Committee Hearings – Week of 6-18-23

This week, with both the House and Senate in Washington for a holiday shortened week, there is a heavy schedule as the Legislature gets down to money business. The twelve spending bills continue moving forward. The NDAA is in the Subcommittee stage in the Senate and the House Armed Services Committee will markup their bill on Wednesday. Two other hearings of interest here include another markup and a cyber workforce hearing.

Spending Bills

In the House, the Full Committee will hold markup hearings on:

Wednesday, Homeland Security and Legislative Branch Bills, Full Committee, Committee Print,

Thursday, Financial Services and General Government Bill, Full Committee,

Thursday, Defense and Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Bills, Full Committee.

This week, with both the House and Senate in Washington for a holiday shortened week, there is a heavy schedule as the Legislature gets down to money business. The twelve spending bills continue moving forward. The NDAA is in the Subcommittee stage in the Senate and the House Armed Services Committee will markup their bill on Wednesday. Two other hearings of interest here include another markup and a cyber workforce hearing.

Spending Bills

In the House, the Full Committee will hold markup hearings on:

Wednesday, Homeland Security and Legislative Branch Bills, Full Committee, Committee Print,

Thursday, Financial Services and General Government Bill, Full Committee,

Thursday, Defense and Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Bills, Full Committee.

On Thursday, The Senate Appropriations Committee will hold their first markup of FY 2024 spending bills, starting with Military Construction and the ARD bills.

We should start to see House spending bills being introduced this week.

Markup Hearing

On Wednesday, the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee will hold a markup hearing for three bills. One of those bills may be of interest here, HR 4090, Fire Grants, and Safety Act. The Committee Print for the bill shows a clean reauthorization of the US Fire Administration. It will be interesting to see what changes are made on Wednesday.

Cyber Workforce

On Thursday, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee of the House Homeland Security Committee will hold a hearing on “Growing the National Cybersecurity Talent Pipeline”. No witness list is currently available.

On the Floor

There is nothing scheduled this week on the floor of the House of particular interest here. Today the House will consider three bills under the suspension of the rules process. It will not be until Wednesday that we may (maybe not) see the Eleven throw their effective veto around on a rule vote (again for Republican messaging bills that will not likely go anywhere in any case). It depends on if their egos have been properly stroked by the Speaker. This will be the weekly guessing game until they are again slammed up against the reality of passing spending bills or more likely a continuing resolution in late September. The more often they flex their limited muscle between now and then, the less likely will be the support of their moderate Republican compatriots in an ouster of the Speaker or a shutdown of the government.