DRIVING THE WEEK:
Both the House and Senate are in session this week.
With five days left until the July 4 recess, the House is expected to vote on a compromise immigration bill that would provide a pathway to citizenship for “Dreamers,” partially fund the border wall and prevent families from being separated at the border. Speaker Paul Ryan pulled the compromise bill from consideration last week when it was clear it did not have enough support to pass. President Trump’s tweets late last week have not helped the Republican effort and there’s a chance the measure will be postponed until after the recess. The House is likely to consider an additional immigration bill that would allow immigration officials to keep children in detention with their families for longer than 20 days.
The Treasury Department is expected to move forward this week with restrictions on Chinese investment in the U.S. as well as restrictions on U.S. technologies to the Chinese market under Section 301 announced back in March. The restrictions overlap with industries China is advancing under the government’s extensive ‘Made in China 2025’ program. If executed, we anticipate the implementation of the restrictions and export controls to take place by mid-to-late July.
Trump is considering placing 20 percent tariffs on automobile imports from the European Union, a threat that's likely to further the ongoing economic tensions with Brussels. Trump said he would move to impose the duties if the EU opts against removing retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products in the near-term.
The House will vote on a motion to go to conference with the Senate on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The Senate passed the NDAA, 85-10, which included legislation that would restore penalties on the Chinese telecom giant ZTE Corp., clashing with Trump's efforts to ease American pressure on the company. The Senate's legislation must be reconciled with the version of the NDAA that passed the House last month. Legislation overhauling CFIUS also hinges on the House/Senate conference.
A procedural vote to tee up Trump's $15 billion rescissions package for consideration on the Senate floor failed, 48-50. Senate leaders had until Friday to pass the measure with a simple majority, meaning the vote may have dealt a fatal blow to the White House's cost-cutting effort.
Colorado, Maryland, New York, Oklahoma and Utah will hold primary elections on Tuesday. Mississippi and South Carolina will hold primary runoffs. Trump will campaign for South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) later today.
Trump and first lady Melania Trump will meet with King Abdullah of Jordan and his wife. Trump and King Abdullah will participate in expanded bilateral meetings today.
The Mexican elections to elect a successor to President Enrique Pena Nieto will take place this Sunday, July 1.
GENERAL DAN CHRISTMAN | NORTH KOREA: SO, WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN SINGAPORE? Read General Christman's latest missive here.
OPEC WRAP | Saudi & Russia Ministers Send Stronger Message on Production Increase: After Friday’s Market Message of “You Do The Math,” Saudi & Russia Say Production Hike Target is 1 mbd. McMonigle thinks the actual number is lower - read the recap here.
MD'S NORTH CAROLINA PROBLEM | NOT GREAT BUT NOT THE BEGINNING OF THE END | COURT DECISION POSITIVE: On Friday the court enjoined Atrium from soliciting MD physicians until expiration of non-solicitation provisions making settlement likely. Read the piece by Emily Evans here.
U.S. House of Representatives Schedule
Monday, June 25, 2018
5:00 PM | H-313 CAPITOL
Host: Committee on Rules
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Hearing: Commercial Space Transportation Regulatory Reform: Stakeholder Perspectives
10:00 AM
Host: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure | Washington, DC
Hearing: Legislative Hearing on Offshore Renewable Energy Opportunities
10:00 AM | 1324 Longworth House Office Building
Host: Committee on Natural Resources
10:00 AM | 2141 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on the Judiciary
Hearing: The State of Intellectual Freedom in America
10:00 AM | 2141 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on the Judiciary | Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice
10:00 AM | 2128 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on Financial Services | Housing and Insurance
10:00 AM | 1100 Longworth
Host: Committee on Appropriations | Multiple Subcommittees
Hearing: Artificial Intelligence With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
10:30 AM | 2318 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on Science, Space, and Technology | Subcommittee on Research and Technology
Markup: Committee Resolution 115-19: Resolution to allocate funds from the Reserve fund.
11:00 AM | 1310 Longworth HOB
Host: Committee on House Administration
Hearing: United States Capitol Police: Operations and Workforce
11:00 AM | 1310 Longworth HOB
Host: Committee on House Administration | Full Committee
Hearing: The Shifting Geopolitics of Oil and Gas
1:00 PM | 2123 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on Energy and Commerce | Subcommittee on Energy
1:15 PM | 2322 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on Energy and Commerce | Subcommittee on Communications and Technology
Hearing: Access to Public Lands: The Effects of Forest Service Road Closures
2:00 PM | 2154 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on Oversight and Government Reform | Subcommittee on the Interior, Energy, and Environment
Hearing: Hearing entitled “International and Domestic Implications of De-Risking”
2:00 PM | 2128 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on Financial Services | Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit
3:00 PM | H-313 CAPITOL
Host: Committee on Rules
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Hearing: Examining the Administration's Government-wide Reorganization Plan
10:00 AM | 2154 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
10:00 AM | 2318 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
Hearing: Hearing entitled “Oversight of the Department of Housing and Urban Development”
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: ZTE: A Threat to America’s Small Businesses
11:00 AM
Host: Committee on Small Business
2:00 PM | 2128 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on Financial Services | Full Committee
Hearing: Bolstering Data Privacy and Mobile Security: An Assessment of IMSI Catcher Threats
2:00 PM | 2318 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on Science, Space, and Technology | Subcommittee on Oversight
Hearing: Crisis in the Republic of the Cameroon
2:30 PM | 2200 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on Foreign Affairs | Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations
Thursday, June 28, 2018
Hearing: Army and Marine Corps Depot Policy Issues and Infrastructure Concerns
8:30 AM | 2212 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on Armed Services | Subcommittee on Readiness
Hearing: Reauthorization of the Debbie Smith Act
9:00 AM | 2141 Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on the Judiciary | Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations
Markup: Full Committee Markup: H.R. ___ Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 Closed
9:00 AM | HVC-304 CAPITOL
Host: House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
United States Senate:
Tuesday, Jun. 26, 2018
9:30 AM — SD-G50
Hearings to examine the nomination of Lieutenant General Stephen R. Lyons, USA, to be general and Commander, United States Transportation Command, Department of Defense.
9:30 AM — SD-215
Hearings to examine prescription drug affordability and innovation, focusing on addressing challenges in today's market.
Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of Defense
10:00 AM — SD-192
Business meeting to markup an original bill making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019.
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
10:00 AM — SD-538
Hearings to examine legislative proposals to increase access to capital.
10:00 AM — SD-366
Hearings to examine the nominations of Teri L. Donaldson, of Texas, to be Inspector General, Christopher Fall, of Virginia, to be Director of the Office of Science, Karen S. Evans, of West Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary (Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergency Response), and Daniel Simmons, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary (Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy), all of the Department of Energy.
10:00 AM — SD-226
Hearings to examine the Survivors' Bill of Rights, focusing on implementation and next steps.
11:00 AM — SD-138
Business meeting to markup an original bill making appropriations for the Department of Labor, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Education, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019.
11:15 AM — S-116
Business meeting to consider S.1158, to help prevent acts of genocide and other atrocity crimes, which threaten national and international security, by enhancing United States Government capacities to prevent, mitigate, and respond to such crises, S.2463, to establish the United States International Development Finance Corporation, S.2497, to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Arms Export Control Act to make improvements to certain defense and security assistance provisions and to authorize the appropriations of funds to Israel, S.2779, to amend the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001, H.R.3776, to support United States international cyber diplomacy, the nominations of Stephen Akard, of Indiana, to be Director of the Office of Foreign Missions, with the rank of Ambassador, Robin S. Bernstein, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Kenneth S. George, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, Harry B. Harris, Jr., of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Korea, Joseph N. Mondello, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Georgette Mosbacher, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Poland, and Tibor Peter Nagy, Jr., of Texas, to be an Assistant Secretary (African Affairs), all of the Department of State, and routine lists in the Foreign Service.
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
2:30 PM — SD-430
Business meeting to consider S.3029, to revise and extend the Prematurity Research Expansion and Education for Mothers who deliver Infants Early Act (PREEMIE Act), S.1112, to support States in their work to save and sustain the health of mothers during pregnancy, childbirth, and in the postpartum period, to eliminate disparities in maternal health outcomes for pregnancy-related and pregnancy-associated deaths, to identify solutions to improve health care quality and health outcomes for mothers, S.808, to provide protections for certain sports medicine professionals who provide certain medical services in a secondary State, S.3039, to provide funding for the development of a predictive analytics pilot program to help children and families who come to the attention of the child welfare system, an original bill to reauthorize the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act, and the nominations of Scott Stump, of Colorado, to be Assistant Secretary for Career, Technical, and Adult Education, Department of Education, John Lowry III, of Illinois, to be Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans' Employment and Training, and other pending nominations.
Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism
2:30 PM — SD-226
Hearings to examine protecting our elections, focusing on examining shell companies and virtual currencies as avenues for foreign interference.
Wednesday, Jun. 27, 2018
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
10:00 AM — SD-106
Business meeting to consider S.645, to require the Secretary of Commerce to conduct an assessment and analysis of the effects of broadband deployment and adoption on the economy of the United States, S.1092, to protect the right of law-abiding citizens to transport knives interstate, notwithstanding a patchwork of local and State prohibitions, S.1896, to amend section 8331 of title 5, United States Code, and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to clarify the treatment of availability pay for Federal air marshals and criminal investigators of the Transportation Security Administration, S.2941, to improve the Cooperative Observer Program of the National Weather Service, S.3094, to restrict the department in which the Coast Guard is operating from implementing any rule requiring the use of biometric readers for biometric transportation security cards until after submission to Congress of the results of an assessment of the effectiveness of the transportation security card program, H.R.4254, to amend the National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 2002 to strengthen the aerospace workforce pipeline by the promotion of Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program and National Aeronautics and Space Administration internship and fellowship opportunities to women, H.R.4467, to require the Federal Air Marshal Service to utilize risk-based strategies, H.R.4559, to conduct a global aviation security review, and the nominations of Karen Dunn Kelley, of Pennsylvania, to be Deputy Secretary of Commerce, Heidi R. King, of California, to be Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Department of Transportation, Geoffrey Adam Starks, of Kansas, to be a Member of the Federal Communications Commission, and Peter A. Feldman, of the District of Columbia, to be a Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
10:00 AM — SD-342
Hearings to examine Medicaid fraud and overpayments, focusing on problems and solutions.
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
10:00 AM — SD-430
Hearings to examine how to reduce health care costs, focusing on understanding the cost of health care in America.
Appropriations: Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs
2:30 PM — SD-192
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2019 for the Department of State.
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
2:30 PM — SD-106
Hearings to examine FAST-41 and the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council, focusing on progress to date and next steps.
2:30 PM — SD-G50
Hearings to examine the nomination of Robert L. Wilkie, of North Carolina, to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
Thursday, Jun. 28, 2018
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
10:00 AM — SD-538
Hearings to examine legislative proposals to examine corporate governance.
10:00 AM — SD-226
Business meeting to consider S.2245, to include New Zealand in the list of foreign states whose nationals are eligible for admission into the United States as E-1 and E-2 nonimmigrants if United States nationals are treated similarly by the Government of New Zealand, S.2823, to modernize copyright law, and the nominations of Britt Cagle Grant, of Georgia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit, David James Porter, of Pennsylvania, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, Holly A. Brady, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Indiana, Andrew Lynn Brasher, to be United States District Judge for the Middle District of Alabama, James Patrick Hanlon, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Indiana, David Steven Morales, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas, Lance E. Walker, to be United States District Judge for the District of Maine, and John D. Jordan, to be United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Missouri.
10:30 AM — SD-106
Business meeting to markup an original bill making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and an original bill making appropriations for the Department of Labor, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Education, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019.
