[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 80 (Friday, June 7, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D537-D539]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

                 Week of June 10 through June 14, 2013

                             Senate Chamber

   On Monday, at approximately 2:00 p.m., Senate will resume 
consideration of the motion to proceed to consideration of S. 744, 
Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization 
Act.
  On Monday, at 5:00 p.m., Senate will resume consideration of S. 954, 
the Farm bill, with votes on or in relation to Stabenow (for Leahy) 
Amendment No. 998, and passage of the bill at approximately 5:30 p.m.
  Following disposition of S. 954, the Farm bill, Senate will continue 
consideration of the motion to proceed to consideration of S. 744, 
Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization 
Act.
  On Tuesday, at 2:15 p.m., Senate will vote on the motion to invoke 
cloture on the motion to proceed to consideration of S. 744, Border 
Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, and 
at 4:00 p.m., Senate will vote on the adoption of the motion to proceed 
to consideration of S. 744.
   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 Appropriations: June 11, Subcommittee on Department 
of Defense, to hold hearings to examine department leadership, 10 
a.m., SD-192.
  June 12, Subcommittee on Department of Defense, to hold hearings 
to examine voluntary military education programs, 10 a.m., SD-192.
  June 12, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine 
cybersecurity, focusing on preparing for and responding to the 
enduring threat; to be immediately followed by a closed briefing in 
SVC-217, 2 p.m., SD-G50.
  June 13, Subcommittee on Transportation and Housing and Urban 
Development, and Related Agencies, to hold hearings to examine 
crumbling infrastructure, focusing on outdated and overburdened 
highways and bridges, 10 a.m., SD-124.
  Committee on Armed Services: June 11, Subcommittee on Airland, 
business meeting to markup those provisions which fall under the 
subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense 
Authorization Act for fiscal year 2014, 9:30 a.m., SD-G50.
  June 11, Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support, 
business meeting to markup those provisions which fall under the 
subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense 
Authorization Act for fiscal year 2014, 11 a.m., SD-G50.
  June 11, Subcommittee on Personnel, business meeting to markup 
those provisions which fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of 
the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 
2014, 2 p.m., SD-G50.
  June 11, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, closed business meeting 
to markup those provisions which fall under the subcommittee's 
jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for 
fiscal year 2014, 3:30 p.m., SR-232A.
  June 11, Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, closed 
business meeting to markup those provisions which fall under the 
subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense 
Authorization Act for fiscal year 2014, 6 p.m., SR-232A.
  June 12, Subcommittee on SeaPower, closed business meeting to 
markup those provisions which fall under the subcommittee's 
jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for 
fiscal year 2014, 9:30 a.m., SR-222.
  June 12, Full Committee, closed business meeting to markup the 
proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2014, 
2:30 p.m., SR-222.
  June 13, Full Committee, closed business meeting to continue to 
markup the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 
year 2014, 9:30 a.m., SR-222.

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  June 14, Full Committee, closed business meeting to continue to 
markup the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 
year 2014, 9:30 a.m., SR-222.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: June 13, to hold 
hearings to examine lessons learned from the financial crisis 
regarding community banks, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on the Budget: June 12, To hold hearings to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2014 for 
Defense, 10:30 a.m., SD-608.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: June 10, 
business meeting to consider the nominations of Anthony Renard Foxx, 
of North Carolina, to be Secretary of Transportation, Penny 
Pritzker, of Illinois, to be Secretary of Commerce, and nominations 
for promotion in the U.S. Coast Guard, Time to be announced, S-216, 
Capitol.
  June 11, Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast 
Guard, to hold hearings to examine deep sea challenge, focusing on 
innovative partnerships in ocean observations, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Finance: June 11, to hold hearings to examine sex 
trafficking and exploitation in America, focusing on child welfare's 
role in prevention and intervention, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: June 13, Subcommittee on European 
Affairs, with the Subcommittee on International Operations and 
Organizations, Human Rights, Democracy, and Global Women's Issues, 
to hold a joint hearing to examine Russia's human rights situation, 
10 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: June 11, 
business meeting to consider S. 1094, to amend the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965, and any pending nominations, 10 
a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: June 11, 
to hold hearings to examine reducing duplication and improving 
outcomes in Federal information technology, 10:30 a.m., SD-342.
  June 12, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
nomination of Howard A. Shelanski, of Pennsylvania, to be 
Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, 
Office of Management and Budget, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: June 12, to hold hearings to examine 
the nomination of Yvette Roubideaux, of Maryland, to be Director of 
the Indian Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, 
2:30 p.m., SD-628.
  Committee on the Judiciary: June 11, to hold hearings to examine 
the nominations of Byron Todd Jones, of Minnesota, to be Director, 
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, and Stuart F. 
Delery, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Attorney 
General, both of the Department of Justice, 9:30 a.m., SD-226.
  June 13, Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. 394, to 
prohibit and deter the theft of metal, S. 162, to reauthorize and 
improve the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act 
of 2004, and the nominations of Derek Anthony West, of California, 
to be Associate Attorney General, Department of Justice, and Valerie 
E. Caproni, of the District of Columbia, and Vernon S. Broderick, of 
New York, both to be a United States District Judge for the Southern 
District of New York, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Rules and Administration: June 12, to hold hearings 
to examine the nomination of Davita Vance-Cooks, of Virginia, to be 
Public Printer, Government Printing Office, 10 a.m., SR-301.
  Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: June 13, 
business meeting to consider S. 511, to amend the Small Business 
Investment Act of 1958 to enhance the Small Business Investment 
Company Program, S. 289, to extend the low-interest refinancing 
provisions under the Local Development Business Loan Program of the 
Small Business Administration, S. 537, to require the Small Business 
Administration to make information relating to lenders making 
covered loans publicly available, and S. 415, to clarify the 
collateral requirement for certain loans under section 7(d) of the 
Small Business Act, to address assistance to out-of-State small 
business concerns, 10 a.m., SR-428A.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: June 12, to hold hearings to 
examine pending benefits legislation, 10 a.m., SR-418.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: June 11, to hold closed hearings 
to examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  June 13, Full Committee, to hold closed hearings to examine 
certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Appropriations, June 12, Full Committee, markup on 
Defense Appropriations Bill, Fiscal Year 2104, 10 a.m., 2359 
Rayburn.
  Committee on the Budget, June 12, Full Committee, hearing on the 
Department of Defense and the Fiscal Year 2014 Budget Request, 1 
p.m., 210 Cannon.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, June 12, Subcommittee on 
Health, Employment, Labor, Pension, hearing entitled ``Strengthening 
the Multiemployer Pension System: What Reforms Should Policymakers 
Consider?'', 10 a.m. 2175 Rayburn.
  June 13, Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, 
hearing entitled ``Keeping College Within Reach: Discussing Program 
Quality through Accreditation'', 10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, June 12, Subcommittee on Health, 
hearing entitled ``The Need for Medicaid Reform: A State 
Perspective'', 10 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  June 12, Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, hearing 
entitled ``The Satellite Television Law: Repeal, Reauthorize, or 
Revise?'', 10:30 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  June 13, Subcommittee on Energy and Commerce, hearing entitled 
``The Fiscal Year 2014 U.S. Department of Energy Budget'', 10 a.m., 
2123 Rayburn.
  June 13, Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, hearing 
entitled ``Title I of the Toxic Substance Control Act: Understanding 
its History and Reviewing its Impact'', 10:15 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.

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  Committee on Financial Services, June 12, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``Beyond GSEs'' Examples of Successful Housing Finance 
Models without Explicit Government Guarantees'', 10 a.m., 2128 
Rayburn.
  June 12, Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored 
Enterprises, hearing entitled ``Reducing Barriers to Capital 
Formation'', 2 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  June 13, Subcommittee on Monetary Policy and Trade, hearing 
entitled ``Assessing Reform at the Export-Import Bank'', 10 a.m., 
2128 Rayburn.
  June 13, Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance, hearing entitled 
``The Impact of International Regulatory Standards on the 
Competitiveness of U.S. Insurers'', 1 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, June 12, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``Modernizing U.S. International Food Aid: Reaching More 
for Less'', 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  June 12, Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, hearing 
entitled ``American NGOs Under Attack in Morsi's Egypt'', 1 p.m., 
2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, June 12, Subcommittee on 
Counterterrorism, hearing entitled ``Protecting the Homeland Against 
Mumbai-Style Attacks and the Threat from Lashkar-e-Taiba'', 10 a.m., 
311 Cannon.
  June 14, Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency, 
hearing entitled ``Why Can't DHS Better Communicate with the 
American People?'', 9 a.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on the Judiciary, June 13, Full Committee, hearing on 
Federal Bureau of Investigation, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  June 13, Full Committee, hearing on H.R. 2278, the ``Strengthen 
and Fortify Enforcement Act'', 2 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  June 14, Task Force, hearing on Defining the Problem and Scope of 
Over-criminalization and Over-federalization, 9 a.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, June 11, Subcommittee on Energy 
and Mineral Resources, hearing on H.R. 2231, the ``OffShore Energy 
and Jobs Act'', 11 a.m., 1324 Longworth. This hearing is a 
continuation from Thursday, June 6, 2013.
  June 13, Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular 
Affairs, hearing on H.R. 553, to designate the exclusive economic 
zone of the United States as the ``Ronald Wilson Reagan Exclusive 
Economic Zone of the United States''; H.R. 1308, the ``Endangered 
Salmon and Fisheries Predation Prevention Act''; H.R. 1399, the 
``Hydrographic Services Improvement Amendments Act of 2013''; H.R. 
1425, the ``Marine Debris Emergency Act of 2013''; H.R. 1491, to 
authorize the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration to provide certain funds to eligible entities for 
activities undertaken to address the marine debris impacts of the 
March 2011 Tohoku earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and for other 
purposes; and H.R. 2219, to reauthorize the Integrated Coastal and 
Ocean Observation System Act of 2009, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  June 13, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, hearing 
entitled ``Mining in America: The Administration's Use of Claim 
Maintenance Fees and Cleanup of Abandoned Mine Lands'', 10 a.m., 
1334 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, June 12, Full 
Committee, hearing entitled ``Protecting Taxpayer Dollars: Is the 
Government Using Suspension and Debarment Effectively?'', 9:30 a.m., 
2154 Rayburn.
  June 13, Subcommittee on National Security, hearing entitled 
``Examining the Government's Record on Implementing the 
International Religious Freedom Act'', 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, June 11, Full Committee, hearing on H.R. 1960, 
the ``National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014''; and 
H.R. 1256, the ``Swap Jurisdiction Certainty Act'', 5 p.m., H-313 
Capitol.
  June 12, Full Committee, hearing on H.R. 1960, the ``National 
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014'' (amendment 
consideration), 2 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, June 12, Subcommittee 
on Environment, hearing entitled ``Background Check: Achievability 
of New Ozone Standards'', 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, June 12, Subcommittee on Economic 
Growth, Tax and Capital Access, hearing entitled ``The Seasonal 
Employment Needs of Small Tourism Businesses and H-2B Visa Policy'', 
1 p.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  June 13, Subcommittee on Contracting and Workforce, hearing 
entitled ``Putting the Strategy in sourcing: Challenges and 
Opportunities for Small Business Contractors'', 10 a.m., 2360 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, June 12, 
Subcommittee on Aviation, hearing entitled ``Lessons Learned from 
the Boeing 787 Incidents'', 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, June 12, Subcommittee on Trade, 
hearing entitled ``U.S.-Brazil Trade and Investment Relationship: 
Opportunities and Challenges, 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  June 13, Full Committee, hearing entitled ``Tax Reform: Haven, 
Base Erosion and Profit Shifting'', 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, June 13, Full 
Committee, markup on the ``Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2014'', 10 a.m., HVC-304. This is a closed hearing.
  June 13, Full Committee, hearing entitled ``Ongoing Intelligence 
Activities'', 2 p.m., HVC-304. This is a closed hearing.
  June 14, Full Committee, hearing entitled ``Ongoing Intelligence 
Activities'', 9 a.m., HVC-304. This is a closed hearing.


                             Joint Meetings

  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: June 13, to hold 
hearings to examine Syrian refugees in the Organization for Security 
and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) region, focusing on the United 
States and international response to the humanitarian crisis that 
threatens to destabilize the entire region, 2 p.m., SD-562.