[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 76 (Tuesday, May 20, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D533-D535]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                              MAY 21, 2014

          (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of Defense, to 
hold hearings to examine energy security and research, 10 a.m., SD-192.
  Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, to hold 
hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for 
fiscal year 2015 for the Small Business Administration and the Community 
Development Financial Institutions Fund, 1:45 p.m., SD-138.
  Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel, business 
meeting to mark up those provisions which fall under the subcommittee's 
jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for 
fiscal year 2015, 10 a.m., SD-G50.
  Full Committee, closed business meeting to mark up the proposed 
National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2015, 2:30 p.m., SR-
222.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold hearings to 
examine delivering better health care value to consumers, focusing on the 
first three years of the medical loss ratio, 2:45 p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions, and 
Family Policy, to hold hearings to examine

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strengthening Social Security to meet the needs of tomorrow's retirees, 
10 a.m., SD-215.
  Full Committee, business meeting to consider the nomination of Sylvia 
Mathews Burwell, of West Virginia, to be Secretary of Health and Human 
Services, 2 p.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine 
authorization for the use of military force after Iraq and Afghanistan, 
10 a.m., SD-419.
  Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs, with the Subcommittee 
on African Affairs, subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs with 
the Subcommittee on African Affairs to hold joint hearings to examine the 
escalating international wildlife trafficking crisis, focusing on 
ecological, economic and national security issues, 2:15 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: business 
meeting to consider S. 2354, DHS Cybersecurity Workforce Recruitment and 
Retention Act of 2014, S. 2113, to provide taxpayers with an annual 
report disclosing the cost and performance of Government programs and 
areas of duplication among them, H.R. 1233, to amend chapter 22 of title 
44, United States Code, popularly known as the Presidential Records Act, 
to establish procedures for the consideration of claims of 
constitutionally based privilege against disclosure of Presidential 
records, 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. 1744, to strengthen the accountability of 
individuals involved in misconduct affecting the integrity of background 
investigations, to update guidelines for security clearances, S. 1691, to 
amend title 5, United States Code, to improve the security of the United 
States border and to provide for reforms and rates of pay for border 
patrol agents, S. 675, to prohibit contracting with the enemy, S. 1820, 
to prohibit the use of Federal funds for the costs of official portraits 
of Members of Congress, heads of executive agencies, and heads of 
agencies and offices of the legislative branch, H.R. 1036, to designate 
the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 103 Center 
Street West in Eatonville, Washington, as the ``National Park Ranger 
Margaret Anderson Post Office'', H.R. 1228, to designate the facility of 
the United States Postal Service located at 123 South 9th Street in De 
Pere, Wisconsin, as the ``Corporal Justin D. Ross Post Office Building'', 
H.R. 1451, 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'', H.R. 2391, to designate the 
facility of the United States Postal Service located at 5323 Highway N in 
Cottleville, Missouri as the ``Lance Corporal Phillip Vinnedge Post 
Office'', H.R. 3060, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 232 Southwest Johnson Avenue in Burleson, 
Texas, as the ``Sergeant William Moody Post Office Building'', and the 
nominations of Sherry Moore Trafford, and Steven M. Wellner, both to be 
an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, 
Julia Akins Clark, of Maryland, to be General Counsel of the Federal 
Labor Relations Authority, and 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.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: business meeting to consider S. 1474, to 
encourage the State of Alaska to enter into intergovernmental agreements 
with Indian tribes in the State relating to the enforcement of certain 
State laws by Indian tribes, to improve the quality of life in rural 
Alaska, to reduce alcohol and drug abuse, 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. 1622, to establish the 
Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children, 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. 2132, to amend the 
Indian Tribal Energy Development and Self-Determination Act of 2005, and 
H.R. 2388, to take certain Federal lands located in El Dorado County, 
California, into trust for the benefit of the Shingle Springs Band of 
Miwok Indians; to be immediately followed by an oversight hearing to 
examine Indian education, focusing on the Bureau of Indian Education, 
2:30 p.m., SD-628.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to hold an oversight hearing to examine the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Special Committee on Aging: to hold hearings to examine the role of 
health care providers in advance care planning, 10 a.m., SD-106.


                                  House

  Committee on Appropriations, Full Committee, markup on Transportation, 
HUD and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill FY 2015, 10 a.m., 2359 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and Power, 
hearing on legislation regarding Promoting New Manufacturing Act, 10 
a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Health, hearing entitled ``Keeping the Promise: Site of 
Service Medicare Payment Reforms'', 10:15 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations hearing entitled ``Allegations of Discrimination and 
Retaliation within the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Part Two'', 
10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, hearing 
entitled ``Legislative Proposals to Improve Transparency and 
Accountability at the CFPB'', 2 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Full Committee, hearing entitled ``Boko 
Haram: The Growing Threat to Schoolgirls, Nigeria, and Beyond'', 9:45 
a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats, hearing entitled 
``The Development of Energy Resources in Central Asia'', 2 p.m., 2200 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, hearing entitled 
``The Humanitarian Crisis in Syria: Views from the Ground'', 2 p.m., 2172 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and 
Intelligence; and Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure 
Protection, and Security Technologies joint subcommittee hearing entitled 
``Assessing Persistent and Emerging Cyber Threats to the U.S. Homeland,'' 
10 a.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on Natural Resources, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 4402, 
the ``Guam Military Training and Readiness Act of 2014'', 10 a.m., 1324 
Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Full Committee, markup on 
the following legislation: H.R. 4670,

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the ``Secure Delivery for America Act of 2014''; H.R. 4671, the ``Public 
Interest Declassification Board Reauthorization Act of 2014''; H.R. 2750, 
the ``Design-Build Efficiency and Jobs Act of 2013''; H.R. 43, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 14 
Red River Avenue North in Cold Spring, Minnesota, as the ``Officer Tommy 
Decker Memorial Post Office''; H.R. 451, to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 500 North Brevard Avenue in Cocoa 
Beach, Florida, as the ``Richard K. Salick Post Office''; H.R. 606, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 815 
Country Road 23 in Tyrone, New York, as the ``Specialist Christopher 
Scott Post Office Building''; H.R. 1671, to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 6937 Village Parkway in Dublin, 
California, as the ``James `Jim' Kohnen Post Office''; H.R. 1701, 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''; H.R. 1865, to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 35 Park Street in Danville, 
Vermont, as the ``Thaddeus Stevens Post Office''; H.R. 2112, to designate 
the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 787 State 
Route 17M in Monroe, New York, as the ``National Clandestine Service of 
the Central Intelligence Agency NCS Officer Gregg David Wenzel Memorial 
Post Office''; H.R. 2223, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 220 Elm Avenue in Munising, Michigan, as the 
``Elizabeth L. Kinnunen Post Office Building''; H.R. 2291, to designate 
the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 450 Lexington 
Avenue in New York, New York, as the ``Vincent R. Sombrotto Post 
Office''; H.R. 2678, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 10360 Southwest 186th Street in Miami, Florida, 
as the ``Larcenia J. Bullard Post Office Building''; H.R. 2802, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 418 
Liberty Street in Covington, Indiana, as the ``Fountain County Veterans 
Memorial Post Office''; H.R. 3027, to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 442 Miller Valley Road in 
Prescott, Arizona, as the ``Barry M. Goldwater Post Office''; H.R. 3085, 
to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 
3349 West 111th Street in Chicago, Illinois, as the ``Captain Herbert 
Johnson Memorial Post Office Building''; H.R. 3534, to designate the 
facility of the United States Postal Service located at 113 West Michigan 
Avenue in Jackson, Michigan, as the ``Officer James Bonneau Memorial Post 
Office''; H.R. 4355, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 201 B Street in Perryville, Arkansas, as the 
``Harold George Bennett Post Office''; and H.R. 4416, to redesignate the 
facility of the United States Postal Service located at 161 Live Oak 
Street in Miami, Arizona, as the ``Staff Sergeant Manuel V. Mendoza Post 
Office Building'', 9:30 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``Astrobiology and the Search for Life in the Universe'', 10 
a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Full Committee, markup on S. 1254, the ``Harmful Algal Bloom and 
Hypoxia Research and Control Amendments Act of 2013''; and H.R. 4186, the 
``FIRST Act of 2014'', 2 p.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Oversight of the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business 
Technology Transfer Programs'', 1 p.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management, 
``Examining the Federal Protective Service: Are Federal Facilities 
Secure?'', 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, hearing 
entitled ``Using New Ocean Technologies: Promoting Efficient Maritime 
Transportation and Improving Maritime Domain Awareness and Response 
Capability'', 9:30 a.m., 2253 Rayburn.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Economic Committee: to hold hearings to examine women's 
retirement security, 10 a.m., SH-216.