Refrigerator Freedom Act, Stop Unaffordable Dishwasher Standards Act, and others

The Committee on Rules will meet Monday, July 8, 2024 at 4:00 PM ET in H-313, The Capitol on the following measures:

  • H.R. 8772 – Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2025
  • H.R. 8281 – Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act
  • H.J. Res. 165 – Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Education relating to Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex in Education Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance.
  • H.R. 7637 – Refrigerator Freedom Act, to prohibit the Secretary of Energy from prescribing or enforcing energy conservation standards for refrigerators, refrigerator-freezers, and freezers that are not cost-effective or technologically feasible
  • H.R. 7700 – Stop Unaffordable Dishwasher Standards Act, to prohibit the Secretary of Energy from prescribing or enforcing energy conservation standards for dishwashers that are not cost-effective or technologically feasible
House Rules Committee
H-313 Capitol

07/08/2024 at 04:00PM

Summer of Heat: Gulf South Rising, Fossil Banks Sinking: March and Mass Civil Disobedience

This will be the largest Summer of Heat action so far. We will engage in a joyous, musical second-line march from Wall Street to Citibank’s HQ. We will carry banners and signs calling out environmental racism and climate chaos, and we will dance and sing and have fun. When we arrive at Citibank’s HQ, hundreds of us will engage in nonviolent civil disobedience in what we expect will be one of the largest mass climate civil disobedience actions in this country for several years. RSVP to get more details closer to the time.

Meeting at Zuccotti Park, CEDAR St, New York, NY 10006

Stop The Money Pipeline
New York
06/28/2024 at 10:00AM

Central America and the Caribbean

Subcommittee hearing entitled “The Curse of Socialism in Central America and the Caribbean”.

Witnesses

  • Eric Jacobstein, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State
  • Greg Howell, Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, U.S. Agency for International Development
House Foreign Affairs Committee
   Western Hemisphere Subcommittee
2172 Rayburn

06/27/2024 at 02:00PM

Ensuring Critical Infrastructure Resilience

Subcommittee hearing entitled “Sector Down: Ensuring Critical Infrastructure Resilience.”

House Homeland Security Committee
   Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee
310 Cannon

06/27/2024 at 02:00PM

Federal Lands Legislation

On Thursday, June 27, 2024, at 10:15 a.m., in room 1334 Longworth House Office Building, the Subcommittee on Federal Lands will hold a legislative hearing on the following bills:

  • H.R. 390 (Rep. Stefanik), “Maurice D. Hinchey Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area Enhancement Act”;
  • H.R. 3971 (Rep. Hill), “Flatside Wilderness Additions Act”;
  • H.R. 6826 (Rep. Mfume), To designate the visitor and education center at Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine as the Paul S. Sarbanes Visitor and Education Center;
  • H.R. 6843 (Rep. Scalise), To expand the boundaries of the Atchafalaya National Heritage Area to include Lafourche Parish, Louisiana;
  • H.R. 8206 (Rep. Franklin), To ensure that Big Cypress National Preserve may not be designated as wilderness or as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System, and for other purposes; and
  • H.R. 8219 (Rep. Jill Tokuda, D-Hawaii), “Lahaina National Heritage Area Act”

Witnesses:

  • Joy Beasley, Associate Director – Cultural Resources, Partnerships, and Science, National Park Service, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C. [H.R. 390, H.R. 6826, H.R. 6843, H.R. 8206, and H.R. 8219]
  • Talbert Cypress, Chairman, Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, Miami, Florida [H.R. 8206]
  • Sean Kelleher, Historian, Town of Saratoga, Saratoga, New York [H.R. 390]
  • Katherine Andrews, Director – Office of Outdoor Recreation, Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism, Little Rock, Arkansas [H.R. 3971]
  • Justin Lemoine, Executive Director, Atchafalaya National Heritage Area, Baton Rouge, Louisiana [H.R. 6843]

Hearing memo

House Natural Resources Committee
   Federal Lands Subcommittee
1334 Longworth

06/27/2024 at 10:15AM