[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 112 (Wednesday, July 31, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D810-D811]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





            COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 2013

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: business meeting to mark up proposed 
legislation making appropriations for fiscal year 2014 for the 
Department of Defense, 10:30 a.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: 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 Foreign Relations: business meeting to consider S. 
1386, to provide for enhanced embassy security, and 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, Liliana Ayalde, of 
Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Federative Republic of Brazil, 
Evan Ryan, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary for Educational 
and Cultural Affairs, 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, 10:15 a.m., 
SD-419.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: 
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 the Judiciary: 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.
  Subcommittee on Oversight, Federal Rights and Agency Action, to 
hold hearings to examine the human cost of regulatory paralysis, 2 
p.m., SD-226.


                                 House

  Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Military Personnel, 
hearing entitled ``Department of Defense's Challenges in Accounting 
for Missing Persons from Past Conflicts'', 8 a.m., 2212 Rayburn.
  Full Committee, hearing entitled ``Initial Conclusions Formed by 
the Defense Strategic Choices and Management Review'', 10 a.m., 2118 
Rayburn.
  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 Energy and Commerce, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``PPACA Pulse Check'', 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 2848, 
the ``Department of State Operations and Embassy Security 
Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2014''; and H.R. 419, to strengthen 
and clarify the commercial, cultural, and other relations between 
the people of the United States and the people of Taiwan, as 
codified in the Taiwan Relations Act, and for other purposes, 10 
a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade, hearing 
entitled ``The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Outlook and 
Opportunities'', 1:30 p.m., 2200 Rayburn.
  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.
  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, Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, 
Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technology, hearing entitled 
``West Fertilizer, Off the Grid:

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The Problem of Unidentified Chemical Facilities'', 10 a.m., 311 
Cannon.
  Committee on the Judiciary, 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, 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.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Full Committee, 
hearing entitled ``Department of Energy's Bonneville Power 
Administration: Discriminating Against Veterans and Retaliating 
Against Whistleblowers'', 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Full Committee, 
markup on H.R. 2850, the ``EPA Hydraulic Fracturing Study 
Improvement Act''; and authorize the issuance of subpoenas, 10 a.m., 
2318 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Oversight, hearing entitled ``EPA's Bristol Bay 
Watershed Assessment--A Factual Review of a Hypothetical Scenario'', 
1 p.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Full Committee, markup on the 
following legislation H.R. 813, the ``Putting Veterans Funding First 
Act of 2013''; H.R. 1804, the ``Foreign Travel Accountability Act''; 
H.R. 2072, the ``Demanding Accountability for Veterans Act of 
2013''; H.R. 2189, to establish a commission or task force to 
evaluate the backlog of disability claims of the Department of 
Veterans Affairs; H.R. 2481, the ``Veterans G.I. Bill Enrollment 
Clarification Act of 2013''; H.R. 1443, the ``Tinnitus Research and 
Treatment Act of 2013''; and H.R. 2011, the ``Veterans' Advisory 
Committee on Education Improvement Act of 2013'', 10 a.m., 334 
Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Status of the Affordable Care Act Implementation'', 10 a.m., 1100 
Longworth.