This Week in Congress
This week, the House is in recess, and the Senate was in session despite postponed votes to accommodate weather-related travel delays. The last major snowstorm in Washington, D.C. was 2016's "Snowzilla," which dropped around 20 inches in D.C. and even more in its suburbs.
The Senate considered votes on a pregnancy-related bill (S. 3627) (the House passed a similar bill last week), along with a bill (S. 2806) that aims to eliminate government shutdowns by providing for automatic 14-day continuing appropriations when Congress fails to enact a spending bill before the beginning of a new fiscal year and the House-passed appropriations minibus.
Notable committee action this week includes:
- Wednesday, January 28, 10:00 am
- Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
- Hearing: “To examine improving the federal environmental review and permitting process, part 2”
- Wednesday, January 28, 2:30 pm
- Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee
- Hearing: “To examine integrity in small business programs”
- Wednesday, January 28, 3:00 pm
- Senate Agriculture Committee
- Hearing: “To examine “a crypto market structure bill, which would give the Commodity Futures Trading Commission authority to regulate cryptocurrency trading.” The bill would direct the CFTC to expedite registration of digital commodity exchanges, brokers and dealers, giving the agency 180 days from enactment to adopt a process. It would also set up an Office of the Digital Commodity Retail Advocate in the CFTC. The House last July passed a version of a market structure bill (HR 3633).