Congressional Outlook

Floor Outlook

The Senate Will Not Vote Again Until April 20

Congress mulls even more economic relief after passing $2 trillion aid package

Pelosi Says Free Virus Testing, Treatment Could Be in Next Bill

Congress Last Week

Weekly Digest of the Congressional Record

Floor Activity Headlines

Senate Rejects GOP Pushback on Expanded Unemployment Insurance in Relief Bill

Senate sends sweeping $2 trillion relief package to the House

House approves historic $2.2 trillion economic relief package

Pro-Life Analysis of the CARES Act

H.R. 748: CARES Act

The Hyde Amendment is included by reference in this bill several times, protecting hundreds of billions of dollars from funding abortion or abortion coverage:

Supplemental appropriations: The bill applies the pro-life protections (including the Hyde Amendment) in the most recently passed LHHS appropriations bill to the new supplemental discretionary health funding in Division B of H.R. 748. This includes the $100 billion appropriated to the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund to reimburse eligible health care providers for health care related expenses or lost revenues attributable to coronavirus.

Senate Committee Schedule

Thursday, March 26, 2020

Armed Services
Hearings to examine the posture of the Department of the Army in review of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2021 and the Future Years Defense Program.

Senate Floor Schedule

Program for Saturday: Senate continues consideration of the motion to proceed to consideration of H.R. 748, Middle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act (The legislative vehicle for COVID III).

(The first draft for Phase III from Senate leadership is S. 3548.)

Congressional Outlook

Committee Activity

Safety concern prompts Senate to cancel critical coronavirus hearing

House Republicans press for hearing on 'threat' China poses to US pharmaceutical industry


Floor Outlook

The growing coronavirus stimulus packages

Pelosi, Schumer Respond to McConnell’s ‘Phase 3’ CCP Virus Proposal

House only to reconvene when stimulus package vote ready

Congress Last Week

Weekly Digest of the Congressional Record

Floor Activity Headlines

House Passes Revised Coronavirus Bill Guaranteeing Free Diagnostic Testing
• Hyde Amendment Survives in Virus Bill
• Bill harms independent doctors
• House Democrats tried adding benefits for anyone in “a committed relationship.”

Senate clears $104B House coronavirus bill
• rejects Rand Paul's offset plan for $104B

House Committee Schedule

Thursday — March 19, 2020

Oil and Gas Development in California: The Need to Protect Public Health and the Environment
Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources (Committee on Natural Resources)

Source: House.gov

Senate Committee Schedule

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Hearings to examine an emerging disease threat, focusing on how the U.S. is responding to COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, part 2.

Senate Floor Schedule

Program for Monday: Senate resumes consideration of the motion to proceed to consideration of H.R. 6172, USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act, and votes on the motion to invoke cloture thereon at 5:30 p.m.