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March 4 Legislative Preview

3/4/2019

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Hearings Featuring the Secretary of Homeland Security and Examining the Plight of DREAMers and TPS Holders Highlight the Week Ahead
Monday, March 4, 2019
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The highlight of the coming week's immigration- and refugee-related legislative action is likely to be a contentious House hearing during which the embattled Secretary of Homeland Security is scheduled to testify on DHS operations.
Also this week, the House is expected to take its first steps toward producing legislation for DREAMers and TPS holders when it holds a hearing on their plight. 

Senate watchers this week are anticipating upcoming action in that chamber on a joint resolution that the House passed last week disapproving of the President's February 15 emergency declaration with respect to the U.S. border with Mexico.  While it is widely believed that the Senate will not act on that resolution until next week, lots of jockeying is expected to take place this week.  Also this week, a Senate panel has scheduled an oversight hearing on the Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection (CBP) response to the smuggling of persons at the Southern Border.

In all, from the perspective of those interested in immigration, refugee, homeland security, or human trafficking policy, the week's schedule includes seven hearings (five in the House and two in the Senate), no business meetings, and no scheduled floor action on matters of consequence.

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February 25 Legislative Preview

2/24/2019

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House Action Disapproving of Border Wall Emergency Declaration and Multiple Hearings, including Hearings on Unaccompanied and Separated Children, Highlight the Week Ahead
Sunday, February 24, 2019
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Representatives Castro, Nadler, and DeLauro
The highlight of the coming week's immigration- and refugee-related legislative action is  House floor consideration of a joint resolution disapproving of the President's border wall emergency declaration which, if passed, would force Senate action within two weeks.
Also happening this week are a number of hearings touching on important aspects of U.S. migration policy and the Trump Administration's conduct of that policy, including hearings on the separation of families at the U.S. border with Mexico; the Administration's treatment of unaccompanied alien children; the impact of the President's emergency declaration on military readiness; the worldwide crisis facing refugees, asylum seekers, and other migrants; and the humanitarian situation in Venezuela.

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February 11 Legislative Preview

2/10/2019

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Negotiations Over a FY '19 Border Security and Consolidated Appropriations Agreement and the Confirmation of a New Attorney General Highlight the Coming Week's Capitol Hill Immigration
and Refugee Action

Sunday, February 10, 2019
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The highlight of the coming week's immigration- and refugee-related legislative action is the hoped-for consideration of a much anticipated conference agreement on Fiscal Year 2019 border security funding.

If reached, the agreement, would likely carry with it negotiated versions of all of the seven un-enacted Fiscal Year 2019 appropriations bills,  However, an impasse over how many detention beds should be funded for the fiscal year threatens to blow up the agreement and throw the federal government into partial shutdown mode.
Tuesday's funeral for the late former Representative John Dingell, Jr. (D-MI), the longest serving Member of Congress in the nation's history makes for an abbreviated week this week, with several hearings that would have examined immigration-related matters being postponed to dates that had yet to be determined at the time of this writing. 
In all, from the perspective of those interested in immigration, refugee, homeland security, or human trafficking policy, the week's schedule includes three hearings (all likely to be postponed), one business meeting during which a key nomination will be considered, one likely conference committee meeting, and possible floor action on two matters of possible consequence on those subjects.

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February 4 Legislative Preview

2/3/2019

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State of the Union Address, Examination of the Administration's Family Separation Policy, and Deliberations on Border Security Funding Highlight the Coming Week's Capitol Hill Immigration
and Refugee Action

Sunday, February 3, 2019
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The immigration- and refugee-related highlight of the week-to-come will be the delivery by President Trump of his second State of the Union Address, as well as the delivery by former Georgia State Representative Stacey Abrams of the official Democratic response. 
Both are scheduled for the evening of Tuesday, February 5th. 

The President and his staff have strong;y suggested that he will use the Address as an opportunity to highlight what has become the signature issue of his presidency: his demand that Congress appropriate funds for the construction of a wall along much of the border between the U.S. and Mexico.  And the President has hinted that he may use the occasion to declare a national emergency that would permit him to commandeer federal resources and use the military to construct the wall that Congress has so far refused to fund.

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January 28 Legislative Preview

1/26/2019

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A Sigh of Relief Can Be Heard in the Halls of the U.S. Capitol Complex as the House and Senate Face the First Calm Week of the 116th Congress
Monday, January 28, 2019
Revised on Tuesday, January 28, 2019, at 9:45 pm EST
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What initially looked like a light week of immigration- and refugee-related congressional activity suddenly turned heavy as the week dawned, with Democrats basking in the glow of the deal they cut late last week to reopen the shuttered departments, agencies, and functions of the federal government without having to appropriate a penny for the wall along the U.S. border with Mexico..that President Trump has demanded that they fund.
In all, from the perspective of those interested in immigration, refugee, homeland security, or human trafficking policy, the week's schedule includes one hearing, five business meetings, one conference committee meeting, and possible floor action on one matter of possible consequence on those subjects.

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116th Congress to Convene

1/3/2019

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House and Senate to Convene First Session of the 116th Congress Amidst Border Security-Inspired Partial Shutdown of the Federal
Government's Operations
Thursday, January 3, 2019
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The First Session of the 116th Congress convenes on Thursday, January 3rd, with Democrats holding a 235-199 majority in the House and Republicans holding a 53-47 organizational majority in the Senate. 

Under normal circumstances, much of the work during the first few weeks of a new Congress centers on ceremonial and organizational activities.  However, with more than one-fourth of the federal government shut down due to a dispute between Congress and the President over immigration-related funding priorities, policy matters -- and immigration policy matters, specifically -- have been thrust into the forefront of the opening days of this Congress.


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