The bill drifted without floor action through the winter.

Later this year it will be health care, although perhaps only in extended hearings, not floor action.

Dressed in white business shirts and ties, they were riveted to the floor action.

They hope the Senate will pass a companion bill that has already been endorsed in committee and is awaiting floor action.

The House would be tied up for weeks, if not months, on hearings and floor action.

But Democrats themselves are raising the prospect of extensive floor action that may slow the debate.

Between 1979 and May 2011, the network televised more than 24,246 hours of floor action.

When the full committee received the bill, it added several amendments and reported it to the House for floor action.

The date and a brief description of each floor action is provided.

Senator McCain has said publicly that he would like to see floor action on the bill before the end of the summer.