Recapping yesterday's action:

The House passed H.R. 1213, repealing the funding mechanism for establishing the ACA's state-based health care purchasing exchanges. Republicans also defeated all five proposed Democratic amendments to the bill, and a motion to recommit that would have required disclosure by insurers of the extent to which coverage has been denied or premiums have been increased for an individual. The House also began consideration of H.R. 1214, repealing funding for the ACA-established program of school-based health center construction. Votes on amendments to the bill were postponed for today.

In the Senate, they finally did agree on the language for a resolution regarding the Osama bin Laden termination. And guess what? Every president gets a pat on the back! Even the ones who stopped looking for him when it got hard! Bipartisanship! Yay!

One programming note: You'll notice below the fold that I've begun including floor schedule recaps for the previous day. They do often contain important information about what went on, but when the schedules were above the fold, I felt like they were eating up too much real estate, given that they're really Yesterday in Congress, not Today. But it really does give a much more complete picture of what's going on if I give it a little summary attention up top, and give you the operational details below the fold. So, you know, that's what I did.

Looking ahead to today:

The main event in the House today: the abominable H.R. 3, which raises your taxes if you buy private health insurance and the plan you purchase offers abortion coverage—whether to you, your family, or any complete stranger who might happen to have bought the same plan. And if you try to pay for an abortion out of a medical savings account or other flexible pre-tax plan, that money gets taxed. So I guess you should be prepared to be audited and asked if you had any abortions in the previous year if you've got one of these plans. But there's good news, too! If you're willing to provide proof to the IRS that you were raped, you may get your tax break back!

In the Senate, it'll be an exciting day of cloture voting that brings back memories of the good ol' 111th Congress. First, they'll take a crack at deciding whether or not it's time to wrap up debate on that Small Business Jobs bill you've been hearing so much about in the popular press. What do you think? Do you feel like having the bill on the floor for two full months is really sufficient time to decide whether to encourage small businesses to hire more people? That's a tough one!

Well, if they can't quite bring themselves to decide whether or not to vote on passing that, then they'll move on to the question of whether or not to invoke cloture on confirming the nomination to a critical seat on the United States Supreme Court. No, wait. I mean, a federal trial judge in Rhode Island. Sorry about that. I just figured if there had to be a cloture vote, then... well, you get the idea.

Full floor and committee schedules appear below the fold.