Scalise releases the House's legislative calendar for 2025

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise on Wednesday released the lower chamber's legislative calendar for next year, with members expected to spend the majority of the year on Capitol Hill instead of in their respective districts.

The calendar largely follows previous years, with lawmakers scheduled to spend 34 weeks in Washington, D.C., over the next year and the rest in their home districts. The regular work-week will last four days, primarily from Monday through Thursday. 

Scalise said the new calendar reflects the "ambitious agenda" that President-elect Donald Trump ran on in his election campaign, and that lawmakers were already working to make sure the promises can be achieved.

"We are already working on those things now so we can hit the ground running day one," Scalise said in a statement. "We have a calendar built out so that we have the opportunity to deliver for those families who are counting on us and to deliver this mandate to the American people so that we can actually go and get those things done.”

The new year kicks off on January 3, where the lawmakers will be sworn into office and a new House speaker will be elected. Republicans will remain in the majority, and current House Speaker Mike Johnson is expected to keep the gavel.

The House will also be in session for all but three weeks in the first quarter of the year, per The Hill. They will also spend just seven weeks in their local districts before the month-long August recess, where lawmakers will be in their jurisdictions. 

Following Labor Day, the lawmakers will return to the Capitol for three weeks in the fall, before breaking for a week for the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. 

At the end of next year, they will spend just two weeks in Washington in November, and three in December. 

Misty Severi is an evening news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.