THE DAILY WHIP: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 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”		1:30 – 2:30 p.m.4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
 

H.Res. 562 – Rule providing for consideration of S. 585– Dr. Chris Kirkpatrick Whistleblower Protection Act of 2017 (Sen. Johnson – Oversight and Government Reform) (One Hour of debate). The Rules Committee has recommended a closed Rule that provides for one hour of general debate equally divided between the Chair and Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The Rule allows one motion to recommit and waives all points of order against the legislation.

The Rule allows for Suspension Authority on October 12, 2017 and October 13, 2017.  Additionally, the Rules Committee rejected three germane amendments from Ranking Member Elijah Cummings that would have made significant improvements to S. 585.  Members are urged to VOTE NO.

Suspensions (11 bills)

  1. H.R. 2105 – NIST Small Business Cybersecurity Act of 2017, as amended (Rep. Webster – Science, Space, and Technology/Small Business)
  2. H.R. 2763 – The Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Improvements Act of 2017, as amended (Rep. Knight – Small Business)
  3. S. 190 – Power and Security Systems (PASS) Act (Sen. Gardner – Energy and Commerce)
  4. S. 920 – National Clinical Care Commission Act (Sen. Shaheen – Energy and Commerce)
  5. H.R. 2302 – To designate the facility of the United States Post Office located at 259 Nassau Street, Suite 2 in Princeton, New Jersey, as the “Dr. John F. Nash, Jr. Post Office” (Rep. Watson Coleman – Oversight and Government Reform)
  6. H.R. 378 – Bonuses for Cost-Cutters Act of 2017, as amended (Rep. Fleischmann – Oversight and Government Reform)
  7. H.R. 2196 – To amend title 5, United States Code, to allow whistleblowers to disclose information to certain recipients (Rep. Russell – Oversight and Government Reform)
  8. H.R. 2229 – All Circuit Review Act (Rep. Cummings – Oversight and Government Reform)
  9. H.R. 2989 – Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Commission Act, as amended (Rep. Norton – Oversight and Government Reform)
  10. H.R. 3031 – TSP Modernization Act of 2017, as amended (Rep. Cummings – Oversight and Government Reform)
  11. H.R. 3243 – FITARA Enhancement Act of 2017 (Rep. Connolly – Oversight and Government Reform)
Postponed Suspension (1 bill)
  1. H.R. 452 – To designate the facility of the United States Post Office located at 324 West Saint Louis Street in Pacific, Missouri, as the “Specialist Jeffrey L. White, Jr. Post Office” (Rep. Luetkemeyer – Oversight and Government Reform)

TOMORROW’S OUTLOOK

The GOP Leadership has announced the following schedule for Thursday, October 12: The House will meet at 12:00 p.m. for legislative business. The House is expected to consider legislation related to disaster supplemental appropriations.  Members are advised that additional legislative items are possible.
 

 
THE DAILY QUOTE
“The federal government’s top ethics officer sent a letter to all federal agencies late last week warning that he is ‘deeply concerned that the actions of some in government leadership have harmed perceptions about the importance of ethics.’ He urged all federal workers to redouble their commitment to acting honorably…. The two-page memo was dated Oct. 5, six days after Tom Price, the secretary of Health and Human Services, announced his resignation after questions surfaced about his use of private and government planes, and inspectors general in at least three other agencies — Interior, Treasury and the Environmental Protection Agency — announced they were conducting their own investigations into plane travel and related issues.”

     -    New York Times, 10/10/2017