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Below is the <a href="https://www.bakerlaw.com/FederalPolicy">Federal Policy</a> team’s weekly preview, published each week when Congress is in session.

HEADLINES
• The week begins with federal offices closed after a weekend snowstorm blanketed the Washington area with nearly a foot of snow; meanwhile, the partial government shutdown is now the longest in the nation’s history.
• The House plans to take up legislation funding disaster relief and will also continue passing individual appropriations bills for agencies whose funding has lapsed.
• Attorney general nominee William Barr will begin his confirmation process before the Senate Judiciary Committee.


HOUSE
<ul>
 	<li>The House has votes planned Monday through Thursday. The <a href="https://www.majorityleader.gov/content/weekly-leader-friday-january-11-2019">agenda</a> includes a supplemental disaster relief bill as well as noncontroversial legislation from the Small Business Committee, Oversight Committee and Commerce Committee.</li>
 	<li>The House will also continue to take up individual appropriations bills similar to those passed by the Republican Senate last year, aiming to pressure the Senate to take them up.</li>
 	<li>House committees are still in the midst of organizing – Democrats late last week announced new members gaining seats on key committees, with Republicans expected to follow suit this week.</li>
 	<li>If any committees post notices of hearings for this week, that activity will be listed <a href="https://docs.house.gov/Committee/Calendar/ByWeek.aspx?WeekOf=01132019_01192019">here</a>.</li>
</ul>
SENATE
<ul>
 	<li>The Senate will reconvene Monday, beginning its <a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/calendars.htm">agenda</a> with another attempt at procedural votes on <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/1">legislation</a> aiming to improve U.S. security in the Middle East, which Democrats blocked last week over the shutdown.</li>
 	<li>The Senate Judiciary Committee will begin confirmation <a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/nomination-of-the-honorable-william-pelham-barr-to-be-attorney-general-of-the-united-states">hearings</a> on Tuesday for Trump’s attorney general nominee William Barr.</li>
 	<li>The Environment and Public Works Committee on Wednesday will <a href="https://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/hearings?ID=64B84BBE-6130-44B5-9825-CF3F1EEF9BD2">take up</a> the nomination of Andrew Wheeler to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.</li>
 	<li>The current list 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’s schedule this week remains fluid as the shutdown drags on.</li>
 	<li>Today he is traveling to New Orleans to speak at the American Farm Bureau’s annual convention.</li>
 	<li>This evening he hosts the college football national champions, the Clemson Tigers, at the White House.</li>
</ul>

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