Review – Committee Hearings – Week of 5-18-25

With the House and Senate both in Washington, there is a moderately busy hearing schedule with continued focus on budget hearings. In the House we also have an oversight hearing for the TSA. In the Senate there will be hearings on counter UAS operations and a markup hearing. The House will be taking up one bill under suspension that is of interest here.

Budget Hearings

The following budget hearing of interest will be held this week:

Budget Hearings	House	Senate
EPA	Appropriations	Environment
DHS		Homeland
DOE		Appropriations

TSA Oversight

On Tuesday the Subcommittee on Homeland Security of the House Appropriations Committee will hold an oversight hearing on “Oversight Hearing – The Transportation Security Administration”.

cUAS

On Tuesday the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on “Defending Against Drones: Setting Safeguards for Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems Authorities”. 

Markup Hearing

On Wednesday the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will hold a business meeting to consider nominations and eight bills. Of specific interest here will be:

S 318, the ANCHOR Act.

On the Floor

The House is scheduled to take up HR 1223, the ANCHOR Act, today under the suspension of the rules process.

For more information on these hearings, see my article at CFSN Detailed Analysis - https://patrickcoyle.substack.com/p/committee-hearings-week-of-5-18-25 - subscription required.