Alston & Bird’s Legislative & Public Policy Group previews the week ahead highlighting anticipated federal legislative, regulatory, and political activity, and key upcoming actions in Congress, the Administration, and relevant policy arenas.
Administration
- The White House and congressional Republicans will continue negotiating with Democrats on an FY26 appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), for which funding expires Friday night.
- The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy (ASTP) will host its annual meeting on February 11–12.
House
- The House is set to vote on an amended version of the SAVE Act this week, which would require proof of citizenship for voter registration and photo identification to vote.
- The House will also vote on bills on undersea cable permitting, a study of the U.S. critical mineral supply chain, and housing affordability.
- Ongoing negotiations on DHS funding continue, with short-term funding set to expire on Friday.
- Executives from the pharmaceutical industry will testify before the Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday as part of an ongoing series of hearings on health care affordability.
Senate
- Senate Democrats will be leading the negotiations with the White House and Republicans on long-term DHS funding.
- The Special Committee on Aging will hold a hearing on Wednesday on the impact of federal regulations on physician practices.
Hearings/Mark Ups
February 9, 2026:
February 10, 2026:
- Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies: Hearing to examine a review of broadband deployment funding at the Department of Commerce.
- Senate Committee on Indian Affairs: Hearing to examine the Small Business Administration Native 8(a) program.
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Hearing to examine media ownership in the digital age.
- Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law: Hearing to examine Arctic Frost accountability, focusing on oversight of telecommunications carriers.
- Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs: Hearing to examine Haiti 2026, focusing on security and foreign assistance priorities.
- Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Disaster Management, District of Columbia, and Census: Hearing to examine fraud and foreign influence in state and federal programs.
- Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration: Hearing to examine fraud in Minnesota.
- House Committee on Ways and Means: Foreign Influence in American Non-profits: Unmasking Threats from Beijing and Beyond.
- House Committee on Foreign Affairs: Syria at a Crossroads: U.S. Policy Challenges Post-Assad.
- House Committee on Homeland Security: Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security: ICE, CBP, and USCIS.
- House Committee on Education and the Workforce – Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education: Defending Faith and Families Against Government Overreach: Mahmoud v. Taylor.
- House Committee on Natural Resources – Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations: All in for America250: Public-Private Partnerships Supporting America’s Semiquincentennial on our Public Lands.
- House Committee on House Administration: Make Elections Great Again: How to Restore Trust and Integrity in Federal Elections.
- House Committee on Appropriations – Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies: The Science of Reading.
- House Committee on Energy and Commerce – Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade: Markup of 12 bills.
- House Committee on Energy and Commerce – Subcommittee on Communications and Technology: Markup of one bill.
- House Committee on Natural Resources – Subcommittee on Federal Lands: Legislative hearing on six bills (LASSO Act; Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum Act; BRUSH Fires Act; Fruit Heights Land Conveyance Act; Crystal Reservoir Conveyance Act; Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument Access Act).
- House Committee on Foreign Affairs – Europe Subcommittee: Weaponized Mass Migration: A Security Risk to Europe and the United States.
- House Committee on the Judiciary – Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government: Sharia-Free America: Why Political Islam & Sharia Law Are Incompatible with the U.S. Constitution.
- House Committee on Foreign Affairs – Africa Subcommittee: Advancing Peace in DRC and Rwanda through President Trump’s Washington Accords – Part II.
- House Committee on Financial Services: Priced Out of the American Dream: Understanding the Policies Behind Rising Costs of Housing and Borrowing.
- House Committee on Financial Services – Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations: Building a Solid Foundation: Restoring Trust and Transparency in Public Housing Agencies.
- House Committee on Rules: S. 1383 – [SAVE America Act].
February 11, 2026:
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Business meeting to consider S.71, S.1898, S.2585, S.3199, S.3266, S.3468, S.3639, S.3700.
- Senate Armed Services Personnel Subcommittee: Senior Enlisted Leaders on servicemember and family quality of life.
- Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs: Building a 21st Century VA Health Care System, assessing the next generation of VA’s community care network.
- Senate Special Committee on Aging: How Washington’s rules drove physicians out of medicine.
- House Committee on Small Business: Various measures (H.R. 7412, H.R. 7401, H.R. 7396).
- House Committee on the Judiciary: Oversight of the Department of Justice.
- House Committee on Financial Services: Oversight of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party: Lies, Lawfare, and Leverage: The CCP’s Gaslighting and Manipulation to Marginalize Taiwan.
- House Oversight and Government Reform — Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee: Doing More with Less: Deleting Duplicative Programs.
- House Appropriations — Department of Homeland Security Subcommittee: Oversight Hearing – Potential DHS Shutdown Impacts.
- House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs: Opportunities with VHA Reorganization.
- House Education and Workforce — Workforce Protections Subcommittee: Building an AI-Ready America: Safer Workplaces Through Smarter Technology.
- House Energy and Commerce — Health Subcommittee: Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: An Examination of the Prescription Drug Supply Chain.
- House Committee on Natural Resources: Markup of multiple bills (including H.R. 755, H.R. 1352, H.R. 1945, H.R. 2196, H.R. 4671, H.R. 5497, H.R. 6300, H.R. 3922, H.R. 4463, H.R. 5419, H.R. 3706, H.R. 6380).
- House Homeland Security — Emergency Management and Technology Subcommittee: Surveying the Threat of Agroterrorism, Part II: Assessing Federal Government Efforts.
- House Science, Space, and Technology — Research and Technology Subcommittee: Accelerating Progress: U.S. Surface Transportation Research.
- House Financial Services — Housing and Insurance Subcommittee: Homeownership and the Role of the Secondary Mortgage Market.
- House Foreign Affairs — South and Central Asia Subcommittee: South Asia: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Region.
February 12, 2026:
- Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Oversight hearing.
- Senate Committee on Armed Services: Hearing to examine the American small drone industrial base.
- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Hearing to examine preventing fraud in child care assistance programs.
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Hearing to examine the NTSB final report on the DCA midair collision.
- Senate Committee on Finance: Hearing to examine the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, evaluating North American competitiveness.
- Senate Energy and Natural Resources — Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee: Hearing to examine S. 462 and numerous related public lands and conservation bills (S. 462, S. 1349, S. 1464, S. 1497, S. 1981, S. 2417, S. 2554, S. 2754, S. 2787, S. 2860, S. 2968, S. 3004, S. 3082, S. 3493, S. 3526, S. 3527, S. 3695, H.R. 1829, H.R. 204, H.R. 3872, H.R. 3937, H.R. 677, H.R. 952).
- Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Oversight hearing to examine the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs: Markup of H.R. 6047 (Sharri Briley and Eric Edmundson Veterans Benefits Expansion Act of 2026), H.R. 3726 (Fisher House Availability Act of 2025), H.R. 3482 (Veterans Community Care Scheduling Improvement Act), H.R. 785 (the Representing our Seniors at VA Act of 2025), and H.R. 2148 (the Veteran Caregiver Reeducation, Reemployment, and Retirement Act).
Friday 13, 2026:
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