WASHINGTON — The House returns to floor business Monday with a Department of Veterans Affairs reform package, several immigration-related committee markups, and a slate of judicial-nominee confirmation votes on the chamber’s first full legislative week following Thursday’s war-supplemental floor passage.

The Department of Veterans Affairs reform package, formally numbered H.R. 4815 and authored by the chairmen of the House Veterans Affairs Committee and the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, will receive floor consideration Tuesday and Wednesday. The package, which the House Rules Committee structured for limited amendment, builds on the mental-health expansion provisions of the war supplemental and would establish a comprehensive framework for the integration of Department of Veterans Affairs mental-health services with broader community-based mental-health systems.

A senior House Veterans Affairs Committee staffer, in a Monday-morning background briefing, said the package’s substantive content had been developed through “extensive bipartisan engagement” during the past four months and that the chairmen expected the package to pass with substantial bipartisan support. The staffer noted that the package’s substantive provisions had been coordinated with the war-supplemental mental-health expansion to ensure that the two frameworks would be substantively implementable together.

The immigration-related committee markups will be conducted in two committees through the week. The House Judiciary Committee will hold its first markup of the Strengthening Border Security Act, which extends and adjusts several provisions of the 2024 framework. The Homeland Security Committee will hold its first markup of the Coast Guard reauthorization, which includes substantive provisions on maritime-migration response capabilities.

The Judiciary Committee markup, scheduled for Wednesday morning, is expected to be substantively contentious. The committee’s Republican majority has indicated that the markup will include substantive amendments that the committee’s Democratic minority has characterized as “fundamentally alterative” of the existing border framework. The markup is expected to extend through Wednesday afternoon and may continue Thursday morning depending on the substantive amendment process.

The Coast Guard reauthorization, by contrast, has been preparation through the past three weeks through extensive bipartisan engagement between the Homeland Security Committee’s chairman and ranking member. The markup, scheduled for Tuesday morning, is expected to proceed substantively constructively, with the substantive provisions having been substantially pre-negotiated between the two parties’ principal staff.

The judicial-nominee confirmation votes on the House schedule include four district-court nominees and one circuit-court nominee. The circuit-court nominee, the administration’s nomination for the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, has been the subject of substantive Republican opposition through the Senate Judiciary Committee process and is expected to advance through the House floor process by a relatively narrow margin. The four district-court nominees are expected to advance through more substantively bipartisan votes.

The House Republican leadership, in Sunday-evening communications with the chamber’s Republican conference, indicated that the week’s substantive floor schedule would be conducted on “a substantively constructive basis” and that the chamber’s Republican members would be expected to “engage substantively” with the substantive content of the bills under consideration. The leadership communications did not specifically address the war-powers vote scheduled for later in the week, which Speaker Mike Johnson had addressed on Sunday’s Sunday-show appearances.

The war-powers vote, scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, will be the substantive culmination of the discharge-petition pressure that had been applied to the House leadership in early May. The substantive content of the vote will be on the Senate-passed war-powers overhaul, which the House will consider on a substantively unmodified basis. The vote’s substantive outcome is expected to be a substantial majority in favor of the overhaul, with the substantively bipartisan vote expected to deliver the legislation to the President’s desk by the end of the week.

A senior House Republican staffer, in a Monday-morning background briefing, said the substantive Republican posture on the war-powers vote had been “substantively normalized” during the past two weeks and that the substantive Republican members would be “broadly free” to vote on the substantive question according to their substantive policy positions. The staffer noted that the substantive Republican opposition to the overhaul had narrowed substantially during the discharge-petition process.

The House Democratic Caucus, in a Monday-morning whip note, indicated that the substantive Democratic position on the war-powers vote would be “substantively unified” in favor of the overhaul. The whip note characterized the substantive vote as “a moment of substantive constitutional restoration” and indicated that the Democratic caucus expected substantial substantively bipartisan support for the overhaul.

The judicial-nominee confirmation votes’ substantive outcomes will be reviewed at the House Republican conference’s Wednesday-evening meeting, with the substantively contentious circuit-court nomination expected to be the principal focus of the substantive discussion. The substantive Republican opposition to the nominee had been organized through the conservative bloc within the conference and has been substantively focused on the nominee’s substantive judicial philosophy rather than on substantive procedural objections.

The week’s substantive floor schedule will conclude with Friday-morning consideration of several substantive items from the House Education and Workforce Committee, including the substantive reauthorization of several long-standing workforce-development programs. The substantive Education and Workforce items are expected to proceed substantively constructively and to advance to the Senate through substantively bipartisan votes.

The Senate’s substantive parallel schedule for the week includes the substantive AI Transparency Act hearing in the Senate Commerce Committee Friday, which Senator Maggie Hennessey had previewed on Sunday’s Sunday-show appearances. The hearing will substantively engage with the operational mechanics of the bill’s substantive provisions and will substantively inform the bill’s substantive markup process scheduled for early June.

The week’s substantive legislative outcomes will be substantively informative for the broader contours of the 2026 legislative cycle and for the substantive shape of the post-war congressional agenda.