Both the House and Senate will be in session this week. The House is continuing to push forward on fiscal year 2024 appropriations bills this week before government funding expires on November 17. House Republicans unveiled their “laddered” stopgap funding bill on November 11, and are expected to vote on it as early as Tuesday.
The Administration
President Biden issued a National Spectrum Strategy and a Presidential Memorandum that lay a blueprint for promoting innovation, competition, and security in advanced wireless technology. Later this week, Biden will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in California on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit
House Side
On Wednesday, the House will meet to consider multiple bills under suspension.
- Bills expected under suspension of the rules.
- H.R. 1505 – No Stolen Trademarks Honored in America Act of 2023, as amended (Rep. Issa – Judiciary).
- H.R. 1105 – Debbie Smith Act of 2023, as amended (Rep. Wagner – Judiciary).
- H.R. 786 – To amend title 28, United States Code, to provide an additional place for holding court for the Pecos Division of the Western District of Texas, and for other purposes (Rep. Tony Gonzales – Judiciary).
- H.R. 3496 – To make technical amendments to update statutory references to certain provisions that were formerly classified to chapters 14 and 19 of title 25, United States Code, and to correct related technical errors (Rep. Hageman – Judiciary).
- H.R. 3506 – To make technical amendments to update statutory references to certain provisions classified to title 7, title 20, and title 43, United States Code, and to correct related technical errors (Rep. Kiley – Judiciary).
- H.R. 3571 – To make technical amendments to update statutory references to certain provisions classified to title 2, United States Code, title 50, United States Code, and title 52, United States Code, and to correct related technical errors (Rep. Dean – Judiciary).
- H.R. 3578 – To make technical amendments to update statutory references to provisions reclassified to title 34, United States Code, and to correct related technical errors (Rep. Ivey – Judiciary).
- H. Res. 848 – Encouraging the connecting of members of the Armed Forces in the United States to support structures necessary to transition from the battlefield (Rep. Van Orden – Veterans’ Affairs).
- H.R. 593 – To rename the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Hinesville, Georgia, as the ‘‘John Gibson, Dan James, William Sapp, and Frankie Smiley VA Clinic’’ (Rep. Buddy Carter – Veterans’ Affairs).
Tuesday – Thursday, the House is scheduled to meet for legislative business.
- Bills expected under a rule.
- H.R. 5893 – Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024 (Rep. Hal Rogers – Appropriations).
- H.R. 5894 – Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024 (Rep. Aderholt – Appropriations).
- H.R. 5961 – No Funds for Iranian Terrorism Act (Rep. McCaul – Foreign Affairs).
- H.R. 4820 – Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024 (Rep. Cole – Appropriations).
- Bills that may be considered.
- H. Res. __ – Impeaching Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, for high crimes and misdemeanors (Rep. Greene – Judiciary).
Senate Side
On Monday, the Senate will resume consideration of the nomination of Ana de Alba to be a judge for the Ninth Circuit.
Additionally, on Monday, the Senate will continue its work on H.R. 815, the Removing Extraneous Loopholes Insuring Every Veteran Emergency (RELIEVE) Act, the legislative vehicle for a continuing resolution beyond November 17, 2023.