Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund Weekly Report from Washington for 10/29/18
CALENDAR:
The House and Senate are both in recess, and will not return until November 13.
TPPCF ELECTION UPDATE:
THE NBC NEWS/WALL STREET JOURNAL POLL AND THE GENERIC BALLOT:
For the last 23 years, NBC News and The Wall Street Journal have been running an excellent bipartisan poll, using the Democrat pollster Peter Yang and the Republican pollster Bill McInturff. That means that we have an archive of 23 years’ worth of polling information that’s in the same format, and that’s very helpful when we’re trying to figure out historical trends.
One of the ...
Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund Weekly Report from Washington for 8/20/18
CALENDAR:
The House is in recess. The Senate will return on Monday, with the first vote set for 5:30 PM. The House will return on Tuesday, September 4.
LAST WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR:
The House was out of session last week.
THIS WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR:
The House is in recess this week.
LAST WEEK ON THE SENATE FLOOR:
The Senate came back to work on Wednesday, and moved to invoke cloture on the nomination of A. Marvin Quattlebaum, Jr. to be a U.S. Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. The vote to invoke cloture was 61-28.
On Thursday, ...
Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund Weekly Report from Washington for 7/23/18
CALENDAR:
The House and Senate will both return on Monday, and will stay in session through Thursday. Then the House will begin its August Recess, and won’t return until Tuesday, September 4.
LAST WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR:
The House returned to work last week on Monday, and passed two bills under Suspension of the Rules.
On Tuesday, the House passed three more bills under Suspension.
On Wednesday, the House passed a Motion To Instruct Conferees on H.R. 2, the Farm Bill. Later Wednesday, the House passed H.Res. 990, supporting the officers and personnel who ...
Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund Weekly Report from Washington for 6/25/18
CALENDAR:
The House and Senate both return on Monday, and both will be done with their work on Thursday. Then they’ll both take next week off for the Fourth of July recess. The Senate will return on Monday, July 9, and the House will return on Tuesday, July 10.
LAST TWO WEEKS ON THE HOUSE FLOOR:
The House returned to work on Tuesday, June 12, and took up and passed two bills under Suspension of the Rules.
On Wednesday, June 13, the House passed another two bills under Suspension.
On Thursday, June 14, the House took up and passed H.R. 5788, the Securing ...
Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund Weekly Report from Washington for 6/11/18
CALENDAR:
The calendar is the same as last week – the Senate returns on Monday, and the House returns on Tuesday. The Senate will likely finish its work on Thursday, because that’s still a full workweek in the Senate, and the House is scheduled to stay in session through Friday.
LAST WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR:
The House returned to work on Tuesday, and took up and passed three bills under Suspension of the Rules.
On Wednesday, the House took up and passed H.R. 8, the Water Resources Development Act. Then the House took up and passed a motion to concur in the ...
Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund Weekly Report from Washington for 5/21/18
CALENDAR:
The House and Senate both return to work on Monday, and will likely both finish their work on Thursday. Because, you know, still McConnell and Ryan.
LAST TWO WEEKS ON THE HOUSE FLOOR:
The House came back to work on Monday, May 7, and since then has passed a number of bills of varying import. So we’ll just talk about the significant legislation considered.
On Tuesday, May 8, the House passed S.J.Res. 57, a Congressional Review Act Resolution of Disapproval expressing the House’s disapproval of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Consumer Financial ...
Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund Weekly Report from Washington for 5/7/18
CALENDAR:
The House and Senate both return to work on Monday, and will likely both finish their work on Thursday. Because, you know, McConnell and Ryan.
LAST WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR:
The House was in recess last week.
THIS WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR:
The House will return Monday, with first votes set for 6:30 PM. At that time, the House will attempt to take up seven bills under Suspension of the Rules.
On Tuesday, the House will attempt to take up another nine bills under Suspension of the Rules. Then they’ll take up a Congressional Review Act Resolution ...
Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund Weekly Report from Washington for 4/30/18
CALENDAR:
The House and Senate are both in recess this week. Both House and Senate will return to work on Monday, May 7.
LAST WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR:
The House came back to work on Tuesday and passed two bills under Suspension of the Rules.
On Wednesday, the House took up and passed both H.R. 3144, to provide for operations of the Federal Columbia River Power Plant System, and H.R. 5447, the Music Modernization Act.
On Thursday and Friday, the House considered H.R. 4, the FAA Reauthorization Act. On Friday, the House passed the bill by a vote of 393-13.
...
Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund Weekly Report from Washington for 4/23/18
CALENDAR:
The House will return Tuesday, and stay in session through Friday. The Senate will return Monday, and stay in session through Thursday.
LAST WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR:
The House came back to work last Monday, and voted to pass two bills under Suspension of the Rules.
On Tuesday, the House passed H.R. 5192, the Protecting Children from Identity Theft Act, by a vote of 420-1.
On Wednesday, the House passed a Rule for considering H.R. 5444, the Taxpayer First Act, and H.R. 5445, the 21st Century IRS Act. Then the House passed both bills – H.R. 5445, ...
Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund Weekly Report from Washington for 4/9/18
CALENDAR:
The Senate will return Monday and stay in session through Thursday. The House will return Tuesday and stay in session through Friday.
LAST WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR:
The House was in recess last week.
THIS WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR:
The House will return Tuesday, with first votes set to begin at 6:30 PM. At that time, the House will attempt to consider five bills under Suspension of the Rules.
On Wednesday, the House will consider two bills – H.R. 4293, the Stress Test Improvement Act of 2017, and H.R. 4061, the Financial Stability Oversight ...