[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 182 (Wednesday, November 30, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1289-D1290]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                        House of Representatives


Chamber Action
Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 12 public bills, H.R. 3521-
3532; and 1 resolution, H.J. Res. 91 were introduced.    
  Pages H7998-99
Additional Cosponsors:                                
  Pages H7999-S8000
Reports Filed: There were no reports filed today.
Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he appointed 
Representative Brooks to act as Speaker pro tempore for today. 
                                                             Page H7931
Recess: The House recessed at 11:05 a.m. and reconvened at 12 noon. 
                                                             Page H7939
Chaplain: The prayer was offered by the guest chaplain, Reverend Jay 
Therrell, Cape Coral First United Methodist Church, Cape Coral, 
Florida.                                                     
  Page H7939

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Suspension--Proceedings Postponed: The House debated the following 
measure under suspension of the rules. Further proceedings were 
postponed:
  Designating room HVC 215 of the Capitol Visitor Center as the 
``Gabriel Zimmerman Meeting Room'': H. Res. 364, to designate room HVC 
215 of the Capitol Visitor Center as the ``Gabriel Zimmerman Meeting 
Room''.                                                  
  Pages H7943-49
Terminating taxpayer financing of presidential election campaigns and 
party conventions and terminating the Election Assistance Commission; 
Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act of 2011; and Regulatory 
Accountability Act of 2011--Rule for Consideration: The House agreed to 
H. Res. 477, the rule that is providing for consideration of H.R. 3463, 
to reduce Federal spending and the deficit by terminating taxpayer 
financing of presidential election campaigns and party conventions and 
by terminating the Election Assistance Commission; H.R. 527, to amend 
chapter 6 of title 5, United States Code (commonly known as the 
Regulatory Flexibility Act), to ensure complete analysis of potential 
impacts on small entities of rules; and H.R. 3010, to reform the 
process by which Federal agencies analyze and formulate new regulations 
and guidance documents, by a recorded vote of 239 ayes to 178 noes, 
Roll No. 871, after the previous question was ordered by a yea-and-nay 
vote of 239 yeas to 184 nays, Roll No. 870.    
  Pages H7949-57, H7986-87
Workforce Democracy and Fairness Act: The House passed H.R. 3094, to 
amend the National Labor Relations Act with respect to representation 
hearings and the timing of elections of labor organizations under that 
Act, by a recorded vote of 235 ayes to 188 noes, Roll No. 869. 
                                                         Pages H7957-86
  Rejected the Sutton motion to recommit the bill to the Committee on 
Education and the Workforce with instructions to report the same to the 
House forthwith with an amendment, by a recorded vote of 185 ayes to 
239 noes, Roll No. 868.                                  
Pages H7984-85
  Pursuant to the rule, the amendment in the nature of a substitute 
recommended by the Committee on Education and the Workforce now printed 
in the bill shall be considered as an original bill for the purpose of 
amendment under the five-minute rule.                        
Page H7972
  Rejected the Moore motion that the Committee rise and report the bill 
to the House with the recommendation that the enacting clause be 
stricken by a recorded vote of 176 ayes to 241 noes, Roll No. 863. 
                                                         Pages H7979-81
Rejected:
  Bishop (NY) amendment (No. 1 printed in H. Rept. 112-291) that sought 
to give the Board authority to impose sanctions on a party for 
presenting a frivolous or vexatious filing during pre-election 
proceedings (by a recorded vote of 187 ayes to 228 noes, Roll No. 864);
                                                  Pages H7973-74, H7981
  Boswell amendment (No. 2 printed in H. Rept. 112-291) that sought to 
prevent employers that have paid any executive compensation bonuses in 
excess of 10,000 percent of the annual compensation of the average 
employee from engaging in open-ended litigation. Such parties are 
required to state their issues or positions at the outset of pre-
election hearings, and prohibited from raising new, frivolous issues as 
a dilatory tactic (by a recorded vote of 181 ayes to 239 noes, Roll No. 
865);                                          
Pages H7974-76, H7981-82
  Walz amendment (No. 3 printed in H. Rept. 112-291) that sought to 
prevent this Act from applying to businesses that have been cited for 
violating labor laws in the past year against employees who are 
veterans of the Armed Forces (by a recorded vote of 200 ayes to 221 
noes, Roll No. 866); and                       
Pages H7976-77, H7982-83
  Jackson Lee amendment (No. 4 printed in H. Rept. 112-291) that sought 
to strike a section of the bill to ensure that employers would not be 
able to unnecessarily delay an election (by a recorded vote of 188 ayes 
to 236 noes, Roll No. 867).                       
Pages H7977-79, H7983
  H. Res. 470, the rule providing for consideration of the bill, was 
agreed to on November 18th.
Quorum Calls--Votes: One yea-and-nay vote and eight recorded votes 
developed during the proceedings of today and appear on pages H7980-81, 
H7981, H7981-82, H7982-83, H7983, H7985, H7985-86, H7986-87, H7987. 
There were no quorum calls.
Adjournment: The House met at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 7:40 p.m.