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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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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

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Budget talks: The Harry and Mitch show

Delicate negotiations to avoid a budget disaster this fall stumbled out of the gate
as two long-time adversaries – Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid – are once again butting
heads.

Reid and House Minority Nancy Pelosi thought they had an agreement with Republicans
that a private conversation between GOP leaders and President Barack Obama about
the budget would not be publicly disclosed – an effort to protect the early talks
from political attacks.
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The Week That Will Define the Direction of the House GOP

The House GOP will elect a new lead­er­ship Thursday after un­der­go­ing a fierce
de­bate over the fu­ture of their con­fer­ence, ex­pos­ing both deep frus­tra­tion
at the status quo and the seams between war­ring fac­tions such as fisc­al con­ser­vat­ives
and mil­it­ary hawks.

The race to suc­ceed House Ma­jor­ity Lead­er Kev­in Mc­Carthy-ex­pect­ing that
the late speak­er­ship cam­paign of House Over­sight and Gov­ern­ment Re­form Com­mit­tee
Chair­man Jason Chaf­fetz isn’t suc­cess­ful-pits two mem­bers who were both chief
of the largest caucus on Cap­it­ol Hill, the Re­pub­lic­an Study Com­mit­tee. That
group is ex­pec­ted to host their former lead­ers, Ma­jor­ity Whip Steve Scal­ise
and Budget Chair­man Tom Price, the day be­fore elec­tions.
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Obama, Republicans on collision course over defense bill

Republicans are heading for a veto showdown with President Obama over an annual
defense bill.

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has teed up the Senate to turn to the $612-billion
National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) next week, despite a looming veto threat
from the White House.

It’s a familiar scenario for lawmakers. Obama has threatened to veto every defense
bill for the past six years, but has never done so. Despite their track record,
the administration is stressing that with the bill combining a host of policy fights,
from lifting budget caps to closing Guantanamo, the president will hold firm this
year.
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Until tomorrow,
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