The House is expected to take up a bill on guns in the cockpit on Wednesday.
The Senate is expected to take up the bill after the summer recess.
The Energy and Commerce committee, along with two other House committees, is scheduled to take up the bill Thursday.
But the Senate does not appear to be ready to take up the bill, so the EPA is preparing to step in.
The Senate passed postal-overhaul legislation earlier this year, but the House hasn't take up the bill or a plan drafted by Republicans.
House leaders have promised to take up the bill, but have not decided whether they will attempt to amend it before putting it to a vote.
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Also on Tuesday, Senate leaders plan to take up a bill (S4) that would allow employers to provide compensatory time in lieu of overtime pay to hourly employees.
Lawmakers are expected to take up a bill that provides tax relief to small businesses, a measure to extend expired (and expiring) tax provisions and, potentially, slimmed-down energy legislation.
Senate Democrats, led by Daschle, refused to take up a House bill they believed relied too strongly on business tax cuts without doing enough for unemployed workers.
The President just got off the phone within the last hour now with the Speaker of the House, urging him to do the right thing, to take up the Senate bill.
This month the Senate is set to take up the climate and energy bill that Congress began work on last spring.
The House has yet to take up a broad product liability bill.
One option would be for the House of Representatives to take up the Senate-passed bill that would give health coverage to an estimated 31 million people who are uninsured.
Ms. MACDONALD: I think we should take up the enforcement provisions of this bill and pass those.
At many local councils, it can take up to three years for the bill to arrive by which time the councillors responsible may have been voted out of office.
This week, however, the Senate Agriculture Committee is scheduled to take up a piece of the farm bill that could mean more such specialty meat products, like those Reams produces, would be able to reach your table no matter where you live.
And can you also talk a little bit about why, if the economy is such a big concern -- and this has been asked several times -- why not take up the pieces of the jobs bill that there is bipartisan support for, the payroll tax cut?
The House is expected to vote on as many as five bills, while the Senate will take up the Labor-HHS-Education spending bill.
However, she will not officially take up the watchdog role until the Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill is passed by Parliament later this year.
Take a cue from Bill Gates and the Rockefellers: Set up your own nonprofit organization.
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The House of Representatives passed a similar bill last year, but has yet to take up the matter in the 109th Congress.
The Indian government and the country's outsourcing industry are gearing up for a fight during debate on the bill, which could take weeks or months due to its other contentious issues.
Earlier this month, the Senate passed a reform bill for the FDA, but the House has yet to take it up.
Having passed reform bills in both the House and the Senate, we now have to take up the last and most important step and reach an agreement on a final reform bill that I can sign into law.
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Nine crucial spending bills will take up a lot of time, but the president also wants to squeeze in a bill to allow warrantless eavesdropping on suspected terrorists, a free-trade deal with Vietnam and a bill allowing nuclear co-operation with India despite India's refusal to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
But for those skeptics who refuse to believe the Recovery Act has done any good, who continue to insist that the bill didn't work, I'd ask you to take that argument up with Blake and his employees.
And once the bill was passed, the government planned to set up a financial restructuring authority to take over the management of weak banks.
New financial adviser start-up Personal Capital, founded by former Intuit CEO Bill Harris, is launching Tuesday to take on financial start-ups and large financial adviser firms.
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