The House and Senate will both be in session this week for the first time in June with a focus on trying to make progress in the negotiations toward a budget agreement.
As they convene Monday, lawmakers evidently won?t have to contend with the spectacle of Representative Anthony D. Weiner, Democrat of New York, returning for votes after disclosures of lewd photographs he shared over the Internet. Though he is resisting calls to resign, Mr. Weiner has said he intends to seek treatment and take a leave of absence from the House.
Mr. Weiner will no doubt be a steady topic of conversation this week, but members of the House and Senate also have work to do as they move toward the Fourth of July and an August deadline for raising the federal debt limit.
Those participating in the bipartisan negotiations being steered by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. are scheduled to meet at least three times this week in hopes of spurring a breakthrough in the talks.
Members of both parties have said they would like to get a deal done, particularly with the economy remaining sluggish.
?Hopefully in the debt limit negotiations we can get a down payment on spending cuts and debt reduction,? Representative Paul D. Ryan, the Wisconsin Republican who chairs the Budget Committee, said Sunday on CBS?s ?Face the Nation.? ?I think that would help calm the markets and get us to a recovery.?
In the Senate, Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, has managed to force a politically charged vote on cutting off tax credits for ethanol, an issue that unites Democratic and Republican lawmakers from corn-producing Midwestern states. The issue of ethanol always figures prominently in the Iowa presidential caucuses, making it likely that presidential contenders will be pressed on where they stand on the Senate vote.
Conservative advocacy groups are also divided on the issue, making the ethanol vote scheduled for Tuesday a complicated one for Senate Republicans.
In the House, lawmakers will finish consideration of the military construction-veterans spending measure to be followed by the agriculture appropriations bill. House members could also consider a patent law overhaul later in the week.
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Source: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/13/congressional-week-ahead-budget-agreement/
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