Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced today that he is cancelling most of the traditional month-long August recess. Under the new schedule, the Senate would have a week-long recess at the beginning of August but would return to Washington for the rest of the month.
Read more about McConnell’s decision here, here, and here. It is still possible that the August recess could be extended.
The House has not announced any changes to its August schedule.
U.S. House of Representatives
HOUSE FINANCIAL SERVICES
Subcommittee Hearing
Homeless Children
June 6, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn Bldg.
HOUSE OVERSIGHT & GOVERNMENT REFORM
Subcommittee Hearing
Iran Nuclear Agreement
June 6, 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn Bldg.
HOUSE RULES
Full Committee Business Meeting
Energy and Water Development Appropriations
June 6, 3 p.m., H-313, U.S. Capitol
HOUSE WAYS & MEANS
Subcommittee Hearing
Consumer-Directed Health Plans
June 6, 11 a.m., 1100 Longworth Bldg.
HOUSE SCIENCE, SPACE & TECHNOLOGY
Subcommittee Hearing
Future Electric Grid
June 7, 1 p.m., 2318 Rayburn Bldg.
HOUSE TRANSPORTATION & INFRASTRUCTURE
Subcommittee Hearing
Maritime Transportation in the Arctic
June 7, 11 a.m., 2167 Rayburn Bldg.
HOUSE JUDICIARY
Subcommittee Hearing
U.S. Census Questions
June 8, 9 a.m., 2141 Rayburn Bldg.
U.S. Senate
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS
Subcommittee Hearing
Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations
June 5, 10:15 a.m., 124 Dirksen Bldg.
SENATE ENERGY & NATURAL RESOURCES
Full Committee Hearing
Wildland Fire Outlook and Management
June 5, 10 a.m., 366 Dirksen Bldg.
SENATE COMMERCE, SCIENCE & TRANSPORTATION
Subcommittee Hearing
Preventing Abuse in Athletics
June 5, 3 p.m., 253 Russell Bldg.
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS
Subcommittee Hearing
Defense Appropriations
June 6, 10 a.m., SVC-217, U.S. Capitol
SENATE JUDICIARY
Subcommittee Hearing
China’s Infiltration of U.S. Academia
June 6, 2:30 p.m., 226 Dirksen Bldg.
Congress is currently in recess for Memorial Day and both chambers are scheduled to return next week. The Appropriations Committees in both chambers are expected to continue to move forward on the FY2019 appropriations process after they reconvene.
The FY2019 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday would fund the Department of Energy Office of Science (Science) at $6.65 billion. The office is currently funded at $6.26 billion and the Administration requested $5.39 billion for it in FY2019.
Within Science, Fusion would be funded at $425.0 million.
Additional details about the Senate bill are available here.
During a markup session earlier today, the full Senate Appropriations Committee cleared its first two spending bills for FY2019, the Energy and Water Development and Agriculture bills. They were approved at the subcommittee level on Tuesday.
Office of Federal Relations will provide details as they become available.