Up next week: Transportation, education grants, housing

The House next week is expected to take up at least three bills when it returns next week, including H.R. 658, which would reauthorize Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) programs through 2014.

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee marked up the bill on March 10, and Republicans will accept amendments to the bill that are introduced by March 29. The committee has also approved a bill to authorize FAA spending through May 31, but as of Wednesday that bill was not scheduled for consideration in the last week of March.

Also up next week is H.R. 471, the Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Act. This bill, sponsored by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), would authorize the Education Department to award five-year grants to nonprofit groups to carry out a program providing expanded school choice to students in the District of Columbia.

Like the FAA bill, Republicans will accept amendments to H.R. 471 through March 29.

The third bill the House is expected to consider next week is H.R. 839, which would eliminate Treasury's Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP). The House last week approved a rule for the HAMP Termination Act, the last of four federal mortgage programs that House Republicans have vowed to cut. Republicans have argued that cutting these programs will save the federal government billions of dollars, but the White House has said it would veto each of these bills.