THE DAILY WHIP: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2017

Daily Leader

For Immediate Release:

2017-03-15T00:00:00

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House Meets At:	First Vote Predicted:	Last Vote Predicted:
4:30 p.m.: Legislative Business Five “One Minutes”	6:30 p.m.	7:00 p.m.

House Meets At:

First Vote Predicted:

Last Vote Predicted:

4:30 p.m.: Legislative Business

Five “One Minutes”

6:30 p.m.

7:00 p.m.

**Following one minute speeches, the House is expected to consider the bills listed for consideration under suspension of the Rules. Any recorded votes requested will be postponed until 6:30 p.m.

Suspensions (3 bills)

H.R. 132– Arbuckle Project Maintenance Complex and District Office Conveyance Act of 2017 (Rep. Cole – Natural Resources)
H.R. 648 – To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to amend the Definite Plan Report for the Seedskadee Project to enable the use of the active capacity of the Fontenelle Reservoir (Rep. Cheney – Natural Resources)
H.R. 267– Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park Act of 2017, as amended (Rep. Lewis – Natural Resources)

TOMORROW’S OUTLOOK
The GOP Leadership has announced the following schedule for Thursday, March 16: The House will meet at 12:00 p.m. for legislative business. The House is expected to consider H.R. 1181– Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act (Rep. Roe – Veterans’ Affairs) (Subject to a Rule) and H.R. 1259– VA Accountability First Act of 2017(Rep. Roe – Veterans’ Affairs) (Subject to a Rule). The House is also expected to begin consideration of H.R. 1367 – To improve the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to hire and retain physicians and other employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes (Rep. Wenstrup – Veterans’ Affairs) (Subject to a Rule).

The Daily Quote
“House Republican leaders plunged into damage control mode Monday after a brutal budgetary assessment of their Obamacare replacement threatened to upend Senate GOP support and armed their critics on the left… [T]he bottom line — that the number of uninsured Americans would climb by 24 million within a decade — threatened to upend the GOP leadership’s fragile efforts to unite congressional Republicans around the plan. ’Can’t sugarcoat it. Doesn’t look good,’ said Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.). ‘The CBO score was, shall we say, an eye-popper….’” - Politico, 3/13/2017

The Daily Quote

“House Republican leaders plunged into damage control mode Monday after a brutal budgetary assessment of their Obamacare replacement threatened to upend Senate GOP support and armed their critics on the left… [T]he bottom line — that the number of uninsured Americans would climb by 24 million within a decade — threatened to upend the GOP leadership’s fragile efforts to unite congressional Republicans around the plan. ’Can’t sugarcoat it. Doesn’t look good,’ said Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.). ‘The CBO score was, shall we say, an eye-popper….’”

- Politico, 3/13/2017