THE DAILY WHIP: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Daily Leader

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2015-09-16T00:00:00

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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 3:00 p.m. At that time, the House will reconvene and consider the twelve bills listed for consideration under suspension of the Rules. Any recorded votes requested will be postponed until 6:30 p.m.

Suspensions (12 bills)

Concur in the Senate Amendment to H.R. 23– National Windstorm Impact Reduction Act Reauthorization (Rep. Neugebauer – Science, Space, and Technology)
Concur in the Senate Amendment to H.R. 720 – Gerardo Hernandez Airport Security Act of 2015 (Rep. Katko – Homeland Security)
H.R. 487– To allow the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma to lease or transfer certain lands (Rep. Mullin – Natural Resources)
H.R. 959– Medgar Evers House Study Act (Rep. Thompson (MS) – Natural Resources)
H.R. 1214– National Forest Small Tracts Act Amendments Act (Rep. Amodei – Natural Resources)
H.R. 1289– John Muir National Historic Site Expansion Act (Rep. DeSaulnier – Natural Resources)
H.R. 1554– Elkhorn Ranch and White River National Forest Conveyance Act of 2015 (Rep. Tipton – Natural Resources)
H.R. 1949– National Liberty Memorial Clarification Act of 2015 (Rep. Butterfield – Natural Resources)
H.R. 2223– Crags, Colorado Land Exchange Act of 2015 (Rep. Lamborn – Natural Resources)
H.R. 2791– Western Oregon Tribal Fairness Act (Rep. DeFazio – Natural Resources)
S. 501– New Mexico Navajo Water Settlement Technical Corrections Act (Sen. Udall – Natural Resources)
S. 230– A bill to provide for the conveyance of certain property to the Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation located in Bethel, Alaska (Sen. Murkowski – Natural Resources)

TOMORROW’S OUTLOOK
The GOP Leadership has announced the following schedule for Thursday, September 17: The House will meet at 12:00 p.m. for legislative business. The House is expected to consider H.R. 758 – Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act of 2015 (Rep. Smith (TX) – Judiciary) (Subject to a Rule).

The Daily Quote
“General Electric Co. will move about 500 U.S. jobs overseas to avoid losing business to foreign rivals, a decision the company said was prompted by the lapse of the U.S. Export -Import Bank’s charter earlier this summer. For months, GE has said that the failure to reauthorize the export financing agency, which congressional Republicans have singled out as an example of corporate welfare, would force the company to move jobs overseas… GE said Tuesday it had signed an agreement for a line of credit for certain power projects from France’s export credit agency, Compagnie Française d’Assurance pour le Commerce Extérieur, or Coface, which would result in 400 jobs moving to Europe, primarily from facilities in New York, Texas, South Carolina and Maine. It said another 100 jobs would be moved next year from a facility outside Houston to Hungary and China to access export credit for customers of gas turbines used in aviation… ‘In a competitive world, we are left with no choice but to invest in non-U.S. manufacturing and move production to countries that support high-tech exports,’ said John Rice, vice chairman at GE, in a statement on Tuesday… Mr. Rice said that the company had ‘done everything in our power to avoid making these moves at all, but Congress left us no choice when it failed to reauthorize the Ex-Im Bank this summer.’” - Wall Street Journal, 9/15/2015

The Daily Quote

“General Electric Co. will move about 500 U.S. jobs overseas to avoid losing business to foreign rivals, a decision the company said was prompted by the lapse of the U.S. Export -Import Bank’s charter earlier this summer. For months, GE has said that the failure to reauthorize the export financing agency, which congressional Republicans have singled out as an example of corporate welfare, would force the company to move jobs overseas… GE said Tuesday it had signed an agreement for a line of credit for certain power projects from France’s export credit agency, Compagnie Française d’Assurance pour le Commerce Extérieur, or Coface, which would result in 400 jobs moving to Europe, primarily from facilities in New York, Texas, South Carolina and Maine. It said another 100 jobs would be moved next year from a facility outside Houston to Hungary and China to access export credit for customers of gas turbines used in aviation… ‘In a competitive world, we are left with no choice but to invest in non-U.S. manufacturing and move production to countries that support high-tech exports,’ said John Rice, vice chairman at GE, in a statement on Tuesday… Mr. Rice said that the company had ‘done everything in our power to avoid making these moves at all, but Congress left us no choice when it failed to reauthorize the Ex-Im Bank this summer.’”

- Wall Street Journal, 9/15/2015