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Nomination of Smith for Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development
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Jun 8 – Jun 12, 2026 · 46 hearings on the schedule that week. Entries link to transcripts and summaries where they exist.
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Virginia Foxx convened Rules Committee to advance Secure America Act providing $70 billion for ICE and CBP through 2029 via reconciliation.
4:30 PM ET
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9:15 AM ET
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9:30 AM ET
Tuberville advanced the FY27 personnel NDAA mark after adopting 58 bipartisan amendments and voting to report recommendations to the full committee.
10:00 AM ET
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11:00 AM ET
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10:00 AM ET
Ian Jefferies (President and Chief Executive Officer, Association of American Railroads) reported 2025 was safest rail year and urged performance-based, mode-neutral regulation.
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Treasury data showed $312 billion in suspicious cartel-linked Chinese laundering activity flowed through 489 US depository institutions from 2020 to 2024.
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Jim Jordan alleged a superseding indictment shows the Southern Poverty Law Center paid four million dollars to extremist field sources while fundraising surged.
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Chairman Jeff Hurd said HR 6917 to place 3,156 BLM acres into trust for Las Vegas Paiute Tribe contains a drafting error requiring correction before advancement.
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Chairman Latta convened hearing on six bills to streamline NRC licensing, enrichment construction, fuel recycling, transparency, advisory reform and staff pay.
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Supporters promoted HR 8347, the Rural Health Care Act, to classify qualified locum tenens clinicians as independent contractors and preserve rural patient access.
10:30 AM ET
Mitch McConnell warned the Air Force $338.8 billion request relies dangerously on one-off reconciliation funding that will likely never materialize.
11:00 AM ET
Robert Aderholt advanced the FY27 Labor-HHS-Education bill to the full committee on an 11-7 recorded vote with no amendments adopted.
2:00 PM ET
Rep. Smith convened first legislative hearing on eight digital asset tax bills addressing mining, staking, stablecoins, and federal compliance burdens.
3:00 PM ET
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Committee advanced S.140 on an 11-9 roll-call vote after rejecting amendments to remove the roadless rule repeal and restore firefighter workforce provisions.
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Andrea Travnik (Assistant Secretary, Department of the Interior) announced Interior will publish a final EIS this summer imposing a ten-year post-2026 operating framework.
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Frank J. Bisignano (Commissioner, Social Security Administration) claimed phone waits fell from 42 minutes to under five and denied adding living people to the Death Master File.
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Bruce Westerman advanced four bipartisan bills by unanimous consent including bird habitat stewardship, tribal land exchange, Carlsbad mineral leasing, and Yuma Proving Ground expansion.
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Rep. Fitzgerald accused the NFL of violating the 1961 Sports Broadcasting Act by moving games behind streaming paywalls that raise consumer costs.
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Chris Wright (Secretary of Energy, U.S. Department of Energy) announced the first new non-light-water reactor in four decades reached criticality on June fourth.
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Regina Wallace-Jones (CEO, ActBlue) invoked the Fifth Amendment to every question about foreign donations and was excused after Republicans tabled a Democratic subpoena motion 5-3.
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Rep. Flood cited HUD OIG data showing only $64.7 billion of $109.8 billion CDBG-DR funds ever spent amid calls for reform.
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David Prouty (Member, National Labor Relations Board) said the restored quorum cut the backlog from 591 to 396 cases after deciding 369 cases in five months.
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Witnesses unanimously urged a full 16-year USMCA renewal preserving duty-free access ahead of July joint review to protect farm certainty.
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Brooke L. Rollins (Secretary of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture) confirmed six New World screwworm cases in Texas and New Mexico and detailed $1.3 billion response effort.
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Brian Nesvik (Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) defended the $1.3 billion FY27 budget prioritizing faster energy consultations, species delistings, and expanded hunting access.
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H. Griffith convened review of Lower Costs More Transparency Act and Patients Deserve Price Tags Act to codify hospital and insurer price disclosure rules.
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Senate Judiciary heard testimony from five judicial nominees including Daniel Trainor for the Eighth Circuit in first blue-slip hearing this Congress.
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Chairman Tim Walberg accused Chicago, Loudoun County, and San Francisco districts of excluding parents through gender identity, bathroom, and curriculum policies without taking any vote.
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Sen. Scott revealed an Anthropic letter alleging Alibaba executed its largest known distillation attack to steal American AI models today.
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Thomas Hoenig (Distinguished Senior Fellow, Mercatus Center at George Mason University) and other witnesses urged Congress to preserve the twelve-bank federated Federal Reserve System.
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Andrew Gradison (Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Health, Veterans Health Administration, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs) said EPS is nationwide with 29,000 providers and 150,000 appointments booked.