[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 111 (Wednesday, July 16, 2014)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1181-E1182]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                       SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS

  Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, agreed to by the Senate of February 
4, 1977, calls for establishment of a system for a computerized 
schedule of all meetings and hearings of Senate committees, 
subcommittees, joint committees, and committees of conference. This 
title requires all such committees to notify the Office of the Senate 
Daily Digest--designated by the Rules Committee--of the time, place and 
purpose of the meetings, when scheduled and any cancellations or 
changes in the meetings as they occur.
  As an additional procedure along with the computerization of this 
information, the Office of the Senate Daily Digest will prepare this 
information for printing in the Extensions of Remarks section of the 
Congressional Record on Monday and Wednesday of each week.
  Meetings scheduled for Thursday, July 17, 2014 may be found in the 
Daily Digest of today's Record.

                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED

                                JULY 22
     9:30 a.m.
       Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
       Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
         To hold hearings to examine abuse of structured financial 
           products, focusing on misusing basket options to avoid 
           taxes and leverage limits, including a set of 
           transactions that utilize financial engineering and 
           structured financial products.
                                                            SH-216
     10 a.m.
       Committee on Finance
         To hold hearings to examine the United States Tax Code.
                                                            SD-215
       Committee on Foreign Relations
         Business meeting to consider The Convention on the Rights 
           of Persons with Disabilities, adopted by the United 
           Nations General Assembly on December 13, 2006, and 
           signed by the United States of America on June 30, 2009 
           (the ``Convention'') (Treaty Doc.112-07).
                                                             S-116
       Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
       Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety
         To hold hearings to examine coal miners, focusing on 
           black lung claimants.
                                                            SD-430
       Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
         To hold hearings to examine anti-semitism, racism and 
           discrimination in the Organization for Security and 
           Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) region, including 
           xenophobia, discrimination against Christians, and 
           members of other religions, and intolerance and 
           discrimination against Muslims.
                                                            SD-562
     10:30 a.m.
       Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings to examine leveraging America's 
           resources as a revenue generator and job creator, 
           focusing on the state and local government benefits in 
           terms of revenue generated and jobs created from 
           natural resource production.
                                                            SD-366
     2 p.m.
       Committee on Veterans' Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine the nomination of Robert Alan 
           McDonald, of Ohio, to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
                                                            SR-418
     2:30 p.m.
       Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
       Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community 
           Development
         To hold hearings to examine building economically 
           resilient communities, focusing on local and regional 
           approaches.
                                                            SD-538
       Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold hearings to examine S. 1340, to improve passenger 
           vessel security and safety, focusing on improving 
           consumer protections for cruise passengers.
                                                            SR-253
     3 p.m.
       Committee on Foreign Relations
       Subcommittee on International Development and Foreign 
           Assistance, Economic Affairs, International 
           Environmental Protection, and Peace Corps
         To hold hearings to examine United States security 
           implications of international energy and climate 
           policies and issues.
                                                            SD-419

                                JULY 23
     9:30 a.m.
       Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
         To hold hearings to examine meeting the challenges of 
           feeding America's school children.
                                                           SR-328A
       Committee on Environment and Public Works
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine the Environmental 
           Protection Agency's proposed carbon pollution standards 
           for existing power plants.
                                                            SD-406
     10 a.m.
       Committee on Finance
       Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight
         To hold hearings to examine saving for an uncertain 
           future, focusing on how the ``Achieving a Better Life 
           Experience Act'' (ABLE) can help people with 
           disabilities and their families.
                                                            SD-215
       Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
         Business meeting to consider H.R. 2083, to require State 
           educational agencies that receive funding under the 
           Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to have 
           in effect policies and procedures on background checks 
           for school employees, S. 315, to reauthorize and extend 
           the Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Community 
           Assistance, Research, and Education Amendments of 2008, 
           S. 2154, to amend the Public Health Service Act to 
           reauthorize the Emergency Medical Services for Children 
           Program, S. 531, to provide for the publication by the 
           Secretary of Human Services of physical activity 
           guidelines for Americans, S. 2405, to amend title XII 
           of the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize certain 
           trauma care programs, S. 2406, to amend title XII of 
           the Public Health Service Act to expand the definition 
           of trauma to include thermal, electrical, chemical, 
           radioactive, and other extrinsic agents, S. 2539, to 
           amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize 
           certain programs relating to traumatic brain injury and 
           to trauma research, S. 2511, to amend the Employee 
           Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to clarify the 
           definition of substantial cessation of operations, and 
           any pending nominations.
                                                            SD-430
       Committee on Rules and Administration
         To hold hearings to examine S. 2516, to amend the Federal 
           Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional 
           disclosure requirements for corporations, labor 
           organizations, Super PACs and other entities, focusing 
           on the need for expanded public disclosure of funds 
           raised and spent to influence Federal elections.
                                                            SR-301
     2:30 p.m.
       Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
       Subcommittee on National Parks
         To hold hearings to examine H.R. 412, to amend the Wild 
           and Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of the 
           mainstem of the Nashua River and its tributaries in the 
           Commonwealth of Massachusetts for study for potential 
           addition to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, 
           S. 1189, to adjust the boundaries of Paterson Great 
           Falls National Historical Park to include Hinchliffe 
           Stadium, S. 1389 and H.R. 1501, bills to direct the 
           Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and 
           feasibility of designating the Prison Ship Martyrs' 
           Monument in Fort Greene Park, in the New York City 
           borough of Brooklyn, as a unit of the National Park 
           System, S. 1520 and H.R. 2197, bills to amend the Wild 
           and Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of the York 
           River and associated tributaries for study for 
           potential inclusion in the National Wild and Scenic 
           Rivers System, S. 1641, to establish the Appalachian 
           Forest National Heritage Area, S. 1718, to modify the 
           boundary of Petersburg National Battlefield in the 
           Commonwealth of Virginia, S. 1750, to authorize the 
           Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of 
           Agriculture to enter into agreements with States and 
           political subdivisions of States providing for the 
           continued operation, in whole or in part, of public 
           land, units of the National Park System, units of the 
           National Wildlife Refuge System, and units of the 
           National Forest System in the State during any period 
           in which the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary 
           of Agriculture is unable to maintain normal level of 
           operations at the units due to a lapse in 
           appropriations, S. 1785, to modify the boundary of the 
           Shiloh National Military Park located in the States of 
           Tennessee and Mississippi, to establish Parker's 
           Crossroads Battlefield as an affiliated area of the 
           National Park System, S. 1794, to designate certain 
           Federal land in Chaffee County, Colorado, as a national 
           monument and as wilderness, S. 1866, to provide for an 
           extension of the legislative authority of the Adams 
           Memorial Foundation to establish a commemorative work 
           in honor of former President John Adams and his legacy, 
           S. 2031, to amend the Act to provide for the 
           establishment of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore 
           in the State of Wisconsin, to adjust the boundary of

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           that National Lakeshore to include the lighthouse known 
           as Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light, S. 2104, to require 
           the Director of the National Park Service to refund to 
           States all State funds that were used to reopen and 
           temporarily operate a unit of the National Park System 
           during the October 2013 shutdown, S. 2111, to 
           reauthorize the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area, 
           S. 2221, to extend the authorization for the Automobile 
           National Heritage Area in Michigan, S. 2264, to 
           designate memorials to the service of members of the 
           United States Armed Forces in World War I, S. 2293, to 
           clarify the status of the North Country, Ice Age, and 
           New England National Scenic Trails as units of the 
           National Park System, S. 2318, to reauthorize the Erie 
           Canalway National Heritage Corridor Act, S. 2346, to 
           amend the National Trails System Act to include 
           national discovery trails, and to designate the 
           American Discovery Trail, S. 2356, to adjust the 
           boundary of the Mojave National Preserve, S. 2392, to 
           amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate 
           certain segments of East Rosebud Creek in Carbon 
           County, Montana, as components of the Wild and Scenic 
           Rivers System, S. 2576, to establish the Maritime 
           Washington National Heritage Area in the State of 
           Washington, and S. 2602, to establish the Mountains to 
           Sound Greenway National Heritage Area in the State of 
           Washington.
                                                            SD-366
       Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
       Subcommittee on Financial and Contracting Oversight
         To hold hearings to examine a more efficient and 
           effective government, focusing on the National 
           Technical Information Service.
                                                            SD-342
       Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
         To hold hearings to examine empowering women 
           entrepreneurs, focusing on understanding successes, 
           addressing persistent challenges, and identifying new 
           opportunities.
                                                            SH-216
     3:30 p.m.
       Committee on Indian Affairs
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine Indian gaming, 
           focusing on the next 25 years.
                                                            SD-628

                                JULY 24
     10 a.m.
       Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings to examine the nomination of Elizabeth 
           Sherwood-Randall, of California, to be Deputy Secretary 
           of Energy.
                                                            SD-366

                                JULY 30
     10 a.m.
       Committee on the Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine the next steps for the 
           ``Violence Against Women Act'' (VAWA), focusing on 
           protecting women from gun violence.
                                                            SD-226
     2:30 p.m.
       Committee on Indian Affairs
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine responses to 
           natural disasters in Indian country.
                                                            SD-628