Bills Introduced – 9-23-24

Yesterday, with both the House and Senate in session, there were 47 bills introduced. Two of those bills will receive additional coverage in this blog:

HR 9747 Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 Cole, Tom [Rep.-R-OK-4]

HR 9762 To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide explicit authority for the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to work with international partners on cybersecurity, and for other purposes. Menendez, Robert [Rep.-D-NJ-8]

HR 9747 was supposed to be included in yesterday’s House Rules Committee hearing to set up the rule for consideration of bills under regular order this week. The rule adopted last night, H Res 1486, did not include the CR. Apparently there were not enough votes in the Rules Committee to include the spending bill (as I discussed yesterday). Politico.com is reporting that the bill will be considered under the suspension of the rules process. HR 9747 is not listed on today’s schedule for the House, so it will likely come to the floor on Wednesday. Congress has until midnight Monday to get a spending bill to the President’s desk to avoid a potential shutdown of the federal government.

NOTE: Two bills of interest here that were considered under the suspension of the rules process yesterday (HR 3208 and HR 7073) were debated, but recorded votes were demanded. Further action was postponed, votes will probably take place today. I discussed this briefly yesterday in my CFSN Detailed Analysis committee hearing post (subscription required).