Lawmakers returned Monday from their spring break recess to begin a slate of defense and veterans hearings this week, Military Times reported.

• The Senate Armed Services Committee will hold a confirmation hearing Tuesday to consider President Trump’s nominations of Adm. William Moran to become Chief of Naval Operations and Lt. Gen. David Berger to become Commandant of the Marine Corps.
• Tuesday the House Armed Services Personnel Subcommittee will hear from military medical malpractice victims on the legal barriers they face in suing DOD for the mistakes, as ADC reported last week.
• The House Appropriations Committee will follow Wednesday morning with testimony from Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan defending the White House’s fiscal 2020 budget request.
• Later Wednesday that committee’s Military-VA subcommittee will meet to begin markups on its proposed spending bill, as ADC reported Monday.
• The House agenda also included a special Veterans’ Affairs Committee hearing Monday evening on veteran suicide, after several suicides on Veterans Administration campuses this month. “This is a national crisis that we all need to address,” Chairman Mark Takano (D-Calif.) said in a press release.

Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Rebekah Watkins