Review - Committee Hearings – Week of 5-10-26

With both the House and Senate back in Washington, there is a moderately busy hearing scheduled. Spending bill markups continue in the House, while the Senate concentrates on budget hearings. There is one markup hearing of interest in the House. Finally, we expect (hope) to see the first FY 2027 spending bill on the House floor this week. 

Markup Hearings  

On Thursday, the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence of the House Homeland Security Committee will hold a business meeting that will include the markup of the following bill of interest here: 

HR 7448, Modernizing and Improving the National Terrorism Advisory System Act of 2026. 

On the Floor  

The first FY 2027 spending bill (HR 8469) is scheduled to come to the floor in the House this week, probably Wednesday or perhaps Thursday. The first problem this bill will face will be the three fiscal fanatics in the House Rules Committee. If they do not support the rule vote in Committee, the bill will not come to the floor under a rule. While this bill may not be fiscally radical enough for them, it is certainly too radical to pass under the suspension of the rules process. There will not be enough Democrats to get the supermajority required for passage under that process. 

For more information on these hearings, see my article at CFSN Detailed Analysis - https://patrickcoyle.substack.com/p/committee-hearings-week-of-5-10-26 - subscription required. 

Review – Committee Hearings – Week of 4-26-26

 This week, with both the House and Senate in Washington, there is an almost moderately busy hearing schedule. Budget hearings are a large part of the load (some of interest here) and the House Appropriations Committee continues to work on spending bills. There is a CISA SMRA hearing in the House (with a touch of Space Geek thrown in) and a space defense hearing. 

Cybersecurity Hearings  

On Wednesday, the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection of the House Homeland Security Committee will hold a hearing on “Data Centers, Telecommunications Networks, and Space-Based Systems: Modernizing DHS’s SRMA [Sector Risk Management Agency] Role for the Communications and IT Sectors”. 

Space Defense Hearings  

On Wednesday the Subcommittee on Europe of the House Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on “Orbits of Influence: Emerging Threats to U.S. Space Security and Foreign Policy Implications”.   

For more information on these hearings, see my article at CFSN Detailed Analysis - https://patrickcoyle.substack.com/p/committee-hearings-week-of-4-26-26 - subscription required. 

Review – Committee Hearings – Week of 4-19-26

 This week, with both the House and the Senate in Washington, there is a moderately busy hearing schedule. Budget hearings (both House and Senate) and spending bill markups (in the House) continue. There are also two Space Geek related hearings in the House. 

Spending Bill Hearings  

House  

Tuesday - Fiscal Year 2027 Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Bill, Fiscal Year 2027 Financial Services and General Government Bill, and Interim Subcommittee Allocations, 

Wednesday - Continuation Of Full Committee Markup Of Fiscal Year 2027 Financial Services And General Government Bill,  

Thursday - Subcommittee Markup Of Fiscal Year 2027 National Security, Department Of State, And Related Programs Bill And Fiscal Year 2027 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food And Drug Administration, And Related Agencies Bill. 

Space Geek Hearings 

On Tuesday, the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on “SAT Streamlining Act: Modernizing Satellite Licensing for the Final Frontier”.  

On Wednesday, the House Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a business meeting to consider 22 bills, including HR 8321, the Artemis Accords Authorization Act. 

For more information on these hearings, see my article at CFSN Detailed Analysis - https://patrickcoyle.substack.com/p/committee-hearings-week-of-4-19-26 - subscription required.

Review – Committee Hearings – Week of 4-12-26

 With both the House and Senate returning to Washington from their two-week Easter Recess, there is a surprisingly lite hearing schedule. The President’s FY 2027 Budget Request dropped a week ago, so there will be lots of hearings surrounding that proposed spending plan. Other than that there is just one markup hearing of interest here and that is in the Senate. 

Budget Hearings  

The list below is hardly exhaustive, but it does reflect the scheduled hearings of interest here. 

House 

Wednesday - The President's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request, 

Wednesday – Budget Hearing - Department of Energy, 

Thursday - The Fiscal Year 2027 Department of Energy Budget, and 

Thursday - Budget Hearing – Department of Homeland Security: CISA, TSA, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Secret Service, and FEMA. 

Senate 

Thursday - The President's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Proposal, 

Markup Hearing  

On Tuesday, the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee will reconvene a business meeting to consider nine aviation and space related bills. Bills of specific interest there are: 

S 1962, the Secure Space Act of 2025, and 

S 3404, the Satellite Cybersecurity Act of 2025. 

For more information on these hearings, including a brief look at the floor schedules for House and Senate, see my article at CFSN Detailed Analysis - https://patrickcoyle.substack.com/p/committee-hearings-week-of-4-12-26 - subscription required. 

Review – Committee Hearings – Week of 3-15-26

Both the House and Senate will be in Washington this week with a relatively light hearing schedule. Budget and NDAA related hearings are beginning, but this week there are none of specific interest here. There are two hearings of potential interest here; a House hearing on Chinese technology threats and a Senate confirmation hearing for the replacement DHS Secretary. The Senate will continue to try to pass some sort of DHS funding, probably unsuccessfully. The House may attempt to pass a balanced-budget constitutional amendment.

Chinese Technology Threat

On Tuesday the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection of the House Homeland Security Committee will hold a hearing on: “DeepSeek and Unitree Robotics: Examining the National Security Risks of PRC Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Autonomous Technologies and Building a Secure U.S. Technology Base”.

DHS Secretary Hearings

On Thursday the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will hold a confirmation hearing on the appointment of Sen Markwayne Mullin to be the Secretary of Homeland Security.

 

For more information on these hearings, see my article at CFSN Detailed Analysis - https://patrickcoyle.substack.com/p/committee-hearings-week-of-3-15-26 - subscription required.

Review – Committee Hearings – Week of 2-22-26

With both the House and Senate back in Washington, and with snow expected today, there is a relatively light hearing schedule. There are no hearings currently scheduled of specific interest here. Tuesday night is the State of the Union address by the President. The Senate will be having periodic (probably daily) cloture votes on HR 7147, the DHS spending bill; still no deal in sight there. The House has a short list (6) of bills that will be considered under the suspension of the rules process including one bill under Space Geek coverage here.

 

For more information on legislation and SOTU, see my article at CFSN Detailed Analysis - https://patrickcoyle.substack.com/p/committee-hearings-week-of-2-22-26 - subscription required.

Review – Committee Hearings – Week of 2-8-26 –

This week with both the House and Senate in Washington there is a relatively light hearing schedule. The high profile hearing this week will be the House Homeland Security oversight hearing on ICE, CBP, and USCIS. Of more interest here are two markup hearings and an oversight hearing for the remainder of DHS.

Markup Hearings

On Tuesday the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a business meeting to mark up 12 bills, including HR 7390, the SAFE DRIVE Act.

On Wednesday the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee will hold a business hearing to mark up eight bills, including S 3639, the SAT Streamlining Act, and S 1898, the ORBITS Act. This hearing was originally scheduled for February 3^rd, 2026.

Oversight Hearing

On Wednesday the Subcommittee on Homeland Security of the House Appropriations Committee will hold an oversight hearing looking at “Oversight Hearing – Potential DHS Shutdown Impacts”.

 

For more information on these hearings, see my article at CFSN Detailed Analysis - https://patrickcoyle.substack.com/p/committee-hearings-week-of-2-8-26 - subscription required.

Review – Committee Hearings – Week of 2-1-26

 This week both the House and Senate will be in Washington. There is a moderately busy hearing schedule, including a spending bill rule hearing and a FERC oversight hearing in the House. In the Senate there will be a space geek markup hearing and a water cybersecurity hearing.

Rule Hearing

This afternoon the Houe Rules Committee will hold a rule hearing to consider five pieces of legislation, including the Senate amended version of HR 7148, the Consolidated Appropriations Act. The amendment adopted by the Senate on Friday deleted Division H (effectively HR 7147, the DHS spending bill),  of the bill passed in the House and added continuing resolution language. That language would continue DHS funding at current rates (still including chemical security spending) through February 13^th, 2026.

FERC Oversight

On Tuesday the Subcommittee on Energy of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on “Oversight of FERC: Advancing Affordable and Reliable Energy for All Americans”. The witness list includes the five FERC Commissioners.

Markup Hearings

On Tuesday the Senate Commerce, Science and Technology Committee will hold a business meeting. It will include marking-up S 1848, the Orbital Sustainability (ORBITS) Act of 2025.

Water Cybersecurity

On Wednesday the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will hold a hearing on “Identifying and Addressing Cybersecurity Challenges to Protect America’s Water Infrastructure”.

 

For more information on these hearings, see my article at CFSN Detailed Analysis - https://patrickcoyle.substack.com/p/committee-hearings-week-of-2-1-26 - subscription required.

Review – Committee Hearings – Week of 1-18-26

With just the House in Washington this week, and that a short, 3-day week, there is a lite hearing schedule. We have a DHS oversight hearing and a transportation security hearing on the schedule. On the floor we are looking for the last minibus spending bill.

Oversight Hearings

On Wednesday the House Homeland Security Committee will hold an oversight hearing on “Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security: CISA, TSA, S&T”.

Transportation Security

On Wednesday the Subcommittee on Oversight of the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on “Embedded Threats: Foreign Ownership, Hidden Hardware, and Licensing Failures in America’s Transportation Systems”.

On the Floor

There is only one item of potential interest here on this weeks House schedule; on the bottom of the page is a note: “Consideration of items related to FY26 Appropriations are possible.” This is likely to take the form of either a 4^th minibus covering DHS, LHH, and THUD (the remaining spending bills that the House has yet to pass) or a continuing resolution covering those agencies.

 

For more information on these hearings, see my article at CFSN Detailed Analysis - https://patrickcoyle.substack.com/p/committee-hearings-week-of-1-18-26  - subscription required.

Review – Committee Hearings – Week of 1-4-26

The first week of the 2^nd Session of the 119^th Congress starts out with both the House and Senate in Washington with a very light hearing schedule. I look at last night’s rule hearing for HR 6398, the 2^nd FY 2026 minibus spending bill and one chemical safety hearing later this week.

Minibus Rule Hearing

Last night at about 9:00 EST the House Rules Committee adjourned their rule hearing, subject to the call of the Chair, that included HR 6398, the Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026, without approving a rule for the consideration of that bill and two others.

Chemical Safety

On Thursday, the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on “Chemistry Competitiveness: Fueling Innovation and Streamlining Processes to Ensure Safety and Security”.

On the Floor

Beyond the potential consideration of HR 6398 this week in the House, there is nothing currently scheduled of specific interest here.

 

For more information on these hearings, see my article at CFSN Detailed Analysis - https://patrickcoyle.substack.com/p/committee-hearings-week-of-1-4-26 - subscription required.