Both the House and Senate will debate their separate drafts of the annual defense authorization bill on their chamber floors this week, including potentially controversial amendments on base names, border wall funding and a host of other issues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Senate returns from a two-week holiday break to pick up their work on the massive defense budget bill, which lawmakers hope to advance to inter-chamber negotiations by the end of the month. The Senate Armed Services Committee passed their version of the measure one month ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
House Rules officials on Friday began setting the parameters for their debate of the House Armed Services Committee\u2019s draft, passed on July 1. Lawmakers proposed more than 700 amendments to the measure, although only a few will get significant discussion time before the full chamber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The authorization bill, which sets the annual military pay raise and contains hundreds of budget policy provisions, has passed into law for 59 consecutive years despite persistent partisan conflicts on a number of other issues. <\/p>\n\n\n\nTuesday, July 21<\/strong> Defense and veterans hearings on Capitol Hill for the week of July 20, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":38601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":62,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[101,12,26,62,19],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3222],"class_list":["post-16671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news-roundup","category-news","category-newsletters","category-pentagon-congress","category-veterans"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"Z3Q4ZNIWEZERVOV5IY5MFM5S7Y","arc_canonical_url":"\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2020\/07\/19\/this-week-in-congress-ndaa-debates-before-the-full-house-and-senate\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n
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\r\nHouse Veterans’ Affairs \u2014 10 a.m. \u2014 H210 Visitors Center
\r\nVeterans employment<\/i>
\r\nVA officials and outside advocates will testify on veterans employment issues amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
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\r\nHouse Foreign Affairs \u2014 10 a.m. \u2014 2172 Rayburn
\r\nState Department coronavirus response<\/i>
\r\nDepartment officials will testify on their role and response in the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
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\r\nSenate Foreign Relations \u2014 10 a.m. \u2014 106 Dirksen
\r\nNominations<\/i>
\r\nThe committee will consider several nominations, including Marshall Billingslea to be under secretary of State for arms control and international security.
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\r\nWednesday, July 22<\/strong>
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\r\nHouse Oversight \u2014 10 a.m. \u2014 2154 Rayburn
\r\nF-35 Joint Strike Fighter<\/i>
\r\nDefense officials will testify on the current status of the F-35 program.
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\r\nHouse Veterans’ Affairs \u2014 2 p.m. \u2014 online hearing
\r\nSexual Harassment<\/i>
\r\nVA and outside advocates will testify on sexual harassment policies within the department.
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\r\nSenate Foreign Relations \u2014 2 p.m. \u2014 419 Dirksen
\r\nCompetition With China<\/i>
\r\nDeputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun will testify on U.S. relations with China.
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\r\nThursday, July 23<\/strong>
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\r\nHouse Foreign Affairs \u2014 9:30 a.m. \u2014 2172 Rayburn
\r\nForeign Assistance Budget <\/i>
\r\nJohn Barsa, acting administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, will testify on the administration\u2019s fiscal 2021 foriegn assistance budget request.
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\r\nHouse Veterans’ Affairs \u2014 10 a.m. \u2014 H210 Visitors Center
\r\nPending legislation<\/i>
\r\nThe committee will mark up several pending bills.
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\r\nSenate Foreign Relations \u2014 10 a.m. \u2014 419 Dirksen
\r\nNominations<\/i>
\r\nThe committee will consider several ambassador nominations.
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