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how santa senate are catching up -- house and senate are catching up on the news of the week, the ohio trained a rail meant. both parties have -- train derailment. both parties have promised to look into it. host: one of your pieces last week, the headline of that piece said " biden casts a wide net in probes as far as oversight." what will we see this week in terms of oversight? guest: the main offering for house republicans this week will be the china select committee. obviously this is something that started bipartisan. democrats voted to create this select committee but we will see it tested bipartisanship this week. we will see former trump officials testify, some chinese

dissidents testify. this will be the first time congress will address the chinese spy balloon. host: where do you start to begin with china in the two weeks they have been off? you had the chinese spy balloon at the beginning of february than the recent efforts by the chinese to call for a cease-fire in russia. certainly the agenda for that select committee just got wider. guest: that will be a challenge for them. how do you focus? china is a large country. it has wide political influence. they will focus on domestically, one of the issues -- you are showing clips of mike gallagher and one of the focuses will be how china cracks down on people on u.s. soil, these outposts

they have like in new york city. we will see more of a unified message in the beginning. host: you touched on the headline -- " committee launches probe into train derailment ." as they have been off on the break, what are you picking up from social media that members are concerned about? guest: it depends on who you are talking to. if you are talking about james comer, he is really focused as his letter stated on friday, he wants to understand when the department was notified. what was the communication mike? many -- communication like? many believe that buttigieg did not respond adequately. host: our guest is farnoush

amiri. she covers congress for the associated press. we welcome your calls and questions about the week ahead. the lines (202) 748-8000 for -- (202) 748-8001 for republicans. (202) 748-8000 for democrats. (202) 748-8002 for independents. (202) 748-8002 -- (202) 748-8003 for all others. guest: this is the first time since 2021 that merrick garland has been before congress. a has happened since then. the democrats have been edging

for -- itching for a hearing. you are going to see some of that play out. host: why didn't he testify before congress in 2022? guest: the attorney general comes before congress. in this period there have been several investigations that involve the fbi. host: there is a security committee hearing this week. is there still consideration of impeachment of the homeland security secretary mayor guess -- mayorkas? host: it is -- guest: it is a small but growing faction that want to impeach

mayorkas. if you talk to leadership, that is something they are treading carefully on. host: that meeting with the homeland security committee is this week. as you mentioned out the start, this is a short week because democrats have their policy conference this week. who are they expected to hear from? guest: biden announced he would address house democrats wednesday night. this is different than when he came to philadelphia last year to talk to house democrats. they had full control of congress. now they are looking at a divided congress. they are looking at republican control in the house. the message will not be the same one of optimism. it will be "how do we get back the house in 2024?" host: in past years republicans

failed similar policy conferences. are they planning to do the same thing this year? guest: they will be in orlando at the end of. march they have regained control of the house. they are looking at 2024. it will be interesting who the speakers are. last year kevin mccarthy avoided inviting trump. we will see what happens. host: what can you tell us about the agenda this week for the house in particular. but legislation should we be on the lookout for? guest: this week because of the house democratic retreat is a lighter legislative week. we will see some resolutions in support of aid and helping out the communities in turkey and syria that have suffered from that devastating earthquake. the select committee on china

will be their biggest offering this week. host: farnoush amiri is our guest. we welcome your calls. (202) 748-8001 the republican line. (202) 748-8000 for democrats. we welcome your text as well. (202) 748-8003. we have one here from georgia. dalton writes, " what will the effect this week be of the release of more tapes to fox news?" guest: kevin mccarthy released documents to fox news hosted tucker carlsen. i expect there will be a lot of questions about these security questions that come up. how much access -- carlsen has said it is unfettered. what does that look like?

he and his teams have spent the last week on the hill going through those tapes because they have to do it in a secure room through a terminal. he has previewed that he will start to show some of that. host: are these tapes the january 6 committee has already gone through? guest: the committee has gone over 14,000. carlsen said he had access to over 40,000. members on the committee have gone through it. host: the sergeant at arms of the house said when the speaker asked for those tapes, he basically has to give them the tape. will other media outlets get access to the tapes? guest: that is the question. there has been a lot of pushback. why this one specific anger is getting access.

the speaker has constitutional power to question or pushback on so it remains to be seen. host: let's get to calls. we have frank in staten island, new york on the independent line. caller: are they having any hearings on the supplementary snap insurance cancellation? the other question was about those objects they shot down. no one is claiming responsibility, like if they were for research or weather balloons. it is where they can't have any information on that. guest: on snap insurance, i'm not aware of any hearings this week. obviously, on the spy balloon's we will see some of that in the china select committee. i expect they would touch on that topic. we should expect a bipartisan condemnation of china using that spy balloon. i think we will see some of that

play out, whether the select committee is able to garner bipartisan support to pass meaningful legislation that is able to rein in some of china's power. host: we have the democratic conference policy -- democratic party policy conference this week. a lot of republican members will be speaking. what is the next big wave of legislation expected to come to the next floor? what is the next house republican priority in terms of legislation on the house floor? guest: we are holding our breath for the debt limit conversation. janet yellen has spoken about june being the timeline for when the government would fail to be able to pay its bills. we will see some of that play out. we will see budget negotiations happen. biden will submit his budget.

we will see republicans take aim at some programs. host: when are we expected to get the president's budget? guest: by the end of this month's. host: another question on social media. jose says, " when will they be addressing the george santos expulsion? how can we move on with anything until the liars are gone? seems open and shut." where does that stand with george santos? guest: that is the difficult things about ethics investigations. they're done behind closed doors. there is little information that spells out until the house ethics committee finishes their investigation and releases their report. we are waiting to see what that looks like, but obviously he is facing a federal investigations, state and local investigations. it is unclear what his future is in the house. host: does it make it difficult

-- one, has he been given any committee assignments yet? has it made it difficult for him to defunct just with his constituents? guest: from the steering committee, he was given small business administrative committee and he was given science. he stepped back. he had a meeting with kevin mccarthy and asked if it would be ok if he took a step [captioning performed by thenat, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2023] >> we're going to leave this program to keep our more than 40-year commitment to live coverage of congress. the u.s. house now coming in for its first legislative business of the week. you're watching live coverage of the house here on c-span. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. pursuant to clause will fer 8 of rule 20, the chair will postpone further proceedings on motions