House and Senate Cloakroom: May 2-8, 2011
Dustin Carmack /
House Cloakroom: May 2-8, 2011
The House returns from a two week recess on Monday to begin tackling various issues across the policy spectrum. A possible raise of the debt ceiling will be the hot topic of the coming weeks as lawmakers begin deliberations on what serious measures will have to be included to receive their support for the raise. Other issues will be the main focus of the floor this week, though, as House leadership has signaled bills involving the healthcare, abortion funding, and gas prices.
On Monday evening, the House will vote on two bills under suspension of the rules naming a post office and court house. On Tuesday, the House will reconvene at noon to begin debate on a bill that would eliminate the mandatory funding for states to establish insurance exchanges from Obamacare and another to repeal the law’s automatic funding for school based health centers. (more…)