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Today in Congress: as Founders intended, Senate debates decision to hold vote on beginning debate


on H. R 674. Today they'll debate that decision for up to 30 more hours.

yesterday (which will be the case all week long), so the "action" is likely to be limited. But today we have a successful cloture motion to report, on H. R. 674, the 3% withholding repeal bill. The original Senate version of this bill failed to get cloture on the motion to proceed back on October 20th, but that time around it came up for a vote as the proposal of Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), as an alternative to the first part of the split-up American Jobs Act, and without the "pay-for" attached to the House version—that being the rejiggered Medicaid eligibility guidelines.

will be running out the post-cloture clock on the motion to proceed to H. R. 674 today, and they'll spend some of that time debating and voting on the nomination of a new Federal Circuit judge.

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