1. The Week in one Paragraph
Congress held a light week ahead of the August district work period. The House met only briefly on Monday, August 24, and Thursday, August 27 — gaveling in at 9 a.m. and adjourning by 9:03 a.m. both days — with no recorded votes, no quorum calls, and no committee hearings held. The Senate met in pro forma session on both days as well, taking no legislative action. The main activity was procedural: 45 public bills, 1 private bill, and 12 resolutions were introduced across the two days, and the House Natural Resources and Ways and Means Committees filed 22 committee reports ahead of recess. The House is next scheduled to convene August 31; the Senate returns the same day.
2. Bills Passed / Signed into law
None this week. The Daily Digest for both August 24 and August 27 records no Yea-and-Nay votes and no recorded votes in the House, and the Senate met only in pro forma session on both days.
3. Notable Votes
None this week. No quorum calls, Yea-and-Nay votes, or recorded votes occurred in either chamber on August 24 or August 27, per the Daily Digest.
4. Hearings Held
None this week. The Daily Digest states no committee meetings were held in the Senate and no hearings were held in the House on either August 24 or August 27, and none were scheduled for the following Thursday or Monday.
Note: while no hearings were held, the House Committee on Natural Resources and the House Committee on Ways and Means filed 22 committee reports on August 27 (Rept. 119–765 through 119–784), sending bills to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. These are report filings, not hearings.
5. Bills Introduced
Based on the House proceedings for the week of March 30, 2026, here are three notable bills introduced that focus on public health and government transparency:
H.R. 10169 (Mrs. Miller of Illinois) — would prohibit federal financial benefit for the construction, expansion, or substantial rehabilitation of data centers on prime farmland and other certain farmland. Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
H.R. 10151 (Mr. Deluzio of Pennsylvania, with Mr. Finstad) — would amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to adjust limits for technical assistance, grants for small systems, and authorization of appropriations for the Drinking Water Infrastructure Risk and Resilience Program. Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
H.R. 10164 (Mr. Latta of Ohio, with Mrs. Dingell) — would direct the Secretary of Commerce to promote competitiveness in U.S. biomanufacturing, identify supply-chain and commercialization vulnerabilities in critical biomanufacturing inputs, and improve transparency of federal processes for biomanufactured products. Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
6. What’s Coming Next Week
House: Adjourned until noon, Monday, August 31, 2026, for morning-hour debate; 2 p.m. for legislative business. Program for that day not yet announced as of this Digest.
Senate: Adjourned until 11:30 a.m., Monday, August 31, 2026; scheduled to meet in pro forma session.
No committee hearings are scheduled in either chamber for Monday, August 31, per the Daily Digest.
7. Statehouse This Week
Virginia (via lis.virginia.gov)
Mon, Aug 24, 1:00 PM — Broadband Advisory Council, Richmond Marriott
Tue, Aug 25, 10:00 AM — Virginia Boys and Men Advisory Commission, General Assembly Building
Tue, Aug 25 — Joint meeting of House Health and Human Services, Senate Education and Health, and House Select Committee on Advancing Rural and Small Town Health Care — business meeting, location/time in Harrisonburg to be determined
Wed, Aug 26, 12:00 PM — Secretary of Administration Work Group to Study Back-End, Opt-Out Automatic Voter Registration, Patrick Henry Building, Richmond
Wed, Aug 26, 1:00 PM — Virginia Indigent Defense Commission, Fines and Fees Work Group, The Capitol
Fri, Aug 28, 1:00 PM — Autonomous Driving Work Group, VDOT, Mechanicsville
Note: the Rural and Small Town Health Care item is directly relevant to LegisLedger's coverage mission — worth a follow-up once a meeting time/location is set.
Kentucky (via legislature.ky.gov)
Meeting schedule as provided, times and committee/subcommittee names as listed in the source calendar:
9:00 — MOAB Health Transparency Dashboard Subcommittee
10:30 — MOAB Waiver Waitlist Subcommittee
1:00 — MOAB
3:00 — MOAB NEMT Working Group
(Aug 27) — KFB Ham Breakfast
10:00 — Agriculture
12:30 — L&O
2:00 — EDWI & TSBIT
8. Sources This Week
Based on the legislative records for the week of August 24, 2026, here are the official URLs for tracking the activity mentioned in the daily digests:
Congressional Record, House and Senate Daily Digest, Vol. 172, No. 135 (August 24, 2026) — GovInfo (CREC-2026-08-24.pdf)
Congressional Record, House and Senate Daily Digest, Vol. 172, No. 136 (August 27, 2026) — GovInfo (CREC-2026-08-27.pdf)
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