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
- After narrowly avoiding a partial government shutdown last week, Congress is working to finalize legislation to fund the rest of the government before next week’s deadline.
- The White House will release its fiscal year 2025 budget blueprint and immediately begin budget hearings on Capitol Hill.
- President Joe Biden has a busy week of travel, with visits to New Hampshire, Wisconsin and Michigan, all key to his reelection efforts.
HOUSE
- The House will be in session tonight through Wednesday, taking up legislation aiming to force TikTok to sever ties with the Chinese Communist Party.
- The Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management will hold a hearing tomorrow with Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Deanne Criswell regarding the agency’s disaster relief fund.
- Wednesday, the Financial Services Committee will hold an oversight hearing regarding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s regulation of digital payments.
- The rest of the House committee schedule can be found here.
SENATE
- The Senate will hold floor votes Monday through Thursday, resuming consideration of Biden’s judicial nominees.
- Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young will testify tomorrow at the Senate Budget Committee regarding the President’s Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Proposal.
- Thursday, the Finance Committee will review the proposed Health and Human Services Budget with Secretary Xavier Becerra.
- Additional Senate committee meetings can be found here.
WHITE HOUSE
- Today, the White House will release the President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2025, and Biden will visit New Hampshire.
- Tomorrow, he will host a bilateral meeting with President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland.
- Later in the week, he will travel to Wisconsin and Michigan, before returning to the White House for Saint Patrick’s Day festivities including a visit from Taoiseach Leo Varadkar of Ireland.
