Lawmakers are scheduled to take on a measure arising out of the case of Lilly Ledbetter, an Alabama woman who lost a wage discrimination suit at the Supreme Court last year.

Under a measure sponsored by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, the court’s ruling that Ms. Ledbetter failed to file a timely challenge to pay practices at a Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. plant in Gadsden would effectively be overturned, though Ms. Ledbetter would not benefit directly.

Ms. Ledbetter, who earned thousands of dollars less than male colleagues doing similar supervisory work, was found by the court to have failed to make her claim within 180 days of the company’s pay policy decision. The sponsors of the bill want to clear up that requirement and straighten out what they see as a flawed ruling.

Elsewhere on the Congressional agenda, time is running short for a rewrite of federal farm policy. House and Senate negotiators have for months been unable to resolve some tax and spending differences over a new farm bill. President Bush last week signed a one-week extension of current farm law and if lawmakers don’t get a breakthrough this week, it is possible that they could just abandon their efforts for now, keep the current law in place and try again next year.

In the House, the banking committee will get serious about drafting legislation in response to the mortgage crisis, with two days of deliberation.