This week, the House is expected to consider 11 bills, ranging from mountaintop mining to national monument designations.
Legislation under consideration this week includes:
H.R. 1036: designates the post office located at 103 Center Street West in Eatonville, Washington, as the “National Park Ranger Margaret Anderson Post Office.”
H.R. 1228: designates the post office located at 123 South 9th Street in De Pere, Wisconsin, as the “Corporal Justin D. Ross Post Office Building.”
H.R. 3060: designates the post office located at 232 Southwest Johnson Avenue in Burleson, Texas, as the “Sergeant William Moody Post Office Building.”
H.R. 2391: designates the post office located at 5323 Highway N in Cottleville, Missouri as the “Lance Corporal Phillip Vinnedge Post Office.”
H.R. 1451: designates the post office located at 14 Main Street in Brockport, New York, as the “Staff Sergeant Nicholas J. Reid Post Office Building.”
H.R. 1376: designates the post office located at 369 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Jersey City, New Jersey, as the “Judge Shirley A. Tolentino Post Office Building.”
H.R. 1813: designates the post office located at 162 Northeast Avenue in Tallmadge, Ohio, as the “Lance Corporal Daniel Nathan Deyarmin Post Office Building.”
Philippines Charitable Giving Assistance Act (H.R. 3771): allows taxpayers to treat cash contributions to victims affected by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines as if they were made in the 2013 tax year. Qualifying contributions would include those made before April 15, 2014.
H.R. 4275: makes permanent a temporary exemption for cooperative and small-employer charity pension (CSEC) plans that allow small employers to pool resources to form pension plans from rules governing large-employer pensions that were included in a 2006 pension protection law.
H.R. 2824: delays regulations that could address the problems of mountaintop mining by prohibiting the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) from issuing any new regulations on stream buffer zones and stream protection from mining, until states have implemented the 2008 stream buffer zone rule and OSM has evaluated for five years the effectiveness of that rule.
H.R. 1459: makes several changes to federal law to make it more difficult for the president to establish national monuments under the Antiquities Act. This includes subjecting certain national monuments to the National Environmental Policy Act review process, requiring a study estimating the costs of managing a new monument, and prohibiting more than one proclamation per state per four-year presidential term.