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
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
- Michael J. Hendershot, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio
- Arthur Roberts Jones, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas
- Jeffrey T. Kuntz, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Florida
- John George Edward Marck, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas
Legislation
- S. 1133, Sunshine in the Courtroom Act of 2025
- 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.