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Let's have a look at all the action for the week ahead in your U.S. House of Representatives. A swarm of big black SUVs will descend on Capitol Hill's Independence Avenue Wednesday as cabinet officials - security entourages in tow - arrive to testify before various House panels on their 2007 budget requests. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and Gen. Pace (Armed Services committee); Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte (House Intel); VA Secretary Jim Nicholson (Veterans' Affairs); HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt (Ways and Means); and OMB's Josh Bolton will all make the trip to the House side to tell their budget story.
Other than that, it's pretty thin gruel in terms of legislative action, with only one day of floor action before they call it quits and House Republicans head for Maryland's Eastern Shore for three days of closed-door planning sessions for the coming year. The House is scheduled to name two post offices; vote to "support the goals and ideals of The Year of the Museum" and then do the same for National Mentoring Month; honor the contributions of Catholic schools; and vote to honor the sacrifice and courage of the 14 miners who tragically perished at the Sago and Aracome Alma disasters.
One lively bit of debate will occur on a procedural motion dealing with a $70 billion tax cut measure. Republicans want to extend cuts to dividend and capital gains tax rates, as well as provide relief for the increasing number of filers caught up in the Alternative Minimum Tax. Final action on that measure, however, is somewhere down the road. All on Wednesday.
Also, Democrats on the International Relations Committee will force votes on "resolutions of inquiry" concerning U.S. policy on rendition and torture of detainees. Democrats want administration documents that relate to these issues. They are not likely to succeed, simply because they are outnumbered.
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