Monday, January 9, 2017

Committee Hearings – Week of 1-8-17

This week both the House and Senate will be in Washington, but there will only be a limited number of hearings being held, mainly focusing in the Senate on confirmation hearings. Two of those this week may be of specific interest to readers of this blog; confirmation hearings of DHS and DOT Secretaries.

DHS Secretary


On Tuesday, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will be holding a hearing on the confirmation of General John F. Kelly, USMC (Ret.) to be the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. I suspect that we will be hearing some talk about cybersecurity matters, but it will be short on details.

DOT Secretary



On Wednesday, the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will be holding a hearing on the confirmation of Elaine Chao to be the Secretary of the Department of Transportation. I suspect that there will be some mention of vehicle automation and chemical transportation safety issues, but again no details.

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