H Res 885 Update

Yesterday’s Congressional Record Daily Digest (published this morning) does not indicate that H Res 885 (and thus HR 2868) will be discussed/voted upon today. That, of course, does not mean that it won’t, just that it isn’t in the announced plans for the House today. William Almond in a Tweet yesterday evening said that he had heard that it would likely be considered tomorrow. If I hear anything new it will be seen here or by Tweet at PJCoyle. Amendment Updates The Hastings Amendment was watered down some by the time it came out of the Rules Committee hearing. Instead of requiring the appointment of a ‘Deputy Director’ for liaison with other Federal Agencies, the revised version requires the Secretary to designate a “point of contact for the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency” and other agencies as appropriate. It then requires the notification of emergency response commissions, etc so that emergency response plans and training can be updated. The Flake Amendment was modified for approval by the Rules Committee. It would only apply to grants under §2103(g)(4), the Worker Training Grant Program. This should make it even easier to get this ‘bipartisan’ amendment approved. The Schrader/Kissell Amendment expands the coverage of §2111(c) to the ‘Agricultural Sector’ instead of just ‘Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers’. It specifically adds ‘Agricultural End Users’ to the coverage of this paragraph. It also adds agricultural committees in the House and Senate as recipients of the required reports.

H Res 885 for HR 2868

The House Rules Committee has published a copy of House Resolution 885 for the consideration of HR 2868 under suspension of the rules anytime through Saturday, November 7th. It provides for a debate in the Committee of the Whole House for 90 minutes on the version of the amendment in nature of a substitute found in Part A of the Rules Committee Report (111-387) which will be considered as an original bill. Amendments Only the ten amendments listed in Part B of the Rules Committee Report may be offered during the debate. There will be 10 minutes of debate allowed on each of the 10 proposed amendments. Those amendments were discussed briefly in my earlier blog today. That discussion was based on the summary of the amendments; the links provided below go to the actual amendments. The ones that will be offered in the debate will be (in the following order): 1. Thompson, Bennie (MS), #12 2. Barton (TX), #14 3. Hastings, Alcee (FL), #10 4. Dent (PA), Olson (TX), #4 5. Dent (PA), #5 6. Flake, Jeff (AZ), #3 7. Schrader (OR), Kissell, Larry (NC), #11 8. McCaul (TX), #1 9. Halvorson (IL), #2 10. Foster (IL), Luján (NM), #8 There will be 10 minutes of debate allowed on each of the 10 proposed amendments. More Information I will be reviewing the details of the amendments that I previously suggested had a chance of passing on the floor. If there is anything new that changes my earlier impression I will report that on the next blog on this bill. I expect that that will be early tomorrow morning when I get a chance to see today’s Congressional Record. That will probably let me know if we will see this bill on the floor tomorrow.