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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

What You Missed: Pope Francis’ Address to Congress
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Today’s Hill Action

Senate Floor Schedule

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Committee Hearings
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House Floor Schedule

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Committee Hearings

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Boehner, GOP settle on strategy to prevent Oct. 1 shutdown

Top House Republicans hope to convince their members to keep the government open
by using a fast-track process known as reconciliation to try to defund Planned
Parenthood.

House Republican leaders are planning to target Planned Parenthood’s funding by
immediately drafting a fast-track reconciliation bill, according to a senior House
GOP aide.

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and his lieutenants will lay out their strategy at
a closed-door conference meeting on Friday.
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Path Toward ‘Clean’ Spending Stopgap Bill Emerges

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday began laying the groundwork for
the chamber to advance a “clean” continuing resolution in the coming days after
Democrats and some Republicans banded together to block consideration of a stopgap
with Planned Parenthood defunding language.

Meanwhile, House members sped up their discussions behind closed doors, and one
senior GOP member said the House might first pass a stopgap bill that defunds Planned
Parenthood, then vote on the “clean” Senate-passed CR. All of the activity came
just days ahead of the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30.
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Watching Pope Francis With Wonder on the West Lawn

As Pope Fran­cis ad­dressed Con­gress on Thursday morn­ing-though really, some of
his ad­mirers would later say, he was speak­ing to the en­tire world-a little girl
floated through the crowd as­sembled on the West Lawn of the Cap­it­ol.

Perched on the shoulders of a man walk­ing through the pack, she drew whispered
words of re­cog­ni­tion from some in the horde, and smiled gently in­to the cam­era
lenses of those who tried to take her pic­ture.
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