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Both chambers are in session this week. The House and Senate return to Washington on Monday evening.
The House will vote on 24 bills under suspension of the rules, all post office naming bills. For the remainder of the week, the House will consider the Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act (H.R. 8282), which requires the president to impose sanctions against individuals involved in International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutions against Americans or individuals from allied nations who have not consented to the court’s jurisdiction; and the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Military Construction—Veterans Affairs Appropriations bill (H.R. 8580), which provides $147.5 billion in discretionary funding for the Veterans Affairs (VA) Department, military construction projects, and related agencies.
Per a Dear Colleague letter sent on Sunday by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), the Senate will take a procedural vote this Wednesday to consider the Right to Contraception Act (S. 4381), which would codify and strengthen the right to contraception. With a 60-vote threshold required to advance the bill, at least nine Senate Republicans would need to vote in favor of the procedural motion for the bill to receive debate and a vote. The Senate will also vote on several judicial and executive nominations, including Christopher Hanson to be member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a five-year term expiring on June 30, 2029; Tanya Jones Bosier and Judith Pipe to be Associate Judges of the D.C. Superior Court for 15-year terms; and Stephanie Sullivan to be U.S. Ambassador to the African Union.
For the remainder of the week, the House will hold several hearings and markups, including Appropriations Subcommittee markups for the FY 2025 Homeland Security, State-Foreign Operations, Defense, and Financial Services-General Government spending bills; a Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing on “Stakeholder Perspectives on OSHA’s Proposed Rule to Update the Fire Brigades Standard”; a Natural Resources Subcommittee hearing “Examining the President’s FY 2025 Budget Request for the U.S. Forest Service”; and an Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing on “Oversight of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.”
The Senate will also hold several hearings, including an Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the “A Review of the President’s Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Request for the U.S. Department of Treasury”; an Energy and Natural Resources Committee meeting to consider four nominees to be Members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC); a Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on “The Assault on Women’s Freedoms: How Abortion Bans Have Created a Health Care Nightmare Across America”; an Agriculture Subcommittee hearing on “Pathways to Farming: Helping the Next Generation of Farmers”; an Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on “Oversight and Budget of the Federal Highway Administration”; and a Budget Committee hearing on “Riskier Business: How Climate is Already Challenging Insurance Markets.”
On Monday evening, Republican Representative-elect Vince Fong will be sworn-in by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) as a Member of Congress, representing California’s 20th Congressional District for the remainder of the 118th Congress after winning a special runoff election on May 21 with 60.6% of the vote. Fong will succeed former Speaker Kevin McCarthy in this House seat, after McCarthy resigned from the House on December 31, 2023. The House Republican majority will now hold 218 seats and the Democratic minority will continue to hold 213 seats, with 4 vacancies remaining.
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