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Congressional Climate Bill Tracking

S. 1177 – Every Child Achieves Act of 2015
H.R. 2646 – Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2015
S. 1146 – Healthy School Meals Flexibility Act
H.R. 612 – To preserve and protect the free choice of individual employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, or to refrain from such activities.
H.R. 467 – STEM Opportunities Act of 2015
H.R. 2775 – Remote Transaction Parity Act of 2015
S. 191 – Educating Tomorrow’s Workforce Act of 2015
S. 108 – Financial Aid Simplification and Transparency Act of 2015
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Video of the Day

Mass Shooting at an Oregon Community College Results in 10 Dead, 20 Injured
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Today’s Hill Action

Senate Floor Schedule

The Senate is not in session today.

Committee Hearings
There are no committee hearings scheduled today.

House Floor Schedule

The House is not in session today.

Committee Hearings

There are no committee hearings scheduled today.
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The Story Behind a Breakthrough: How a Team of Senators Convinced Chuck Grassley
on Justice Reform

The Sen­ate has un­veiled a bi­par­tis­an plan, years in the mak­ing, to re­form
the coun­try’s crim­in­al-justice re­form sys­tem.

The bi­par­tis­an bill an­nounced Thursday would give judges and courts more dis­cre­tion
in dol­ing out sen­tences for some drug of­fend­ers and of­fers low-risk in­mates
already in the sys­tem ac­cess to pro­grams that aim to pre­pare them for a life
bey­ond their cells.
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Tillis: Tobacco Carve-Out Could Kill TPP in the Senate

North Carolina’s Senate delegation has renewed warnings over a proposal to leave
the U.S. tobacco industry unprotected in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and one
member is warning he could muster the votes to derail the proposed agreement.

It would take only a simple majority to pass legislation approving of any final
TPP deal through the Senate, thanks to the revival of Trade Promotion Authority
earlier this year, a measure that was the result of common ground between President
Barack Obama and Republicans on Capitol Hill.
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McCarthy’s GOP critics see opening after Benghazi blunder

Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s remarks that House Republicans created a taxpayer-funded
Benghazi committee to help tank Hillary Clinton’s poll numbers have handed ammunition
to GOP critics trying to draft a conservative to challenge him for Speaker.

The California Republican is still the odds-on favorite to replace Speaker John
Boehner (R-Ohio), who will resign from Congress Oct. 30. McCarthy is believed to
have locked up the 124 GOP votes needed to be nominated for the top job during
a closed-door GOP conference election set for next Thursday.
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Until tomorrow,
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