[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 132 (Tuesday, September 16, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D965-D967]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                           SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Economic Policy, to hold hearings to examine the impact of rising 
inequality on the American economy, 2:30 p.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: business 
meeting to consider S. 2338, to reauthorize the

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United States Anti-Doping Agency, S. 2482, to implement the 
Convention on the Conservation and Management of the High Seas 
Fisheries Resources in the North Pacific Ocean, as adopted at Tokyo 
on February 24, 2012, S. 2484, to implement the Convention on the 
Conservation and Management of the High Seas Fishery Resources in 
the South Pacific Ocean, as adopted at Auckland on November 14, 
2009, S. 2485, to implement the Amendment to the Convention on 
Future Multilateral Cooperation in the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries, 
as adopted at Lisbon on September 28, 2007, S. 2581, to require the 
Consumer Product Safety Commission to promulgate a rule to require 
child safety packaging for liquid nicotine containers, S. 2583, to 
promote the non-exclusive use of electronic labeling for devices 
licensed by the Federal Communications Commission, S. 2759, to 
release the City of St. Clair, Missouri, from all restrictions, 
conditions, and limitations on the use, encumbrance, conveyance, and 
closure of the St. Clair Regional Airport, S. 2777, to establish the 
Surface Transportation Board as an independent establishment, S. 
2799, to extend the authority of satellite carriers to retransmit 
certain television broadcast station signals, and the nominations of 
Christopher A. Hart, of Colorado, to be Chairman of the National 
Transportation Safety Board, and Manson K. Brown, of the District of 
Columbia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Commerce, 2:30 p.m., SR-
253.
  Committee on Finance: to hold hearings to examine reforming 
America's outdated energy tax code, 10:15 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Robert Francis Cekuta, of New York, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of Azerbaijan, Richard M. Mills, Jr., of Texas, to 
be Ambassador to the Republic of Armenia, Jess Lippincott Baily, of 
Ohio, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Macedonia, and Margaret 
Ann Uyehara, of Ohio, to be Ambassador to Montenegro, all of the 
Department of State, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the United States 
strategy to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, 2:30 
p.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: business 
meeting to consider S. 2141, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and 
Cosmetic Act to provide an alternative process for review of safety 
and effectiveness of nonprescription sunscreen active ingredients 
and for other purposes, H.R. 4366, to strengthen the Federal 
education research system to make research and evaluations more 
timely and relevant to State and local needs in order to increase 
student achievement, the nomination of Sharon Block, of the District 
of Columbia, to be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board, 
and any pending nominations, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: to hold 
hearings to examine the nominations of Sarah R. Saldana, of Texas, 
to be Assistant Secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 
and Russell C. Deyo, of New Jersey, to be Under Secretary for 
Management, both of the Department of Homeland Security, and Mickey 
D. Barnett, of New Mexico, to be a Governor of the United States 
Postal Service, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: to hold hearings to examine S. 2670, 
to prohibit gaming activities on certain Indian land in Arizona 
until the expiration of certain gaming compacts, 2:15 p.m., SD-628.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Allison Dale Burroughs, to be United States District 
Judge for the District of Massachusetts, Jeanne E. Davidson, of 
Maryland, to be a Judge of the United States Court of International 
Trade, Haywood Stirling Gilliam, Jr., to be United States District 
Judge for the Northern District of California, and Amit Priyavadan 
Mehta, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Columbia, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine why net neutrality 
matters, focusing on protecting consumers and competition through 
meaningful open Internet rules, 10:30 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Rules and Administration: business meeting to 
consider S. 2017, to amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to 
ensure that voters in elections for Federal office do not wait in 
long lines in order to vote, S. 85, to provide incentives for States 
to invest in practices and technology that are designed to expedite 
voting at the polls and to simplify voter registration, and 
nominations of Matthew Vincent Masterson, of Ohio, and Christy A. 
McCormick, of Virginia, both to be a Member of the Election 
Assistance Commission, Time to be announced, S-216, Capitol.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, Full Committee, hearing to review the 
implementation of Section 4022 of the Agricultural Act of 2014: 
pilot projects to reduce dependency and increase work requirements 
and work effort under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, 
10 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on 
Workforce Protections, hearing on the following legislation: H.R. 
4959, the ``EEOC Transparency and Accountability Act''; H.R. 5422, 
the ``Litigation Oversight Act of 2014''; and H.R. 5423, the 
``Certainty in Enforcement Act of 2014'', 10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and 
Power, hearing entitled ``A hearing on H.R. 4526, the 21st Century 
Energy Workforce Development Jobs Initiative Act of 2014'', 10 a.m., 
2322 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, hearing entitled 
``Oversight of FCC Budget and Management'', 10:15 a.m., 2123 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, hearing 
entitled ``Cross Border Data Flows: Could Foreign Protectionism Hurt 
U.S. Jobs?'', 1:30 p.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations, hearing entitled ``Oversight of the Financial 
Stability Oversight Council'', 10:30 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa, Global 
Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations, 
hearing entitled ``Global Efforts to Fight Ebola'', 10 a.m., 2172 
Rayburn.

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  Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, markup on H. Res. 714, 
reaffirming the peaceful and collaborative resolution of maritime 
and jurisdictional disputes in the South China Sea and the East 
China Sea as provided for by universally recognized principles of 
international law, and reaffirming the strong support of the United 
States Government for freedom of navigation and other 
internationally lawful uses of sea and airspace in the Asia-Pacific 
region, 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, hearing entitled ``A New Era 
of U.S.-China Relations?'', 2:30 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Worldwide Threats to the Homeland'', 10 a.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual 
Property, and the Internet, hearing on Chapter 12 of Title 17, 10 
a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Full Committee, markup on H.R. 5233, the ``Trade Secrets 
Protection Act of 2014'', 1 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral 
Resources, hearing on H.R. 5066, the ``Data Preservation Act of 
2014''; and H.R. 5176, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
retire coal preference right lease applications for which the 
Secretary has made an affirmative commercial quantities 
determination, and for other purposes, 2 p.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Full Committee, 
hearing entitled ``Tiversa, Inc.: White Knight or Hi-Tech Protection 
Racket?'', 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Full Committee, markup the following legislation: H.R. 5142, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 113 West Jackson Street in Rich Square, North Carolina, as the 
``Chief Joseph E. White, Jr. Post Office Building''; H.R. 5331, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 73839 Gorgonio Drive in Twentynine Palms, California, as the 
``Colonel M.J. 'Mac' Dube, USMC Post Office Building''; H.R. 5386, 
to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 11662 Gravois Road in St. Louis, Missouri, as the ``Lt. 
Daniel P. Riordan Post Office''; a bill to designate the facility of 
the United States Postal Service located at 1103 USPS Building 1103 
in Camp Pendleton, California, as the ''Camp Pendleton Medal of 
Honor Post Office''; H.R. 5229, the ``Wounded Warriors Federal Leave 
Act of 2014''; and the ``Inspector General Empowerment Act of 
2014'', 12 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation and Regulatory 
Affairs, hearing entitled ``The IRS Targeting Scandal: Changing 
Stories of Missing E-mails'', 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, Full Committee, Members' Day hearing on 
proposed rules changes for the 114th Congress, 11 a.m., H-313 
Capitol.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Full Committee, 
hearing entitled ``The Administration's Climate Plan: Failure by 
Design'', 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Oversight, meeting on a resolution authorizing the 
Chairman to issue subpoenas, 4 p.m., 2325 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, Full Committee, hearing entitled ``Is 
the FCC Responding to the Needs of Small Business and Rural 
America?'', 1 p.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Full Committee, 
markup on the following legislation: General Services Administration 
Capital Investment and Leasing Program Resolutions; H.R. 5449, the 
``Passenger Rail Reform and Investment Act of 2014''; H.R. 5146, to 
designate the United States courthouse located at 700 Grant Street 
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as the ``Joseph F. Weis Jr. United 
States Courthouse''; H.R. 5448, the ``John F. Kennedy Center 
Reauthorization Act of 2014''; H.R. 5266, to reauthorize the 
National Estuary Programs, and for other purposes; H.R. 4926, to 
designate the ``James L. Oberstar Memorial Highway'' and the ``James 
L. Oberstar National Scenic Byway'' in the State of Minnesota; and 
possible other matters cleared for consideration, 10:30 a.m., 2167 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Scheduling Manipulation and Veteran Deaths in Phoenix: Examination 
of the OIG's Final Report'', 12 p.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Select Revenue 
Measures, hearing on defined benefit pension plans offered by 
private sector employers, 10:15 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  Select Committee on Benghazi, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Hearing 1'', relating to Accountability Review Board 
implementation, 10 a.m., HVC-210.