The Republican-led 118th Congress will establish six priorities in its first week fully up and running, with bills and resolutions tackling everything from oversight of federal agencies to shoring up domestic energy to investigating China.
After a raucous first week delayed by a historic four-day election for House speaker, the bills include GOP priorities messaged extensively on the campaign trail last year. In order to pass anything this session, Republicans need to be almost fully united since five dissenting votes can sink legislation due to their slim majority.Here are the bills and resolutions at the top of Majority Leader Steve Scalise's docket as Republicans ramp up the new session of Congress.
Rep. Adrian Smith's H.R. 23, the Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act, would rescind much of the money granted to the IRS in the Inflation Reduction Act but keep funding for more customer support agents and IT updates.In H.R. Res. 11, the House will establish the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. Rep. Mike Gallagher will chair the committee, which will be composed of nine Republicans and seven Democrats.
It will be composed of eight Republicans and five Democrats and give"sweeping investigatory powers that include access to information shared with the House Intelligence Committee and the authority to review ongoing criminal investigations."H.R. 22, the Protecting America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve from China Act, sponsored by Energy and Commerce Committee Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers , will prevent sales of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis’s legislation, H.R. 27, the Prosecutors Need to Prosecute Act, requires that public prosecutors make public the number of cases they are declining to pursue, the number of prior offenses committed by"career criminals," and the number of criminals they release.Rep. Ann Wagner is bringing forward H.R. 26, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which would require medical treatment and life-saving measures for babies born alive after a failed abortion.
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