The Coming Week

The official photograph of the 110th Congress will be taken on Tuesday. Business on the floor of the House of Representatives will include consideration of the first Appropriations Bills for FY2008. [Military Construction & Veterans Affairs; Energy & Water; Interior & the Environment; and Homeland Security]. Majority Leader Steny Hoyer has warned Congressmen "the House will remain in session the week of June 11, 2007, until all the legislative business scheduled for the week is completed"

The Senate begins the week by resuming consideration of the motion to proceed to H.R. 6, (an act to reduce US dependency on foreign oil by investing in clean, renewable, and alternative energy resources, promoting new emerging energy technologies, developing greater efficiency, and creating a Strategic Energy Efficiency and Renewables Reserve to invest in alternative energy, and for other purposes). It will then resume consideration of the motion to proceed to S.J. Res. 14,( a joint resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales no longer holds the confidence of the Senate and of the American people).

Bills before the House of Commons include - Serious Crime Bill (2nd Reading); International Tribunals (Sierra Leone) Bill (All Stages) and the Digital Switchover (Disclosure of Information) Bill (Consideration of Lords Amendments). The Opposition Day Debate on Monday relate to (1) Iraq Inquiry and (2) Carers.

The Lords will consider a number of pieces of legislation, and on Thursday will debate "the contribution of the European Union to United Kingdom national interests and management of global problems".