Unlike in the House, the Senate does not publish a handy list of all the legislation they expect to consider on the floor. At most, they tell you . It's not uncommon for the Senate to pass legislation before it's publicly available. In fact, sometimes the only way to know what they've done is to read about it the next day in the . So keep on your toes ..read more

Committees of the House of Representatives is where much of the real action will take place, with set for the lower chamber this week. Once again, the Appropriations Committee leads the pack with 16 hearings scheduled --- the House is trying to move forward rapidly on making its spending decisions. Many appropriations hearings will feature big shots from the administration. This is where a lot of lawmaking actually happens ..read more

Eight bills are lined up for floor consideration "pursuant to a rule," which means the House Rules Committee will have to favorably report a resolution that governs how the underlying measures are considered on the floor. That happened on Monday, and you can read the bills and any amendments the rules committee considered before favorably reporting them to the floor. It's interesting that the House Rules Committee is back in business after the defection of several Republicans had Democrats step in to set up legislation for consideration on the floor ..read more

The House of Representative is scheduled to be in session over , through May 24th, which surely will make the members cranky. There's talk they don't have that much in the way of legislation to work on, so they may start cutting days ..read more

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