[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 111 (Tuesday, July 30, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D797-D799]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                             JULY 31, 2013

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: 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 Commerce, Science, and Transportation: 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: 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

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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.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: to hold hearings to 
examine strengthening public health protections by addressing toxic 
chemical threats, 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: 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: 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.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: 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: business 
meeting to consider S. 1398, to require the Federal Government to 
expedite the sale of underutilized Federal real property, 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. 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. 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.
  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.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: 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.
  Committee on the Judiciary: 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.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: to hold hearings to examine 
preserving the rights of servicemembers, veterans, and their 
families in the financial marketplace, 10 a.m., SR-418.


                                 House

  Committee on Appropriations, Full Committee, markup on Interior 
and Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, FY 2014, 
11 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Budget, Full Committee, hearing entitled ``The 
War on Poverty: A Progress Report'', 12:30 p.m., 210 Cannon.
  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'', 11:30 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.

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  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.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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.
  Committee on Homeland Security, 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.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 1123, 
the ``Unlocking Consumer Choice 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'', 11 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, 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''; 10:30 
a.m., 1320 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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.
  Committee on Rules, 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, Subcommittee on 
Research and Technology, hearing entitled ``The Frontiers of Human 
Brain Research'', 11 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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'', 11 a.m., 
2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, 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.


                             Joint Meetings

  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: 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.
  Joint Economic Committee: to hold hearings to examine how tax 
reform can boost economic growth, focusing on lessons from Reagan, 2 
p.m., SD-G50.