[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 91 (Friday, June 15, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D604-D607]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

                 Week of June 18 through June 22, 2012

                             Senate Chamber

  On Monday, at 5 p.m., Senate will begin consideration of the 
nomination of Mary Geiger Lewis, of South Carolina, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of South Carolina, and vote on 
confirmation of the nomination at approximately 5:30 p.m.
  Also, Senate expects to resume consideration of S. 3240, Agriculture 
Reform, Food, and Jobs Act.
  During the balance of the week, Senate may consider any cleared 
legislative and executive business.


                           Senate Committees

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
  Committee on Armed Services: June 20, Subcommittee on Personnel, 
to hold hearings to examine Department of Defense programs and 
policies to support military families with special needs in review 
of the Defense Authorization request for fiscal year 2013 and the 
Future Years Defense Program, 2:30 p.m., SR-232A.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: June 20, 
Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance and Investment, to hold 
hearings to examine the initial public offering (IPO) process, 
focusing on ordinary investors, 9:30 a.m., SD-538.
  June 21, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine perspectives 
on money market mutual fund reforms, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: June 20, 
Subcommittee on Science and Space, to hold hearings to examine 
risks, opportunities, and oversight of commercial space, 10 a.m., 
SR-253.
  June 21, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
nomination of Michael Peter Huerta, of the District of Columbia, to 
be Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, Department 
of Transportation, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: June 19, to hold 
hearings to examine the potential for induced seismicity from energy 
technologies, including carbon capture and storage, enhance 
geothermal systems, production from gas shales, and enhanced oil 
recovery, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: June 19, Subcommittee 
on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety, to hold hearings to examine a 
review of recent Environmental Protection Agency's air standards for 
hydraulically fractured natural gas wells and oil and natural gas 
storage, 10 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: June 19, to hold hearings to examine 
confronting the looming fiscal crisis, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  June 21, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine Russia's 
World Trade Organization (WTO) accession, focusing on the 
Administration's views on the implications for the United States, 10 
a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: June 19, business meeting to 
consider S. 641, to provide 100,000,000 people with first-time 
access to safe drinking water and sanitation on a sustainable basis 
within six years by improving the capacity of the United States 
Government to fully implement the Senator Paul Simon Water for the 
Poor Act of 2005, S. 1039, to impose sanctions on persons 
responsible for the detention, abuse, or death of Sergei Magnitsky, 
for the conspiracy to defraud the Russian Federation of taxes on 
corporate profits through fraudulent transactions and lawsuits 
against Hermitage, and for other gross violations of human rights in 
the Russian Federation, S. 2165, to enhance strategic cooperation 
between the United States and Israel, H.R. 4240, to reauthorize the 
North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004, S. Res. 402, condemning 
Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army for committing crimes 
against humanity and mass atrocities, and supporting ongoing efforts 
by the United States Government and governments in central Africa to 
remove Joseph Kony and Lord's Resistance Army commanders from the 
battlefield, S. Res. 429, supporting the goals and ideals of World 
Malaria Day, S. Res. 473, commending Rotary International and others 
for their efforts to prevent and eradicate polio, S. Res. 385, 
condemning the Government of Iran for its continued persecution, 
imprisonment, and sentencing of Youcef Nadarkhani on the charge of 
apostasy, and the nominations of Piper Anne Wind Campbell, of the 
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Columbia, to be Ambassador to Mongolia, Peter William Bodde, of 
Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Federal Democratic Republic of 
Nepal, Dorothea-Maria Rosen, of California, to be Ambassador to the 
Federated States of Micronesia, Edward M. Alford, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of The Gambia, Mark L. Asquino, of the 
District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Equatorial 
Guinea, Douglas M. Griffiths, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Mozambique, Michele Jeanne Sison, of Maryland, to be 
Ambassador to the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, and to 
serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador 
to the Republic of Maldives, Brett H. McGurk, of Connecticut, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Iraq, and Susan Marsh Elliott, of 
Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Tajikistan, all of the 
Department of State, 2:15 p.m., S-116, Capitol.
  June 21, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine 
implementation of the New Start Treaty, and related matters, 10 
a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: June 19, to 
hold hearings to examine Title IX, focusing on forty years and 
counting, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  June 21, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine an update on 
Olmstead enforcement, focusing on using the Americans with 
Disabilities Act (ADA) to promote community integration, 10 a.m., 
SD-430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: June 21, 
to hold hearings to examine the nominations of James C. Miller III, 
and Katherine C. Tobin, of New York, both to be a Governor of the 
United States Postal Service, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  June 21, Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the 
Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia, to hold hearings to 
examine security clearance reform, focusing on sustaining progress 
for the future, 2:30 p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: June 19, Subcommittee on the 
Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, to hold hearings to 
examine reassessing solitary confinement, focusing on the human 
rights, fiscal and public safety consequences, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  June 20, Full Committee, to hold an oversight hearing to examine 
the United States Patent and Trademark Office, focusing on 
implementation of the Leahy-Smith ``America Invents Act'' and 
international harmonizing efforts, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  June 20, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine Holocaust-era 
claims in the 21st century, 2:30 p.m., SD-226.
  June 21, Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. 250, to 
protect crime victims' rights, to eliminate the substantial backlog 
of DNA samples collected from crime scenes and convicted offenders, 
to improve and expand the DNA testing capacity of Federal, State, 
and local crime laboratories, to increase research and development 
of new DNA testing technologies, to develop new training programs 
regarding the collection and use of DNA evidence, to provide post 
conviction testing of DNA evidence to exonerate the innocent, to 
improve the performance of counsel in State capital cases, S. 285, 
for the relief of Sopuruchi Chukwueke, and the nomination of Brian 
J. Davis, to be United States District Judge for the Middle District 
of Florida, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  June 21, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and 
Consumer Rights, to hold hearings to examine the Universal Music 
Group/EMI merger and the future of online music, 1:30 p.m., SD-226.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: June 19, to hold closed hearings 
to examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  June 21, Full Committee, to hold closed hearings to examine 
certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Appropriations: June 19, Full Committee, markup of 
Agriculture Appropriations Bill, FY 2013; and the Transportation, 
Housing, and Urban Development Appropriations Bill, FY 2013; 10:15 
a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  June 20, Full Committee, markup of Financial Services 
Appropriations Bill, FY 2013, 10 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  June 20, Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related 
Agencies, markup of Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Bill, FY 2013, 1 p.m., B-308 Rayburn.
  June 21, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related 
Agencies, hearing entitled ``Mismanagement of Appropriated Funds 
within the National Weather Service'', 9:30 a.m., H-309 Capitol.
  Committee on Armed Services: June 20, Full Committee, hearing on 
Addressing the Iranian Nuclear Challenge: Understanding the Military 
Options, 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  June 20, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing on 
Afghan National Security Forces: Resources, Strategy, and Timetable 
for Security Lead Transitions, 2 p.m., 2212 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Budget: June 19, Full Committee, markup of 
Activities and Summary Report of the Committee on the Budget, 11:30 
a.m., 210 Cannon.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce: June 20, Subcommittee on 
Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, hearing entitled 
``Assessing the Challenges Facing Multiemployer Pension Plans'', 10 
a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce: June 19, Subcommittee on Energy 
and Power, hearing entitled ``The American Energy Initiative'', 9:45 
a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  June 19, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing 
entitled ``The Federal Green Jobs Agenda'', 10:15 a.m., 2322 
Rayburn.
  June 19, Full Committee, begin markup of H.R. 5859, to repeal an 
obsolete provision in title 49, United States Code, requiring motor 
vehicle insurance cost reporting; H.R. 5865, the ``American 
Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2012''; H.R. 4273, the 
``Resolving Environmental and Grid Reliability Conflicts Act of 
2012''; H.R. 5892, the'' Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act of 
2012''; H. Con. Res. 127, providing for the acceptance of a statue 
of Gerald R. Ford from the people of Michigan for placement in the 
United States Capitol; and

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Semi-Annual Committee Activity Report, 4 p.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  June 21, Subcommittee on Health, hearing entitled ``The National 
Institutes of Health--A Review of Its Reforms, Priorities, and 
Progress'', 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  June 21, Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, hearing 
entitled ``Electronic Submission of Hazardous Waste Manifests--
Modernizing for the 21st Century'', 10:15 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services: June 19, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``Examining Bank Supervision and Risk Management in Light 
of JPMorgan Chase's Trading Loss'', 9:30 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  June 20, Subcommittee Capital Markets and Government Sponsored 
Enterprises, hearing entitled ``Market Structure: Ensuring Orderly, 
Efficient, Innovative and Competitive Markets for Issuers and 
Investors'', 9 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  June 20, Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community 
Opportunity, hearing entitled ``Mortgage Disclosures: How Do We Cut 
Red Tape for Consumers and Small Businesses?'', 1:30 p.m., 2128 
Rayburn.
  June 21, Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer 
Credit, hearing entitled ``Safe and Fair Supervision of Money 
Services Businesses'', 9:30 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs: June 20, Subcommittee on the Middle 
East and South Asia, hearing entitled ``Reflections on the 
Revolution in Egypt, Part II'', 1:30 p.m., 2200 Rayburn.
  June 20, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade 
and Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights, joint 
hearing entitled ``The African Growth and Opportunity Act: Ensuring 
Success'', 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security: June 19, Subcommittee on Border 
and Maritime Security, hearing ``Border Security Threats to the 
Homeland: DHS' Response to Innovative Tactics and Techniques'', 10 
a.m., 311 Cannon.
  June 19, Subcommittee on Transportation Security, hearing entitled 
``Is TSA's Planned Purchase of CAT/BPSS a Wise Use of Taxpayer 
Dollars?'', 1:30 p.m., 311 Cannon.
  June 20, Full Committee, hearing entitled ``The American Muslim 
Response to Hearings on Radicalization within their Community'', 
10:15 a.m., 311 Cannon.
  June 21, Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and 
Management, hearing entitled ``U.S.-Caribbean Border: Open Road for 
Drug Traffickers and Terrorists'', 9 a.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on the Judiciary: June 19, Subcommittee on Intellectual 
Property, Competition and the Internet, hearing entitled ``New 
Technologies and Innovations in the Mobile and Online space, and the 
Implications for Public Policy'', 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  June 20, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security 
hearing entitled ``The Drug Enforcement Administration'', 10 a.m., 
2141 Rayburn.
  June 20, Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement, 
hearing on H.R. 2899, the ``Chinese Media Reciprocity Act of 2011'', 
12:30 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources: June 19, Full Committee hearing 
entitled ``Taxpayer-Funded Litigation: Benefitting Lawyers and 
Harming Species, Jobs and Schools'', 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  June 19, Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular 
Affairs, hearing entitled H.R. 2706, the ``Billfish Conservation Act 
of 2011''; H.R. 3472, the ``Pirate Fishing Vessel Disposal Act of 
2011''; and H.R. 4100, the ``Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated 
Fishing Enforcement Act of 2011'', 2 p.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: June 19, 
Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and 
Government Spending, hearing entitled ``The Obama Administration's 
Green Energy Gamble Part II: Were All the Taxpayer Subsidies 
Necessary?'', 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  June 20, Full Committee, markup to consider a report holding 
Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for his failure 
to produce documents specified in the Committee's October 12, 2011, 
subpoena, 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules: June 18, Full Committee, hearing on H.R. 2578 
to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act related to a segment of the 
Lower Merced River in California, and for other purposes, 5 p.m., H-
313 Capitol.
  June 19, Full Committee, hearing on H.R. 4480, the ``Strategic 
Energy Production Act of 2012'', 3 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology: June 19, Subcommittee 
on Technology and Innovation, hearing entitled ``Best Practices in 
Transforming Research into Innovation: Creative Approaches to the 
Bayh-Dole Act'', 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  June 19, Subcommittee on Investigation and Oversight, hearing 
entitled ``The Science of How Hunting Assists Species Conservation 
and Management'', 2 p.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  June 20, Full Committee, hearing entitled ``The Office of Science 
and Technology Policy: Examining Priorities and Effectiveness of the 
Nation's Science Policies'', 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  June 21, Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, hearing entitled 
``Department of Energy User Facilities: Utilizing the Tools of 
Science to Drive Innovation through Fundamental Research'', 9:30 
a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: June 19, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``Reclaiming the Process: Examining the VBA Claims 
Transformation Plan as a Means to Effectively Serve our Veterans''; 
and Approval of the Activities Report for the Committee on Veterans' 
Affairs, 10:30 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  June 20, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation, hearing on 
H.R. 2985, the ``Veteran's I.D. Card Act''; H.R. 3730, the 
``Veterans Data Breach Timely Notification Act''; and H.R. 4481, the 
``Veterans Affairs Employee Accountability Act'', 10 a.m., 334 
Cannon.
  June 21, Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity, hearing on H.R. 
4115, the ``Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 
2012''; H.R. 4740, the ``Fairness for Military Homeowners Act of 
2012''; H.R.

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3860, the ``Help Veterans Return to Work Act''; and H.R. 5747, the 
``Military Family Home Protection Act'', 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means: June 19, Subcommittee on Health, 
hearing entitled ``MedPAC's June 2012 Report to Congress'', 10 a.m., 
1100 Longworth.
  June 20, Full Committee, hearing entitled ``Russia's Accession to 
the World Trade Organization and Granting Russia Permanent Normal 
Trade Relations'', 9:30 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  June 21, Subcommittee on Social Security, hearing entitled ``The 
2012 Annual Report of the Social Security Board of Trustees'', 9 
a.m., B-318 Rayburn.
  House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: June 21, Full 
Committee, hearing on ongoing intelligence activities, 10 a.m., HVC-
304. This is a closed hearing.