Recapping yesterday's action:
The House spent the day working through amendments to the defense appropriations bill, voting on 22 of them, and debating several more on which votes were postponed.
The Senate voted on and invoked cloture on the motion to proceed to consideration of the Reid "shared sacrifice" sense of the Senate bill, but because everyone's so happy to debate whether or not they ought to be debating the legislative vehicle for debate on the debt ceiling and budget situation, they decided to keep debating it all day.
So to recap on the Senate, they opted to forgo their July 4th recess this past week in order to do... something... on the debt ceiling. Or budget. Or whatever. On the floor, all they did was hold two procedural votes on whether or not to end debate on beginning debate on a non-binding sense of the Senate bill. But nobody expected the actual action to be on the floor, anyway.
Do take note, though, that pretty much everyone who demanded that there be immediate debate on the debt ceiling and the budget voted against cloture. You'll recall that the threat was that everything would be filibustered until such a debate was held. Apparently, that includes filibustering motions to proceed to the debate they were demanding. Now that's hardcore!
Looking ahead to today:
The House plans to wind up consideration of the defense appropriations bill, and set up its work for next week by getting the rules for the Energy & Water appropriations and Flood Insurance Reform bills out of the way. Officially, the schedule says they'll throw in general debate (probably just an hour) on Energy & Water before closing up shop, though most members will be gone immediately following the last vote of DoD approps.
The Senate has already decamped for the weekend.
Today's floor and committee schedules appear below the fold.
Source: http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/FELvbTnL2Rg/-Today-in-Congress
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