This Week in Washington
Senate: The Senate continued processing nominations including Matthew Whitaker as Permanent Representative on the Council of NATO, Dean John Sauer as Solicitor General, Mehmet Oz as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and Harmeet Dhillon as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. They passed Congressional Review Acts, S.J.Res.37 terminating the national emergency declared to impose duties on articles imported from Canada, and H.J.Res.24 , to rescinded the Department of Energy’s rule “Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Walk-In Coolers and Walk-In Freezers.” The Senate is expected to begin a Vote-a-Rama on Friday, April 4 for the Fiscal Year 25 Budget Resolution (H.Con.Res.14).
House: The House was in recess after rule H. Res. 282 failed on a vote of 206-222. The rule failed for trying to block Representative Anna Paulina Luna’s (R-FL) discharge petition to allow proxy voting for new parents.
Trump Administration: On April 2, President Trump announced a baseline 10 percent tariff on goods from all countries. Some countries will be subject to much higher reciprocal rates including China at 34 percent, the European Union at 20 percent, and Vietnam at 46 percent.
Next Week in Washington
Senate: The Senate is expected to continue processing nominations.
House: The House is expected to consider the No Rouge Ruling Act (H.R.1526), the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (H.R.22), and Congressional Review Acts S.J.Res.18, to rescind the CFPB’s rule “Overdraft Lending: Very Large Financial Institutions" and S.J.Res.28, the CFPB’s rule “Defining Larger Participants of a Market for General-Use Digital Consumer Payment Applications.” The House could also consider H.Con.Res.14 if the Senate passed the Budget Resolution.