Senate Floor Schedule For Wednesday, June 15, 2011
- Convenes: 10:00am
- Following any Leader remarks, the Senate will proceed to a period of morning business until 6:30pm with Senators permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes each with the Republicans controlling the first 30 minutes and the Majority controlling the next 30 minutes.
- We continue to work through amendments to S.782, the Economic Development Act. Senators will be notified when votes are scheduled.
- There are currently 18 amendments pending to S.782, the Economic Development Act:
- DeMint amendment #394 (to repeal Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act)
- Paul amendment #414 (to increase debt limit by $2.406 trillion)
- Cardin amendment #407 (prohibition on interest charges for on-time principal payments)
- Merkley amendment #428 (mortgage servicing)
- Kohl amendment #389 (NOPEC)
- Hutchison amendment #423 (delay implementation of health care reform until pending lawsuits are resolved)
- Portman amendment ##417 (inclusion of application to independent regulatory agencies)
- Portman amendment #418 (Unfunded Mandates Reform Act)
- McCain amendment #411 (prohibit Federal funds to construct ethanol blender pumps/storage facilities)
- McCain amendment #412(repeal of Davis-Bacon wage requirements)
- Merkley amendment #440 (Energy Efficient Loan Program)
- Brown (MA) amendment #405 (repeal imposition of withholding on certain payments made to vendors by government entities)
- Inhofe amendment #430 (reduce the amounts appropriated for EDA)
- Inhofe amendment #438 (regulatory assessment)
- Merkley amendment #427 (technical correction to the HUBZone designation process)
- McCain 2nd degree amendment #441 (to prohibit federal funds to construct ethanol blender pumps or ethanol storage facilities) to Coburn amendment #436, as modified (to repeal the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit)
- Feinstein amendment #476 (to repeal the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit)