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Lawmaker outlines GOP agenda: housing bill, defense funding, surface transportation and a third reconciliation package
Summary
The lawmaker listed Republican priorities including a housing bill aimed at lowering costs, upcoming appropriations including the NDA, a surface transportation bill moving through committees, and a proposed reconciliation package (reconciliation 3) that the speaker said would address fraud; the transcript records no formal votes on these items.
In the same floor remarks, a lawmaker (S1) summarized Republican legislative priorities, citing a housing bill discussed by Chairman Hill as part of efforts to lower housing costs and saying appropriations work is ongoing to fund government operations and the Department of Defense.
The speaker said the Nation's Defense Appropriations (NDA) would come up next week, and described a surface transportation bill that "has been through two committees" and still needs action by the House Ways and Means Committee before reaching the floor.
The lawmaker also said the conference had passed reconciliation bills with only Republican votes previously and that the next reconciliation package ("reconciliation 3") would focus on fraud, including alleged failures the speaker attributes to Democratic opposition to certain funding for the Department of Homeland Security.
The transcript records assertions of legislative priorities and timelines but does not include bill numbers, committee reports, formal motions, or recorded votes related to the items the speaker named.
