The Senate is in session this week. The House is in recess.

Three provisions of the Foreign International Surveillance Act (FISA) will expire on Sunday. The expiration of these provisions isn’t a surprise, but Congress has treated it as such because of its proclivity for governing by crisis. Another issue that has reverberated in the debate over the reauthorization of these provisions is the attempt by congressional leadership to shut out the voices of privacy hawks in Congress.

There has been some recent uproar over a regulation proposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services designed to strengthen Medicaid, the government program that provides health insurance coverage for individuals below certain income levels. The regulation has sparked a curious bipartisan backlash from Capitol Hill and from state governments.

The House and Senate are in session this week.

The House and Senate are in session this week.

Schedule: The House and Senate are in session this week. The House returns today and will be in session through Thursday. The Senate returns today at 3:00 pm and will be in session through Thursday.

On Tuesday at 10:00 am, the House Ways and Means Committee will hold a hearing entitled, “The Disappearing Corporate Income Tax.” Of course, the hearing is likely aimed at the corporate tax cut under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which lowered the statutory corporate income tax to 21 percent from 35 percent.

The House and Senate are in session this week.

Co-authored by Luke Hogg, the program coordinator for FreedomWorks Foundation.