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Below is the <a href="https://www.bakerlaw.com/FederalPolicy">federal policy</a> team’s weekly preview, published each Monday that Congress is in session.

HEADLINES
• President Donald Trump today returns from Europe after high-profile meetings with NATO leaders, British government officials and royalty, and Russian president Vladimir Putin.
• Trump will be in Washington this week and plans to sign an executive order focused on workforce development.
• The House and Senate continue to work through spending bills and nominations.


HOUSE
<ul>
 	<li>The House plans to vote today through Thursday. The <a href="https://www.majorityleader.gov/weekly-schedule/">legislative agenda</a> is highlighted by a “minibus” package of fiscal 2019 spending bills, including funding for the Interior Department and the Environmental Protection Agency as well as financial services appropriations.</li>
 	<li>The House and Senate are in conference to work through differences and finalize the National Defense Authorization Act as well as to work separately on a minibus package including funding for veterans and military construction.</li>
 	<li>On Wednesday, the Agriculture Committee <a href="https://agriculture.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=4403">will hold</a> a hearing on cryptocurrencies.</li>
 	<li>A full listing of House committee activity can be found <a href="https://docs.house.gov/Committee/Calendar/ByWeek.aspx?WeekOf=07152018_07212018">here</a>.</li>
</ul>
SENATE
<ul>
 	<li>The Senate plans to be in session throughout the week and <a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/calendars.htm">will continue</a> working through Trump judicial and agency nominees.</li>
 	<li>The Senate plans to vote soon, potentially this week, to go to conference with the House on the farm bill.</li>
 	<li>Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell <a href="https://www.banking.senate.gov/hearings/07/10/2018/the-semiannual-monetary-policy-report-to-the-congress">will appear</a> Tuesday before the Senate Banking Committee to present the Fed’s semiannual monetary policy report.</li>
 	<li>The current listing of Senate committee activity can be found <a href="https://www.senate.gov/committees/hearings_meetings.htm">here</a>.</li>
</ul>
WHITE HOUSE
<ul>
 	<li>Trump is finishing meetings with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki and is scheduled return to Washington tonight.</li>
 	<li>Later in the week, Trump will host a meeting with his full cabinet, and he has lunches scheduled with Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.</li>
 	<li>Thursday, Trump will host a “Pledge to the American Worker” event and sign an executive order on workforce development.</li>
</ul>

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