[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 126 (Tuesday, September 18, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D875-D877]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                           SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

          (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold hearings to 
examine five years of the ``America COMPETES Act'', focusing on progress, 
challenges, and next steps, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.

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  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power, to hold hearings to examine S. 3265, to amend the Federal Power 
Act to remove the authority of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 
to collect land use fees for land that has been sold, exchanged, or 
otherwise transferred from Federal ownership but that is subject to a 
power site reservation, H.R. 2842, to authorize all Bureau of Reclamation 
conduit facilities for hydropower development under Federal Reclamation 
law, S. 3464, to amend the Mni Wiconi Project Act of 1988 to facilitate 
completion of the Mni Wiconi Rural Water Supply System, and S. 3483, to 
amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to adjust the Crooked River 
boundary, to provide water certainty for the City of Prineville, Oregon, 
9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine the 
nomination of Robert Stephen Beecroft, of California, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Iraq, Department of State, 9:30 a.m., SD-419.
  Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. 2215, to create jobs in 
the United States by increasing United States exports to Africa by at 
least 200 percent in real dollar value within 10 years, S. 2318, to 
authorize the Secretary of State to pay a reward to combat transnational 
organized crime and for information concerning foreign nationals wanted 
by international criminal tribunals, S. 3310, to direct the President, in 
consultation with the Department of State, United States Agency for 
International Development, Millennium Challenge Corporation, and the 
Department of Defense, to establish guidelines for United States foreign 
assistance programs, S. 3331, to provide for universal intercountry 
adoption accreditation standards, S. 3341, to require a quadrennial 
diplomacy and development review, S. Con. Res. 50, expressing the sense 
of Congress regarding actions to preserve and advance the 
multistakeholder governance model under which the Internet has thrived, 
S. Res. 516, expressing the sense of the Senate on the restitution of or 
compensation for property seized during the Nazi and Communist eras, S. 
Res. 466, calling for the release from prison of former Prime Minister of 
Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko, S. Res. 543, to express the sense of the Senate 
on international parental child abduction, the nominations of Richard G. 
Olson, of New Mexico, to be Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of 
Pakistan, Joseph E. Macmanus, of New York, to be Representative of the 
United States of America to the International Atomic Energy Agency, with 
the rank of Ambassador, and to be Representative of the United States of 
America to the Vienna Office of the United Nations, with the rank of 
Ambassador, Walter North, of Washington, to be Ambassador to Papua New 
Guinea, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as 
Ambassador to the Solomon Islands and Ambassador to the Republic of 
Vanuatu, Sharon English Woods Villarosa, of Texas, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Mauritius, and to serve concurrently and without 
additional compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of Seychelles, Dawn 
M. Liberi, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Burundi, and 
Stephen D. Mull, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Poland, 
all of the Department of State, and John Hardy Isakson, of Georgia, and 
Patrick J. Leahy, of Vermont, both to be a Representative of the United 
States of America to the Sixty-seventh Session of the General Assembly of 
the United Nations, and lists in the Foreign Service, 2:15 p.m., S-116, 
Capitol.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: business meeting 
to consider S. 3391, to amend section 353 of the Public Health Service 
Act with respect to suspension, revocation, and limitation of laboratory 
certification, an original bill entitled, ``Recalcitrant Cancer Research 
Act of 2012'', S. 1440, to reduce preterm labor and delivery and the risk 
of pregnancy-related deaths and complications due to pregnancy, and to 
reduce infant mortality caused by prematurity, and nomination lists in 
the Public Health Service, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: to hold 
hearings to examine homeland threats and agency responses, 10 a.m., SD-
342.
  Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal 
Workforce, and the District of Columbia, to hold hearings to examine 
investing in an effective Federal workforce, 2:30 p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to hold hearings to examine the nominations 
of Katherine Polk Failla, to be United States District Judge for the 
Southern District of New York, Pamela Ki Mai Chen, to be United States 
District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, Troy L. Nunley, to 
be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of California, 
Sheri Polster Chappell, to be United States District Judge for the Middle 
District of Florida, and Mark A. Barnett, of Virginia, to be a Judge of 
the United States Court of International Trade, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, to 
hold hearings to examine hate crimes and the threat of domestic 
extremism, 2:30 p.m., SH-216.
  Special Committee on Aging: to hold hearings to examine eliminating 
waste and fraud in Medicare, focusing on an examination of prior 
authorization requirements for power mobility devices, 2:30 p.m., SD-562.


                                  House

  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Full Committee, markup of H.R. 1206, 
the ``Access to Professional Health Insurance Advisors Act of 2011''; and 
H.R. 1063, the ``Strengthening Medicare and Repaying Taxpayers Act of 
2011'', 4 p.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, 
and Human Rights, ``Examining the Role

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of Rwanda in the DRC Insurgency'', 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on 
Government Organization, Efficiency and Financial Management hearing 
entitled ``Trade Adjustment Assistance for U.S. Firms: Evaluating Program 
Effectiveness and Recommendations'', 11 a.m., 2247 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, Full Committee, hearing on H.R. 3409, the ``Coal 
Miner Employment and Domestic Energy Infrastructure Protection Act''; and 
H.J. Res. 118 providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of 
title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Office of 
Family Assistance of the Administration for Children and Families of the 
Department of Health and Human Services relating to waiver and 
expenditure authority under section 1115 of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1315) with respect to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families 
program, 5 p.m., H-313, Capitol.