[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 110 (Monday, July 29, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D780-D782]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR TUESDAY,

                             JULY 30, 2013

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of 
Defense, business meeting to markup proposed legislation making 
appropriations for fiscal year 2014 for the Department of Defense, 
10:30 a.m., SD-192.
  Committee on Armed Services: to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Admiral Cecil E.D. Haney, USN for reappointment to 
the grade of admiral and to be Commander, United States Strategic 
Command, and Lieutenant General Curtis M. Scaparrotti, USA to be 
general and Commander, United Nations Command/Combined Forces 
Command/United States Forces Korea, both of the Department of 
Defense, 9:30 a.m., SD-G50.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: to hold hearings 
to examine mitigating systemic risk in financial markets through 
Wall Street reforms, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on the Budget: to hold hearings to examine containing 
health care costs, focusing on recent progress and remaining 
challenges, 10:30 a.m., SD-608.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: business 
meeting to consider S. 134, to arrange for the National Academy of 
Sciences to study the impact of violent video games and violent 
video programming on children, S. Res. 157, expressing the sense of 
the Senate that telephone service must be improved in rural areas of 
the United States and that no entity may unreasonably discriminate 
against telephone users in those areas, S. 267, to prevent, deter, 
and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing through 
port State measures, S. 269, to establish uniform administrative and 
enforcement authorities for the enforcement of the High Seas 
Driftnet Fishing Moratorium Protection Act and similar statutes, S. 
376, to reauthorize the National Integrated Drought Information 
System, S. 839, to reauthorize the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 
2000, S. 921, to amend chapter 301 of title 49, United States Code, 
to prohibit the rental of motor vehicles that contain a defect 
related to motor vehicle safety, S. 1068, to reauthorize and amend 
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned 
Officer Corps Act of 2002, S. 1072, to ensure that the Federal 
Aviation Administration advances the safety of small airplanes and 
the continued development of the general aviation industry, S. 1144, 
to prohibit unauthorized third-party charges on wireline telephone 
bills, S. 1254, to amend the Harmful Algal Blooms and Hypoxia 
Research and Control Act of 1998, S. 1317, to authorize the programs 
of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for fiscal 
years 2014 through 2016, S. 1344, to promote research, monitoring, 
and observation of the Arctic, an original bill entitled, ``Cyber'', 
the nominations

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of Jannette Lake Dates, of Maryland, Bruce M. Ramer, of California, 
Brent Franklin Nelsen, of South Carolina, Howard Abel Husock, of New 
York, and Loretta Cheryl Sutliff, of Nevada, all to be a Member of 
the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 
Thomas C. Carper, of Illinois, to be a Director of the Amtrak Board 
of Directors, Thomas Edgar Wheeler, of the District of Columbia, to 
be a Member of the Federal Communications Commission, Mark E. 
Schaefer, of California, to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce for 
Oceans and Atmosphere, and nominations for promotion in the United 
States Coast Guard, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public 
Lands, Forests, and Mining, to hold hearings to examine S. 37, to 
sustain the economic development and recreational use of National 
Forest System land and other public land in the State of Montana, to 
add certain land to the National Wilderness Preservation System, to 
release certain wilderness study areas, to designate new areas for 
recreation, S. 343, to provide for the conveyance of certain Federal 
land in Clark County, Nevada, for the environmental remediation and 
reclamation of the Three Kids Mine Project Site, S. 364, to 
establish the Rocky Mountain Front Conservation Management Area, to 
designate certain Federal land as wilderness, and to improve the 
management of noxious weeds in the Lewis and Clark National Forest, 
S. 404, to preserve the Green Mountain Lookout in the Glacier Peak 
Wilderness of the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, S. 753, to 
provide for national security benefits for White Sands Missile Range 
and Fort Bliss, S. 1169, to withdraw and reserve certain public land 
in the State of Montana for the Limestone Hills Training Area, S. 
1294, to designate as wilderness certain public land in the Cherokee 
National Forest in the State of Tennessee, S. 1300, to amend the 
Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to provide for the conduct 
of stewardship end result contracting projects, S. 1301, to provide 
for the restoration of forest landscapes, protection of old growth 
forests, and management of national forests in the eastside forests 
of the State of Oregon, S. 1309, to withdraw and reserve certain 
public land under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior 
for military uses, H.R. 507, to provide for the conveyance of 
certain land inholdings owned by the United States to the Pascua 
Yaqui Tribe of Arizona, H.R. 862, to authorize the conveyance of two 
small parcels of land within the boundaries of the Coconino National 
Forest containing private improvements that were developed based 
upon the reliance of the landowners in an erroneous survey conducted 
in May 1960, H.R. 876, to authorize the continued use of certain 
water diversions located on National Forest System land in the Frank 
Church-River of No Return Wilderness and the Selway-Bitterroot 
Wilderness in the State of Idaho, and H.R. 993 and S. 509, bills to 
provide for the conveyance of certain parcels of National Forest 
System land to the city of Fruit Heights, Utah, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine S. 1240, to establish 
a new organization to manage nuclear waste, provide a consensual 
process for siting nuclear waste facilities, ensure adequate funding 
for managing nuclear waste, 2:30 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: business meeting to consider 
subcommittee membership and jurisdiction for the 113th Congress, the 
nominations of Morrell John Berry, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to 
Australia, Patricia Marie Haslach, of Oregon, to be Ambassador to 
the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Reuben Earl Brigety, 
II, of Florida, to be Representative to the African Union, with the 
rank and status of Ambassador, Daniel A. Clune, of Maryland, to be 
Ambassador to the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Patrick Hubert 
Gaspard, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of South 
Africa, Stephanie Sanders Sullivan, of New York, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of the Congo, Joseph Y. Yun, of Oregon, to be 
Ambassador to Malaysia, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, of Louisiana, to be 
Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, James F. Entwistle, of 
Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Nigeria, David 
D. Pearce, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to Greece, John B. Emerson, 
of California, to be Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, 
John Rufus Gifford, of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to Denmark, 
Denise Campbell Bauer, of California, to be Ambassador to Belgium, 
and James Costos, of California, to be Ambassador to Spain and to 
serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador 
to Andorra, all of the Department of State; to be immediately 
followed by a hearing to examine the nominations of Steve A. Linick, 
of Virginia, to be Inspector General, Matthew Winthrop Barzun, of 
Kentucky, to be Ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain 
and Northern Ireland, David Hale, of New Jersey, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Lebanon, John R. Phillips, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Italian Republic, and to serve 
concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to 
the Republic of San Marino, Liliana Ayalde, of Maryland, to be 
Ambassador to the Federative Republic of Brazil, Kirk W.B. Wagar, of 
Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore, Daniel A. 
Sepulveda, of Florida, to be Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
International Communications and Information Policy in the Bureau of 
Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs and U.S. Coordinator for 
International Communications and Information Policy, Terence Patrick 
McCulley, of Washington, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Cote 
d'Ivoire, James C. Swan, of California, to be Ambassador to the 
Democratic Republic of the Congo, John R. Phillips, of the District 
of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Italian Republic, and to serve 
concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to 
the Republic of San Marino, Kenneth Francis Hackett, of Maryland, to 
be Ambassador to the Holy See, and Alexa Lange Wesner, of Texas, to 
be Ambassador to the Republic of Austria, all of the Department of 
State, 2:15 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition 
Policy and Consumer Rights, to hold hearings to examine standard 
essential patent disputes and antitrust law, 10 a.m., SD-226.

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  Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold closed hearings to 
examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                                 House

  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 
2810, the ``Medicare Patient Access and Quality Improvement Act of 
2013''; and H.R. 2844, the ``Federal Communications Commission 
Consolidated Reporting Act of 2013'', 4 p.m., 2123 Rayburn.