[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 115 (Tuesday, July 22, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D829-D831]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                             JULY 23, 2014

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: to hold 
hearings to examine meeting the challenges of feeding America's 
school children, 9:30 a.m., SR-328A.
  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of 
Homeland Security, to hold hearings to examine insuring our future, 
focusing on building a flood insurance program we can live with, 
grow with, and prosper with, 2:30 p.m., SD-138.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: business 
meeting to consider S. 1804, to amend title 49, United States Code, 
to direct the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security 
(Transportation Security Administration) to establish an Aviation 
Security Advisory Committee, S. 1893, to require the Transportation 
Security Administration to implement best practices and improve 
transparency with regard to technology acquisition programs, S. 
2030, to reauthorize and amend the National Sea Grant College 
Program Act, S. 2094, to provide for the establishment of nationally 
uniform and environmentally sound standards governing discharges 
incidental to the normal operation of a vessel, and S. 2250, to 
extend the Travel Promotion Act of 2009, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine S. 1340, to improve 
passenger vessel security and safety, focusing on improving consumer 
protections for cruise passengers, 2:45 p.m., SR-253.
  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 that National Lakeshore to 
include the lighthouse known as Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light, S. 
2104, to require the

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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, 
2:30 p.m., SD-366.
  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, 9:30 a.m., SD-
406.
  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, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: business 
meeting to consider 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, 
Time to be announced, Room to be announced.
  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, 2:30 p.m., 
SD-342.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: to hold an oversight hearing to 
examine Indian gaming, focusing on the next 25 years, 3:30 p.m., SD-
628.
  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, 10 a.m., SR-301.
  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, 1:45 p.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: business meeting to consider the 
nomination of Robert Alan McDonald, of Ohio, to be Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs, Time to be announced, S-219, Capitol.


                                 House

  Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, 
hearing entitled ``Adapting U.S. Missile Defense for Future Threats: 
Russia, China and Modernizing the National Missile Defense (NMD) 
Act'', 2 p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on 
Workforce Protections, hearing entitled ``Improving the Federal Wage 
and Hour Regulatory Structure'', 10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Environment and 
the Economy, hearing entitled ``Modernizing the Business of 
Environmental Regulation and Protection'', 10 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Assessing the Impact of the Dodd-Frank Act Four Years Later'', 10 
a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Terrorist March in Iraq: The U.S. Response'', 10 a.m., 2172 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and 
International Organizations, hearing entitled ``The Troubling Case 
of Meriam Ibrahim'', 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, hearing entitled ``U.S.-
Dominican Republic Relations: Bolstering Economic Growth and Energy 
Independence'', 2 p.m., 2255 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``The Rising Terrorist Threat and the Unfulfilled 9/11 
Recommendation'', 10 a.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on House Administration, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``Examining the Voting Process--How States Can Build on 
Recommendations from the Bauer-Ginsberg Commission'', 10:30 a.m., 
1310 Longworth.
  Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Fisheries, 
Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs, hearing on the following 
legislation: H.R. 3109, to assist Alaskan Native Handicrafts; H.R. 
3409, the ``National Wildlife Refuge Expansion Limitation Act''; 
H.R. 5026, the ``Fish Hatchery Protection Act''; and H.R. 5069, the 
``Federal Duck Stamp Act'', 10 a.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, hearing entitled 
``American Metals and Mineral Security: An

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examination of the domestic critical minerals supply and demand 
chain'', 2 p.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on 
Economic Growth, Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs, hearing 
entitled ``An Update on the IRS Response to Its Targeting Scandal'', 
10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, Full Committee, hearing on H.R. 3393, the 
``Student and Family Tax Simplification Act''; and H.R. 4935, the 
``Child Tax Credit Improvement Act of 2014'', 3 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Small Business, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Oversight of the Small Business Innovation Research and Small 
Business Technology Transfer Programs--Part II'', 1 p.m., 2360 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Aviation, hearing entitled ``Domestic Aviation Manufacturing: 
Challenges and Opportunities'', 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, hearing 
entitled ``Implementing U.S. Policy in the Arctic'', 10:30 a.m., 
2253 Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Oversight, hearing on 
the integrity of the administration of the Affordable Care Act's 
Premium Tax Credit, 10:30 a.m., 1100 Longworth.