Leaders in the House have released a tentative schedule for calendar year 2011. However, the endgame for the current Congress and the FY11 appropriations process remains uncertain. Passage of appropriations bills for the current fiscal year now rest on the ability of the Senate leadership to garner the necessary 60 votes. It is expected that an outcome on FY11 appropriations will be clear by December 18th, by which time Congress will be required to act in order to continue government operations.
Expected 2011 Congressional Schedule
January 5 – Convene 112th Congress
January 17 – January 21 State Work Period (Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday January 17)
February 7 – President Obama’s Budget Request Due to Congress
February 21 – 25 State Work Period (Presidents’ Day February 21)
March 21 – March 25 State Work Period
April 18 – April 29 State Work Period (Passover April 19- 20; Good Friday April 22; Easter April 24)
May 30 – June 3 – State Work Period (Memorial Day May 30)
July 4 – July 8 State Work Period (Independence Day July 4)
August 8 – September 5 State Work Period (Labor Day September 5)
September 26 – September 30 State Work Period (Rosh Hashanah September 29)
October 1 – Fiscal Year Begins
October 7 – Yom Kippur
October 10 – Columbus Day
October 24 – October 28 State Work Period
November 11 – Veterans’ Day
Target adjournment – TBD