[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 92 (Monday, June 18, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D613-D615]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR TUESDAY,

                             JUNE 19, 2012

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Armed Services: business meeting to consider pending 
nominations, 10 a.m., SR-222.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: 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: 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: to hold hearings to examine confronting the 
looming fiscal crisis, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: 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

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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 District of 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, Susan Marsh Elliott, of Florida, 
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Tajikistan, Richard L. 
Morningstar, of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Azerbaijan, Timothy M. Broas, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the 
Kingdom of the Netherlands, Jay Nicholas Anania, of Maryland, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Suriname, all of the Department of 
State, and lists in the Foreign Service, 2:15 p.m., S-116, Capitol.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: to hold 
hearings to examine Title IX, focusing on forty years and counting, 
10 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on the Judiciary: 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.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold closed hearings to 
examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control: to 
receive a briefing on treating substance abuse disorder and 
expanding access to and resources for community-based treatment 
providers in the United States, 2 p.m., SD-562.


                                 House

  Committee on Appropriations, 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.
  Committee on the Budget,  Full Committee, markup of Activities and 
Summary Report of the Committee on the Budget, 11:30 a.m., 210 
Cannon.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and 
Power, hearing entitled ``The American Energy Initiative,'' 10 a.m., 
2123 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing entitled 
``The Federal Green Jobs Agenda,'' 10:15 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  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 Semi-Annual Committee Activity Report, 4 p.m., 2123 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Examining Bank Supervision and Risk Management in Light of 
JPMorgan Chase's Trading Loss,'' 9:30 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, 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.
  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.
  Committee on the Judiciary, 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.
  Full Committee, mark up of H.R. 5949, the ``FISA Amendments Act 
Reauthorization Act of 2012,'' 1 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, Full Committee hearing entitled 
``Taxpayer-Funded Litigation: Benefitting Lawyers and Harming 
Species, Jobs and Schools,'' 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  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, 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.
  Committee on Rules, 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, 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.
  Subcommittee on Investigation and Oversight, hearing entitled 
``The Science of How Hunting Assists Species Conservation and 
Management,'' 2 p.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs,  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.

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  Committee on Ways and Means,  Subcommittee on Health, hearing 
entitled ``MedPAC's June 2012 Report to Congress,'' 10 a.m., 1100 
Longworth.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Economic Committee: to hold hearings to examine the economic 
impact of ending or reducing funding for the American Community 
Survey and other government statistics, 2:30 p.m., 210, Cannon 
Building.