This week: Nada is on the schedule. No committees will meet to consider bills, not even the respective chambers' Appropriations committees. The Rules committees of the respective chambers will meet, but since they only care about whether a bill is Constitutional (though a court may disagree) and don't take testimony on a bill, I don't regard that as "consideration."
Note: HHR refers to a hearing room in the House building; SHR refers to one in the Senate building.
Note2: Generally, I'll only specify bills that look to spread propaganda. Other bills may be more conventionally bad (think: corrupt or other misuses of public monies and/or authority). My recommendation is that if an agenda covers an area of interest to you, read the entire agenda.
Note3: Each chamber's respective Rules Committee meets on Monday, the House's in HHR4, generally at 1 p.m. and the Senate's in Senate Caucus Room 1, generally also at 1 p.m. Both committees serve as rubber stamps for bills leadership wants to be advanced and gatekeepers for measures that leadership wants stopped.
Note4: Meeting start times may be listed, but are flexible. Before journeying to the Capitol or viewing the meeting online, verify the start time.
Note5: Watch for strikers, or strike everything amendments. Those involve inserting language that replaces the entirety of a bill. Those can be introduced at any time and can make a previously harmless bill into a very bad one.
On Tuesday, 4/2
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Senate Health and Human Services meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. On the agenda: no bills, just three executive nominations, if those are assigned to the committee.
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