[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 97 (Tuesday, June 26, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D659-D661]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                             JUNE 27, 2012

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on 
National Parks, to hold hearings to examine S. 1897, to amend Public 
Law 101-377 to revise the boundaries of the Gettysburg National 
Military Park to include the Gettysburg Train Station, S. 2158, to 
establish the Fox-Wisconsin Heritage Parkway National Heritage Area, 
S. 2229, to authorize the issuance of right-of-way permits for 
natural gas pipelines in Glacier National Park, S. 2267, to 
reauthorize the Hudson Valley National Heritage Area, S. 2272, to 
designate a mountain in the State of Alaska as Mount Denali, S. 
2273, to designate the Talkeetna Ranger Station in Talkeetna, 
Alaska, as the Walter Harper Talkeetna Ranger Station, S. 2286, to 
amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain segments 
of the Farmington River and Salmon Brook in the State of Connecticut 
as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, S. 
2316, to designate the Salt Pond Visitor Center at the Cape Cod 
National Seashore as the ``Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. Salt Pond Visitor 
Center'', S. 2324, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to 
designate a segment of the Neches River in the State of Texas for 
potential addition to the National Wild and Scenic River System, S. 
2372, to authorize pedestrian and motorized vehicular access in Cape 
Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area, S. 3300, to establish 
the Manhattan Project National Historical Park in Oak Ridge, 
Tennessee, Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Hanford, Washington, and S. 
3078, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to install in the area 
of the World War II Memorial in the District of Columbia a suitable 
plaque or an inscription with the words that President Franklin D. 
Roosevelt prayed with the United States on June 6, 1944, the morning 
of D-Day, 3 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine the 
nomination of Derek J. Mitchell, of Connecticut, to be Ambassador to 
the Union of Burma, Department of State, 10:30 a.m., SD-419.
  Full Committee, to receive a closed briefing on Syria, 2 p.m., 
SVC-217.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: business 
meeting to consider S. 2178, to require the Federal Government to 
expedite the sale of underutilized Federal real property, S. 2170, 
to amend the provisions of title 5, United States Code, which are 
commonly referred to as the ``Hatch Act'' to eliminate the provision 
preventing certain State and local employees from seeking elective 
office, clarify the application of certain provisions to the 
District of Columbia, and modify the penalties which may be imposed 
for certain violations under subchapter III of chapter 73 of that 
title, S. 2234, to prevent human trafficking in government 
contracting, S. 2239, to direct the head of each agency to treat 
relevant military training as sufficient to satisfy training or 
certification requirements for Federal licenses, H.R. 915, to 
establish a Border Enforcement Security Task Force program to 
enhance border security by fostering coordinated efforts among 
Federal, State, and local border and law enforcement officials to 
protect United States border cities and communities from trans-
national crime, including violence associated with drug trafficking, 
arms smuggling, illegal alien trafficking and smuggling, violence, 
and kidnapping along and across the international borders of the 
United States, and S. 3315, to repeal or modify certain mandates of 
the Government Accountability Office, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Frank Paul Geraci, Jr., to be United States District 
Judge for the Western District of New York, Fernando M. Olguin, to 
be United States District Judge for the Central District of 
California, Malachy Edward Mannion, and Matthew W. Brann, both to be 
a United States District Judge for the Middle District of 
Pennsylvania, and Charles R. Breyer, of California, to be a Member 
of the United States Sentencing Commission, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: to hold hearings to examine health 
and benefits legislation, 10 a.m., SD-124.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, Full Committee, markup of Activity 
Report of the Committee on Agriculture for the 3rd Quarter of the 
112th Congress, 10 a.m., 1300 Longworth.

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  Committee on Appropriations, Full Committee, markup of the 
adoption of the Semiannual Activities Report of the Committee on 
Appropriations; and Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Bill, FY 2013, 10 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Committee on Armed Services, Full Committee, markup of the Third 
Semiannual Report on the Activities of the Committee on Armed 
Services for the 112th Congress, 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, hearing entitled ``The Creation 
and Implementation of the National Nuclear Security 
Administration'', 3:30 p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Budget, Full Committee, markup of H.R. 5872, the 
``Sequestration Transparency Act of 2012'', 10:15 a.m., 210 Cannon.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Full Committee, markup 
of Report on the Activities of the Committee on Education and the 
Workforce for the third quarter of the 112th Congress, 10 a.m., 2175 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Environment and 
the Economy, hearing on discussion draft of the ``Increasing 
Manufacturing Competitiveness Through Improved Recycling Act of 
2012''; and H.R. 2997, the ``Superfund Common Sense Act'', 10:15 
a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, hearing entitled 
``The Future of Video'', 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Full Committee, markup of 
Semiannual Report on Activities of the Committee on Financial 
Services of the House of Representatives During the 112th Congress; 
and H.R. 4367, to amend the Electronic Fund Transfer Act to limit 
the fee disclosure requirement for an automatic teller machine to 
the screen of that machine, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Full Committee, markup of the report 
of the Legislative Review and Oversight Activities of the Committee 
on Foreign Affairs for the 112th Congress, 3rd Quarter; and H.R. 
6018, the ``Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2013'', 
10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, 
Competition and the Internet, hearing entitled ``International IP 
Enforcement: Protecting Patents, Trade Secrets and Market Access'', 
10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on the Constitution, hearing on H.R. 3356, the 
``ACCESS (ADA Compliance for Customer Entry to Stores and Services) 
Act'', 1:30 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, Full Committee, hearing to approve 
the 3d quarter semi-annual 112th Congress Report on Legislative and 
Oversight Activities; and Subcommittee on Water and Power, hearing 
entitled ``Mandatory Conditioning Requirements on Hydropower: How 
Federal Resource Agencies are Driving Up Electricity Costs and 
Decreasing the Original Green Energy'', 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs, hearing entitled 
``Authorization, standards, and procedures for whether, how, and 
when Indian tribes should be newly recognized by the federal 
government'', 2 p.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Full Committee, mark 
up of H.R. 459, the ``Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2011''; 
H.R. 4155, the ``Veteran Skills to Jobs Act''; H.R. 4631, the 
``Government Spending Accountability Act of 2012''; H.R. 6016, to 
amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for administrative 
leave requirements with respect to Senior Executive Service 
employees, and for other purposes; H.R. 3912, to designate the 
facility of the United States Postal Service located at 110 Mastic 
Road in Mastic Beach, New York, as the ``Brigadier General Nathaniel 
Woodhull Post Office Building''; H.R. 4389, to designate the 
facility of the United States Postal Service located at 19 East 
Merced Street in Fowler, California, as the ``Cecil E. Bolt Post 
Office''; H.R. 5788, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 103 Center Street West in Eatonville, 
Washington, as the ``National Park Ranger Margaret Anderson Post 
Office''; H.R. 5867, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 4605 Tutu Park Mall in St. Thomas, United 
States Virgin Islands, as the ``Kenneth Leslie Hermon Post Office''; 
H.R. 2896, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 369 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Jersey City, 
New Jersey, as the ``Judge Shirley A. Tolentino Post Office 
Building''; H.R. 2338, to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 600 Florida Avenue in Cocoa, 
Florida, as the ``Harry T. and Harriette Moore Post Office''; H.R. 
1369, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 1021 Pennsylvania Avenue in Hartshorne, Oklahoma, as the 
``Warren Lindley Post Office''; and Committee on Oversight and 
Government Reform Third Semiannual Activities Report, June 2012, 10 
a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Subcommittee on 
Research and Science Education, hearing entitled ``The Role of 
Research Universities in Securing America's Future Prosperity: 
Challenges and Expectations'', 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight and Subcommittee on 
Energy and Environment, joint hearing entitled ``Continuing 
Oversight of the Nation's Weather Satellite Programs: An Update on 
JPSS and GOE-R'', 2 p.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, Full Committee, markup of Semiannual 
Report on the Activity of the Committee on Small Business; and Full 
Committee, hearing entitled ``Regulatory Flexibility Act Compliance: 
Is EPA Failing Small Businesses?'' 1 p.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Coast Guard & Maritime Transportation, hearing entitled ``A Review 
of Vessels Used To Carry Strategic Petroleum Reserve Drawdowns'', 10 
a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations, markup of H.R. 3730, the ``Veterans Data Breach 
Timely Notification Act''; H.R. 4481, the ``Veterans Affairs 
Employee Accountability Act''; and

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H.R. 5948, the ``Veterans Fiduciary Reform Act of 2012'', 10 a.m. 
334 Cannon.
  Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs, markup 
of H.R. 5735, to provide for the establishment of a Tomb of 
Remembrance at Arlington National Cemetery for interment of cremated 
fragments of the remains of members of the Armed Forces killed in 
Afghanistan, Iraq, or a subsequent conflict when the fragments are 
unidentifiable by use of DNA testing or other means because of the 
condition of the fragments, are unclaimed, or are identified and 
authorized by the person designated to direct disposition of the 
remains for interment in such memorial; H.R. 5880, the ``Veterans 
Disability Examination Access Improvement Act''; and H.R. 5881, the 
``Access to Veterans Benefits Improvement Act'', 2 p.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Full Committee, markup of approval of 
the Report on the Legislative and Oversight Activities of the 
Committee on Ways and Means during the 112th Congress; and 
Subcommittee on Human Resources and Subcommittee on Select Revenue 
Measures, joint hearing entitled ``How Welfare and Tax Benefits Can 
Discourage Work'', 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Social Security, hearing entitled ``Securing the 
Future of the Disability Insurance Program'', 2 p.m., B-318 Rayburn.
  House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,  Full Committee, 
hearing on ongoing intelligence activities, 10 a.m., HVC-304 
Capitol. This is a closed hearing.