Featured House hearings: Bernanke testifies next week

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will testify at the House Financial Services Committee next week on monetary policy and the state of the economy. His Wednesday testimony will occur with the memory of Friday's poor jobs report that said the unemployment rate rose to 9.2 percent, and only 18,000 private sector jobs were created.

Also next week, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifies at the House Budget Committee on the Independent Payment Advisory Board, which Republicans say is a healthcare rationing board.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee meets to mark up the Foreign Relations Authorization Act.

Details on these and other full committee hearings follow:

House Appropriations

July 13, full committee markup of2012 Commerce, Justice, Science appropriations bill

10 a.m., 2359 Rayburn House Office Building

House Budget

July 12, "Medicare's Future: An Examination of the Independent Payment Advisory Board," HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifies

10 a.m., 210 Cannon House Office Building

July 13, "Medicare and Social Security: The Fiscal Facts," chief actuaries from the Social Security Administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services testify

10 a.m., 210 Cannon House Office Building

House Financial Services

July 13, to hear testimony from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke on monetary policy and the state of the economy

10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn House Office Building

House Foreign Affairs

July 14, to markup the Foreign Relations Authorization Act

10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn House Office Building

House Natural Resources

July 15, "Offshore Energy: Interior Department's Plans for Offshore Energy, Revenue, and Safety Reorganization"

9 a.m., 1324 Longworth House Office Building

House Science, Space and Technology

July 12, "A Review of NASA's Space Launch System"

10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn House Office Building

House Ways & Means

July 13, "Joint Hearing on Tax Reform and the Tax Treatment of Debt and Equity," joint hearing with Senate Finance

9 a.m., HVC 210

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

July 14, intelligence oversight hearing

10 a.m., HVC 304 (closed hearing)