The House and Senate return this week from the annual Memorial Day recess for a four-week work period that runs through June. Both chambers then break for one week for Independence Day. After that, the House is scheduled to be in session for four weeks and the Senate in session for five weeks, leading up to the August recess.

Before leaving DC for Memorial Day, Congress had a fairly productive six-week work period that saw final passage of a Budget Resolution, the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act, the Energy Efficiency Improvement Act, a short-term extension of highway funding, a bill making technical amendments to the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, and a long-awaited permanent solution to the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate, or “Doc Fix”. The Senate also confirmed Loretta Lynch to serve as the 83rd Attorney General.