Hearings

House hearings to focus on Obama’s immigration action

Two House committees will hold hearings next Tuesday on President Obama’s executive action to delay deportations for up to five million undocumented immigrants.

Both the House Homeland Security and Judiciary Committees will meet Tuesday. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson will testify before the House Homeland Security Committee at 9 a.m.

{mosads}Witnesses for the House Judiciary Committee hearing at 1 p.m. have not yet been announced.

The hearings come as House Republicans try to coalesce around a plan to respond to the president’s executive action.

Details on these and other hearings follow:

House Foreign Affairs Committee
Dec. 2, “ISIS and the Threat from Foreign Fighters”
10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn

Dec. 2, “Hong Kong: A Broken Promise?”
2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn

Dec. 4, “Is Academic Freedom Threatened by China’s Influence on U.S. Universities?”
1 p.m., 2172 Rayburn

House Homeland Security Committee
Dec. 2, “Open Borders: The Impact of Presidential Amnesty on Border Security”
9 a.m., 311 Cannon

House Judiciary Committee
Dec. 2, “President Obama’s Executive Overreach on Immigration”
1 p.m., 2141 Rayburn

Dec. 3, “H.R. 917, the Sunshine in the Courtroom Act”
10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn

House Oversight Committee
Dec. 3, “Transforming Federal Spending: Implementing the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act”
9:30 a.m., 2154 Rayburn

House Veterans’ Affairs Committee
Dec. 3, “VA’s Caregiver Program: Assessing Current Prospects and Future Possibilities”
10 a.m., 334 Cannon