This Week in Congress

This week, the House voted on the Midnight Rules Relief Act (H.R. 77), which would allow multiple regulations from the final year of a president’s term to be canceled by a single joint resolution of disapproval, and a bill (H.R. 35) that would impose new criminal penalties on drivers who evade U.S. Border Patrol agents or other law enforcement officers.  Also, the House voted on six bills out of the Financial Services committee including a bill (H.R. 736) that would delay the deadline for businesses to report beneficial ownership information to FinCEN to January 2026, two bills that address Chinese currency manipulation, a bill to reduce the required number of board meetings for certain federal credit unions, and two measures relating to veterans’ housing programs.

The Senate voted on the nominations of Tulsi Gabbard to be the Director of National Intelligence, Robert Kennedy for Secretary of Health and Human Services, Howard Lutnick for Secretary of Commerce, Brooke Rollins for Secretary of Agriculture, and Kelly Loeffler to head the Small Business Administration.  Finally, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee held a hearing on the nomination of former Rep. Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR) to be Secretary of Labor.