Congressional Delegation

...the United Nations third decennial conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS)  will run from September 1-4 in Samoa....

...These are the kinds of issues that have dominated Faleomavaega’s agenda over the years when he hasn’t been traveling....

Recent Congressional Votes

• Senate: Insourcing Incentives - Cloture
• House: Higher Education Tax Credits - Passage

• Senate: Castro Nomination - Confirmation
• Senate: Donovan Nomination - Confirmation
• House: Workforce Investment Reauthorization - Motion to Concur
• House: Fiscal 2015 Energy-Water Appropriations - Passage

Both chambers are in recess until the week of July 7....

• Senate: Veterans Benefits - Passage
• Senate: Fischer Nomination - Confirmation
• House: Fiscal 2014 NASA Authorization - Passage
• House: Fiscal 2015 Transportation-HUD Appropriations - Passage

• Senate: Water Projects - Conference Report
• House: Water Projects - Conference Report
• House: NSA Metadata Collection - Passage
• House: Fiscal 2015 Defense Authorization - Passage

Recent Congressional Votes

• Senate: Energy-Efficient Building Codes –Cloture
• House: Benghazi Select Committee–Passage
• House: Research Tax Credit –Passage
• House: Charter School Program Expansion–Passage

The 2014 Congressional Pig Book Summary gives a snapshot of each appropriations bill and details the juiciest projects culled from the complete Pig Book....

• Senate: Friedland Nomination – Confirmation
• Senate: Minimum Wage Increase – Cloture
• House: Mil Con/Veterans Affairs Appropriations – Passage
• House: Legislative Branch Appropriations – Passage

To see what coverage of the delegation looks like in a newspaper which does not worship at the shrine of home-state congressional seniority, readers must turn to the Wall Street Journal....

• Senate: Unemployment Benefits Extension – Passage
• Senate: Equal Pay – Cloture
• House: Budget Resolution – Passage

Recent Congressional Votes

• Senate: Unemployment Benefits – Cloture
• House: Ukraine Aid – Passage
• House: Employee Hours Rules – Passage

Upcoming Congressional Bills

• Senate: Medicare “Doc Fix”
• Senate: Unemployment Benefits
• House: Ukraine Aid
• House: Health Care Reform

The House and Senate will be in recess until March 24....

• Senate: Adegbile Nomination – Cloture
• Senate: Military Prosecutions – Cloture
• House: Environmental Reviews – Passage
• House: Ukrainian Loan Guarantees – Passage
• House: Flood Insurance Premiums – Passage
• House: Individual Health Insurance Mandate – Passage

...leading Democratic senators attended a fundraiser at billionaire Tom Steyer's San Francisco home. The event, for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, also featured former Vice President Al Gore....

• Senate: Veterans Benefits -- Cloture
• Senate: Veterans Benefits – Motion to Wave
• House: Cellular Phone Unlocking – Passage
• House: Eminent Domain Authority – Passage
• House: Federal Rule-Making Process – Passage

• Senate: Debt Limit – Passage 
  
• House: Debt Limit – Passage 

Upcoming Congressional Bills

• Senate: Military Retirement Pay
• House: Consumer Financial Protection and Soundness Improvement Act of 2013

93 percent more liberal than the rest of the Senate on economic issues, 73 percent more liberal on social issues, and 71 percent more liberal on foreign policy issues....

...Hanabusa is doing little to show she'll be able to close the gap....

Recent Congressional Votes

• Senate: Federal Flood Insurance Premiums – Passage
• House: Federal Abortion Funding – Passage
• House: Farm Programs Conference Report – Passage

...NOAA has quietly elevated its tsunami warning center in Alaska by relegating its Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii to secondary status....

AFP's federal legislative scorecard highlights the most important economic votes held every congress in both the Senate and the House....

We thought the media had turned the corner on the issue of how to handle the disappearance of Faleomavaega....

• Senate: Federal Reserve Chair Nomination – Confirmation
• Senate: U.S. Court of Appeals Nomination – Cloture
• House: Solid Waste Disposal Regulations – Passage

...the first newsperson in Washington, D.C. to address the question of Eni Faleomavaega’s prolonged absence from the Nation’s Capital....

Faleomavaega got caught napping in 2007 and by the time he raced back to Washington in an effort to get us extricated, it was too late....

...at last local radio station 93KHJ-FM has published a breakthrough article today on its talanei.com website asking about the delegate’s health....

We had hoped our common sense prescriptions on how to handle questionable statements emanating from the office of Delegate Faleomavaega would have proved persuasive to Samoa News but apparently not....

The First Session of the 113th Congress has come to a close. The Senate will be back on January 6, 2014. The House will be back on January 7, 2014.

The House is in Recess until January....

Recent Congressional Votes

• House: Patent Infringement Reform – Passage

Recent Congressional Votes

• Senate: Executive and Judicial Nominations – Cloture
• House: Natural Gas Pipeline Permitting – Passage

Recent Congressional Votes

• Senate: Employment Nondiscrimination – Passage

• Senate: Nomination of Patricia Ann Millett to US Court of Appeals – Cloture
• House: Veterans Disability Claims Backlog – Passage
• House: Swaps Regulations – Passage

With the Senate out all week, the House held its final vote on Wednesday....

Brian Schatz just sent around an insulting memo...arguing that the ideology of a single group of voters will trump the broad coalition of interests that has made Hawaii the warm, inclusive place we all love....

Recent Congressional Votes

• Senate: Continuing Appropriations and Debt Limit Suspension – Passage
• House: Continuing Appropriations and Debt Limit Suspension – Motion to Concur

Recent Congressional Votes

• House: Military Death Benefits – Continuing Resolution

Upcoming Congressional Bills

• Senate: Debt Limit
• House: Debt Limit and Government Funding

• Senate: Continuing Appropriations Conference Request – Motion to Table
• House: Veterans Program Funds- Continuing Resolution
• House: Women’s and Children’s Nutrition Funds – Continuing Resolution