Below is this week’s congressional update by BakerHostetler’s Federal Policy team. We’ll continue to post in weeks when both chambers of Congress are in session.

HEADLINES

• Congress returns from the holidays facing twin deadlines for government funding on Jan. 19 and Feb. 2.
• Congressional leaders on Sunday afternoon announced an agreement on overall budget levels, an important first step toward meeting those deadlines.
• President Joe Biden is traveling today to South Carolina and Texas.

HOUSE

• The House will hold floor votes tomorrow through Friday.
• The Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday will take the first step toward impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
• Thursday, the Financial Services Committee will hold an oversight hearing with the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Federal Housing Administration.
• The rest of the House committee schedule can be found here.

SENATE

• The Senate is scheduled to be in session throughout the week, voting on Biden’s judicial nominees.
• The Senate Banking Committee on Thursday will hold a hearing on fentanyl including testimony from musical artist Jelly Roll.
• Also Thursday, witnesses from the Treasury and Energy Departments will testify at a hearing on electric vehicle incentives at the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, chaired by Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., a critic of the administration’s electric vehicle policy implementation.
• Additional Senate committee meetings can be found here.

WHITE HOUSE

• Biden is en route to South Carolina to speak today at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston.
• Later today, he will travel to Dallas to pay respects to the late Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, who died Dec. 31.
• The rest of Biden’s week has not been publicly announced.

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