This Week in DC
May 14 - May 18, 2012
The Senate returns Monday, May 14 and the House reconvenes Tuesday afternoon. The House takes up HR 4970, a measure that would reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act. The chamber also plans to debate HR 4310, the fiscal 2013 defense authorization bill.
The Senate considers a House reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank (HR 2072).
House and Senate Appropriations Committees continue work on fiscal 2013 spending bills.
Committee Hearings and Markups
Tuesday, May 15
- Senate Appropriations Committee: Homeland Security Subcommittee Markup – FY13 DHS Appropriations Bill
Wednesday, May 16
- Senate Appropriations Committee: Interior-Environment Subcommittee Hearing – FY13 Budget Request for EPA
- House Appropriations Committee: Full Committee Markup – FY 2013 Homeland Security Bill and FY 2013 Military Construction/Veterans Affairs Bill
- House Judiciary Committee: Full Committee Hearing – Implementation of the America Invents Act
- House Veterans’ Affairs Committee: Economic Opportunity Subcommittee Hearing - Examining Executive Order #13607 and Its Impact on Schools and Veterans
- House Ways and Means Committee: Oversight Subcommittee Hearing – Operations and Oversight of Tax-exempt Organizations
Thursday, May 17
- House Appropriations Committee: Full Committee Markup – FY 2013 Defense and State/Foreign Operations Bill
Friday, May 18
- House Agriculture Committee: Conservation, Energy, and Forestry Subcommittee Hearing - Formulation of the 2012 Farm Bill: Energy and Forestry Programs
2012 Archived Updates
Federal Relations Contact
Washington, DC Office
Kurt Schlieter
Associate Vice President and Director of Federal Relations
kschliet@tennessee.edu
240-271-8305
