Hill Heat

Full committee nomination hearing.

Nominee:

• Linda McMahon, Stamford, CT

McMahon is the board chair of the neo-fascist, oil-backed climate-denier America First Policy Institute and was co-chair of the Trump transition team.

Business meeting to consider an original resolution authorizing expenditures by the committee during the 119th Congress; to be immediately followed by a hearing entitled, “Eliminating waste by the foreign aid bureaucracy.”

Full committee hearing.

Witnesses:

Panel 1

• Bret Erickson, Chairman, U.S. Government Relations Council, International Fresh Produce Association, Edinburg, TX
• Mr. Jeremy Hinton, Chairman, Kentucky Horticulture Council, President, LaRue County Farm Bureau, Kentucky Farm Bureau Federation, Hodgenville, KY
• Dr. Tim Boring, Director, Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Stockbridge, MI
• Mrs. Anna Rhinewalt, Council Member, Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation/Mississippi Sweet Potato Council, Senatobia, MS
• Mr. Ben Etcheverry, President, New Mexico Chile Association, Deming, NM

Panel 2

• Mr. Ben Lehfeldt, President, American Sheep Industry Association, Lavina, MT
• Mr. Buck Wehrbein, President, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, Waterloo, NE
• Mr. Harold Howrigan, Board Member, National Milk Producers Federation, Fairfield, VT
• Mrs. Lori Stevermer, President, National Pork Producers Council, Easton, MN
• Mr. John Zimmerman, Chairman, National Turkey Federation, Northfield, MN
• Mr. Tony Wesner, Board Member, United Egg Producers, Seymour, IN

Full committee hearing to receive testimony on the posture of United States Northern Command and United States Southern Command in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2026 and the Future Years Defense Program.

Witnesses:

• Admiral Alvin Holsey, USN, Commander, United States Southern Command
• General Gregory M. Guillot, USAF, Commander, United States Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command

Business meeting to consider the nomination of:

• Kashyap “Kash” Patel, to be Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

• Vote: 12-10 on party lines to favorably report Patel.

A full committee hearing entitled “The USAID Betrayal.” Brian J. Mast (R-Fla.), Chairman

Witnesses:

• Ted Yoho, Former U.S. Representative, Florida’s 3rd Congressional District
• Max Primorac, Former Acting Chief Operating Officer, Senior Research Fellow, Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, The Heritage Foundation
• Andrew Natsios, Former Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development

Educators, parents, community leaders, and elected officials are coming together to stand up for students and public schools. The push to dismantle the Department of Education isn’t just politics—it’s a direct attack on students’ futures. If successful, it will mean overcrowded classrooms, fewer resources for vulnerable students, cuts to services for students with disabilities, the loss of job training programs, higher costs for college, and weakened civil rights protections.

We refuse to stay silent. As Secretary of Education nominee Linda McMahon’s confirmation hearings approach, join us Wednesday, February 12, at 4:00 PM on the Capitol Grounds (corner of Independence Ave SE & First Street SE) to make our voices heard.

Every student deserves the resources to succeed. Be there, dress warmly, and stand with us in this fight for our schools.

A full committee oversight hearing.

The Trump’s administration’s unconstitutional funding freeze is disrupting “funding streams through multiple federal agencies including the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Indian Health Service, Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Native American Programs.”

The federal government provided $32.6 billion in direct funding last year to federally recognized tribes through various programs and agencies.

Among the programs frozen by the Trump administration are the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s tribal assistance programs and grants for Tribal Historic Preservation Offices.

As the freeze was enacted, Gov. Doug Burgum (R-N.D.) was confirmed overwhelmingly by the U.S. Senate on January 30th by a vote of 80-17.

The Democrats who joined the Republicans were Alsobrooks (D-Md.), Baldwin (D-Wisc.), Bennet and Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Cantwell (D-Wash.), Cortez Masto and Rosen (D-Nev.), Durbin (D-Ill.), Gallego and Kelly (D-Ariz.), Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Hassan and Shaheen (D-N.H.), Heinrich and Lujan (D-N.M.), Kaine and Warner (D-Va.), King (I-Maine), Klobuchar and Smith (D-Minn.), Padilla (D-Calif.), Schatz (D-Hawaii), Slotkin (D-Mich.), Warnock (D-Ga.), Welch (D-Vt.), and Whitehouse (D-R.I.).

Stand up for CFPB workers who were illegally fired.

Save Our CFPB

Wednesday, February 12, Noon local time

CFPB HQ: 1700 G St NW

NYC: 26 Federal Plaza

Atlanta: 401 W. Peachtree St.

Chicago: 230 S. Dearborn St. (1 PM EST)

San Francisco: 301 Howard St. (3 pm EST)

Full committee hearing.

The nominees appearing will be:

• Assistant Attorney General: Gail Slater, Antitrust
• Deputy Attorney General: Todd Blanche

Nominees before the committee include:

• Assistant Attorney Generals: Gail Slater, Antitrust; Aaron Reitz, Legal Policy; Harmeet Dhillon, Civil Rights
• Solicitor General: Dean Sauer
• US Attorney for New York Southern District: Jay Clayton
• Deputy Attorney General: Todd Blanche