THE DAILY WHIP: MONDAY, MARCH 23, 2015

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2015-03-23T00:00:00

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House Meets At:	First Vote Predicted:	Last Vote Predicted:
12:00 p.m.: Morning Hour 2:00 p.m.: Legislative Business Unlimited “One Minutes”	6:30 p.m.	7:00 p.m.

**Following one minute speeches, the House is expected to recess until approximately 4:00 p.m. At that time, the House will reconvene and consider the five bills listed for consideration under suspension of the Rules. Any recorded votes requested will be postponed until 6:30 p.m.

Suspensions (5 bills)

H.R. 360 – Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Reauthorization Act of 2015, as amended (Rep. Pearce – Financial Services)
H.R. 233 – Tenant Income Verification Relief Act of 2015 (Rep. Perlmutter – Financial Services)
H.R. 216 – Department of Veterans Affairs Budget Planning Reform Act of 2015, as amended (Rep. Brown (FL) – Veterans’ Affairs)
H.Res. 53 – Condemning the cowardly attack on innocent men, women, and children in the northeastern Nigerian town of Baga, as amended (Rep. Kelly (IL) – Foreign Affairs)
H.Res. __– Calling on the President to provide Ukraine with military assistance to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity (Rep. Engel – Foreign Affairs)

TOMORROW’S OUTLOOK
The GOP Leadership has announced the following schedule for Tuesday, March 24: The House will meet at 12:00 p.m. for legislative business. The House is expected to begin consideration of H.Con.Res. __ – Establishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2017 through 2025 (Rep. Price (GA) – Budget) (Subject to a Rule). The House is also expected to consider H.R. 1092– To designate the Federal building located at 2030 Southwest 145th Avenue in Miramar, Florida, as the “Benjamin P. Grogan and Jerry L. Dove Federal Bureau of Investigation Miami Field Office”, as amended (Rep. Wilson (FL) – Transportation and Infrastructure) – under suspension of the Rules.

The Daily Quote
“Republicans have staked their control of Congress on demonstrating an ability to govern, and they will face a major test in the next three weeks as they try to pass a joint budget resolution for the first time since 2005. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) will square off next week with conservatives in his caucus who are accusing him of breaking House rules to secure the votes of defense-minded Republicans… Failure would prove a major embarrassment politically… But passing the budget through the House…will be a heavy lift, as GOP conservatives are threatening to derail it because leaders plan to increase military spending above the caps set by the 2011 budget control act. Leaders want to strip language offsetting $20 billion worth of higher spending so that it can get pro-defense colleagues to vote for it but they will take the unusual tact of modifying the bill with the procedural rule governing its floor consideration. House GOP leadership is taking the alternative procedural route because they could not cobble together the votes to do so in the Budget Committee. ‘It’s a complete disaster. The process has completely broken down,’ said Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), an outspoken conservative. ‘I’m very disappointed that we’re making a major substantive change to the budget at the rules committee. It’s not regular order.’ The gambit is needed, however, to bring along 70 lawmakers who sent a letter to Boehner late last month vowing to oppose any budget resolution that failed to fund defense at or above the $561 billion requested by Obama.” - The Hill, 3/22/2015

The Daily Quote

“Republicans have staked their control of Congress on demonstrating an ability to govern, and they will face a major test in the next three weeks as they try to pass a joint budget resolution for the first time since 2005. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) will square off next week with conservatives in his caucus who are accusing him of breaking House rules to secure the votes of defense-minded Republicans… Failure would prove a major embarrassment politically… But passing the budget through the House…will be a heavy lift, as GOP conservatives are threatening to derail it because leaders plan to increase military spending above the caps set by the 2011 budget control act. Leaders want to strip language offsetting $20 billion worth of higher spending so that it can get pro-defense colleagues to vote for it but they will take the unusual tact of modifying the bill with the procedural rule governing its floor consideration. House GOP leadership is taking the alternative procedural route because they could not cobble together the votes to do so in the Budget Committee. ‘It’s a complete disaster. The process has completely broken down,’ said Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), an outspoken conservative. ‘I’m very disappointed that we’re making a major substantive change to the budget at the rules committee. It’s not regular order.’ The gambit is needed, however, to bring along 70 lawmakers who sent a letter to Boehner late last month vowing to oppose any budget resolution that failed to fund defense at or above the $561 billion requested by Obama.”

- The Hill, 3/22/2015