House committee work next week includes a look at various pieces of the Obama administration's FY 2012 budget request, even as the House will also be working to negotiate an extension of the FY 2011 budget.
House committees on Administration, Armed Services, Commerce and Homeland Security will hold hearings next week on the FY 2012 budget. Several other hearings are also planned, including on such issues as the last year's healthcare law and U.S. foreign policy priorities.
A listing of full House committee hearings follows:
March 1, on the 2012 budget request for the Navy
House Education and the Workforce
March 1, on education regulations
House Energy & Commerce
March 1, on "The Consequences of Obamacare: Impact on Medicaid and State Health Care Reform"
House Financial Services
March 1, on oversight of the Department of Housing and Urban Development
March 1, to examine the Obama administration's report to Congress on mortgage finance reform
March 2, on monetary policy and the state of the economy (Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies)
House Foreign Affairs
March 1, to assess U.S. foreign policy priorities
House Homeland Security
March 3, on the FY 2012 budget request for the Department of Homeland Security
House Administration
March 1-2, on funding for the 112th Congress
House Natural Resources
March 1, on the impact of the administration's wild lands order on jobs and economic growth
March 3, oversight hearing on Department of the Interior spending and the 2012 budget proposal
House Oversight & Government Reform
March 3, on "How U.S. Taxpayers are Paying Double for Failing Government"
House Science, Space, and Technology
March 2, on the FY 2012 NASA budget
March 3, on the FY 2012 Department of Energy budget
House Small Business
March 2, on the Small Business Administration FY 2012 budget
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
March 2, on ongoing intelligence activities (closed)