House Committee Schedule

Monday — July 6, 2020

FY 2021 — State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Subcommittee Markup
Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs (Committee on Appropriations)

FY 2021 — Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Subcommittee Markup
Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies (Committee on Appropriations)

FY 2021 — Military Construction, Veteran Affairs, and Related Agencies Subcommittee Markup
Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies (Committee on Appropriations)

Source: House.gov

Congressional Outlook

Committee Activity

House panel demands Pentagon briefing on Russian bounties

House postpones testimony from key Pompeo aid about IG firing

House committee votes to restrict Trump's Germany troop withdrawal, citing Russia concerns

House Armed Services Committee voted to impede Afghanistan withdrawal

Ousted former U.S. attorney for SDNY to testify before House Judiciary Committee


Floor Outlook

House to vote on removing bust of Supreme Court justice who wrote Dred Scott ruling

Senate on two-week recess

McConnell: Senate Will Consider Relief Bill After July 20

Congress Last Week

Weekly Digest of the Congressional Record

Floor Activity Headlines

McConnell makes strong call for masks, saying there should be no stigma — Floor speech

Their own form of righteousness — Floor speeches

House passes ObamaCare expansion

House rejects OCC change to bank discrimination rule

‘The chair cannot answer that’ — confusion grips the Senate floor — Floor Record

House clears extension of small-business pandemic relief program, sending it to Trump's desk

Senate rejects Paul proposal on withdrawing troops from Afghanistan

Congress clears sanctions bill to punish China over Hong Kong “National Security” Law

Their own form of righteousness

When writing to the Church in Rome, Paul mentioned those who were “seeking to establish their own righteousness” (Romans 10:3).

In the book of Judges, before Israel's monarchy was established, the people of Israel were written of as doing what was “right in his own eyes” (Judges 17:6; 21:25).

When people think they are doing the right thing, they think of themselves as moral people.

The language of morality kicked into an unusually high gear on the Senate floor Monday.