Capitol Hill Briefing: June 17, 2026

Today on Capitol Hill: 3 Senate floor votes; 6 committee meetings; 8 amendments submitted. Full breakdown below.

🗳 Senate Floor Votes

✅ Passed — 54 Yeas, 41 Nays
George Holding, of North Carolina, to be United States Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

✅ Passed — 55 Yeas, 39 Nays
Michelle Steel, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Korea

✅ Passed — 54 Yeas, 41 Nays
Michelle Steel, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Korea

🏢 Committee Activity

Senate Aging (Special) (Senate): Meeting — Hearings to examine China's toll on older Americans' health, finances, and security.

Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship (Senate): Meeting — Hearings to examine 250 years of Main Street, focusing on retail to research.

Senate Intelligence (Select) (Senate): Meeting — Hearings to examine Walter Clayton, of New York, to be Director of National Intelligence.

Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (Senate): Meeting — S 1782, S 1954, S 2339 — Business meeting to consider S.1782, to prohibit discrimination on the basis of mental or physical disability in cases of organ transplants, S.3799, to amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the Healthy Start Initiative, S.4109, to reauthorize the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005, S.2339, to reauthorize the Young Women's Breast Health Education and Awareness Requires Learning Young Act of 2009, S.4472, to amend the Accelerating Access to Critical Therapies for ALS Act to reauthorize the provisions of such Act through fiscal year 2031, S.2658, to require sponsors of drug applications and holders of approved applications to provide certain submissions and communications to the Food and Drug Administration and the United States Patent and Trademark Office, S.3014, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to citizen petitions, and S.1954, to improve the requirements for making a determination of interchangeability of a biological product and its reference product.

Senate Energy and Natural Resources (Senate): Meeting — Hearings to examine the state of the U.S. Territories.

Senate Energy and Natural Resources (Senate): Meeting — S 1547 — Business meeting to consider S.1547, to amend title 54, United States Code, to reauthorize the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund.