Friday: Keystone

The House will consider a bill to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, while the Senate will be in session on Friday.

At 9 a.m., the House will convene for members to read aloud the entire Constitution on the floor. House Republicans instituted the tradition at the start of every Congress upon taking the majority in 2011.

{mosads}Off the floor, House Republicans will meet at 10:30 a.m. to discuss the way forward on responding to President Obama’s executive action to delay deportations of illegal immigrants.

Later in the day, the House will consider a bill to approve the Keystone pipeline for the third time in sixth months.

Meanwhile, the Senate will convene at 9:30 a.m. and proceed to a period of morning business with senators allowed to speak for up to ten minutes each. The fact that the Senate is in session on a Friday is remarkable, given that members typically left town by Thursday evening under Democratic control.

But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) repeatedly pledged the Senate would work Fridays again.