The question is will they use their time to actually query one of the most powerful companies on the planet about some of the big issues -- like data privacy, China and censorship -- facing Google.
When the House Judiciary Committee announced the hearing last week, the issue that got top billing was whether the world's biggest search engine and its YouTube video service have a bias against conservatives. Which makes sense, given that Republicans control the House of Representatives.
"The technology behind online services like social media and Internet search engines can also be used to suppress particular viewpoints and manipulate public opinion," House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, a Republican from Virginia, said in a statement.
But devoting a big chunk of the hearing to discussing bias would would be a mistake, experts say.
Google is facing real challenges, and hearing directly from its CEO could be illuminating if lawmakers use their time wisely. After all, there's lots for them to discuss.
There's the secretive Project Dragonfly, which will reportedly bring a censored search engine to China and which has prompted employee protests and resignations. There's the controversy over data collection, after reports that Google tracked people's location even after they'd turned off location-sharing on their phones.
And there're security issues, like a bug that left hundreds of thousands of people's personal information exposed on the Google+ social network.
"There are bigger fish to fry," said Bob O'Donnell, head analyst at Technalysis Research. "If the focus is mostly on conservative bias, that becomes a highly political and not necessarily productive conversation."
That's because some of the accusations already hurled at Google over conservative bias have been dispelled.
In August, President Donald Trump accused Google of political bias and having a liberal bent. He tweeted that Google's search results are "rigged," saying the company is "suppressing voices of Conservatives.
" He also tweeted a video claiming Google promoted former President Barack Obama's State of the Union addresses every January but not his. Trump added the hashtag #StopTheBias.
Except Trump got it wrong. Google rejected his claim, noting that its home page did promote the president's address in January. The company also said it didn't promote either Trump's or Obama's address from their first years in office because those speeches aren't technically considered State of the Union addresses.
A screenshot from the Internet Archive, which keeps a record of what appears on web domains, backed up Google.
Still, that doesn't mean the question of anticonservative bias shouldn't be part of the conversation.
Last year, after the Trump administration launched its controversial travel ban involving seven Muslim-majority countries, The Wall Street Journal reported that Google employees discussed tweaking search results to show users how they could contribute to pro-immigration causes.
And two days after the 2016 election, Google's leadership expressed dismay over Trump's victory, according to a video of a companywide meeting leaked to Breitbart in September.
"Let's face it, most people here are pretty upset and pretty sad because of the election," Google co-founder Sergey Brin says in the video.
"As an immigrant and a refugee, I find this election deeply offensive, and I'm sure many of you do too."
Pichai, who skipped out on a high-profile hearing in September with Facebook and Twitter, will likely face questions about what's perceived to be a liberal culture at the search giant.
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