[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 120 (Tuesday, July 29, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D878-D881]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                             JULY 30, 2014

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Armed Services: to receive a closed briefing on the 
situation in Ukraine, 2:30 p.m., SVC-217.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Housing, Transportation, and Community

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Development, to hold hearings to examine flood insurance claims 
process in communities after Sandy, focusing on lessons learned and 
potential improvements, 9:45 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold 
hearings to examine wireless phone bills, focusing on a review of 
consumer protection practices and gaps, 2:45 p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public 
Lands, Forests, and Mining, to hold hearings to examine S. 1049 and 
H.R. 2166, bills to direct the Secretary of the Interior and 
Secretary of Agriculture to expedite access to certain Federal lands 
under the administrative jurisdiction of each Secretary for good 
Samaritan search-and-recovery missions, S. 1437, to provide for the 
release of the reversionary interest held by the United States in 
certain land conveyed in 1954 by the United States, acting through 
the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, to the State of 
Oregon for the establishment of the Hermiston Agricultural Research 
and Extension Center of Oregon State University in Hermiston, 
Oregon, S. 1554, to direct the heads of Federal public land 
management agencies to prepare reports on the availability of public 
access and egress to Federal public land for hunting, fishing, and 
other recreational purposes, to amend the Land and Water 
Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to provide funding for recreational 
public access to Federal land, S. 1605, for the relief of Michael G. 
Faber, S. 1640, to facilitate planning, permitting, administration, 
implementation, and monitoring of pinyon-juniper dominated landscape 
restoration projects within Lincoln County, Nevada, S. 1888 and H.R. 
1241, bills to facilitate a land exchange involving certain National 
Forest System lands in the Inyo National Forest, S. 2123, to 
authorize the exchange of certain Federal land and non-Federal land 
in the State of Minnesota, S. 2616, to require the Secretary of the 
Interior to convey certain Federal land to Idaho County in the State 
of Idaho, H.R. 1684, to convey certain property to the State of 
Wyoming to consolidate the historic Ranch A, and H.R. 3008, to 
provide for the conveyance of a small parcel of National Forest 
System land in Los Padres National Forest in California, 9:30 a.m., 
SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: business meeting to 
consider S. 1463, to amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to 
prohibit importation, exportation, transportation, sale, receipt, 
acquisition, and purchase in interstate or foreign commerce, or in a 
manner substantially affecting interstate or foreign commerce, of 
any live animal of any prohibited wildlife species, the nominations 
of Jane Toshiko Nishida, of Maryland, and Ann Elizabeth Dunkin, of 
California, both to be an Assistant Administrator, and Manuel H. 
Ehrlich, Jr., of New Jersey, to be a Member of the Chemical Safety 
and Hazard Investigation, all of the Environmental Protection 
Agency, Corps of Engineers Study Resolution relating to San 
Francisco Bay to Stockton Navigation Channels, California, and 
General Services Administration resolutions, Time to be announced, 
S-216, Capitol.
  Committee on Finance: to hold hearings to examine ``The African 
Growth and Opportunity Act'' at 14, focusing on the road ahead; to 
be immediately followed by a business meeting to consider the 
nominations of Robert W. Holleyman II, of Louisiana, to be a Deputy 
United States Trade Representative, with the rank of Ambassador, D. 
Nathan Sheets, of Maryland, to be Under Secretary, and Ramin Toloui, 
of Iowa, to be Deputy Under Secretary, both of the Department of the 
Treasury, Maria Cancian, of Wisconsin, to be Assistant Secretary of 
Health and Human Services for Family Support, and Cary Douglas Pugh, 
of Virginia, to be a Judge of the United States Tax Court, 2 p.m., 
SD-215.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee 
on Children and Families, to hold hearings to examine paid family 
leave, focusing on the benefits for businesses and working families, 
10:15 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: business 
meeting to consider H.R. 4007, to recodify and reauthorize the 
Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards Program, S. 1618, to 
enhance the Office of Personnel Management background check system 
for the granting, denial, or revocation of security clearances or 
access to classified information of employees and contractors of the 
Federal Government, S. 1347, to provide transparency, 
accountability, and limitations of Government sponsored conferences, 
S. 1396, to authorize the Federal Emergency Management Agency to 
award mitigation financial assistance in certain areas affected by 
wildfire, S. 2640, to amend title 44, United States Code, to require 
information on contributors to Presidential library fundraising 
organizations, S. 2547, to establish the Railroad Emergency Services 
Preparedness, Operational Needs, and Safety Evaluation (RESPONSE) 
Subcommittee under the Federal Emergency Management Agency's 
National Advisory Council to provide recommendations on emergency 
responder training and resources relating to hazardous materials 
incidents involving railroads, S. 2323, to amend chapter 21 of title 
5, United States Code, to provide that fathers of certain 
permanently disabled or deceased veterans shall be included with 
mothers of such veterans as preference eligibles for treatment in 
the civil service, S. 2664, Integrated Public Alert and Warning 
System Authorization Act of 2014, S. 2651, DHS OIG Mandates Revision 
Act of 2014, H.R. 4197, to amend title 5, United States Code, to 
extend the period of certain authority with respect to judicial 
review of Merit Systems Protection Board decisions relating to 
whistleblowers, S. 2665, Emergency Information Improvement Act of 
2014, S. 1898, to require adequate information regarding the tax 
treatment of payments under settlement agreements entered into by 
Federal agencies, S. 2247, to prohibit the awarding of a contract or 
grant in excess of the simplified acquisition threshold unless the 
prospective contractor or grantee certifies in writing to the agency 
awarding the contract or grant that the contractor or grantee has no 
seriously delinquent tax debts, H.R. 606, to designate the facility 
of the United States Postal Service located at 815 County 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. 2291, to

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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. 3472, to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 13127 Broadway Street in 
Alden, New York, as the ``Sergeant Brett E. Gornewicz Memorial Post 
Office'', H.R. 3765, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 198 Baker Street in Corning, New York, as 
the ``Specialist Ryan P. Jayne Post Office Building'', and the 
nominations of Joseph L. Nimmich, of Maryland, to be Deputy 
Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of 
Homeland Security, Anne E. Rung, of Pennsylvania, to be 
Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy, and James C. Miller, 
III, of Virginia, Stephen Crawford, of Maryland, David Michael 
Bennett, of North Carolina, and Victoria Reggie Kennedy, of 
Massachusetts, all to be a Governor of the United States Postal 
Service, 9:30 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: business meeting to consider S. 1948, 
to promote the academic achievement of American Indian, Alaska 
Native, and Native Hawaiian children with the establishment of a 
Native American language grant program, S. 2299, to amend the Native 
American Programs Act of 1974 to reauthorize a provision to ensure 
the survival and continuing vitality of Native American languages, 
S. 2442, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to take certain 
land and mineral rights on the reservation of the Northern Cheyenne 
Tribe of Montana and other culturally important land into trust for 
the benefit of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, S. 2465, to require the 
Secretary of the Interior to take into trust 4 parcels of Federal 
land for the benefit of certain Indian Pueblos in the State of New 
Mexico, S. 2479, to provide for a land conveyance in the State of 
Nevada, S. 2480, to require the Secretary of the Interior to convey 
certain Federal land to Elko County, Nevada, and to take land into 
trust for certain Indian tribes, and H.R. 4002, to revoke the 
charter of incorporation of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma at the 
request of that tribe; to be immediately followed by an oversight 
hearing to examine responses to natural disasters in Indian country, 
2:30 p.m., SD-628.
  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, 10 a.m., SD-106.
  Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, 
to hold hearings to examine pricing policies and competition in the 
contact lens industry, 2:15 p.m., SD-226.
  Special Committee on Aging: to hold hearings to examine the impact 
of Medicare observation status on seniors, 2:15 p.m., SR-418.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Horticulture, Research, 
Biotechnology, and Foreign Agriculture, hearing to review the impact 
of enforcement activities by the Department of Labor on specialty 
crop growers, 10 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Armed Services, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Risks to Stability in Afghanistan: Politics, Security, and 
International Commitment'', 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces, hearing entitled 
``Logistics and Sealift Force Requirements and Force Structure 
Assessment'', 2 p.m., 2212 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Full Committee, markup on the 
following legislation: H.R. 3522, the ``Employee Health Care 
Protection Act''; H.R. 4701, the ``Lyme and Tick-borne Diseases Act 
of 2014''; H.R. 4067, to provide for the extension of the 
enforcement instruction on supervision requirements for outpatient 
therapeutic services in critical access and small rural hospitals 
through 2014; H.R. 5214, to require the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services to provide for recommendations for the development 
and use of clinical data registries for the improvement of patient 
care; H.R. 3670, the ``Anti-Spoofing Act of 2013''; H.R. 5161, the 
``E-LABEL Act''; and H.R. 1575, the ``Kelsey Smith Act'', 10 a.m., 
2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Full Committee, markup on the 
following legislation: H.R. 5018, the ``Federal Reserve 
Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014''; H.R. 4329, the 
``Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination 
Reauthorization Act of 2014''; H.R. 3913, to amend the Bank Holding 
Company Act of 1956 to require agencies to make considerations 
relating to the promotion of efficiency, competition, and capital 
formation before issuing or modifying certain regulations; H.R. 
4042, the ``Community Bank Mortgage Service Asset Capital 
Requirements Study Act of 2014''; and H.R. 5148, the ``Access to 
Affordable Mortgages Act of 2014'', 9 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing entitled 
``Allegations of Discrimination and Retaliation and the CFPB 
Management Culture'', 3:30 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Full Committee, markup on the 
following legislation: H.R. 3398, the ``Girls Count Act of 2014''; 
H.R. 5041, the ``Naftali Fraenkel Rewards for Justice Act of 2014''; 
H.R. 5206, to allow Foreign Service and other executive agency 
employees to designate beneficiaries of their death benefits; the 
``Emergency Iron Dome Replenishment Act''; H. Res. 281, expressing 
concern over persistent and credible reports of systematic, state-
sanctioned organ harvesting from non-consenting prisoners of 
conscience, in the People's Republic of China, including from large 
numbers of Falun Gong practitioners imprisoned for their religious 
beliefs, and members of other religious and ethnic minority groups; 
and H. Res. 683, expressing the sense of the House of 
Representatives on the current situation in Iraq and the urgent need 
to protect religious minorities from persecution from the Sunni 
Islamist insurgent and terrorist group the Islamic State in Iraq and 
Levant (ISIL) as it expands its control over areas in northwestern 
Iraq, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, hearing entitled 
``Building Prosperity in Latin America: Investor Confidence in the 
Rule of Law'', 2 p.m., 2200 Rayburn.

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  Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, hearing entitled ``Twenty-
Years of U.S. Policy on North Korea: From Agreed Framework to 
Strategic Patience'', 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Full Committee, hearing entitled ``The 
IRS Targeting Scandal: The Need for a Special Counsel'', 10 a.m., 
2141 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on The Constitution and Civil Justice, hearing on 
oversight of the False Claims Act, 1 p.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet, 
hearing entitled ``The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: The America 
Invents Act and Beyond, Domestic and International Policy Goals'', 3 
p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, Full Committee, markup on the 
following legislation: H. J. Res. 120, approving the location of a 
memorial to commemorate the more than 5,000 slaves and free Black 
persons who fought for independence in the American Revolution; H.R. 
361, the ``Alpine Lakes Wilderness Additions and Pratt and Middle 
Fork Snoqualmie Rivers Protection Act''; H.R. 3006, to authorize a 
land exchange involving the acquisition of private land adjacent to 
the Cibola National Wildlife Refuge in Arizona for inclusion in the 
refuge in exchange for certain Bureau of Land Management lands in 
Riverside County, California, and for other purposes; H.R. 3109, to 
amend the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to exempt certain Alaskan Native 
articles from prohibitions against sale of items containing 
nonedible migratory bird parts, and for other purposes; H.R. 4119, 
the ``West Hunter Street Baptist Church Study Act''; H.R. 4182, to 
provide that the Ozark National Scenic Riverways shall be 
administered in accordance with the general management plan for that 
unit of the National Park System, and for other purposes; H.R. 4867, 
the ``Economic Development Through Tribal Land Exchange Act''; H.R. 
5026, the ``Fish Hatchery Protection Act''; H.R. 5069, the ``Federal 
Duck Stamp Act of 2014''; H.R. 5203, the ``Dwight D. Eisenhower 
Memorial Commission Reform Act''; H.R. 5204, the ``Federal Lands 
Recreation Enhancement Modernization Act of 2014''; H.R. 5205, the 
``Northern Nevada Land Conservation and Economic Development Act''; 
S. 311, the ``Lower Mississippi River Area Study Act''; S. 354, the 
``Oregon Caves Revitalization Act of 2013''; S. 476, to amend the 
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Development Act to extend to the 
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park Commission; and 
S. 1603, the ``Gun Lake Trust Land Reaffirmation Act'', 10 a.m., 
1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Full Committee, 
hearing entitled ``IRS Abuses: Ensuring that Targeting Never Happens 
Again'', 9:30 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Full Committee, 
hearing entitled ``EPA's Carbon Plan: Failure by Design'', 10 a.m., 
2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Regulatory Overreach: Is EPA Meeting Its Small Business 
Obligations?'', 1 p.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management, 
hearing entitled ``GSA Tenant Agencies: Challenges and Opportunities 
in Reducing Costs of Leased Space'', 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Select Revenue 
Measures, hearing on dynamic analysis of the Tax Reform Act of 2014, 
10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Human Resources, hearing on subsidized jobs 
programs and their effectiveness in helping families escape poverty, 
2 p.m., 1100 Longworth.