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Below is this week’s congressional update by BakerHostetler’s <a href="https://www.bakerlaw.com/FederalPolicy">Federal Policy</a> team. We’ll continue to post in weeks when both chambers of Congress are in session.

The 118th Congress is up and running for the first full week that both chambers are in session.

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The House will take up legislation that would prohibit the Secretary of Energy from tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for nonemergency reasons until establishing a plan to increase oil and gas production on federal lands and waters.

President Joe Biden will host a reception for new members of Congress, as well as a reception to celebrate the Lunar New Year.

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The House will hold floor <a href="https://www.majorityleader.gov/schedule/weekly-schedule.htm">votes</a> tomorrow through Friday, including on the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/hr21/BILLS-118hr21ih.pdf">Strategic Production Response Act</a>.

House committees have not yet scheduled any hearings, as they are not yet fully constituted after operations were delayed by the drawn-out speaker election.

Republicans have completed their committee assignments, while Democrats <a href="https://punchbowl.news/jeffries-ratios/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=1/23/23%20%20Punchbowl%20News%20AM&amp;utm_term=Punchbowl%20AM%20and%20Active%20Subscribers%20from%20Memberful%20Combined">plan</a> to do so this week.

The Senate will return to the floor to <a href="https://www.senate.gov/index.htm">vote</a> on Biden’s nominees.

The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a <a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/thats-the-ticket-promoting-competition-and-protecting-consumers-in-live-entertainment">hearing</a> on promoting competition and protecting consumers in live entertainment, examining repeated <a href="https://www.billboard.com/pro/senate-ticketmaster-hearing-taylor-swift-ticket-crash-fiasco/">problems</a> with ticket sales by Ticketmaster.

Senate committee organization and rosters also still must be finalized, as the chamber has been out of session since Jan. 3.

Any additional committee meetings can be found <a href="https://www.senate.gov/committees/hearings_meetings.htm">here</a>.

The White House is working to mitigate a growing <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/01/22/biden-classified-docs-democrats-investigation">scandal</a> over Biden’s handling of classified documents.

<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2023/01/20/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-and-nsc-coordinator-for-strategic-communications-john-kirby-8/">Tomorrow</a>, the president will meet with Democratic congressional leadership before hosting a White House reception for new members of Congress.

Thursday, Biden will speak on the economy and host a <a href="https://people.com/human-interest/year-of-the-rabbit-lunar-new-year-everything-to-know/">Lunar New Year</a> reception at the White House.

The Weekly Hill Update