California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to meet with President Trump about federal money to help his state recover from the devastating wildfire last month. However, it's unclear whether he will go to Capitol Hill to ask members of Congress for their support, ahead to House hearing related to the matter.

The hearing Thursday is being held by the GOP-led House Judiciary Committee and is titled “California Fires and the Consequences of Overregulation.” 

A staffer for committee member Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., could not says whether Newsom will be added to the list of witnesses scheduled to testify. 

The offices of the governor and Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, the committee's top Democrat, not reply to a request for comment from Just the News.

The committee will discuss the relationship between regulation and the prevention of natural disasters in the case of California's wildfires.  The effects of excessive insurance and permitting regulations on survivors of natural disasters will also be discussed in the hearing.  

Witnesses for the hearing listed on the committee's website are Steve Hilton, Steven Greenhut and Edward Ring.  

Hilton is a political commentator and the founder of Golden Together, a nonpartisan group that advocates for policy change in California, including forest management. 

Greenhut is a senior fellow at the R Street Institute, a think tank that promotes "free market solutions to policy problems."  Ring is the director of the Water and Energy Policy at the California Policy Center, a nonprofit focused on educating Californians on policy issues.  

The wildfire in January in Los Angeles County, fanned by strong Santa Ana winds, destroyed 1,600 homes, scorch roughly 23,000 acres and killed 29 people. The estimate damage is from $164 billion to $250 billion.

 Investigations by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives determined that the fires resulted from either a brush fire that began on January 1 in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, or from a second brush fire that started in the same location a few days later.