{"id":426447,"date":"2010-03-14T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/house-senate-cloakroom-march-15-21-2010-a-40854\/"},"modified":"2010-03-14T11:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T15:08:00","slug":"house-and-senate-cloakroom-march-15%c2%96-21-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/426447","title":{"rendered":"House and Senate Cloakroom: March 15\u0096 21, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On 03.14.10 06:25 AM posted by Dan Holler<\/p>\n<p><b>House Cloakroom: March 15 \u0096 21, 2010<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Analysis:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s crunch time on health care. The Budget Committee will meet Monday to start marking up a shell of a Reconciliation Bill. The Rules Committee will then meet as early as Wednesday to* hollow out whatever the Budget Committee passed and then insert a new bill from Speaker Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s (D-CA) office. The Majority is still planning to use the &#8220;Slaughter Rule&#8221; that would allow the House to pass the Senate health care bill without voting on it. Final votes are expected to stretch into the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><b>Senate Cloakroom:  March 15 \u0096 21, 2010<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Analysis:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A new  dynamic has been thrown into the health care mix: the impact of reconciliation on the remaining components of President  Obama\u0092s legislative agenda.* Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) <a href=\"https:\/\/email.heritage.org\/exchweb\/bin\/redir.asp?URL=http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0310\/34299.html\" >raised the stakes<\/a> last week when he suggests the controversial procedure could undermine  his efforts to strike a bipartisan deal on comprehensive immigration  reform.* Graham is also the only Senate Republican thought to be negotiating an  agreement on global warming legislation.* Will President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) move forward on health care reconciliation at  the expense of these other priorities?* Those conservations are no doubt taking place behind closed doors and could determine the outcome of  Obamacare itself.<\/p>\n<p><b>Major  Floor Action:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The  Senate will continue work on H.R. 1586, the FAA reauthorization bill.* Potential amendments include earmark reform,  discretionary spending limits and the continuation of the DC school choice program.<\/p>\n<p><b>Major  Committee Action:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/email.heritage.org\/exchweb\/bin\/redir.asp?URL=http:\/\/armed-services.senate.gov\/e_witnesslist.cfm?id=4425\" >Armed      Services Committee<\/a> will hold a hearing on the <a href=\"https:\/\/email.heritage.org\/exchweb\/bin\/redir.asp?URL=http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/NationalSecurity\/bg2375.cfm\" >FY2011      Defense Department budget<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The<a href=\"https:\/\/email.heritage.org\/exchweb\/bin\/redir.asp?URL=http:\/\/help.senate.gov\/hearings\/hearing\/?id=45361c35-5056-9502-5deb-a3d743977e08\" > Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee<\/a> will hold  hearing on <a href=\"https:\/\/email.heritage.org\/exchweb\/bin\/redir.asp?URL=http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/Education\/bg2378.cfm\" >reauthorization      of the education legislation<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>An <a href=\"https:\/\/email.heritage.org\/exchweb\/bin\/redir.asp?URL=http:\/\/energy.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Hearing%26Hearing_ID=1b096249-c35e-9699-4710-049b19d7007b\" >Energy      and Natural Resources subcommittee<\/a> will hold a hearing <a href=\"https:\/\/email.heritage.org\/exchweb\/bin\/redir.asp?URL=http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Press\/Commentary\/ed071709a.cfm\" >park, trails      and Heritage sites legislation<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/email.heritage.org\/exchweb\/bin\/redir.asp?URL=http:\/\/epw.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Home\" >Environment      and Public Works Committee<\/a> will hold a hearing on <a href=\"https:\/\/email.heritage.org\/exchweb\/bin\/redir.asp?URL=http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/SmartGrowth\/bg2348.cfm\" >urban and      rural mobility, and congestion<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/03\/14\/house-and-senate-cloakroom-march-15%e2%80%93-21-2010\/\" >http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/03\/14\/&#8230;80%93-21-2010\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 03.14.10 06:25 AM posted by Dan Holler House Cloakroom: March 15 \u0096 21, 2010 Analysis: It&#8217;s crunch time on health care. The Budget Committee will meet Monday to start marking up a shell of a Reconciliation Bill. The Rules Committee will then meet as early as Wednesday to* hollow out whatever the Budget Committee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}