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

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The 119th Congress is underway after lawmakers took the oath of office on Friday.

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Congress must officially certify the results of the 2024 presidential election.

A significant ongoing snowstorm has closed much of Washington.

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The House is scheduled to be in <a href="https://www.majorityleader.gov/schedule/weekly-schedule.htm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">session</a> today through Thursday.

Congress plans to move ahead today with certifying the election despite the weather disruption.

Committees must formally organize to begin activity in the new Congress.

The Senate will be in <a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/floor_activity_pail.htm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">session</a> throughout the week.  

Senate committees also must organize, and next week will begin moving quickly toward confirming President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees.

President Joe Biden is <a href="https://apnews.com/article/new-orleans-bourbon-street-truck-crash-8384465c8a9e270936f60f05a79b7957" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">traveling</a> to New Orleans as the city recovers from the New Year’s attack on Bourbon Street.

From New Orleans, he will <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5065936-joe-biden-tribal-land-monuments-california/">fly</a> to California before returning to Washington to <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/12/29/statement-by-president-joe-biden-and-first-lady-jill-biden-on-the-passing-of-former-president-jimmy-carter/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">participate</a> in <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/12/29/statement-by-president-joe-biden-and-first-lady-jill-biden-on-the-passing-of-former-president-jimmy-carter/">memorial</a> services for President Jimmy Carter.

Thursday, Biden will head to Rome for the final foreign trip of his presidency, separately <a href="https://www.usccb.org/news/2024/pope-will-receive-outgoing-us-president-biden-vatican-jan-10" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visiting</a> Pope Francis and Italian President Sergio Mattarella and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

The Weekly Hill Update