Washington Update
Our weekly update on Congress
This Week's Update
This week The House passed the “OIRA Insight, Reform, and Accountability Act” (H.R. 1009); the “SCRUB Act” (H.R. 998); the “Regulatory Integrity Act of 2017” (H.R. 1004); and H.J.Res. 83, to disapprove of the Department of Labor rule relating to “Clarification of Employer’s Continuing Obligation to Make and Maintain an Accurate Record of Each Recordable Injury and Illness.”
This Week's Update
This week The House approved the “Red River Gradient Boundary Survey Act” (H.R. 428); H.J.Res. 66, to disapprove of the Department of Labor relating to savings arrangements established by States for non-governmental employees; H.J. Res. 42, to disapprove of the rule relating to drug testing of unemployment compensation applicants; H.J.Res. 67, to disapprove of the Department of Labor rule relating to savings arrangements established by qualified State political subdivisions for non-governmental employees; H.J.Res. 69, to disapprove of the final rule of the Department of the Interior relating to “Non-Subsistence Take of Wildlife, and Public Participation and Closure Procedures, on National Wildlife Refuges in Alaska”; and H.J.Res. 43, to disapprove of the final rule submitted by Secretary of Health and Human Services relating to compliance with title X requirements by project recipients in selecting sub-recipients.
This Week's Update
This week The House passed the following resolutions of disapproval: H.J. Res. 44, to disapprove of the rule submitted by the Department of the Interior relating to Bureau of Land Management regulations that establish the procedures used to prepare, revise, or amend land use plans pursuant to the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976; H.J. Res. 57, to disapprove of the rule relating to accountability and State plans under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; and H.J. Res. 58, to disapprove of the rule relating to teacher preparation issues.
This Week's Update
This week The House passed the resolutions of disapproval related to the following rules: the “SEC Resource Extraction Rule” (H.J.Res.41); the “Stream Protection Rule” (H.J.Res.38); the “Waste Prevention, Production Subject to Royalties, and Resource Conservation Rule” (H.J. Res. 36); the “NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007” (H. J. Res. 40); and the rule relating to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (H.J. Res. 37).
This Week's Update
This week The House passed the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2017” (H.R. 7); the “Power And Security Systems (PASS) Act” (H.R. 511); the “Fair RATES Act” (H.R. 587); the “Advanced Nuclear Technology Development Act of 2017” (H.R. 590); the “Federal Communications Commission Process Reform Act of 2017” (H.R. 290); the “Securing Access to Networks in Disaster Act” (H.R. 588); and the “Federal Communications Commission Consolidated Reporting Act of 2017” (H.R. 599).
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