Review - Committee Hearings – Week of 7-28-24

This week with just the Senate in session (the House leadership picked up their marbles and went home a week early) there is a fairly light hearing schedule with two markup hearings of interest.

Commerce Markup

The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee will hold a business meeting on Wednesday to consider 33 bills and some nominations (none of the nominations are of particular interest here). Of those bills, are of interest here:

S 3943, Accelerating Networking Cyberinfrastructure and Hardware for Oceanic Research (ANCHOR) Act, and

S 3959, Transportation Security Screening Modernization Act,

Appropriations Markup

The Senate Appropriations Committee will hold a business meeting on Thursday to complete the full committee markup of five spending bills:

• Energy and Water Development,

• Defense,

• Labor, Health, and Human Services,

• Homeland Security, and

• Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Acts

NDAA Action on the Floor

There is a remote chance that the Senate may start their consideration of the National Defense Authorization Act this week, though it is more likely that they will take up S 4638 (or the House version HR 8070) after they return in September.

InsideEPA.com is reporting that there is an industry effort being made to have the Senate take action on an amendment to the NDAA that would extend the currently expired CFATS program through October 1^st, 2026. The American Chemical Society is part of the coalition of 15 chemical organizations that sent a letter to Sen Schumer (D,NY) and Sen McConnel (R,KY). That letter references amendment SA 2502 that was submitted in the Senate on July 11^th, 2023, one of 670 amendments submitted to the NDAA on that day.

 

For more details about these hearings and the NDAA CFATS amendment, see my article at CFSN Detailed Analysis - https://patrickcoyle.substack.com/p/committee-hearings-week-of-7-28-24 - subscription required.