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

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The Senate will spend most or all of the week slogging through amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act, while the House begins floor votes on spending legislation, before Congress breaks on Friday until after Labor Day.

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President Joe Biden will host Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the White House.

Biden will also establish a national monument to Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.

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The House will be in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.majorityleader.gov/schedule/weekly-schedule.htm">session</a>&nbsp;tomorrow through Friday,&nbsp;<a href="https://rules.house.gov/">taking up</a>&nbsp;the first two of 12 annual appropriations bills. &nbsp;

The House Judiciary Committee will hold an oversight&nbsp;<a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/oversight-us-department-homeland-security-0">hearing</a>&nbsp;with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday.

Also Wednesday, the House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs will hold a&nbsp;<a href="https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-implications-on-national-security-public-safety-and-government-transparency/">hearing</a>&nbsp;on unidentified anomalous phenomena.

The full list of House committee activity can be found&nbsp;<a href="https://www.house.gov/legislative-activity">here</a>.

The Senate will be in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/floor_activity_pail.htm">session</a>&nbsp;Tuesday through Thursday, working on the Fiscal Year 2024&nbsp;<a href="https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/press-releases/reed-and-wicker-file-fiscal-year-2024-national-defense-authorization-act">National Defense Authorization Act</a>. &nbsp;

The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law will hold a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-activity/hearings/oversight-of-ai-principles-for-regulation">hearing</a>&nbsp;tomorrow on principles for the regulation of artificial intelligence.

Wednesday, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.energy.senate.gov/hearings/2023/7/full-committee-hearing-to-examine-opportunities-for-congress-to-reform-the-process-for-permitting-electric-transmission-lines-pipelines-and-energy-production-on-federal-lands">hearing</a>&nbsp;on permitting reform.

A list of additional Senate committee meetings can be found&nbsp;<a href="https://www.senate.gov/committees/hearings_meetings.htm">here</a>.

Biden tomorrow will sign a proclamation&nbsp;<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4113527-biden-national-monument-emmett-till/">establishing</a>&nbsp;the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument across three sites in Chicago and Mississippi.

Thursday, the president will&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/07/12/statement-from-white-house-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-on-the-visit-of-prime-minister-giorgia-meloni-of-italy/">host</a>&nbsp;Italian Prime Minister Meloni at the White House.

Friday, Biden will&nbsp;<a href="https://www.forth.news/whpool/64bdb2ef00fc3d8039594058">travel</a>&nbsp;to Maine to discuss Bidenomics.

The Weekly Hill Update