Mortgage Reduction Information

The Senate convened and proceed to executive session to consider Richard Cordray, of Ohio, to be Director, Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection.

The Senate convened and began a period of morning business.

HR 3630 – Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2011 (Closed Rule, 90 Minutes of Debate) Legislation Considered Under Suspension of the Rules: 1) HR 3421 – Fallen Heroes of 9/11 Act 2) HR 886 – United States Marshals Service 225th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act 3) HR 313 – Drug Trafficking Safe Harbor Elimination Act of 2011 4) HR 1905 – Iran Threat Reduction Act of 2011 (Sponsored by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen / Foreign Affairs Committee) 5) HR 2105 – Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Reform and Modernization Act of 2011 6) H.Res. 306 – Urging the Republic of Turkey to Safeguard Its Christian Heritage and to Return Confiscated Church Properties 7) H.Res. 376 – Calling for the repatriation of POW/MIAs and abductees from the Korean War

President Obama lays out his plan to reduce the deficit by $4 trillion over the next 12 years and to ensure America’s future wealth and prosperity in a speech at George Washington University in Washington, DC. April 13, 2011.

The House of Representatives convened for the business of the day, one minute speeches, and special order speeches. The House disapproved of Senate amendments to bill HR 3630 to provide incentives for the creation of jobs and extend the Social Security payroll tax cut and appointed a conference committee. The House of Representatives passed a resolution expressing the sense of the House regarding any final measure to extend the payroll tax holiday, extend Federally funded unemployment insurance benefits, or prevent decreases in reimbursement for physicians who provide care to Medicare beneficiaries; and for other purposes.

The tax subgroup of the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board (PERAB) holds a meeting to gather ideas on tax reform. It was the first of several such meetings and was centered on tax simplification. September 30, 2009. (Public Domain)

Senior Administration officials take questions from a live audience at the White House as well as from Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ about the President’s State of the Union Address. January 24, 2012.

State And Municipal Debt: Tough Choices Ahead (Part 3 of 3) – House Oversight Committee – 2011-04-14 – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Witnesses: Panel I: The Honorable Scott Walker, Governor, State of Wisconsin; The Honorable Peter Shumlin, Governor, State of Vermont. Panel II: Dr. Andrew Biggs, Resident Scholar, The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research; Mr. Mark Mix, President, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation; Dr. Robert Novy-Marx, Professor of Finance, University of Rochester Simon Graduate School of Business; Dr. Desmond Lachman, Resident Scholar, The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. Video provided by US House of Representatives.

White House Press Briefings are conducted most weekdays from the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room in the West Wing.