbitration for disputes arising from a security breach, and for other
purposes. Rep. Lieu, Ted [D-CA-33]
HR
328 To require the Secretary of State to design and establish a
Vulnerability Disclosure Process (VDP) to improve Department of State
cybersecurity and a bug bounty program to identify and report vulnerabilities of
internet-facing information technology of the Department of State, and for
other purposes. Rep. Lieu, Ted [D-CA-33]
HR
334 To increase cybersecurity education and job growth, and for other
purposes. Rep. Lieu, Ted [D-CA-33]
FY 2019 Spending Bills
It looks like the Democratic leadership in the House has
accepted that the Senate will not take action on the two spending bills that
they had passed last week (no surprise here). So they are going to go through
the ‘normal’ legislative process for each of the four (of five) spending bills
that were not passed last session (well they missed the DHS bill, but I think
they are going to go with the CR
for DHS that was passed last week for the time being). I have not included HR
264, Financial Services and General Government, in the list above because
there is little in that bill that I am interested in.
The House will begin considering these bills today, starting
with HR 264. This is a major change from the legislative plan for the week that
was announced
last Friday. The GPO has not yet printed any of these bills (they are behind
because of the large (but not unusual) number of bills introduced in the first
days of this session), so we will only get to see ‘draft’ copies on the
Majority Leader’s web site sometime the day before the bill is considered. The
leadership is already violating their ’72 hour’ rule, but this was to be expected
in ‘fast moving’ situations like this.
The House Rules Committee adopted a single rule yesterday
for the consideration of all four of the spending bills. It provides for a
closed rule with limited debate and no amendments. I expect that we will see a
party-line vote on each of these bills in the House and the Senate will ignore
them as well (at least until some sort of agreement is reached between the
Democrats and the President).
In any case, the Democrats will point to these actions as ‘proof’
that they are actively working on opening the government. Political grandstanding?
Just a little.
HR 269
This is the medical emergency response bill that I discussed yesterday.
It was passed in the House last night on a very strongly bipartisan vote of 401 to 17 with very little debate. It will
be interesting to see how long it takes the Senate to take up this bill, but there
is no guarantee that it will. If it does reach the Senate floor, I expect that
it will do so under their unanimous consent process.
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