The Weekly Hill Update – Government Contracts, Procurement & PPP

Below is this week’s congressional update by
BakerHostetler’s Federal Policy team. We’ll continue to
post in weeks when both chambers of Congress are in session.

HEADLINES

• Congress is continuing to haggle over must-pass legislation
  before the end of the fiscal year this month, including government
  funding legislation.




• Lawmakers are also negotiating other priorities, including
  banning stock trading by members of Congress, and reforming the
  Electoral Count Act.




• President Joe Biden is in London to attend Queen Elizabeth
  II’s funeral; he will then return to attend the United Nations
  General Assembly in New York this week.

HOUSE

• The House will be in session tonight through Thursday, taking up legislation to help student loan borrowers
  whose debt is linked to a spouse or an ex-spouse.




• Tomorrow, the House Small Business Committee will hold an
  oversight hearing with the Small Business
  Administration’s Office of International Trade.




• The Financial Services Committee on Wednesday will hold a hearing on “Holding Megabanks
  Accountable” with CEOs of several of the nation’s largest
  financial institutions.




• The full hearing schedule can be found here.

SENATE

• The Senate will continue votes on President Joe Biden’s judicial
  nominees.




• The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy,
  Antitrust, and Consumer Rights tomorrow will hold an oversight hearing on enforcement of antitrust laws.




• Wednesday, the Senate Banking Committee will hold a similarly
  titled hearing with the same group of bank CEOs as
  the House Financial Services Committee.




• The current list of committee meetings can be found here.

WHITE HOUSE

• The president and first lady today will attend Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral
  at Westminster Abbey.




• Biden will then travel to New York to speak Wednesday at the
  United Nations General Assembly, where world leaders will focus
  their attention on the war in Ukraine.




• While at the UN, he will also hold his first bilateral meeting with new British Prime Minister Liz
  Truss.

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