Majority Leader Hoyer (D,MD) announced last night that the House could be taking up five bills today under the suspension of the rules process that were not included in the weekly plan for House action this week. Those bills include two pieces of cybersecurity legislation covered here in this blog:
• HR
4611 – DHS Software Supply Chain Risk Management Act of 2021, and
• S 1917 – K-12 Cybersecurity Act of 2021
The suspension of the rules process in the House provides for limited debate, no floor amendments and requires a super-majority to pass. Bills are offered under this process when the House Leadership feels that there should be sufficient bipartisan support for a bill for it to achieve that supermajority approval.
There is a possibility that these bills will not be
considered today as there is a bit of turmoil in the House. The House is also
supposed to consider a continuing resolution, but the language of that bill has
not yet been officially produced. That bill is supposed to be considered under
a rule that was supposed to be developed yesterday, but as of this morning, the
House Rules Committee web site did not have that rule published. These five
bills may have been added as legislative filler material while backroom negotiations
continue on the CR.
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