Home Majority Chief Steve Scalise (R-La.) launched the schedule for the 119th Congress on Tuesday, unveiling changes beneath President-elect Trump.
Subsequent yr, representatives will probably be in session for 34 weeks and preserve a most four-day work week.
The decrease chamber will elect a Speaker on Jan. 3, after the brand new Congress is sworn in. Republicans have informally determined to reinstate Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), which can doubtless happen if GOP members end up of their majority to affirm his place with a vote.
Within the first quarter, the Home will probably be in session all however three weeks. With Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, and Republicans controlling each chambers of Congress, the agenda is prone to be full.
Consistent with custom, lawmakers will spend the whole month of August of their jurisdictions and make their manner again to the Capitol after Labor Day. Earlier than that break, the calendar has the Home with solely seven weeks of district work.
Lawmakers return to the Home for 3 weeks earlier than a weeklong break that features the beginning of Jewish fall holidays, Rosh Hashanah. It is a district week that comes days forward of the top of the fiscal yr on Sept. 30.
Scalise’s schedule reveals the Home will probably be in session on Sept. 29 and 30 forward of a recess for individuals who observe the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
November is a lightweight month, with two weeks in session, after which three extra weeks in December to shut out the primary half of the 119th Congress.
