[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 86 (Monday, June 17, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D585-D587]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

                 Week of June 18 through June 21, 2013

                             Senate Chamber

  On Tuesday, at approximately 11 a.m., Senate will continue 
consideration of S. 744, Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and 
Immigration Modernization Act, with votes on or in relation to Thune 
Amendment No. 1197; Landrieu Amendment No. 1222; Vitter Amendment No. 
1228; and Tester Amendment No. 1198 at 3 p.m.
  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 18, Subcommittee on Agriculture, 
Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related 
Agencies, business meeting to mark up proposed legislation making 
appropriations for fiscal year 2014 for Agriculture, Rural 
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, 10 
a.m., SD-192.
  June 18, Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans 
Affairs, and Related Agencies, business meeting to mark up proposed 
legislation making appropriations for fiscal year 2014 for Military 
Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies, 10 a.m., 
SD-124.
  June 19, Subcommittee on Department of Defense, to hold hearings 
to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2014 for Joint 
Strike Fighter, 9:30 a.m., SD-192.
  June 20, Full Committee, business meeting to mark up proposed 
budget estimates for fiscal year 2014 for Military Construction and 
Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies, and Agricultural, Rural 
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, 
10:30 a.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: June 18, 
Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development, 
to hold hearings to examine long term sustainability for reverse 
mortgages, focusing on the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage's (HECM) 
impact on the mutual mortgage insurance fund, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on the Budget: June 18, To hold hearings to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2014 for 
education, 10:30 a.m., SD-608.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: June 18, to 
hold hearings to examine the nomination of Thomas Edgar Wheeler, of 
the District of Columbia, to be a Member of the Federal 
Communications Commission, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  June 19, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine next steps in 
improving passenger and freight rail safety, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  June 19, Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and 
Security, to hold hearings to examine airline industry 
consolidation, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.

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  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: June 18, business 
meeting to consider pending calendar business, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  June 20, Full Committee, to hold an oversight hearing to examine 
water resource issues in the Klamath River Basin, 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Finance: June 18, to hold hearings to examine health 
care costs, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: June 18, Subcommittee on African 
Affairs, to hold hearings to examine prospects for democratic reform 
and economic recovery in Zimbabwe, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  June 18, Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Global Narcotics 
Affairs, to hold hearings to examine security cooperation in Mexico, 
focusing on the next steps in the United States-Mexico security 
relationship, 2:30 p.m., SD-419.
  June 19, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Geoffrey R. Pyatt, of California, to be Ambassador to 
Ukraine, and Tulinabo Salama Mushingi, of Virginia, to be Ambassador 
to Burkina Faso, both of the Department of State, 2 p.m., SD-419.
  June 20, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
nomination of Daniel R. Russel, of New York, to be Assistant 
Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, 2:15 p.m., 
SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: June 19, 
Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging, to hold hearings to 
examine reducing senior poverty and hunger, focusing on the role of 
the ``Older Americans Act'', 10 a.m., SD-430.
  June 20, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine developing a 
skilled workforce for a competitive economy, focusing on 
reauthorizing the ``Workforce Investment Act'', 2:30 p.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: June 18, 
to hold hearings to examine the nomination of Daniel M. Tangherlini, 
of the District of Columbia, to be Administrator of General 
Services, 10:30 a.m., SD-342.
  June 20, Subcommittee on Financial and Contracting Oversight, with 
the Subcommittee on the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Federal 
Programs and the Federal Workforce, to hold joint hearings to 
examine the workforce of the United States Intelligence Community 
and the role of private contractors, 2:30 p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: June 19, to hold an oversight hearing 
to examine the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 10 a.m., SD-106.
  June 19, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Todd M. Hughes, of the District of Columbia, to be 
United States Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit, Colin Stirling 
Bruce, to be United States District Judge for the Central District 
of Illinois, Sara Lee Ellis, and Andrea R. Wood, both to be a United 
States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, and 
Madeline Hughes Haikala, to be United States District Judge for the 
Northern District of Alabama, 2:30 p.m., SD-226.
  June 20, Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. 162, to 
reauthorize and improve the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and 
Crime Reduction Act of 2004, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: June 20, to hold 
hearings to examine sequestration, focusing on small business 
contractors, 10 a.m., SR-428A.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: June 18, to hold closed hearings 
to examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  June 20, Full Committee, to hold closed hearings to examine 
certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  Special Committee on Aging: June 19, to hold hearings to examine 
paperless Social Security payments, focusing on protecting seniors 
from fraud and confusion, 2 p.m., SD-366.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Appropriations, June 19, Subcommittee on 
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Related Agencies, 
markup on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Bill Fiscal Year 2014, 11 a.m., 2358-A 
Rayburn.
  Committee on the Budget, June 19, Full Committee, markup of H.R. 
1871, the ``Baseline Reform Act of 2013''; and H.R. 1874, the ``Pro-
Growth Budgeting Act of 2013'', 10 a.m., 210 Cannon.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, June 19, Full Committee, 
markup on H.R. 5, the ``Student Success Act'', 9 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, June 19, Full Committee, markup 
on H.R. 2218, the ``Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act of 
2013''; H.R. 2226, the ``Federal and State Partnership for 
Environmental Protection Act of 2013''; H.R. 2279, the ``Reducing 
Excessive Deadline Obligations Act of 2013''; and H.R. 2318, the 
``Federal Facility Accountability Act'', 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  June 20, Subcommittee on Energy and Power; and Subcommittee on 
Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, hearing entitled ``U.S. Energy 
Abundance: Manufacturing Competitiveness and America's Energy 
Advantage'', 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, June 19, Full Committee, markup 
on H.R. 1564, the ``Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act''; H.R. 
1105, the ``Small Business Capital Access and Job Preservation 
Act''; H.R. 1135, the ``Burdensome Data Collection Relief Act''; and 
H.R. 2374, the ``Retail Investor Protection Act'', 10 a.m., 2128 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, June 19, Subcommittee on the Western 
Hemisphere, hearing entitled ``Regional Security Cooperation: An 
Examination of the Central American Regional Security Initiative and 
the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative'', 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  June 20, Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human 
Rights, and International Organizations, hearing entitled ``Ethiopia 
After Meles: The Future of Democracy and Human Rights'', 10 a.m., 
2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, June 19, Full Committee, markup on 
H.R. 1773, the ``Agricultural Guestworker Act'', 10 a.m., 2141 
Rayburn.

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  Committee on Natural Resources, June 20, Subcommittee on 
Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs, hearing entitled 
``Why Does the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Want to Expand the 
Boundaries of the Chickasaw and Lower Hatchie National Wildlife 
Refuges in Tennessee and at What Cost?'', 9:30 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, June 19, 
Subcommittee on Government Operations hearing entitled ``Federal 
Government Approaches to Issuing Biometrics IDs: Part II'', 9:30 
a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, June 19, Subcommittee 
on Space, hearing entitled ``NASA Authorization Act of 2013'', 10 
a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, June 19, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``Made in the USA: Stories of American Manufacturers'', 1 
p.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  June 20, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Energy and Trade, hearing 
entitled ``The New Domestic Energy Paradigm: Potential Benefits for 
Small Businesses and the Economy'', 10 a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, June 19, Subcommittee on Oversight 
and Investigations, hearing on H.R. 1490, the ``Veterans' Privacy 
Act''; H.R. 1792, the ``Infectious Disease Reporting Act''; and H.R. 
1804, the ``Foreign Travel Accountability Act'', 1:30 p.m., 334 
Cannon.
  June 20, Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity, hearing entitled 
``The Value of Education for Veterans at Public, Private and For-
Profit Colleges and Universities'', 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, June 19, Subcommittee on Social 
Security, hearing on encouraging work through the Social Security 
Disability Insurance Program, 10 a.m., B-318 Rayburn.
  June 20, Subcommittee on Health, hearing on the 2013 Medicare 
Trustee Report, 9:30 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, June 20, Full 
Committee, hearing entitled ``Ongoing Intelligence Activities'', 9 
a.m., HVC-304. This is a closed hearing.