Week of June 1, 2026

House Floor

The House will meet at noon for morning hour and 2:00pm for legislative business. Any request for a record vote will be postponed.

House Judiciary Committee

Thursday, June 4th at 10:00am
2141 Rayburn House Office Building

Medicines and IP. The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet (Chair Darrell Issa R-CA-48) will hold a hearing titled, “Medicines and IP: Balancing Innovation and Access,” which will “examine how to balance robust patent rights with greater access to affordable medicines, like generics and biosimilars, to sustain the United States’ innovative edge in today’s environment.”

WITNESSES:

  • Krista Carver, Partner, Covington & Burling
  • Michael Carrier, Board of Governors Professor, Rutgers Law School
  • Rachel Goode, Senior Vice President and Head of Legal and Intellectual Property, Fresenius Kabi
  • Jamie Simpson, Chief Policy Officer and Counsel, Council for Innovation Promotion

Hearing Link: https://judiciary.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/medicines-and-ip-balancing-innovation-and-access

Senate Floor

The Senate will be back in session today, June 1st and at 5:30pm will proceed to a roll call vote on the motion to invoke cloture on Executive Calendar #736, Kathleen S. Lane to be United States District Judge for the District of Montana.

Senate Judiciary Committee

Wednesday, June 3rd at 2:00pm
226 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Citizenship. The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution (Chair ) will hold a hearing titled, “Protecting American Citizenship III: Denaturalization and its Constitutional Limits.”

            **No witness list as of Monday, June 1st

Hearing Link: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-activity/hearings/protecting-american-citizenship-iii-denaturalization-and-its-constitutional-limits-06-03-2026

 

Thursday, June 4th at 10:15am
216 Hart Senate Office Building

Executive Business Meeting. The Senate Judiciary Committee (Chair Chuck Grassley R-IA) will hold an executive business meeting.

Agenda

Nominees

  1. Michael J. Hendershot, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio
  2. Arthur Roberts Jones, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas
  3. Jeffrey T. Kuntz, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Florida
  4. John George Edward Marck, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas

Legislation

  1. S. 1133, Sunshine in the Courtroom Act of 2025
  2. S. 1146, Cameras in the Courtroom Act

Hearing Link: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-activity/hearings/executive-business-meeting-06-04-2026

Senate Appropriations Committee

Thursday, June 4th at 10:00am
106 Dirksen Senate Office Building  

FY27 CJS Funding. The Senate Appropriations Committee (Chair Susan Collins R-ME) will hold a full committee markup of Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA; Legislative Branch Appropriations Acts; and Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Acts.

Hearing Link: https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/full-committee-markup-of-agriculture-rural-development-fda-legislative-branch-appropriations-acts-and-commerce-justice-science