DRIVING THE WEEK:
- The House and Senate are in session this week. President Trump will host a Cabinet meeting today.
- Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify on the company’s handling of user data before the Senate Commerce and Judiciary Committees (joint) on Tuesday and will appear before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday. Zuckerberg will make the rounds on Capitol Hill today as a precursor to his testimony this week. Zuckerberg's three big themes as scooped by Axios will be:
- Accountability: Recognize the role Facebook plays in people's lives and the need to take responsibility for what went wrong.
- Owning the bigger problem: Acknowledge a failure to understand how many people were affected by these issues, because Facebook didn't take a broad enough view of its responsibility. As a company, Facebook was too idealistic and optimistic and didn't focus enough on preventing abuse, or on thinking through how people could use the tools the platform to do harm.
- Action: Highlight not just immediate actions, but Zuckerberg’s commitment to reexamining every aspect of Facebook's relationship with users.
- The Trump Administration wants Canada, Mexico and the United States to come to an initial agreement on a renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement when leaders gather in Peru for the Eighth Summit of the Americas that's slated to begin April 13, according to three unnamed sources familiar with the negotiations. Trump will leave for Peru on Friday where he will attend the April 13-14 summit.
- As we mentioned in a note last week, the House is slated to vote on a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, with Republicans looking to bolster the party's fiscal credentials ahead of this year's midterm elections.
- Trump will meet with the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, on Tuesday looking for a way to end the impasse between Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar that began in June 2017.
- The Senate will vote on a half dozen sub-Cabinet Trump nominees this week, including new deputies at the Department of Labor and the EPA. Mississippi Secretary of Agriculture Cindy Hyde-Smith will be sworn in as a U.S. Senator today replacing retiring Senator Thad Cochran.
- Chinese President Xi Jinping will deliver a major speech at the Boao Forum for Asia on Tuesday where he is expected to focus on the tariff fracas with the United States.
- The House Committee on Ways Means will hold a hearing on the impact of the latest round of proposed Trump Administration tariffs and the Chinese response on Thursday.
- The House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will hold hearings on Wednesday and Thursday on opioid legislation.
- Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis along with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joe Dunford are slated to testify on the defense budget before the House Armed Services Committee on Thursday.
- Citigroup Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are set to face shareholder votes about how they spend lobbying money, with separate groups requesting more transparency about how the institutions use Washington trade groups and their own lobbying expenditures. Under the proposal for Citigroup slated for a vote at the bank's annual meeting on April 24, the company would compile a report each year detailing how it uses trade associations and direct payments in Washington.
U.S. House of Representatives Schedule
Monday, April 9, 2018
Hearing: Houston Strong: Hurricane Harvey Lessons Learned and the Path Forward.
10:30 PM | The Berry Center, Cypress, TX
Host: Committee on Homeland Security
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
5:00 PM
Host: Committee on Rules
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Hearing: Local Responses and Resources to Curtail the Opioid Epidemic
10:00 AM | 2154 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on Oversight and Government Reform | Subcommittee on Healthcare, Benefits, and Administrative Rules
Hearing: Saving Taxpayer Dollars and the Federal Real Property Database
10:00 AM
Host: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
10:00 AM | 2118 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on Armed Services
Hearing: FY 2019 Budget Oversight Hearing
10:00 AM | 2358-C Rayburn
Host: Committee on Appropriations | Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
Hearing: Financing Overseas Development: The Administrations Proposal
10:00 AM | 2172 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on Foreign Affairs
Hearing: Facebook: Transparency and Use of Consumer Data
10:00 AM | 2123 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on Energy and Commerce
10:00 AM | 2128 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on Financial Services | Full Committee
10:15 AM | 1324 Longworth House Office Building
Host: Committee on Natural Resources | Full Committee
Hearing: The State of Trade for America’s Small Businesses
11:00 AM
Host: Committee on Small Business
1:30 PM | 2118 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on Armed Services
Hearing: North Korea's Diplomatic Gambit: Will History Repeat Itself?
2:00 PM | 2172 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on Foreign Affairs | Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific
Hearing: No Abducted Child Left Behind: An Update on the Goldman Act
2:00 PM | 2200 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on Foreign Affairs | Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations
Hearing: Legislative Hearing on National Heritage and Memorial Bills
2:00 PM | 1324 Longworth House Office Building
Host: Committee on Natural Resources
2:15 PM | 2322 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on Energy and Commerce | Subcommittee on Health
3:30 PM | 2212 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on Armed Services | Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Hearing: Fiscal Year 2019 Budget Hearing closed
9:00 AM | HVC-304 CAPITOL
Host: House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence | Subcommittee on Department of Defense Intelligence and Overhead Architecture
Hearing: The Congressional Budget Office's Budget and Economic Outlook
10:00 AM | 1334 Longworth HOB
Host: Committee On The Budget
Hearing: Oversight Hearing, "The Benefits of the Navajo Generating Station to Local Economies"
10:00 AM | 1324 Longworth House Office Building
Host: Committee on Natural Resources
10:00 AM | HVC-210 CAPITOL
Host: Committee on Homeland Security | Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency
10:00 AM | 2141 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on the Judiciary | Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial, and Antitrust Law
Hearing: The Fiscal Year 2019 Department of Energy Budget
10:00 AM | 2123 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on Energy and Commerce | Subcommittee on Energy
Hearing: Hearing entitled “Oversight of the Federal Housing Finance Agency”
10:00 AM | 2128 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on Financial Services | Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
10:00 AM | 2118 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on Armed Services
Hearing: Investments in our Health Workforce and Rural Communities
10:00 AM | 2358-C Rayburn
Host: Committee on Appropriations | Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
Hearing: FY 19 Budget Oversight Hearing on Energy, Installations, and Environment
10:00 AM | 2362-A
Host: Committee on Appropriations | Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies
Hearing: Community Support: Entrepreneurial Development and Beyond
11:00 AM
Host: Committee on Small Business
Business Meeting: Committee Business Meeting
11:00 AM | 1310 Longworth HOB
Host: Committee on House Administration | Full Committee
Hearing: Examining the Role of Shared Employees in the House
11:00 AM | 1310 Longworth HOB
Host: Committee on House Administration | Full Committee
Hearing: Fiscal Year 2019 Budget Request for Combat Aviation Programs
2:00 PM | 2212 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on Armed Services | Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces
Hearing: Hearing entitled “H.R. 4311, the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2017”
2:00 PM | 2128 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on Financial Services | Subcommittee on Monetary Policy and Trade
Hearing: Global Health Supply Chain Management: Lessons Learned and Ways Forward
2:00 PM | 2172 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on Foreign Affairs | Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations
2:00 PM | HVC-210 CAPITOL
Host: Committee on Homeland Security | Subcommittee on Transportation and Protective Security
Hearing: Oversight Hearing, "BOR, PMA 2019 Budget Priorities"
2:00 PM | 1324 Longworth House Office Building
Host: Committee on Natural Resources
Hearing: A Caravan of Illegal Immigrants: A Test of U.S. Borders
2:00 PM | 2154 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on Oversight and Government Reform | Subcommittee on National Security
Hearing: 355 Ship Navy: Delivering the Right Capabilities
3:30 PM | 2118 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on Armed Services | Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces
Friday, April 13, 2018
Hearing: Military Personnel Posture: FY 2019
9:00 AM | 2118 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on Armed Services | Subcommittee on Military Personnel
