The
House is coming back from a lengthy Memorial Day Weekend later this week, but
the Senate won’t be back until next week. The short week makes for few hearings
and only two of them will be of interest to readers of this blog; a spending
bill markup and an oversight hearing.
DHS Spending
Bill
The
Homeland Security Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee will be
holding a markup
hearing on Thursday of the FY 2015 spending bill for DHS. A committee print
of that may be available later this week.
DHS Oversight
Hearing
The
House Judiciary Committee will hold an oversight
hearing on the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday. These are
typically pretty high-level policy type discussions so I really don’t expect
much in the way of chemical security or chemical transportation security to
come up in this hearing.
On the Floor
One
spending bill will come to the House floor this week; HR 4660, Commerce,
Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act this will come to the
floor under an open rule so there may be some interesting amendments including
some in the cybersecurity area. The Rules Committee hearing on this bill has
not been set, but it would almost have to be on Wednesday evening.
A
controversial authorization bill will come to the floor on Friday; HR 4681, Intelligence
Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2014 and 2015. This will be a less open
rule, but the Rules Committee hearing on this bill has not yet been set either.
Amendments have to be submitted by Wednesday afternoon, so I expect that the
hearing will be Thursday evening.
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