Congressional Hearings on Tuesday, April 1, 2025

12:00 AM ET · Meeting

Business meeting to consider the nomination of Frank Bisignano, of New Jersey, to be Commissioner of Social Security Administration.

Senate Finance Committee · 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building · Notice

9:30 AM ET · Meeting

Hearings to examine the nomination of Lieutenant General John D. Caine (Retired), to be general and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Department of Defense.

Senate Armed Services Committee · G50 Dirksen Senate Office Building · Notice

10:00 AM ET · Meeting

Hearings to examine S.222, to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to allow schools that participate in the school lunch program to serve whole milk.

Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · 328A Russell Senate Office Building · Notice

Bill: S. 222

10:30 AM ET · Meeting

Hearings to examine the nominations of Tilman Fertitta, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the Italian Republic, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of San Marino, Warren Stephens, of Arkansas, to be Ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and Thomas Barrack, of Colorado, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey, all of the Department of State.

Senate Foreign Relations Committee · 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building · Notice

10:30 AM ET · Meeting

Hearings to examine the nominations of Samuel Brown, of Nevada, to be Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Memorial Affairs, James Baehr, of Louisiana, to be General Counsel, and Richard Topping, of Ohio, to be Chief Financial Officer, all of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · 418 Russell Senate Office Building · Notice

2:30 PM ET · Meeting

To receive a closed briefing on certain intelligence matters.

Senate Intelligence Committee · 219 Hart Senate Office Building · Notice

2:30 PM ET · Meeting

Hearings to examine big fixes for big tech.

Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights (Senate Judiciary Committee) · 226 Dirksen Senate Office Building · Notice

8:30 AM ET · HearingRescheduled

Member Day

National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs (House Appropriations Committee) · H-140 Capitol · Notice

Witnesses: Dina Titus (Member of Congress); James McGovern (Member of Congress); Jim Costa (Member of Congress); Robin Kelly (Member of Congress); Gregory Meeks (Member of Congress)

10:00 AM ET · Hearing

U.S. Military Posture and National Security Challenges in North and South America

House Armed Services Committee · 2118 Rayburn House Office Building · Notice

Witnesses: Admiral Alvin Holsey (Commander, U.S. Southern Command); Rafael Leonardo; Mr. Robert Salesses; Commander Gregory Guillot (U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command)

10:00 AM ET · HearingRescheduled

Following the Money: Tools and Techniques to Combat Fraud

National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions (House Financial Services Committee) · 2128 Rayburn House Office Building · Notice

Bills: H.R. 1799, H.R. 425

Witnesses: Mr. Darrin McLaughlin (Executive Vice President – Chief BSA/AML & Sanctions Officer, Flagstar Bank); Mr. Jeff Brabant (Vice President, Federal Government Relations, National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB)); Ms. Jacqueline Burns Koven (Head of Cyber Threat Intelligence, Chainalysis); Ms. Kathy Stokes (Director, Fraud Prevention Programs)

10:00 AM ET · Hearing

Censorship-Industrial Complex: The Need for First Amendment Safeguards at the State Department

South and Central Asia (House Foreign Affairs Committee) · 2172 Rayburn House Office Building · Notice

Witnesses: Mr. Matt Taibbi (Twitter Files journalist; Author, Founder, Racket News); Mr. Benjamin Weingarten (Investigative Journalist & Columnist); Ms. Nina Jankowicz (Chief Executive Officer, American Sunlight Project)

10:00 AM ET · Hearing

“America’s AI Moonshot: The Economics of AI, Data Centers, and Power Consumption”

Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs (House Oversight and Government Reform Committee) · 2247 Rayburn House Office Building · Notice

Witnesses: Mr. Neil Chilson (Head of AI Policy, Abundance Institute); Mr. Mark Mills (Executive Director, National Center for Energy Analytics); Mr. Tyson Slocum (Director / Energy Program, Public Citizen); Mr. Josh Levi (President, Data Center Coalition)

10:00 AM ET · Hearing

“Cybersecurity is Local, Too: Assessing the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program”

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection (House Homeland Security Committee) · 310 Cannon House Office Building · Notice

Witnesses: Kevin Kramer (First Vice President, National League of Cities); Mr. Alan Fuller (Chief Information Officer, State of Utah); Mr. Robert Huber (Chief Security Officer, Tenable, Inc.); Mr. Mark Raymond (Chief Information Officer, State of Connecticut)

10:00 AM ET · Hearing

“Judicial Overreach and Constitutional Limits on the Federal Courts”

Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet (House Judiciary Committee) · 2141 Rayburn House Office Building · Notice

Witnesses: Newt Gingrich (Former Congressman for Georgia, 50th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives); Ms. Cindy Romero (Victim of criminal activity perpetrated by Tren de Aragua); Mr. Paul Larkin (John, Barbara, and Victoria Rumpel Senior Legal Research Fellow, Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies); Ms. Kate Shaw (Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania)

10:00 AM ET · Hearing

The Golden Age: Unleashing Main Street Through Deregulation

House Small Business Committee · 2360 Rayburn House Office Building · Notice

Bills: H.R. 1163, H.R. 974

Witnesses: Mr. Elden Johnson (Owner, Elden Johnson Transportation); Mr. Buddy Hughes (Chairman of the Board, National Association of Home Builders); Mr. Patrick Montalban (Chairman & CEO, Montalban Oil & Gas Operations, Inc); Mr. John Arensmeyer (Founder & CEO, Small Business Majority)

10:00 AM ET · Hearing

Leveraging Commercial Innovation for Lunar Exploration: A Review of NASA’s CLPS Initiative

Space and Aeronautics (House Science, Space, and Technology Committee) · 2318 Rayburn House Office Building · Notice

Witnesses: Mr. John Thornton (Chief Executive Officer, Astrobotic Technology); Mr. Stephen Altemus (President and CEO, Intuitive Machines); Mr. Jason Kim (Chief Executive Officer, Firefly Aerospace); Dr. Nicola Fox (Associate Administrator, Science Mission Directorate, National Aeronautics and Space Administration); Dr. Brett Denevi (Principal Staff Scientist, John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory)

10:15 AM ET · Hearing

"From Chalkboards to Chatbots: The Impact of AI on K-12 Education"

Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education (House Education and Workforce Committee) · 2175 Rayburn House Office Building · Notice

Witnesses: Dr. Julia Rafal-Baer (CEO, ILO Group); Mr. Chris Chism (Superintendent, Pearl Public School District); Ms. Erin Mote (CEO, InnovateEDU/EDSAFE AI Alliance); Dr. Sid Dobrin (Chair, Department of English, University of Florida)

10:15 AM ET · Hearing

Examining the FDA’s Regulation of Over-the-Counter Monograph Drugs

Health (House Energy and Commerce Committee) · 2123 Rayburn House Office Building · Notice

Witnesses: Mr. Carl D’Ruiz, MPH (Senior Science, Advocacy, and Business Development Manager for Beauty and Care, North America); Mr. Scott Faber (Senior Vice President, Government Affairs); Mr. Kevin Menzel (Member, Board of Directors, Consumer Healthcare Products Association;); Ms. Kim Wezik, MPH (Director of Advocacy); Mr. Douglas Troutman (Interim Co-Chief Executive Officer)

10:15 AM ET · Hearing

Harnessing Biomedical Innovation: Modernizing VA Healthcare for the Future

House Veterans' Affairs Committee · 360 Cannon House Office Building · Notice

Witnesses: Mr. Jeff DiLullo (Executive Vice President and Chief Regional Leader, Philips North America); Mr. Will Gray (Vice President, Marketing, Commercial Operations, and Government, Boston Scientific); Dr. Jon Bloom (Chief Executive Officer, Podimetrics); Dr. Sai Parthasarathy (Director, Center for Sleep, Circadian and Neuroscience Research, University of Arizona Health Sciences)

10:30 AM ET · Hearing

Aging Technology, Emerging Threats: Examining Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities in Legacy Medical Devices

Oversight and Investigations (House Energy and Commerce Committee) · 2322 Rayburn House Office Building · Notice

Witnesses: Mr. Greg Garcia (Executive Director, Healthcare Sector Coordinating Council Cybersecurity Working Group); Mr. Erik Decker (Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer); Dr. Christian Dameff, MD, MS, FACEP (Emergency Physician and Co-Director, Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity); Ms. Michelle Jump (Chief Executive Officer); Dr. Kevin Fu, PhD (Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Khoury College of Computer Sciences,)

2:00 PM ET · Hearing

A Return to Maximum Pressure: Comprehensively Countering the Iranian Regime's Malign Activities

House Foreign Affairs Committee · 2172 Rayburn House Office Building · Notice

Witnesses: Mr. Norman Roule (Non-resident Senior Advisor, Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program, The Center for Strategic and International Studies); Ms. Claire Jungman (Chief of Staff, United Against Nuclear Iran); Ms. Dana Stroul (Director of Research and Shelly and Michael Kassen Senior Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy)

2:00 PM ET · Hearing

“Exploring the Use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Across the DHS Enterprise”

Border Security and Enforcement (House Homeland Security Committee) · 310 Cannon House Office Building · Notice

Witnesses: Mr. Michael Ledbetter (Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, COLSA Corporation); Mr. Bryan Farrell (Interim Director, Raspet Flight Research Laboratory, Mississippi State University); Chief Kevin Fetterman (Fire Division Chief, Division 4, Orange County Fire Authority); Mr. Jerry Hendrix (Executive Director, Rotorcraft Systems Engineering and Simulation Center, University of Alabama in Huntsville)