When will senate vote on health insurance antitrust exemption repeal?
January 11, 2011 8:30 AM Subscribe
When will HR 4626 be voted on in the senate?
I remember HR 4626 (that repeals the antitrust exception) passing in the House, but all I see is that it was 'placed on the calendar' for the Senate.
I'm not sure where to look to find out when the senate will vote on it. Where could I find this information?
I remember HR 4626 (that repeals the antitrust exception) passing in the House, but all I see is that it was 'placed on the calendar' for the Senate.
I'm not sure where to look to find out when the senate will vote on it. Where could I find this information?
Response by poster: Oh. Well that makes me feel slightly less informed than I felt yesterday.
Do bills that expire often get reintroduced?
posted by czytm at 8:50 AM on January 11, 2011
Do bills that expire often get reintroduced?
posted by czytm at 8:50 AM on January 11, 2011
Best answer: To answer your broader question, a bill being placed on the calendar doesn't mean it has a date for a vote.
I don't have my Oleszek bible handy, but the bill had a calendar number of 277, which would IIRC mean only that it would have been voted on after the first 276 items on the calendar and before the 278th. There aren't any dates attached, and as you can see they don't get through many things on the calendar.
The calendars aren't calendars with dates. They're more just waiting in line. Every time a bill gets voted on from the calendar, it hops off and the rest of the bills take a step forward.
Most bills of any consequence are considered off the calendar. In the Senate, this (usually) means with a unanimous consent agreement to pull the bill off of the calendar and have debate and voting at such a time on such a date. The House does the same thing with special rules, but it has some other mechanisms to consider bills off the calendars too.
Under most circumstances, there wouldn't be a known date for the vote until a UCA had been approved.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 10:05 AM on January 11, 2011 [1 favorite]
I don't have my Oleszek bible handy, but the bill had a calendar number of 277, which would IIRC mean only that it would have been voted on after the first 276 items on the calendar and before the 278th. There aren't any dates attached, and as you can see they don't get through many things on the calendar.
The calendars aren't calendars with dates. They're more just waiting in line. Every time a bill gets voted on from the calendar, it hops off and the rest of the bills take a step forward.
Most bills of any consequence are considered off the calendar. In the Senate, this (usually) means with a unanimous consent agreement to pull the bill off of the calendar and have debate and voting at such a time on such a date. The House does the same thing with special rules, but it has some other mechanisms to consider bills off the calendars too.
Under most circumstances, there wouldn't be a known date for the vote until a UCA had been approved.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 10:05 AM on January 11, 2011 [1 favorite]
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posted by Chocolate Pickle at 8:38 AM on January 11, 2011