Committee Hearings – Week of 9-18-22

 

With both the House and Senate in Washington this week, we have a fairly light hearing schedule. This reflects a lot of behind-the-scenes meetings on a continuing resolution and other end-of-session priorities. There will be two hearing of peripheral interest here: federal building security and right-to-repair jurisdiction.

Building Security

On Thursday, the Subcommittee on Oversight, Management, & Accountability of the House Homeland Security Committee will hold a hearing on “Federal Building Security: Examining the Risk Assessment Process”. The witness list includes:

• Richard “Kris” Cline, Federal Protective Service,

• Scott Breor, CISA,

• Catina Latham, GAO

Should be an interesting (if probably abbreviated) look at the physical security risk assessment process.

Right-to-Repair

On Wednesday, the Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process of the House Rules Committee will hold an original jurisdiction hearing on “Right to Repair: Legislative and Budgetary Solutions to Unfair Restrictions on Repair”. No witness list is provided at this time.

As I mentioned last week, there are a variety of congressional jurisdictional issues that must be addressed before any legislative work can move forward. This hearing is part of that determination process.