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Events

Wednesday, February 12

9:30 AM: Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee
Markup of Disaster Loan Bills, Cutting SBA Headquarters Staff, and Committee Rules
10 AM: Senate Budget Committee
Markup of Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Resolution - Day 1
10 AM: Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee
The Arctic and Greenland’s Geostrategic Importance to U.S. Interests
10 AM: Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee
Nomination of Lori M. Chavez-DeRemer to serve as Secretary of Labor
10 AM: Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
Advancing Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration Technologies and Ensuring Effective Implementation of the USE IT Act
10 AM: House Financial Services Committee
The Federal Reserve's Semi-Annual Monetary Policy Report
10 AM: House Judiciary Committee
Elon Musk's Conspiracy-Theory Attack on the Biden Administration
10 AM: House Science, Space, and Technology Committee
Energy Subcommittee
From Transformative Science to Technological Breakthroughs: DOE’s National Laboratories
10 AM: House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee
Improper Payments
10 AM: House Natural Resources Committee
Markup of Water, Conservation, and Grazing Bills, and the Committee Authorization and Oversight Plan
10:15 AM: Senate Judiciary Committee
Nomination Hearing: Gail Slater for Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust, and Todd Blanche for Deputy Attorney General
2:30 PM: Senate Indian Affairs Committee
Native Communities’ Priorities for the 119th Congress
4 PM: National Education Association
Rally to Protect Students and Public Schools

Thursday, February 13

8:30 AM: House Foreign Affairs Committee
USAID
9 AM: Senate Judiciary Committee
Vote on the Nomination of Kash Patel to be Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
9:30 AM: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee
Perspectives from the field: farmer and rancher views on the agricultural economy (Part 2)
9:30 AM: Senate Armed Services Committee
The Posture of U.S. Northern and Southern Command
10 AM: Senate Budget Committee
Markup of Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Resolution - Day 2
10 AM: Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee
Nomination of Linda McMahon to serve as Secretary of Education
10 AM: Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
U.S. Foreign Aid
12 PM: Metro DC DSA
No Ban on Gender-Affirming Care For Trans Youth: Demand DC Attorney General Uphold Trans Rights & DC Law