I can haz paycheck fairness now? No? Oh wells. Recapping yesterday's action: Another late night of voting in the House, with the Energy and Water Development appropriations bill keeping them busy with 40+ amendments considered, not to mention their slate of ten suspension bills and a couple of last-minute unanimous consent items. Highlights of the day: two Republican lightbulb derangement syndrome amendments, and the passage of the International Child Support Recovery Improvement Act by voice vote, sparing non-deabeat dad Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL-08) the potential embarrassment of going on the record on that one.
The Senate met to determine that they would not go forward with a debate on the Paycheck Fairness Act today, because only a majority of them wanted to have it. So there will be no paycheck fairness for one half of the population, because more than half but less than three-fifths of the Senate wanted it.
Looking ahead to today:
The House will continue with and wrap up its consideration of the Energy and Water Development bill, and from there it's on to still more motions to instruct the conferees on the surface transportation bill, then the next veto-targeted appropriation bill, Homeland Security.
The Senate moves on from the Paycheck Fairness filibuster into a potential farm bill filibuster. They're holding out some hope of a deal on the motion to proceed, but for right now, the plan is to spend the day debating that motion to proceed while waiting or the cloture motion on it to ripen. But that doesn't happen until Thursday. So absent a deal, today will be spent on yet another motion to proceed, which that gentlemen's agreement on filibuster reform was supposed to have resolved a year and a half ago. But you already knew that was a failure.
Today's floor and committee schedules appear below the fold.
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