What’s Up In Congress Today Nov. 3,2023

The House meets at 9 a.m.

The Senate convenes Monday at 3 p.m. to resume consideration of the nomination of Monica Bertagnolli to be director of the National Institutes of Health.

The president will receive the President’s Daily Brief at 9 a.m. Biden at 10 a.m. will host leaders from the Western Hemisphere during the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity Leaders’ Summit in the East Room. He and first lady Jill Biden will depart for  Lewiston, Maine, in the afternoon to meet with relatives, community members and first responders affected by a mass shooting Oct. 25. The president will speak at 4:15 p.m. and travel with the first lady to Rehoboth Beach, Del., for the weekend.

Vice President Harris arrived in Los Angeles early today from London and has no public events.

The secretary of state met this morning in Tel Aviv with Netanyahu. He meets with members of the Israeli war cabinet, then with Israeli President Isaac Herzog. Blinken will take questions from the news media at 2 p.m. local time, and then confer with Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid shortly before 3 p.m. local time. 

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen at 8:30 a.m. will host leaders from countries that are part of the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity. She will deliver remarks to the Financial Stability Oversight Council at 1:50 p.m. 

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra will be in North Carolina for two events, the first in Oxford at 11 a.m. to talk about rural health, followed at 12:45 p.m. in Henderson with a discussion about lower prescription prices. Becerra will be joined in both cities by state officials. North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein will participate in Oxford.

Economic indicator: The Bureau of Labor Statistics at 8:30 a.m. will release October’s employment report.