[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 95 (Wednesday, June 18, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D670-D671]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                             JUNE 19, 2014

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: business meeting to markup proposed 
budget estimates for fiscal year 2015 for State, Foreign Operations, 
and Related Programs, and the Legislative Branch (H.R. 4487), 10:30 
a.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Armed Services: to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Laura Junor, of Virginia, to be a Principal Deputy 
Under Secretary for Personnel and Readiness, Gordon O. Tanner, of 
Alabama, to be General Counsel of the Department of the Air Force, 
Debra S. Wada, of Hawaii, to be Assistant Secretary of the Army for 
Manpower and Reserve Affairs, and Miranda A. A. Ballentine, of the 
District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for 
Installations, Environment, and Energy, all of the Department of 
Defense, and Monica C. Regalbuto, of Illinois, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management, 9:30 a.m., SH-216.
  Full Committee, to receive a closed briefing on the security 
situation in Iraq, 2:30 p.m., SR-222.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: to hold hearings to 
examine resources for export, domestic consumption, and 
transportation fuel, 2:30 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine the 
Protocol Amending the Convention between the United States of 
America and the Kingdom of Spain for the Avoidance of Double 
Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes 
on Income and its Protocol, signed at Madrid on February 22, 1990 
(Treaty Doc. 113-04), and the Convention between the United States 
of America and the Republic of Poland for the Avoidance of Double 
Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes 
on Income, signed on February 13, 2013, at Warsaw (Treaty Doc. 113-
05), 11 a.m., SD-419.
  Full Committee, to receive a closed briefing on an update on Iraq, 
2 p.m., SVC-217.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider S. 2454, 
to amend title 17, United States Code, to extend expiring provisions 
of the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act of 2010, and 
the nominations of Julie E. Carnes, of Georgia, and Jill A. Pryor, 
of Georgia, both to be a United States Circuit Judge for the 
Eleventh Circuit, Andre Birotte, Jr., to be United States District 
Judge for the Central District of California, John W. deGravelles, 
to be United States District Judge for the Middle District of 
Louisiana, Randolph D. Moss, to be United States District Judge for 
the District of Columbia, Robin L. Rosenberg, to be United States 
District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, Ronnie L. 
White, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District 
of Missouri, Leslie Joyce Abrams, Mark Howard Cohen, Leigh Martin 
May, and Eleanor Louise Ross, all to be a United States District 
Judge for the Northern District of Georgia, and Nancy B. Firestone, 
of Virginia, and Thomas L. Halkowski, of Pennsylvania, both to be a 
Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims, 9:30 a.m., SD-
226.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to receive closed briefings on 
certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, 
Forestry, hearing on a review of the Interpretive Rule regarding the 
applicability of Clean Water Act agricultural exemptions, 10 a.m., 
1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Armed Services, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``P5+1 Negotiations over Iran's Nuclear Program and Its Implications 
for United States Defense'', 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces, hearing entitled 
``Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike 
(UCLASS) Requirements Assessment'', 3:30 p.m., 2212 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and 
Power, hearing entitled ``EPA's Proposed Carbon Dioxide Regulations 
for Power Plants'', 9:30 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Health, markup on the following legislation: H.R. 
4771, the ``Designer Anabolic Steroid Control Act''; H.R. 4250, the 
``Sunscreen Innovation Act''; H.R. 4701, the ``Vector-Borne Disease 
Research Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014''; H.R. 594, 
the Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Community Assistance, 
Research and Education Amendments of 2014; H.R. 669, the ``Sudden 
Unexpected Death and Data Enhancement and Awareness Act; and H.R. 
4290, the ``Wakefield Act of 2014'', 4 p.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 
4871, the ``TRIA Reform Act of 2014''; H.R. 4881, to place a 6-month 
moratorium on the authority of the Financial Stability Oversight 
Council to make financial stability determinations; and H.R. 4387, 
the ``FSOC Transparency and Accountability Act'', 10 a.m., 2128 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Middle East and 
North Africa, markup on H. Res. 109, condemning the Government of 
Iran for its state-sponsored persecution of its Baha'i minority and 
its continued violation of the International Covenants on Human 
Rights; and H. Res. 435, calling on the government of Iran to 
fulfill their promises of assistance in this case of Robert 
Levinson, one of the longest held United States civilians in our 
Nation's history, 9:45 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa; and the 
Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and 
International Organizations joint subcommittee hearing entitled 
``One Year Under Rouhani: Iran's Abysmal Human Rights Record'', 10 
a.m., 2172 Rayburn.

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  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual 
Property and the Internet, hearing entitled ``GSA's Failure to Meet 
the Needs of the Judiciary: A Case Study of Bureaucratic Negligence 
and Waste'', 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, Full Committee, markup on the 
following legislation: H.R. 2455, the ``Nevada Native Nations Lands 
Act''; H.R. 3716, the ``Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe--Fish Springs 
Ranch Settlement Act''; H.R. 4049, the ``Ashland Breakwater Light 
Transfer Act''; H.R. 4283, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act 
to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to maintain or replace 
certain facilities and structures for commercial recreation services 
at Smith Gulch in Idaho, and for other purposes; H.R. 4489, the 
``World War I Memorial Act of 2014''; H.R. 4508, to amend the East 
Bench Irrigation District Water Contract Extension Act to permit the 
Secretary of the Interior to extend the contract for certain water 
services; H.R. 4527, to remove a use restriction on land formerly a 
part of Acadia National Park that was transferred to the town of 
Tremont, Maine, and for other purposes; H.R. 4562, to authorize 
early repayment of obligations to the Bureau of Reclamation within 
the Northport Irrigation District in the State of Nebraska; and H.R. 
4873, the ``Cabin Fee Act of 2014'', 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Full Committee, 
hearing entitled ``Whistleblower Reprisal and Management Failure at 
the U.S. Chemical Safety Board'', 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.