Capitol Hill Briefing: June 4, 2026

Today on Capitol Hill: 5 Senate floor votes; 10 committee meetings; 15 amendments submitted. Full breakdown below.

🗳 Senate Floor Votes

ECONOMICS AND PUBLIC FINANCEBorder security and unlawful immigration · Budget deficits and national debt · Budget process

❌ Failed — 47 Yeas, 50 Nays
An original bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 33.

❌ Failed — 46 Yeas, 53 Nays
To provide funding for the HOME Investment Partnerships program.

✅ Passed — 53 Yeas, 46 Nays
To provide a clarification relating to, and to prohibit the use of funds for, the White House Ballroom.

❌ Failed — 15 Yeas, 84 Nays
To reallocate funds that would have been used for the Anti-Weaponization Fund to fraud enforcement.

ECONOMICS AND PUBLIC FINANCEBorder security and unlawful immigration · Budget deficits and national debt · Budget process

❌ Failed — 49 Yeas, 50 Nays
An original bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 33.

🏢 Committee Activity

House Foreign Affairs East Asia and Pacific Subcommittee (House): Meeting — Beijing’s Poison Pipeline: The CCP’s Role in the Fentanyl
Crisis

Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection (House): Meeting — “The AI Security Landscape: How Frontier Models, Agentic AI, and AI Coding Tools Are Reshaping Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Resilience”

House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology (House): Meeting — Where Are We?: Examining Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Capabilities in the United States

House Education and Workforce Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions (House): Meeting — “Examining the Policies and Priorities of the NLRB”

(Committee) (House): Meeting — "Connecting Rural America to the National Airspace System"

House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations (House): Meeting — “Hearing with the Commissioners of the Postal Regulatory Commission”

House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet (House): Meeting — “Medicines and IP: Balancing Innovation and Access”

(Committee) (House): Meeting — updated Subcommittee Rosters due to changes on the Majority side; Fiscal Year 2027 Views and Estimates of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure; General Services Administration Capital Investment and Leasing Program Resolutions; and other matters cleared for consideration.

House Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee on Environment (House): Meeting — Advancing Environmental Protection Through Science and Technology

House Ways and Means (House): Meeting — Hearing with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent