Subcommittee on Defense
8:00 AM ET
Pete Hegseth (Secretary of War, Department of Defense) defended the $1.5 trillion FY27 request as a warfighting budget to rebuild the industrial base.
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May 11 – May 15, 2026 · 54 hearings on the schedule that week. Entries link to transcripts and summaries where they exist.
No hearings were on the schedule for Monday.
8:00 AM ET
Pete Hegseth (Secretary of War, Department of Defense) defended the $1.5 trillion FY27 request as a warfighting budget to rebuild the industrial base.
2:00 PM ET
Admiral Daryl Caudle (Chief of Naval Operations) warned the Navy will start cutting training and operations in July without an emergency supplemental.
4:00 PM ET
Scott Turner (Secretary, US Department of Housing and Urban Development) defended FY27 budget eliminating CDBG and shifting homelessness aid toward treatment-focused models.
9:00 AM ET
Outcome unconfirmed. We have not confirmed whether this hearing took place. A missing recording does not establish cancellation.
2:30 PM ET
Shira Perlmutter (Register of Copyrights and Director, US Copyright Office) said DMCA cannot curb foreign piracy sites and endorsed no-fault injunctions as timely remedy.
9:30 AM ET
Daniel P. Driscoll (Secretary of the Army, Department of the Army) announced the Pentagon duty-status reform proposal just cleared OMB during questioning on Guard benefits inequities.
3:30 PM ET
Michael E. Conley (Commander, Air Force Special Operations Command) said AFSOC executed its two largest deployments in 36 years while sustaining operations across five other commands.
10:00 AM ET
Thomas E. Austin (Architect of the Capitol, Architect of the Capitol) sought $1.67 billion, up 105%, for deferred projects including Rayburn renovation despite unlikely full funding.
10:30 AM ET
Jay Hurst disclosed Iran operations have cost $29 billion excluding base reconstruction, with munitions costs fixed but military construction estimates still unknown.
2:00 PM ET
Kash Patel (Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation) categorically denied reports of excessive drinking and being unreachable as FBI director during heated questioning.
3:00 PM ET
Outcome unconfirmed. We have not confirmed whether this hearing took place. A missing recording does not establish cancellation.
4:00 PM ET
The committee advanced rules for cashless bail, monitor accountability, police support resolution, and $157 billion MilCon-VA bill on party-line 8-2 votes.
5:00 PM ET
Closed session. This meeting was scheduled as closed to the public. No public recording or transcript is expected.
9:30 AM ET
Sen. Wicker (R-MS) said the department failed to request warhead funding for the nuclear sea-launched cruise missile despite statutory direction to accelerate it.
2:30 PM ET
Closed session. This meeting was scheduled as closed to the public. No public recording or transcript is expected.
9:30 AM ET
Tom Schultz (Chief, U.S. Forest Service) confirmed the fiscal 2027 budget would transfer wildland fire to Interior and eliminate research and state forestry programs.
10:00 AM ET
Sen. Capito said FY2027 budget is nearly $80M below FY2026, with Ho K. Nieh (Chairman, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission) detailing $6M and $9M Advance Act savings.
10:00 AM ET
Rep. Mast (R, FL-21) announced HR 8649 failed 23-23 while the committee advanced ten other bills including Taiwan, Greece IMET, and Sudan measures.
10:00 AM ET
The committee advanced H.R. 5396, the Price Stability Act, by 30-21 to replace the Fed's dual mandate with sole price stability.
10:00 AM ET
James E. Erdman III (Senior Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency) testified CIA scientists repeatedly assessed COVID-19 as a lab leak, but managers rewrote conclusions and withheld them.
10:00 AM ET
Chip Roy claimed Texas Islamic enclaves, tribunals and recent attacks prove Sharia threatens the Constitution, while opponents called the claims baseless election-year fear-mongering.
10:00 AM ET
Doug Burgum (Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior) defended FY27 budget projecting nearly $20B revenue and proposing unification of wildfire, ESA, and offshore programs.
10:15 AM ET
Rep. Latta asserted states must retain transmission siting authority and rejected federal mandates imposing multistate line costs on local ratepayers.
2:00 PM ET
The subcommittee advanced all ten bipartisan health bills, including ALS, tick-borne disease, breast cancer education, and school-based centers, to the full committee.
10:15 AM ET
Patrick Sughrue (Senior Corporate Director of Health, Safety, & Environmental, Cianbro Corp.) said top ABC STEP members cut recordable incidents 85% using leading indicators.
10:15 AM ET
Danielle A. Runyan (Senior Counselor to the Secretary, Department of Veterans Affairs) said VA terminated West LA leases underpaying taxpayers by $40 million annually.
10:30 AM ET
Lee Zeldin (Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) defended the $4.2 billion request citing $14.8 billion in unspent revolving funds and $30 billion in canceled grants.
10:30 AM ET
Outcome unconfirmed. We have not confirmed whether this hearing took place. A missing recording does not establish cancellation.
2:00 PM ET
Outcome unconfirmed. We have not confirmed whether this hearing took place. A missing recording does not establish cancellation.
11:00 AM ET
The committee favorably reported the $77.3 billion FY27 Commerce-Justice-Science bill by 32-28 after adopting the manager's amendment and Republican en bloc amendment.
2:00 PM ET
Thomas Harker (Deputy Chief Financial Officer, U.S. Department of War) pledged a clean agency-wide audit opinion by FY28 using Joint Task Force Audit, AI, and Marine Corps model.
2:30 PM ET
Sen. Ernst spotlighted the Made in America Manufacturing Finance Act raising SBA manufacturer loan limits from $5 million to $10 million.
2:30 PM ET
A California jury found Meta and YouTube negligent for addictive design harming a teen girl, while New Mexico won $375 million against Meta.
3:30 PM ET
William Bailey (Performing the Temporary Duties of Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, Department of the Air Force) said bridge retrofit costs under $400 million.
3:30 PM ET
Sen. Kim announced new bicameral legislation requiring national surveys to track multi-generational caregivers to finally quantify the eleven-million-strong sandwich generation.
4:00 PM ET
Triana McNeil (Director, Homeland Security and Justice Team, U.S. Government Accountability Office) said GAO investigators carried prohibited weapons into 30 of 30 tested VA facilities.
8:00 AM ET
Brad Cooper said Operation Epic Fury achieved all military objectives, degrading 90% of Iran's missile, drone and naval industrial base.
9:45 AM ET
The committee favorably reported seven election bills, including unanimous approval of the Campaign Finance Transparency Act by an 11-0 vote.
10:00 AM ET
Cheryl Minter (Mother of Stephanie Minter) testified her daughter's February murder by repeat offender Abdul Jallow was preventable after 18 arrests and ignored warnings.
10:00 AM ET
The Defense Department requested $28.6 billion for military construction and family housing, an $8.8 billion increase billed as generational investment to rebuild installations.
10:00 AM ET
Scott Turner (Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development) defended a $73.5 billion FY27 HUD budget eliminating CDBG and HOME while proposing work requirements.
10:00 AM ET
Christopher Smith (Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs) confirmed certain munitions for Estonia and Lithuania are delayed due to Gulf contingencies.
10:00 AM ET
Robert Cekada (Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) admitted ATF inadvertently released Tiahrt-protected trace data to Gun Owners of America due to faulty redaction software.
10:00 AM ET
Hung Cao (Acting Secretary of the Navy, Department of the Navy) requested $377.5 billion to buy 34 ships and fund fleet readiness to 95%.
10:15 AM ET
Subcommittee advanced HR 8739 on brownfields and HR 2145 on recycling as amended with Evans composting-data amendment to full committee.
10:15 AM ET
Committee favorably reported eight Justice Department and judicial nominations and unanimously advanced Trey's Law and six bipartisan Police Week bills.
10:15 AM ET
Linda McMahon (Secretary, Department of Education) unveiled a budget maintaining Title I at $18 billion while adding $2 billion literacy and numeracy block grants.
10:30 AM ET
Senate Banking Committee advanced H.R.3633, the digital asset market structure bill, on a 15-9 vote after adopting manager and bipartisan amendments.
10:30 AM ET
The committee advanced Boebert's Rural Jobs and Hydropower Expansion Act 21-14 after defeating Huffman's safeguards amendment 14-21 and approved five bipartisan bills by unanimous consent.
2:00 PM ET
Chairman Bost advanced multiple veterans bills including HR 6698 favorably reported while postponing recorded votes on contested amendments for further consideration.
2:45 PM ET
Emil Michael (Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, Office of the Secretary of Defense) announced five fixed-price contracts with new entrants for low-cost munitions delivering in 2027.
3:00 PM ET
The subcommittee unanimously advanced seven bipartisan DHS intelligence reform bills to the full committee with favorable recommendations for further consideration.
9:00 AM ET
Army leaders confirmed the Pentagon abruptly canceled the 2nd Armored Brigade's Poland rotation within two weeks despite advanced elements already deployed overseas.
9:00 AM ET
Charles Fleischmann advanced the $58.5 billion FY27 Energy-Water bill to full committee by voice vote with $27.1 billion for NNSA modernization.