Tuesday: No Child Left Behind, climate

House lawmakers are expected to vote to go to conference on Tuesday. The Senate passed its version of the bill, the Every Child Achieves Act, in July. 

 

{mosads}Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), who spearheaded that legislation, is hoping that lawmakers can get a compromise bill to President Obama by December.  

 

“My hope would be that the Senate and the House conference could meet before Thanksgiving, agree on a bill, send it back to the two houses, and then send it on to the president, and it will become law during December,” he told The Commercial Appeal. 

House lawmakers will also vote on a handful of proposals under suspension of the rules, including a resolution condemning last week’s attacks in Paris. The Senate passed a similar resolution on Monday evening. 

Votes in the House are expected between 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. and between 3:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. 

Meanwhile, the Senate is winding down the clock until a procedural vote on taking up a House-passed bill funding the Department of Transportation and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. 

Under Senate rules, a vote would occur on Wednesday unless senators can reach an agreement. 

Senators could also vote on a resolution blocking President Obama’s climate change rules for power plants.

Democrats suggested that that the Senate could proceed to the resolution on Tuesday morning. Under Senate rules, the resolution could be debated for up to 10 hours before a final vote.