THE DAILY WHIP: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2017

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HOUSE MEETS AT:	FIRST VOTE PREDICTED:	LAST VOTE PREDICTED:
10:00 a.m.: Morning Hour 12:00 p.m.: Legislative Business Fifteen “One Minutes”	1:15 – 1:45 p.m.	1:45 – 2:15 p.m.


Suspensions (7 bills) H.R. 3731 – Secret Service Recruitment and Retention Act of 2017, as amended (Rep. Katko – Judiciary) H.R. 3317 – SAFE Act (Rep. Trott – Judiciary) S. 1266 – Enhancing Veteran Care Act (Sen. Inhofe – Veterans’ Affairs) H.R. 2658 – Venezuela Humanitarian Assistance and Defense of Democratic Governance Act of 2017, as amended (Rep. Engel – Foreign Affairs) H.Con.Res. 90 – Condemning ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya and calling for an end to the attacks in and an immediate restoration of humanitarian access to the state of Rakhine in Burma (Rep. Crowley – Foreign Affairs) H.R. 1164 – Taylor Force Act (Rep. Lamborn – Foreign Affairs) H.Res. 259 – Expressing concern and condemnation over the political, economic, social, and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela (Rep. DeSantis – Foreign Affairs) TOMORROW’S OUTLOOK The GOP Leadership has announced the following schedule for Wednesday, December 6: The House will meet at 12:00 p.m. for legislative business. The House is expected to consider H.J.Res. 123 – Continuing Appropriations Act, 2018 (Rep. Frelinghuysen – Appropriations) (Subject to a Rule). The House is also expected to consider H.R. 38 – Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017 (Rep. Hudson – Judiciary) (Subject to a Rule).

THE DAILY QUOTE
“Senators are in the dark on how Congress will eventually move to fund the federal government in fiscal year 2018 just days before the current funding expires. Republican leaders are pushing a two-week continuing resolution this week to keep the government open, but GOP senators say they are clueless as to what the long-term strategy is after that. ‘I have no idea what the plan is,’ Sen. Ron Johnson [R] of Wisconsin said on Monday evening. ‘We really don’t play a part in this, other than we vote for whatever they put in front of us.’ ‘I don’t think anyone knows right now except a handful of people that are crafting it,’ Florida Sen. Marco Rubio [R] said…” - Roll Call, 12/4/2017

THE DAILY QUOTE

“Senators are in the dark on how Congress will eventually move to fund the federal government in fiscal year 2018 just days before the current funding expires. Republican leaders are pushing a two-week continuing resolution this week to keep the government open, but GOP senators say they are clueless as to what the long-term strategy is after that. ‘I have no idea what the plan is,’ Sen. Ron Johnson [R] of Wisconsin said on Monday evening. ‘We really don’t play a part in this, other than we vote for whatever they put in front of us.’ ‘I don’t think anyone knows right now except a handful of people that are crafting it,’ Florida Sen. Marco Rubio [R] said…”

- Roll Call, 12/4/2017