[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 137 (Wednesday, November 12, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1007-D1010]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

             Week of November 13 through November 14, 2014

                             Senate Chamber

  On Thursday, at approximately 2:15 p.m., Senate will vote on 
confirmation of the nominations of Randolph D. Moss, of Maryland, to be 
United States District Judge for the District of Columbia, and Leigh 
Martin May, of Georgia, to be United States District Judge for the 
Northern District of Georgia.

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Also, Senate will vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to 
concur in the House amendment to S. 1086, Child Care and Development 
Block Grant Act.
  During the balance of the week, Senate may consider any cleared 
legislative and executive business.


                           Senate Committees

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: November 13, 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: November 13, 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 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: November 13, 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: November 13, 
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: November 13, 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.
  November 13, 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

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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: November 13, to receive closed 
briefings on certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Foreign Affairs, November 14, Subcommittee on Africa, 
Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations, 
hearing entitled ``The Future of Energy in Africa'', 12 p.m., 2172 
Rayburn.


                             Joint Meetings

  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: November 14, to 
receive a briefing on Ukraine's pivotal parliamentary poll, focusing 
on the conduct and results of the elections, as well as the 
potential for the newly elected parliament to confront the coming 
challenge of forging a democratic, secure, independent future for 
their strategically important country, 2 p.m., SD-608.


*These figures include all measures reported, even if there was no 
accompanying report. A total of 132 written reports have been 
filed in the Senate, 286 reports have been filed in the House.

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