[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 137 (Wednesday, November 12, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1006-D1007]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                           NOVEMBER 13, 2014

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: to hold hearings 
to examine the nominations of Lourdes Maria Castro Ramirez, of 
California, to be an Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development, and Therese W. McMillan, of California, to be Federal 
Transit Administrator, Department of Transportation, 11 a.m., SD-
538.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: business meeting to 
consider S. 2638, to amend the Natural Gas Act to provide certainty 
with respect to the timing of Department of Energy decisions to 
approve or deny applications to export natural gas, S. 2379, to 
approve and implement the Klamath Basin agreements, to improve 
natural resource management, support economic development, and 
sustain agricultural production in the Klamath River Basin in the 
public interest and the interest of the United States, S. 1784, to 
improve timber management on Oregon and California Railroad and Coos 
Bay Wagon Road grant land, S. 2602, to establish the Mountains to 
Sound Greenway National Heritage Area in the State of Washington, S. 
182, to provide for the unencumbering of title to non-Federal land 
owned by the city of Anchorage, Alaska, for purposes of economic 
development by conveyance of the Federal reversion interest to the 
City, S. 776, to establish the Columbine-Hondo Wilderness in the 
State of New Mexico, to provide for the conveyance of certain 
parcels of National Forest System land in the State, S. 841, to 
designate certain Federal land in the San Juan National Forest in 
the State of Colorado as wilderness, S. 1419, to promote research, 
development, and demonstration of marine and hydrokinetic renewable 
energy technologies, S. 1971, to establish an interagency 
coordination committee or subcommittee with the leadership of the 
Department of Energy and the Department of the Interior, focused on 
the nexus between energy and water production, use, and efficiency, 
S. 398, to establish the Commission to Study the Potential Creation 
of a National Women's History Museum, 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. 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. 1966, to provide for 
the restoration of the economic and ecological health of National 
Forest System land and rural communities, 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, H.R. 1526, to 
restore employment and educational opportunities in, and improve the 
economic stability of, counties containing National Forest System 
land, while

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also reducing Forest Service management costs, by ensuring that such 
counties have a dependable source of revenue from National Forest 
System land, to provide a temporary extension of the Secure Rural 
Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000, H.R. 885, to 
expand the boundary of the San Antonio Missions National Historical 
Park, S. 1328, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct 
a special resource study of the archeological site and surrounding 
land of the New Philadelphia town site in the State of Illinois, 
H.R. 1241, to facilitate a land exchange involving certain National 
Forest System lands in the Inyo National Forest, 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, and S. 2873, to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to acknowledge contributions at units of the National Park 
System, 3 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: to hold hearings to 
examine the nominations of Virginia Tyler Lodge, and Ronald Anderson 
Walter, both to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the 
Tennessee Valley Authority, 11 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: to hold 
hearings to examine the nominations of P. David Lopez, of Arizona, 
to be General Counsel, and Charlotte A. Burrows, of the District of 
Columbia, to be a Member, both of the Equal Employment Opportunity 
Commission, 3:30 p.m., SD-430.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Joan Marie Azrack, to be United States District Judge 
for the Eastern District of New York, Loretta Copeland Biggs, to be 
United States District Judge for the Middle District of North 
Carolina, Elizabeth K. Dillon, to be United States District Judge 
for the Western District of Virginia, and Michael P. Botticelli, of 
the District of Columbia, to be Director of National Drug Control 
Policy, 11 a.m., SD-226.
  Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. 2520, to improve 
the Freedom of Information Act, H.R. 1447, to encourage States to 
report to the Attorney General certain information regarding the 
deaths of individuals in the custody of law enforcement agencies, 
and the nominations of Jorge Luis Alonso, and John Robert Blakey, 
both to be a United States District Judge for the Northern District 
of Illinois, 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, Amos L. Mazzant III, 
and Robert William Schroeder III, both to be a United States 
District Judge for the Eastern District of Texas, Amit Priyavadan 
Mehta, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Columbia, Robert Lee Pitman, to be United States District Judge for 
the Western District of Texas, and David Rivera, to be United States 
Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, Department of 
Justice, 2:30 p.m., Room to be announced.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to receive closed briefings on 
certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                                 House

  Committee on Armed Services, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``The Administration's Strategy and Military Campaign against 
Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)'', 10 a.m., 2118 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing entitled 
``The Department of Defense Excess Property Program in Support of 
U.S. Law Enforcement Agencies: An Overview of DOD Authorities, 
Roles, Responsibilities, and Implementation of Section 1033 of the 
1997 National Defense Authorization Act'', 4 p.m., 2212 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Terrorist Financing and the Islamic State'', 10 a.m., 2167 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Combating Ebola in West Africa: The International Response'', 10 
a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 5441, 
to amend the Federal charter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the 
United States to reflect the service of women in the Armed Forces of 
the United States; a bill to ensure appropriate judicial review of 
Federal Government actions by amending the prohibition on the 
exercise of jurisdiction by the United States Courts of Federal 
Claims of certain claims pending in other courts; and a vote to 
close to the public a portion of the Full Committee hearing on 
November 19, 2014, entitled ``Oversight of the United States Secret 
Service'', 10:30 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Assessing the Implementation of the Veterans Access, Choice, and 
Accountability Act of 2014'', 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Full Committee, 
hearing entitled ``The Risk of Nation-State Conflict: China, Russia, 
North Korea, and Iran'', 10 a.m., HVC-210.