Hill Heat

Full committee markup of:

• Authorization and Oversight Plan for the 119th Committee on Energy and Commerce for the 119th Congress

Markup memo

02/25/2025 at 10:30AM

On Tuesday, February 25, 2025, at 10:15 a.m., in room 1324 Longworth House Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold an oversight hearing titled “Full Blast: Contrasting Momentum in the Space Mining Economy to the Terrestrial Mining Regulatory Morass.”

02/25/2025 at 10:15AM

Oversight hearing on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers civil works program.

Witnesses:

• Lieutenant General William H. “Butch” Graham Jr., Chief of Engineers and Commanding General, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• Major General Mark C. Quander, Commanding General, Great Lakes and Ohio River Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• Brigadier General Daniel Hibner, Commanding General, South Atlantic Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• Colonel James J. Handura, Commander, South Pacific Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• Colonel George H. Walter, Commander, Southwestern Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

02/25/2025 at 10:00AM

Federal workers and allies will meet to job search, build community and share their stories with Senate offices and the media. Lunch provided to laid-off feds.

10 AM at Hart Senate Building Atrium, 120 Constitution Ave NE.

Media inquiries: [email protected]

02/25/2025 at 10:00AM

Full committee hearing.

Nominee:

• Stephen A. Feinberg, to be Deputy Secretary of Defense

Billionaire investor Stephen Feinberg is the co-chief executive of Cerberus Capital Management LP, a private equity firm that has invested in defense contractors. He served on an intelligence advisory board during Trump’s 2017-2021 White House term.

02/25/2025 at 09:30AM

Full committee hearing. Rescheduled from February 20.

Nominees:

• Troy Edgar to be Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
• Dan Bishop to be Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget

Edgar, the former mayor of Los Alamitos, “led his city to defy California’s sanctuary law.”

Edgar served in the first Trump administration as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for the Department of Homeland Security (confirmed by the U.S. Senate in a vote of 62-31). He oversaw the department’s financial policy, systems modernization, fiscal operations and was responsible for their $90 billion budget.

He started his consulting career at PricewaterhouseCoopers after nearly a decade with Boeing as the CFO for the company’s $3 billion military aircraft logistics and C17 USAF/Boeing Globemaster III Sustainment Partnership business. He later founded Global Conductor, a $130 million corporate consulting firm.

Bishop is the North Carolina legislator who was the author of the notorious anti-transgender “bathroom bill.”

Mass illegal layoffs began at DHS, including FEMA, CISA, and USCIS last week.

02/25/2025 at 09:30AM

Subcommittee hearing.

Repository

Witnesses:

Panel I

• Donna Thompson, Vice-Chair, Fort Hall Business Council of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes
• Chief Allen, Chairman, Coeur d’Alene Tribe

Panel II

• Stacy Shepherd, Executive Officer of Member Services, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
• Audrey Lee, Second Chief, Sac and Fox Nation
• Mike Natchees, Councilman, Ute Indian Tribe

Panel III

• Kirk Francis, Chief, Penobscot Indian Nation
• Corey Hinton, Citizen, Passamaquoddy Tribe
• Brian Harris, Chief, Catawba Nation
• John Johnson, President, Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians

Panel IV

• Kathleen Wooden Knife, President, Rosebud Sioux Tribe
• Justin Song Hawk, Vice-Chairman, Yankton Sioux Tribe
• Frank Star Comes Out, President, Oglala Sioux Tribe

Panel V

• Ryman Lebeau, Chairman, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe
• Janet Alkire, Chairwoman, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

Panel VI

• Steven Orihuela, Chairman, Bishop Paiute Tribe
• Charles Martin, Chairman, Morongo Band of Mission Indians
• Erica Pinto, Chairwoman, Jamul Indian Village
• Cecilia Flores, Tribal Council Chairwoman, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe

02/25/2025 at 09:30AM

With the Trump the administration proposing sweeping changes to U.S. energy policy, join Politico on Tuesday, February 25 at Hotel Washington for discussions about everything from climate change and oil and gas drilling to FERC and the rising stresses on the power grid – featuring interviews with Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), Rep. Bob Latta (R-Ohio), and Rep. Randy Weber (R-Texas).

Sponsored by the National Rural Electric Cooperatives Association.

Speakers:

• Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.)
• Rep. Bob Latta (R-Ohio)
• Rep. Randy Weber (R-Texas)

Executive Conversation:

• Jim Matheson, Chief Executive Officer, NRECA
• Cally Baute, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Media Business, Politico

The program begins at 8:15 am and doors open at 7:45 am. Photo ID required for admission.

Hotel Washington
515 15th Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20004

02/25/2025 at 08:15AM

The Committee on Rules will meet Monday, February 24, 2025 at 4:00 PMET in H-313, The Capitol on the following measures:

• H. Con. Res. 14 – Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2026 through 2034.
• H.J. Res. 20 – Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Energy relating to ‘‘Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Consumer Gas-fired Instantaneous Water Heaters’’.
• H.J. Res. 35 – Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to ‘‘Waste Emissions Charge for Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems: Procedures for Facilitating Compliance, Including Netting and Exemptions’’.

02/24/2025 at 04:00PM

During the last few weeks, we have seen an all-out assault on the public sector workforce by the Trump administration, particularly by Elon Musk’s DOGE. This has led to mass layoffs of career and probationary staff at several key federal agencies in charge of keeping people of the United States safe such as HHS, USAID, FAA, NNSA, EPA, CDC, and more.

These attacks on our federal workforce are unwarranted and unprecedented and has already led to a sharp increase in unemployment, particularly in the Washington, DC metro area.

We must not allow an unelected fascist billionaire to gut our government and undermine our basic constitutional rights without public input and congressional oversight.

Let’s gather along with other federal labor unions, unorganized federal workers, contractors and community supporters to help raise some hardship funds for those who are directly affected by this assault.

At Lyman’s Tavern, 3720 14th St NW & Quincy St NW
7-11 pm

100% of select drinks from sponsors and 10% of all other sales will be donated to a federal workers’ support fund.

02/21/2025 at 07:00PM