[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 66 (Monday, May 5, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D459-D461]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

                   Week of May 6 through May 9, 2014

                             Senate Chamber

  On Tuesday, at 11 a.m., Senate will vote on the motion to invoke 
cloture on the motion to proceed to consideration of S. 2262, Energy 
Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act.
  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: May 7, to hold 
hearings to examine the 2014 Farm Bill, focusing on implementation 
and next steps, 9 a.m., SR-328A.
  Committee on Appropriations: May 7, Subcommittee on Departments of 
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related 
Agencies, to hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for 
fiscal year 2015 for the Department of Health and Human Services, 10 
a.m., SD-138.
  May 7, Subcommittee on Department of Homeland Security, to hold 
hearings to examine investing in cybersecurity, focusing on 
understanding risks and building capabilities for the future, 2 
p.m., SD-192.
  May 7, Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, 
to hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and oversight 
for fiscal year 2015 for Federal information technology investments, 
2 p.m., SD-138.
  Committee on Armed Services: May 6, to hold hearings to examine 
Department of Defense proposals relating to military compensation, 
9:30 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on the Budget: May 6, to hold hearings to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2015 for 
education, 10:30 a.m., SD-608.
  May 8, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the United 
States economic and fiscal outlook, 9:30 a.m., SD-608.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: May 7, to hold 
hearings to examine Surface Transportation Reauthorization, focusing 
on progress, challenges, and next steps, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  May 8, Subcommittee on Tourism, Competitiveness, and Innovation, 
to hold hearings to examine the state of United States travel and 
tourism, focusing on industry efforts to attract 100 million 
visitors annually, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Finance: May 6, to hold hearings to examine new 
routes for funding and financing highways and transit, 10 a.m., SD-
215.
  May 8, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the nominations 
of Darci L. Vetter, of Nebraska, to be Chief Agricultural 
Negotiator, Office of the United States Trade Representative, with 
the rank of Ambassador, and Henry J. Aaron, of the District of 
Columbia, Lanhee J. Chen, of California, and Alan L. Cohen, of 
Virginia, all to be a Member of the Social Security Advisory Board, 
10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: May 6, to hold hearings to examine 
the Ukraine, focusing on countering Russian intervention and 
supporting a democratic state, 3 p.m., SD-419.
  May 8, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine assessing 
Venezuela's political crisis, focusing on human rights violations 
and beyond, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: May 8, to 
hold hearings to examine the nomination of Sylvia Mathews Burwell, 
of West Virginia, to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, 10 
a.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: May 6, 
Subcommittee on the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Federal Programs 
and the Federal Workforce, to hold hearings to examine a more 
efficient and effective government, focusing on cultivating the 
Federal workforce, 2:30 p.m., SD-342.
  May 8, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine identifying 
critical factors for success in information technology acquisitions, 
10 a.m., SD-342.
  May 8, Subcommittee on Financial and Contracting Oversight, to 
hold hearings to examine waste and abuse in Army sponsorship and 
marketing contracts, 3 p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: May 7, to hold hearings to examine S. 
1603, to reaffirm that certain land has been taken into trust for 
the benefit of the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatami 
Indians, S. 1818, to ratify a water settlement agreement affecting 
the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, S. 2040, to exchange trust and fee 
land to resolve land disputes created by the realignment of the 
Blackfoot River along the boundary of the Fort Hall Indian 
Reservation, S. 2041, to repeal the Act of May 31, 1918, and S. 
2188, to amend the Act of June 18, 1934, to reaffirm the authority 
of the Secretary of the Interior to take land into trust for Indian 
tribes, 2:30 p.m., SD-628.
  Committee on the Judiciary: May 8, business meeting to consider S. 
1720, to promote transparency in patent ownership and make other 
improvements to the patent system, and the nominations of Carlos 
Eduardo Mendoza, and Paul G. Byron, both to be a United States 
District Judge for the Middle District of Florida, Darrin P. Gayles, 
and Beth Bloom, both to be a United States District Judge for the 
Southern District of Florida, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: May 6, to hold closed hearings 
to examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  May 8, Full Committee, to hold closed hearings to examine certain 
intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  Special Committee on Aging: May 7, to hold hearings to examine the 
fight against cancer, focusing on challenges, progress, and promise, 
2:15 p.m., SD-562.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Appropriations, May 7, Subcommittee on 
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, markup on 
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Bill, FY 2015, 10 a.m., 2358-A Rayburn.

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  May 7, Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related 
Programs, hearing on United States Assistance to Combat 
Transnational Crime Budget, 11:30 a.m., 2362-A Rayburn.
  May 8, Full Committee, markup on Commerce, Justice, and Science 
Appropriations Bill, FY 2015; and Report on the Suballocation of 
Budget Allocations for FY 2015, 10 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Committee on Armed Services, May 7, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 
4435, the ``National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2015'', 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, May 8, Full Committee, 
hearing entitled ``Big Labor on College Campuses: Examining the 
Consequences of Unionizing Student Athletes'', 10 a.m., 2175 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, May 7, Subcommittee on Energy 
and Power, hearing entitled ``The NRC FY 2015 Budget and Policy 
Issues'', 10 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  May 7, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing 
entitled ``PPACA Enrollment and the Insurance Industry'', 10:15 
a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, May 7, Full Committee, markup on 
the following legislation: H.R. 4200, the ``SBIC Advisers Relief 
Act''; H.R. 4554, the ``Restricted Securities Relief Act''; H.R. 
2629, the ``Fostering Innovation Act''; H.R. 1779, the ``Preserving 
Access to Manufactured Housing Act of 2013''; H.R. 2673, the 
``Portfolio Lending and Mortgage Access Act''; H.R. 3211, the 
``Mortgage Choice Act of 2013''; H.R. 4466, the ``Financial 
Regulatory Clarity Act of 2014''; H.R. 4521, the ``Community 
Institution Mortgage Relief Act of 2014''; a resolution to authorize 
the issuance of subpoenas to the Department of Justice and the 
Department of the Treasury for certain documents; legislation 
regarding the Small Business Freedom and Growth Act; legislation 
regarding the Securities and Exchange Commission to revise its rules 
so as to increase the threshold amount for requiring issuers to 
provide certain disclosures relating to compensatory benefit plans; 
legislation regarding the Disclosure Modernization and 
Simplification Act; legislation regarding the Private Placement 
Improvement Act; and legislation regarding the Securities and 
Exchange Commission to revise the definition of a well-known 
seasoned issuer to reduce the worldwide market value threshold under 
the definition, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  May 8, Full Committee, hearing entitled ``The Annual Testimony of 
the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of the International 
Financial System'', 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, May 7, Subcommittee on Europe, 
Eurasia and Emerging Threats, hearing entitled ``Assessing the 
Biological Weapons Threat: Russia and Beyond'', 2 p.m., 2200 
Rayburn.
  May 8, Full Committee, hearing entitled ``Russia's Destabilization 
of Ukraine'', 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  May 8, Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa, hearing 
entitled ``The Palestinian Authority, Israel and the Peace Process: 
What's Next?'', 1:45 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  May 9, Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, markup on H.R. 
4229, to seek international sanctions against the Government of 
Venezuela with respect to foreign persons responsible for or 
complicit in ordering, controlling, or otherwise directing, the 
commission of serious human rights abuses against citizens of 
Venezuela, and for other purposes'', 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, May 7, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``Preventing Waste, Fraud, Abuse and Mismanagement in 
Homeland Security--A GAO High-Risk List Review'', 10 a.m., 311 
Cannon.
  May 8, Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, 
and Security Technologies, hearing entitled ``Electromagnetic Pulse 
(EMP): Threat to Critical Infrastructure'', 2 p.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on the Judiciary, May 7, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 
3361, the ``USA FREEDOM Act'', 1 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  May 8, Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust 
Law, hearing entitled ``Oversight Hearing on ``Competition in the 
Video and Broadband Markets: the Proposed Merger of Comcast and Time 
Warner Cable'', 9:30 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  May 8, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the 
Internet, hearing entitled ``Compulsory Video Licenses of Title 
17'', 2 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, May 7, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``Keeping the Lights On and Reducing Catastrophic Forest 
Fire Risk: Proper Management of Electricity Rights of Way on Federal 
Lands'', 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  May 7, Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs, hearing 
on H.R. 409, the ``Indian Trust Asset Reform Act''; and H.R. 4350, 
the ``Northern Cheyenne Lands Act'', 2 p.m., 1324 Longworth.
  May 8, Full Committee, markup on pending legislation, 10 a.m., 
1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, May 7, Full 
Committee, hearing entitled ``Is EPA Leadership Obstructing Its Own 
Inspector General?'', 9:30 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  May 7, Full Committee, markup on the Administration's Postal 
Reform Act of 2014, 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  May 8, Subcommittee on Government Operations, hearing entitled 
``Mixed Signals: the Administration's Policy on Marijuana, Part 
Three'', 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, May 7, Full Committee, hearing on H.R. 10, the 
``Success and Opportunity through Quality Charter Schools Act'', 3 
p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology,  May 8, Full 
Committee, markup on S. 1254, the ``Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia 
Research and Control Amendments Act of 2013'' 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  May 9, Subcommittee on Space, hearing entitled ``Space Traffic 
Management: How to Prevent a Real Life ``Gravity'', 10 a.m., 2318 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, May 7, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``Military to Entrepreneurship: Private Sector Initiatives 
to Help Veterans Pursue Business Opportunities'', 1 p.m., 2360 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, May 8, Subcommittee on Economic 
Opportunity, hearing entitled ``Defining and

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Improving Success for Student Veterans'', 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, May 7, Subcommittee on Oversight, 
hearing on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the 2014 tax 
return filing season, 10:30 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, May 8, Full 
Committee, markup on H.R. 4291, the ``FISA Transparency and 
Modernization Act'', 10 a.m., 304-HVC. A portion of this markup may 
close.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Economic Committee: May 7, to hold hearings to examine the 
economic outlook, 10 a.m., SH-216.
  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: May 6, to 
receive a briefing on Georgia 2008, and Ukraine 2014, focusing on if 
Moldova is next, and to examine Russia's intentions with regard to 
Transnistria and Moldova, 12 noon, CVC-268.