[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 132 (Monday, September 30, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D929-D931]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

               Week of October 1 through October 4, 2013

                             Senate Chamber

  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 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: October 3, to 
hold hearings to examine advanced biofuels, focusing on creating 
jobs and lower prices at the pump, 9:30 a.m., SR-328A.
  Committee on Armed Services: October 3, to receive a closed 
briefing on the situation in Syria, 9:30 a.m., SVC-217.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: October 1, to 
hold hearings to examine housing finance reform, focusing on 
fundamentals of a functioning private label mortgage backed 
securities market, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  October 2, Subcommittee on Economic Policy, to hold hearings to 
examine rebuilding American manufacturing, 2:30 p.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: October 2, to 
hold hearings to examine the ``America Creating Opportunities to 
Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and 
Science Act'' (America COMPETES), focusing on scientific research 
and the United States economy, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  October 3, Full Committee, business meeting to consider the 
nominations of Terrell McSweeny, of the District of Columbia, to be 
a Federal Trade Commissioner, Robert Michael Simon, of Maryland, to 
be an Associate Director for Environment and Energy, and Jo Emily 
Handelsman, of Connecticut, to be an Associate Director for Science, 
both of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Michael P. 
O'Rielly, of New York, to be a Commissioner of the Federal 
Communications Commission, and Kathryn D. Sullivan, of Ohio, to be 
Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, 11 a.m., SR-
253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: October 1, to hold 
hearings to examine S. 812, to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to take actions to implement the Agreement between the 
United States of America and the United Mexican States Concerning 
Transboundary Hydrocarbon Reservoirs in the Gulf of Mexico, and H.R. 
1613, to amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to provide for 
the proper Federal management and oversight of transboundary 
hydrocarbon reservoirs, 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: October 3, to hold hearings to 
examine reversing Iran's nuclear program, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  October 3, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of James Walter Brewster, Jr., of Illinois, to be 
Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Brian A. Nichols, of Rhode 
Island, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Peru, and Carlos Roberto 
Moreno, of California, to be Ambassador to Belize, all of the 
Department of State, 2:30 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: October 2, 
business meeting to consider S. 1557, to amend the Public Health 
Service Act to reauthorize support for graduate medical education 
programs in children's hospitals, S. 1561, to amend the Public 
Health Service Act to improve provisions relating to the sanctuary 
system for surplus chimpanzees, H.R. 2094, to amend the Public 
Health Service Act to increase the preference given, in awarding 
certain asthma-related grants, to certain States (those allowing 
trained school personnel to administer epinephrine and meeting other 
related requirements), S. 1562, to reauthorize the Older Americans 
Act of 1965, and the nominations of Michael Keith Yudin, of the 
District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary for Special 
Education and Rehabilitative Services, and James Cole,

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Jr., of New York, to be General Counsel, both of the Department of 
Education, and Chai Rachel Feldblum, of the District of Columbia, to 
be a Member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and any 
pending nominations, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: October 
2, to hold hearings to examine the nomination of Beth F. Cobert, of 
California, to be Deputy Director for Management, Office of 
Management and Budget; to be immediately followed by a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Tony Hammond, of Missouri, and Nanci E. 
Langley, of Hawaii, both to be a Commissioner of the Postal 
Regulatory Commission, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  October 3, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine threats to 
the homeland, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: October 2, to hold hearings to examine 
continued oversight of the ``Foreign Intelligence Surveillance 
Act'', 10 a.m., SD-226.
  October 3, Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. 42, to 
provide anti-retaliation protections for antitrust whistleblowers, 
S. 822, to protect crime victims' rights, to eliminate the 
substantial backlog of DNA samples collected from crime scenes and 
convicted offenders, to improve and expand the DNA testing capacity 
of Federal, State, and local crime laboratories, to increase 
research and development of new DNA testing technologies, to develop 
new training programs regarding the collection and use of DNA 
evidence, to provide post conviction testing of DNA evidence to 
exonerate the innocent, to improve the performance of counsel in 
State capital cases, and the nominations of Robert Leon Wilkins, to 
be United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, 
Brian J. Davis, to be United States District Judge for the Middle 
District of Florida, Timothy L. Brooks, to be United States District 
Judge for the Western District of Arkansas, James Donato, and Beth 
Labson Freeman, both to be United States District Judge for the 
Northern District of California, and Pedro A. Delgado Hernandez, to 
be United States District Judge for the District of Puerto Rico, 10 
a.m., SD-226.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: October 1, to hold closed 
hearings to examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  October 3, Full Committee, to hold closed hearings to examine 
certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Agriculture, October 2, Subcommittee on General Farm 
Commodities and Risk Management, hearing entitled ``The Future of 
the CFTC: Perspectives on Customer Protections'', 9 a.m., 1300 
Longworth.
  Committee on Armed Services, October 2, Subcommittee on Readiness, 
hearing entitled ``Resetting the Force for the Future: Risks of 
Sequestration'', 2 p.m., 2212 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, October 2, Subcommittee on 
Energy and Power, hearing entitled ``The North American Energy 
Infrastructure'', 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  October 3, Subcommittee on Health, hearing entitled ``Reviewing 
FDA's Implementation of FDASIA'', 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, October 2, Full Committee, markup on 
H.R. 3212, the ``Sean and David Goldman International Child 
Abduction Prevention and Return Act of 2013''; and H.R. 1768, the 
``Accountability Review Board Reform Act of 2013'', 10 a.m., 2175 
Rayburn.
  October 3, Full Committee, hearing entitled ``Al-Shabaab: How 
Great a Threat?'', 9:45 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, October 2, Full Committee, markup 
on H.R. 1095, to amend title 49, United States Code, to direct the 
Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation Security 
Administration) to transfer unclaimed money recovered at airport 
security checkpoints to nonprofit organizations that provide places 
of rest and recuperation at airports for members of the Armed Forces 
and their families, and for other purposes; H.R. 1204, the 
``Aviation Security Stakeholder Participation Act of 2013''; H.R. 
1791, the ``Medical Preparedness Allowable Use Act''; H.R. 2719, the 
``Transportation Security Acquisition Reform Act''; H.R. 2952, the 
``Global Investment in American Jobs Act of 2013''; and H.R. 3107, 
``Homeland Security Cybersecurity Boots-on-the-Ground Act'', 10 
a.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on the Judiciary, October 2, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``The President's Constitutional Duty to Faithfully Execute 
the Laws'', 11 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  October 2, Subcommittee on the Regulatory Reform, Commercial and 
Antitrust Law, hearing entitled ``Dodd Frank's Impact on Competition 
in the Financial Industry'', 2 p.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, October 3, Subcommittee on Public 
Lands and Environmental Regulations, hearing on the following 
legislation: H.R. 3188, to expedite the planning and implementation 
of salvage timber sales as part of Forest Service and Department of 
the Interior restoration and rehabilitation activities for lands 
within the Stanislaus National Forest and Yosemite National park and 
Bureau of Land management lands adversely impacted by the 2013 Rim 
Fire in California; H.R. 298, to direct the Secretary of the 
Interior to conduct a special resource study to evaluate the 
significance of the Mill Springs Battlefield located in Pulaski and 
Wayne Counties, Kentucky, and the feasibility of its inclusion in 
the National Park System, and for other purposes; H.R. 712, to 
extend the authorization of the Highlands Conservation Act through 
fiscal year 2024; H.R. 1167, the ``Restoring Storey County Act''; 
H.R. 1259, the ``Coltsville National Historical Park Act''; H.R. 
1633, the ``Small Lands Tracts Conveyance Act''; H.R. 1846, the 
``Lower East Side Tenement National Historic Site Amendments Act''; 
H.R. 2015, the ``Las Vegas Valley Public Land and Tule Springs 
Fossil Beds National Monument Act of 2013''; H.R. 2259, the ``North 
Fork Watershed Protection Act of 2013''; H.R. 2657, the ``Disposal 
of Excess Federal Lands Act of 2013''; and H.R. 2954, to authorize 
Escambia County, Florida, to convey certain property that was 
formerly part of Santa

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Rosa Island National Monument and that was conveyed to Escambia 
County subject to restrictions on use and reconveyance, 10 a.m., 
1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, October 2, 
Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Health Care and Entitlements, hearing 
entitled ``Oversight of the Wind Energy Production Tax Credit'', 
9:30 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, October 2, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``The Challenge of Retirement Savings for Small 
Employers'', 1 p.m., 2360 Rayburn.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Economic Committee: October 2, to hold hearings to examine 
the current economic outlook, 10 a.m., SD-106.