House panels to hold hearings on immigration actions next week

Two House committees will conduct hearings next week on President Obama’s executive actions to shield certain illegal immigrants from deportation.

The House Judiciary Committee will convene Wednesday at 10:15 a.m. to hear from a panel of law professors and Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt. Also Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee will conduct a hearing on the Department of Homeland Security’s policies for apprehending and releasing illegal immigrants.

{mosads}Meanwhile, a House committee will commemorate nearly the one-year anniversary of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 on Wednesday. The House Oversight Transportation and Public Assets Subcommittee will discuss establishing standardized regulations to track commercial airlines.

Yet another hearing slated for Wednesday will feature testimony from Secretary of State John Kerry as he testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the Obama administration’s budget requests for foreign policy priorities.

Details on these and other hearings follow:

House Agriculture Committee
Feb. 25, “To launch the top-to-bottom review of the SNAP program”
10 a.m., 1300 Longworth

House Armed Services Committee
Feb. 26, “Full Committee Hearing on the President’s Request for an Authorization for the Military Use of Force (AUMF)”
10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn

House Energy and Commerce Committee
Feb. 25, “The Uncertain Future of the Internet”
10:30 a.m., 2322 Rayburn

House Foreign Affairs Committee
Feb. 25, “Advancing U.S. Interests in a Troubled World: The FY 2016 Foreign Affairs Budget”
10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn

House Foreign Affairs Committee
Feb. 26, “The President’s New Cuba Policy and U.S. National Security”
10 a.m., 2200 Rayburn

House Foreign Affairs Committee
Feb. 26, “The Shame of Iranian Human Rights”
2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn

House Homeland Security Committee
Feb. 25, “Examining the President’s Cybersecurity Information Sharing Proposal”
11:30 a.m., 311 Cannon

House Homeland Security Committee
Feb. 26, “Assessing DHS’s Performance: Watchdog Recommendations to Improve Homeland Security”
10 a.m., 311 Cannon

House Judiciary Committee
Feb. 25, “The Unconstitutionality of Obama’s Executive Actions on Immigration”
10:15 a.m., 2141 Rayburn

House Judiciary Committee
Feb. 26, “ISIL in America: Domestic Terror and Radicalization”
10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn

House Oversight Committee
Feb. 25, “A Review of the Department of Homeland Security’s Policies and Procedures for the Apprehension, Detention, and Release of Non-Citizens Unlawfully Present in the United States”
10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn

House Oversight Committee
Feb. 25, “Preventing Another MH370: Setting International Standards for Airline Flight Tracking”
10 a.m., 2247 Rayburn

House Oversight Committee
Feb. 25, “FCC Process: Examining the Relationship Between the FCC and the White House”
2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn

House Oversight Committee
Feb. 26, “From Health Care Enrollment to Tax Filling:  A PPACA Update”
10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn

House Veterans’ Affairs Committee
Feb. 24, “Joint Hearing of the House and Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committees to receive the Legislative Presentation of the Disabled American Veterans”
2 p.m., SD-G50 Dirksen