5/24 Weekly Legislative Update

NATIONAL

How did your MOCs vote last week?

Congress gets back to working hard. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wastes no time getting Trump’s court-packing agenda back on a roll:

Tons more judicial nominations:
You can find the list of votes here.
Candidate profiles:

Legislation:

S.Res. 584: Appointing Mr. Rubio (Chair), Mr. Burr, Mr. Risch, Ms. Collins, Mr. Blunt, Mr. Cotton, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Sasse to the Select Committee on Intelligence
Passed with unanimous consent (no individual votes recorded)

S. 3782: Small Business Lending Continuity Act of 2020
Passed with unanimous consent (no individual votes recorded)

S. 2927: NIMHD Research Endowment Revitalization Act of 2019
Passed Senate by voice vote (no individual votes recorded)

S. 1380: Due Process Protections Act
Passed the Senate with unanimous consent

S. 1130: Scarlett’s Sunshine on Sudden Unexpected Death Act
Passed Senate by voice vote (no individual votes recorded)

S. 945: Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act
Passed Senate by Unanimous Consent

John L. Ratcliffe, of Texas confirmed as Director of National Intelligence
See your Senator’s Vote

UPCOMING ISSUES

Bills On the House Schedule This Coming Week:

S. 3084: A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to modify the limitation on pay for certain high-level employees and officers of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Contact your Representative

S. 2746: Law Enforcement Suicide Data Collection Act
Contact your Representative

H.R. 6782: To require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to submit a report on recipients of assistance under the paycheck protection program and the economic injury disaster loan …
Contact your Representative

S. 3414: Major Medical Facility Authorization Act of 2020
Contact your Representative

S. 3744: Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020
Contact your Representative

H.R. 6168: Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2020
Contact your Representative

Bills ordered reported out of committee:

Only about a quarter of bills make it out of committee to the full House or Senate! While these pieces of legislation aren’t on the calendar of either body YET, if you see something important to you now is the time to start bugging your MOCs! Who in turn can bug the Senate or House leaders to get your bill to the big floor.

S. 238: Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Act of 2019
Ordered Reported from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

S. 712: Robert Levinson Hostage Recovery and Hostage-Taking Accountability Act
Ordered Reported from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

S.Res. 454: A resolution calling for the immediate release of Cuban democracy activist Jose Daniel Ferrer and commending the efforts of Jose Daniel Ferrer to promote human rights and fundamental freedoms in Cuba.
Ordered Reported from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

S. 3176: United States-Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act of 2020
Ordered Reported from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

S. 2894: Federal Maritime Commission National Shipper Advisory Committee Act of 2019
Ordered Reported from the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee

S. 2904: IOGAN Act
Ordered Reported from the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee

S. 3681: A bill to require a joint task force on the operation of air travel during and after COVID-19 pandemic, and for other purposes.
Ordered Reported from the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee

S. 3704: A bill to amend the Scientific and Advanced-Technology Act of 1992 to further support advanced technological manufacturing, and for other purposes.
Ordered Reported from the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee

S. 3734: A bill to provide for a coordinated Federal research initiative to ensure continued United States leadership in engineering biology.
Ordered Reported from the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee

S. 3712: A bill to require the Secretary of Commerce to establish national cybersecurity grand challenges, and for other purposes.
Ordered Reported from the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee

S. 3729: A bill to provide relief for the recipients of financial assistance awards from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and for other purposes.
Ordered Reported from the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee

S. 3717: A bill to require the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to submit to Congress a plan for the modernization of the information technology systems of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration,
Ordered Reported from the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee