Everybody's Workin' for the Weekend

Capitol Briefing would like to apologize at the outset for naming this post after a particular arena-rock song (hey, at least it wasn't "Takin' Care of Business.") But it seemed appropriate given what happened in the Senate yesterday.

Specifically, senators and aides burned up the phones changing airline tickets, rescheduling fundraisers and dropping out of parades because it looks like the chamber will have to work this weekend.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) broke the news on the floor yesterday, saying: "As Senators have known now for well more than a month, we are going to work this weekend. We have work to do this weekend. Exactly what we will be doing depends a lot on what happens during the week, how time sequences out because of cloture and other such things, but we will be here this weekend. There is a lot to do."

Specifically, the Senate is continuing work today on energy legislation, headlined by an effort to put new restrictions on oil speculation. That measure could take a while to process, since Republicans want the opportunity to offer multiple amendments. Then it's on to the housing bill, which took two weeks to consider last time around and could move slowly again, despite the fresh urgency lent to the effort by the Bush administration's desire for a bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Congressional Budget Office released its "score," or cost estimate, of the administration proposal today, providing fodder for the arguments of both sides of the issue.

After the housing bill, Reid also wants to consider the so-called "Coburn Omnibus," a package of politically popular bills that Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has blocked for one reason or another. But Coburn appears to relish the opportunity to continue slowing consideration of bills this week, lamenting that Reid's leadership has turned the Senate into -- gasp -- the House!

"So as we become the 'House of Representatives,' where we don't allow amendments, where we don't allow an open amendment process--and I am not talking about political 'gotcha' amendments; I am talking about real amendments to change real bills based on the facts of that bill, and I am talking about pertinent amendments -- we are doing great damage to the institution of the Senate," Coburn said on the floor yesterday.

Take Reid's ambitious legislative plans, and Coburn and Sen. Jim DeMint's (R-S.C.) desire to slow things down and top it off with the GOP's general discontent over the chamber's handling of the energy issue and, just like that, you have a weekend session coming. And look out: Reid said yesterday the Senate just might be in next weekend too.

By Ben Pershing |  July 22, 2008; 12:30 PM ET Agenda , Senate
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