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 faces a Friday deadline to finish funding the government for fiscal year 2024 and prevent a partial shutdown, with the White House and congressional Republicans still haggling over border security funding.
- President Joe Biden will make a campaign swing to key western states.
- Biden’s cabinet will be on Capitol Hill to discuss his fiscal year 2025 budget proposal with lawmakers.
HOUSE
- The House will be in session tomorrow through Friday, taking up energy policy legislation and attempting to complete fiscal year 2024 appropriations bills.
- House budget hearings this week include Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, and Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack.
- The Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday will hold a hearing with State Department officials regarding empowering American businesses to counter China economically.
- The full schedule of a busy committee week can be found here.
SENATE
- The Senate will also be in session tomorrow through Friday, voting on judicial nominees and aiming to take up funding legislation after House action.
- Senate budget hearings feature Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Small Business Administrator Isabel Casillas Guzman, and Commissioner Martin O’Malley of the Social Security Administration.
- Thursday, the Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on spectrum policy and national security.
- Additional Senate committee meetings can be found here.
WHITE HOUSE
- Biden will travel to Nevada tomorrow for campaign events in Reno and Las Vegas.
- Wednesday, he will be in Phoenix, continuing his visits to states that will be crucial to his reelection.
- The president will finish the week in Texas, with visits to Houston and Dallas.
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