[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 110 (Monday, July 29, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D782-D787]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

                 Week of July 30 through August 2, 2013

                             Senate Chamber

  On Tuesday, at 10:00 a.m., Senate will resume consideration of the 
nomination of Kent Yoshiho Hirozawa, of New York, to be a Member of the 
National Labor Relations Board, and vote on the motion to invoke 
cloture on the nomination at approximately 10:15 a.m.
  Senators should expect consideration of the nominations of Nancy Jean 
Schiffer, of Maryland, to be a Member of the National Labor Relations 
Board, Mark Gaston Pearce, of New York, to be a Member of the National 
Labor Relations Board, Byron Todd Jones, of Minnesota, to be Director 
of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and Samantha Power, of 
Massachusetts, to be Representative of the United States of America to 
the United Nations.
  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: July 30, 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.
  August 1, Full Committee, business meeting to markup proposed 
legislation making appropriations for fiscal year 2014 for the 
Department of Defense, 10:30 a.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Armed Services: July 30, 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: July 30, to hold 
hearings to examine mitigating systemic risk in financial markets 
through Wall Street reforms, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  July 31, Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. 1376, to 
improve the Federal Housing Administration and to ensure the 
solvency of the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on the Budget: July 30, 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: July 30, 
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 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.
  July 31, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine energy 
drinks, focusing on exploring concerns about marketing to youth, 
2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: July 30, 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 
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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.
  July 30, 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, and ensure 
adequate funding for managing nuclear waste, 2:30 p.m., SD-366.
  July 31, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine strengthening 
public health protections by addressing toxic chemical threats, 9:30 
a.m., SD-406.
  July 31, Subcommittee on National Parks, to hold hearings to 
examine S. 398, to establish the Commission to Study the Potential 
Creation of a National Women's History Museum, S. 524, to amend the 
National Trails System Act to provide for the study of the Pike 
National Historic Trail, S. 618, to require the Secretary of the 
Interior to conduct certain special resource studies, S. 702, to 
designate the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National 
Heritage Corridor as ``The Last Green Valley National Heritage 
Corridor'', S. 781, to modify the boundary of Yosemite National 
Park, S. 782, to amend Public Law 101-377 to revise the boundaries 
of the Gettysburg National Military Park to include the Gettysburg 
Train Station, S. 869, to establish the Alabama Black Belt National 
Heritage Area, S. 925, to improve the Lower East Side Tenement 
National Historic Site, S. 995, to authorize the National Desert 
Storm Memorial Association to establish the National Desert Storm 
and Desert Shield Memorial as a commemorative work in the District 
of Columbia, S. 974, to provide for certain land conveyances in the 
State of Nevada, S. 1044, 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 D-
Day, June 6, 1944, S. 1071, to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to make improvements to support facilities for National 
Historic Sites operated by the National Park Service, S. 1138, to 
reauthorize the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area, S. 1151, 
to reauthorize the America's Agricultural Heritage Partnership in 
the State of Iowa, S. 1157, to reauthorize the Rivers of Steel 
National Heritage Area, the Lackawanna Valley National Heritage 
Area, the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, and the 
Schuylkill River Valley National Heritage Area, S. 1168, to amend 
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to limit overbroad 
surveillance requests and expand reporting requirements, S. 1252, to 
amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of the 
Missisquoi River and the Trout River in the State of Vermont, as 
components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, S. 1253, 
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, H.R. 674, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
study the suitability and feasibility of designating prehistoric, 
historic, and limestone forest sites on Rota, Commonwealth of the 
Northern Mariana Islands, as a unit of the National Park System, 
H.R. 885, to expand the boundary of the San Antonio Missions 
National Historical Park, H.R. 1033 and S. 916, bills to authorize 
the acquisition and protection of nationally significant 
battlefields and associated sites of the Revolutionary War and the 
War of 1812 under the American Battlefield Protection Program, and 
H.R. 1158, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to continue 
stocking fish in certain lakes in the North Cascades National Park, 
Ross Lake National Recreation Area, and Lake Chelan National 
Recreation Area, 2:30 p.m., SD-366.
  August 1, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the November 
6, 2012 referendum on the political status of Puerto Rico and the 
Administration's response, 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: July 31, to hold 
hearings to examine strengthening public health protections by 
addressing toxic chemical threats, 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: July 31, Subcommittee on Energy, Natural 
Resources, and Infrastructure, to hold hearings to examine 
principles for energy tax reform, 2:30 p.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: July 30, 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 
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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.
  July 31, Subcommittee on European Affairs, to hold hearings to 
examine where Turkey is headed, focusing on Gezi Park, Taksim 
Square, and the future of the Turkish model, 3 p.m., SD-419.
  August 1, Full Committee, business meeting to consider an original 
bill entitled, ``Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods, and Glen 
Doherty Embassy Security, Threat Mitigation, and Personnel 
Protection Act of 2013'', 10:30 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: July 31, 
business meeting to consider S. 1356, to amend the Workforce 
Investment Act of 1998 to strengthen the United States workforce 
development system through innovation in, and alignment and 
improvement of, employment, training, and education programs in the 
United States, and to promote individual and national economic 
growth, the nominations of Robert F. Cohen, Jr., of West Virginia, 
and William Ira Althen, of Virginia, both to be a Member of the 
Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, Catherine 
Elizabeth Lhamon, of California, to be Assistant Secretary of 
Education for Civil Rights, and any pending nominations, 10 a.m., 
SD-608.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: July 31, 
business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, ``Federal 
Real Property Asset Management Reform Act'', S. 1360, to amend the 
Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act of 2012, 
including making changes to the Do Not Pay initiative, for improved 
detection, prevention, and recovery of improper payments to deceased 
individuals, S. 994, to expand the Federal Funding Accountability 
and Transparency Act of 2006 to increase accountability and 
transparency in Federal spending, S. 1276, to increase oversight of 
the Revolving Fund of the Office of Personnel Management, strengthen 
the authority to terminate or debar employees and contractors 
involved in misconduct affecting the integrity of security clearance 
background investigations, enhance transparency regarding the 
criteria utilized by Federal departments and agencies to determine 
when a security clearance is required, H.R. 1162, to amend title 31, 
United States Code, to make improvements in the Government 
Accountability Office, S. 1348, to reauthorize the Congressional 
Award Act, H.R. 1171, to amend title 40, United States Code, to 
improve veterans service organizations access to Federal surplus 
personal property, S. 643, to strengthen employee cost savings 
suggestions programs within the Federal Government, S. 1045, to 
amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that persons having 
seriously delinquent tax debts shall be ineligible for Federal 
employment, S. 233, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 815 County Road 23 in Tyrone, New York, as 
the ``Specialist Christopher Scott Post Office Building'', S. 668, 
to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 14 Main Street in Brockport, New York, as the ``Staff 
Sergeant Nicholas J. Reid Post Office Building'', S. 796, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 302 East Green Street in Champaign, Illinois, as the ``James R. 
Burgess Jr. Post Office Building'', S. 885, to designate the 
facility of the United States Postal Service located at 35 Park 
Street in Danville, Vermont, as the ``Thaddeus Stevens Post 
Office'', S. 1093, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 130 Caldwell Drive in Hazlehurst, 
Mississippi, as the ``First Lieutenant Alvin Chester Cockrell, Jr. 
Post Office Building'', and the nominations of John H. Thompson, of 
the District of Columbia, to be Director of the Census, Department 
of Commerce, and Katherine Archuleta, of Colorado, to be Director of 
the Office of Personnel Management, 10 a.m., SD-342.

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  July 31, Subcommittee on Emergency Management, Intergovernmental 
Relations, and the District of Columbia, to hold hearings to examine 
how prepared the National Capital Region is for the next disaster, 2 
p.m., SD-342.
  August 1, Subcommittee on Financial and Contracting Oversight, to 
hold hearings to examine Prisoner of War (POW) and Missing in Action 
(MIA) accounting, 10:30 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: July 31, to hold hearings to examine 
S. 235, to provide for the conveyance of certain property located in 
Anchorage, Alaska, from the United States to the Alaska Native 
Tribal Health Consortium, S. 920, to allow the Fond du Lac Band of 
Lake Superior Chippewa in the State of Minnesota to lease or 
transfer certain land, and S. 1352, the Native American Housing 
Assistance and Self-determination Reauthorization Act of 2013, 2:30 
p.m., SD-628.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: July 30, to hold closed hearings 
to examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  August 1, Full Committee, to hold closed hearings to examine 
certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  Committee on the Judiciary: July 30, 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.
  July 31, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine strengthening 
privacy rights and national security, focusing on oversight of the 
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) surveillance programs, 
9 a.m., SH-216.
  August 1, Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. 987, to 
maintain the free flow of information to the public by providing 
conditions for the federally compelled disclosure of information by 
certain persons connected with the news media, S. 933, to amend 
title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
extend the authorization of the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant 
Program through fiscal year 2018, and the nominations of Patricia 
Ann Millett, of Virginia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the 
District of Columbia Circuit, Gregory Howard Woods, to be United 
States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 
Elizabeth A. Wolford, to be United States District Judge for the 
Western District of New York, and Debra M. Brown, to be United 
States District Judge for the Northern District of Mississippi, 9:30 
a.m., SD-226.
  August 1, Subcommittee on Oversight, Federal Rights and Agency 
Action, to hold hearings to examine the human cost of regulatory 
paralysis, 2 p.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: July 31, to hold hearings to 
examine preserving the rights of servicemembers, veterans, and their 
families in the financial marketplace, 10 a.m., SR-418.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Appropriations, July 31, Full Committee, markup on 
Interior and Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, 
FY 2014, 11 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Committee on Armed Services, August 1, Subcommittee on Military 
Personnel, hearing entitled ``Department of Defense's Challenges in 
Accounting for Missing Persons from Past Conflicts'', 8 a.m., 2213 
Rayburn.
  August 1, Full Committee, hearing entitled ``Initial Conclusions 
Formed by the Defense Strategic Choices and Management Review'', 10 
a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  August 1, Subcommittee on Readiness; and Subcommittee on Seapower 
and Projection Forces, joint subcommittee hearing entitled 
``Ensuring Navy surface force effectiveness with limited maintenance 
resources'', 3:30 p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Budget, July 31, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``The War on Poverty: A Progress Report'', 12:30 p.m., 210 Cannon.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, July 31, 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'', 10 a.m., 2123 
Rayburn.
  July 31, Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, hearing 
entitled ``Oversight of DOE's Strategy for the Management and 
Disposal of Used Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste'', 2 
p.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  August 1, Full Committee, hearing entitled ``PPACA Pulse Check'', 
10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, July 31, Subcommittee on the Middle 
East and North Africa, hearing entitled ``The Iran-Syria Nexus and 
its Implications for the Region', 2:30 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  August 1, Full Committee, markup on the ``Department of State 
Operations and Embassy Security Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 
2014'', 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  August 1, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade, 
hearing entitled ``The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Outlook and 
Opportunities'', 1:30 p.m., 2200 Rayburn.
  August 1, Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa; and 
Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, joint hearing entitled 
``Examining the State Department's Report on Iranian Presence in the 
Western Hemisphere 19 Years After AMIA Attack'', 2 p.m., 2172 
Rayburn.
  August 1, Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human 
Rights, and International Organizations, hearing entitled ``The 
Impact of U.S. Water Programs on Global Health'', 2 p.m., 2255 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, July 31, Subcommittee on Oversight 
and Management Efficiency: and Subcommittee on Transportation 
Security, hearing entitled ``TSA Integrity Challenges: Examining 
Misconduct by Airport Security Personnel'', 10 a.m., 311 Cannon.
  August 1, Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure 
Protection, and Security Technology, hearing entitled ``West 
Fertilizer, Off the Grid: The Problem of Unidentified Chemical 
Facilities'', 10 a.m., 311 Cannon.
  August 2, Full Committee, hearing entitled ``Border Security 
Planning: Applying Overseas Lessons Learned to the Homeland'', 9 
a.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on the Judiciary, July 31, Full Committee, markup on 
H.R. 1123, the ``Unlocking Consumer Choice

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and Wireless Competition Act''; H.R. 2542, the ``Regulatory 
Flexibility Improvements Act of 2013''; H.R. 2641, the ``Responsibly 
And Professionally Invigorating Development Act of 2013''; and H.R. 
2655, the ``Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act of 2013'', 10 a.m., 2141 
Rayburn.
  August 1, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the 
Internet, hearing entitled ``Innovation in America: The Role of 
Technology'', 9:30 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, July 31, Full Committee, markup on 
H.R. 255, to amend certain definitions contained in the Provo River 
Project Transfer Act for purposes of clarifying certain property 
descriptions, and for other purposes; 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. 623, the 
``Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Land Transfer Act''; H.R. 
908, the ``Green Mountain Lookout Heritage Protection Act''; H.R. 
930, the ``New Philadelphia, Illinois, Study Act''; H.R. 1168, to 
direct the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of 
Land Management, to convey to the City of Carlin, Nevada, in 
exchange for consideration, all right, title, and interest of the 
United States, to any Federal land within that city that is under 
the jurisdiction of that agency, and for other purposes; H.R. 1170, 
to direct the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau 
of Land Management and the Bureau of Reclamation, to convey, by 
quitclaim deed, to the City of Fernley, Nevada, all right, title, 
and interest of the United States, to any Federal land within that 
city that is under the jurisdiction of either of those agencies; 
H.R. 1526, the ``Restoring Healthy Forests for Healthy Communities 
Act''; H.R. 1684, the ``Ranch A Consolidation and Management 
Improvement Act''; H.R. 1818, the ``Polar Bear Conservation and 
Fairness Act of 2013''; H.R. 1963, the ``Bureau of Reclamation 
Conduit Hydropower Development Equity and Jobs Act''; H.R. 2388, to 
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to take certain Federal 
lands located in El Dorado County, California, into trust for the 
benefit of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, and for other 
purposes; H.R. 2463, the ``Target Practice and Marksmanship Training 
Support Act''; H.R. 2650 the ``Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior 
Chippewa Non-Intercourse Act of 2013''; H.R. 2728, the ``Protecting 
States' Rights to Promote American Energy Security Act''; 10 a.m., 
1320 Longworth.
  August 1, Full Committee, hearing entitled ``Transparency and 
Sound Science Gone Extinct?: The Impacts of the Obama 
Administration's Closed-Door Settlements on Endangered Species and 
People'', 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  August 2, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, hearing on 
H.R. 2824, the ``Preventing Government Waste and Protecting Coal 
Mining Jobs in America Act'', 9 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  August 2, Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular 
Affairs, hearing on H.R. 2208, the ``North American Wetlands 
Conservation Extension Act of 2013''; H.R. 2798, to amend Public Law 
106-206 to direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of 
Agriculture to require annual permits and assess annual fees for 
commercial filming activities on Federal land for film crews of 5 
persons or fewer; and H.R. 2799, the ``Sportsmen's Heritage and 
Recreational Enhancement Act'', 9:30 a.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, July 31, 
Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Health Care and Entitlements, hearing 
entitled ``Oversight of the IRS's Legal Basis for Expanding 
ObamaCare's Taxes and Subsidies'', 10:15 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  August 1, Full Committee, hearing entitled ``Department of 
Energy's Bonneville Power Administration: Discriminating Against 
Veterans and Retaliating Against Whistleblowers'', 10 a.m., 2154 
Rayburn.
  August 2, Subcommittee on National Security; and Committee on 
Natural Resources' Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental 
Regulation, joint hearing entitled ``Missing Weapons at the National 
Park Service: Mismanagement and Lack of Accountability'', 9 a.m., 
2154 Rayburn.
  August 2, Subcommittee on Government Operations hearing entitled 
``Examining the Skyrocketing Problem of Identity Theft Related Tax 
Fraud at the IRS'', 9 a.m., 2247 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, July 31, Full Committee, hearing on H.R. 367, 
the ``Regulations From the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 
2013''; and H.R. 2009, the ``Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care Act 
of 2013'', 3 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, July 31, Subcommittee 
on Research and Technology, hearing entitled ``The Frontiers of 
Human Brain Research'', 11 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  August 1, Full Committee, markup on legislation regarding the 
``EPA's Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment--A Factual Review of a 
Hypothetical Scenario''; and authorize the issuance of subpoenas, 1 
p.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, July 31, 
Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime, hearing entitled ``How to 
Improve the Efficiency, Safety, and Security of Maritime 
Transportation: Better Use and Integration of Maritime Domain 
Awareness Data'', 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, August 1, Full Committee, markup 
on pending legislation, 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, July 31, Subcommittee on Human 
Resources, hearing entitled ``Improving the Safety Net: Better 
Coordinating Today's Maze of Programs to Ensure Families Receive 
Real Help'', 2 p.m., 1100 Longworth.
  August 1, Full Committee, hearing entitled ``Status of the 
Affordable Care Act Implementation'', 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, August 1, Full 
Committee, hearing entitled ``Ongoing Intelligence Activities'', 10 
a.m., HVC-304. This is a closed hearing.

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                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Economic Committee: July 31, to hold hearings to examine how 
tax reform can boost economic growth, focusing on lessons from 
Reagan, 2 p.m., SD-G50.
  August 2, to hold hearings to examine the employment situation for 
July 2013, 9:30 a.m., SD-G50.
  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: July 31, to hold 
hearings to examine implications for economic development in Central 
Asia, focusing on if the government can create the necessary 
conditions for more trade and exchange, including infrastructure 
development, efficient customs regimes and reliable transportation 
networks, 2 p.m., 340 Cannon Building.