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Congressional Climate Bill Tracking

H.R. 255 – Next Generation American Manufacturing Act of 2015

S. 177 – Data Security and Breach Notification Act of 2015

H.R. 522 – Commission on the Accountability and Review of Federal Agencies

H.R. 612To 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. 616 – To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for reforms to the EB-5 immigrant investor program, and for other purposes.

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

NLRB Dismisses Historic College Athletes Ruling
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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

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Committee Hearings

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The Art of the Congressional Investigation

Last week, a bipartisan group of Hill staffers sat in the Capitol’s Dirksen building,
poring over a few articles about how hackers claimed they breached the network at
the Department of Homeland Security. If true, such a hack would be devastating.
And in the “articles,” DHS officials summarily denied the allegations.

The Hill staffers were ready to investigate. Or rather, they were eager to learn
how to investigate.

There’s a twist in this storyline: The staff was well aware the news reports were
fake, and that’s because they’d signed up to spend two full days of August recess
learning how to conduct an investigation from professionals who have experience
doing just that on Capitol Hill.
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Obamacare Waiver Gives States Opening For Huge Reforms. But Will They Take It?

Starting in 2017, the Affordable Care Act will allow states to use waivers to pursue
virtually any type of proposals for health care reform that they can imagine. It’s
a huge opportunity for states interested in expanding or changing how health care
is delivered.

But will anyone actually take advantage of it?

California has discussed providing health coverage to its undocumented immigrants.
Hawaii might want to reinstitute the more stringent employer mandate that the state
had before Obamacare. Arkansas may use the waivers to continue and reshape its trendsetting
“private option” for Medicaid expansion.
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Jeff Flake’s ‘no’ dims Barack Obama’s hope of bipartisan support on Iran

It doesn’t look like President Barack Obama will get to claim “bipartisan support”
for the Iran nuclear deal, either.

On Saturday, Sen. Jeff Flake, possibly the only Republican in Congress open to supporting
the agreement, said he won’t.

The Arizonan, who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued a lengthy
statement explaining that he could not back the internationally negotiated deal
because he believed it constrains the United States’ ability to punish Iran in the
future for its non-nuclear aggression in the Middle East.
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