House Budget Committee to take up budget-reform bills

The House Budget Committee next week will take up four bills aimed at revising the congressional budget process, part of a group of 10 bills that Republicans introduced last year.

In a two-day meeting Jan. 24-25, the committee will mark up:

H.R. 3582, the Pro-Growth Budgeting Act, to require macroeconomic analysis of the budget;

H.R. 3578, the Baseline Reform Act, reforming the budget baseline to remove automatic inflation increases in discretionary accounts;

H.R. 3581, the Budget and Accounting Transparency Act, to bring government-sponsored entities and the U.S. Postal Service into the budget, and;

H.R. 3575, the Legally Binding Budget Act, to give congressionally passed budgets the force of law.

The Budget Committee markups are just one of a handful of committee meetings taking place next week. Details on these hearings follow:

House Budget

Jan. 24-25, markup of budget process reform bills

10 a.m., 210 Cannon House Office Building

House Energy and Commerce

Subcommittee on Energy and Power

Jan. 25, “A Legislative Hearing on H.R. 3548, the North American Energy Access Act”

8 a.m., 2123 Rayburn House Office Building

House Foreign Affairs

Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health and Human Rights

Jan. 24, “Examining Ongoing Human Rights Abuses in Vietnam”

2 p.m., 2200 Rayburn House Office Building

House Judiciary

Jan. 24-25, markup of H.R. 1433, the Private Property Rights Protection Act, and H.R. 3796, the Adam Walsh Reauthorization Act.

10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn House Office Building