Recent Senate Votes: Keystone XL Pipeline - Cloture - Vote Agreed to (63-32, 5 Not Voting) The Senate agreed to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to the bill that would immediately allow TransCanada to construct, connect, operate and maintain the pipeline and cross-border facilities known as the Keystone XL pipeline. ---- Recent House Votes: Rulemaking Process Overhaul – Passage - Vote Passed (250-175, 8 Not Voting) The House passed a bill that would modify the federal rulemaking process by requiring agencies to estimate the cost of proposed regulations and consider new criteria, including potential costs and benefits of alternatives. The bill would create additional steps that agencies must follow when proposing major rules with annual costs of more than $100 million, or high-impact rules with annual costs of more than $1 billion, including an advanced-notice comment period to determine whether the rule-making process should proceed. Fiscal 2015 Homeland Security Appropriations - Passage - Vote Passed (236-191, 6 Not Voting) The House passed a bill that would provide $47.8 billion in fiscal 2015 for the Homeland Security Department and related activities. As amended the bill would bar the use of funds to implement the administrations immigration policies or to grant any federal benefit to any illegal immigrant as a result of those policies. Financial Regulatory Revisions - Passage - Vote Passed (271-154, 8 Not Voting) The House passed a bill that would modify numerous requirements under the 2010 financial regulatory overhaul. It would delay until July 2019 a requirement under the Volcker rule that banks sell off collateralized loan obligations, the complex securitization vehicles that are backed predominantly by commercial loans and exempt non-financial companies from margin requirements under the law.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 10:10:06 +0000
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