Floor Action: The House and Senate are in session.
Appropriations- This week, the House may consider a laddered continuing resolution (CR) (as-yet-unnumbered) to extend several FY2023 spending bills to January 2024, and several to February 2024. The CR extension to January includes four spending bills: Agriculture-FDA; Energy and Water; Military Construction-VA; and Transportation-HUD. The CR extension to February includes eight spending bills: Commerce-Justice-Science; Defense; Financial Services; Homeland Security; Interior-Environment; Labor-HHS-Education; Legislative Branch; and State, Foreign Operations.
Also this week, the House may consider several spending bills, including H.R. 5893, the FY2024 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies spending bill; H.R. 5894, the FY2024 Labor, Health, Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies spending bill; and H.R. 4820, the FY2024 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies spending bill.
Crime- Today, the House is scheduled to consider H.R. 1105, the Debbie Smith Act of 2023, to extend funding to FY2029. The Justice Department grant program, currently set to expire at the end of FY2024, supports state and local law enforcement agencies’ analysis of DNA evidence collected from crimes, including untested rape kits.
Child Protection
H.R. 6246—Rep. Lucy McBath (D-GA)/Judiciary (11/06/2023)—A bill to require a provider of a report to the CyberTipline related to online sexual exploitation of children to preserve the contents of such report for one year, and for other purposes.
Judiciary
S. 3247—Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA)/Judiciary (11/08/2023)—A bill to safeguard the humane treatment of pregnant women by ensuring the presumption of release and prohibiting shackling, restraining, and other inhumane treatment of pregnant detained noncitizens, and for other purposes.
H.R. 6298—Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX)/Judiciary (11/08/2023)—A bill to safeguard the humane treatment of pregnant women by ensuring the presumption of release and prohibiting shackling, restraining, and other inhumane treatment of pregnant detained noncitizens, and for other purposes.
S. 3272—Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR)/Judiciary (11/09/2023)—A bill to divert certain parents of minor children, expectant parents, and other caregivers from incarceration and into comprehensive programs providing resources, services, and training to those individuals and their families.
H.R. 6341—Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA)/Judiciary (11/09/2023)—A bill to divert certain parents of minor children, expectant parents, and other caregivers from incarceration and into comprehensive programs providing resources, services, and training to those individuals and their families.
Military
H.R. 6357—Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ)/Armed Services (11/09/2023)—A bill to establish leave policies of the Armed Forces for a member to seek an abortion.
Veterans
H. Res. 851—Rep. Julia Brownley (D-CA)/Veterans’ Affairs (11/08/2023)—A resolution expressing the support of the House of Representatives for the naming of new or undedicated facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs after women veterans and minority veterans to reflect the diversity of all who have served in the Armed Forces of the United States.
H.R. 6631—Rep. Donald Davis (D-NC)/Veterans’ Affairs (11/09/2023)—A bill to require the Secretary of Veteran Affairs to establish a pilot program to furnish doula services to veterans.
H.R. 6338—Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX)/Veterans’ Affairs (11/09/2023)—A bill to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a pilot program for gynecologic cancer care coordination at the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
Violence Against Women
S. 3288—Sen. Angus King (I-ME)/Veterans’ Affairs (11/09/2023)—A bill to reinstate entitlement to Post-9/11 Educational Assistance for victims of sexual assault or domestic violence, and for other purposes.
Women’s History
H.R. 6239—Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC)/Oversight and Accountability (11/06/2023)—A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 250 Edward Street in Branchville, South Carolina, as the “Betty W. Henderson Post Office Building”.
