Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital Congress. The Senate is in session this week, and the House is out of session until May 10. House Republicans are headed to Orlando, FL this week for their annual issues retreat, which will include numerous speakers, though former President Donald Trump has not been invited. Meanwhile, the Senate is set to vote on numerous nominees as well as on Sen. Tammy Duckworth's (D-IL) "Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021," which earned a unanimous vote last month in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Additionally, there are a handful of committee hearings this week, including a hearing from Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) on Wednesday on the COVID response and one from House Science, Space, and Technology (SST) on National Science Foundation research. On Thursday, the hearings include ones from the House Education and Labor and House Small Business Committees on Building Back Better and from House Ways and Means on the future of telehealth. On Thursday, House SST will hold a hearing on Mars Perseverance Rover’s science data, and House Ways and Means has a hearing on economic competitiveness through infrastructure investments.