[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 150 (Wednesday, December 10, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1113]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                           DECEMBER 11, 2014

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Environment and Public Works: with the Committee on 
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, to hold a joint oversight 
hearing to examine the implementation of the President's executive 
order on Improving Chemical Facility Safety and Security, 9:30 a.m., 
SD-406.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: business meeting to consider an 
original resolution to authorize the limited use of the United 
States Armed Forces against the Islamic State of Iraq and the 
Levant, S. Con. Res. 38, expressing the sense of Congress that 
Warren Weinstein should be returned home to his family, S. Res. 595, 
recognizing Nobel Laureates Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai 
for their efforts to end the financial exploitation of children and 
to ensure the right of all children to an education, an original 
resolution commemorating and supporting the goals of World AIDS Day, 
H.R. 4573, to protect children from exploitation, especially sex 
trafficking in tourism, by providing advance notice of intended 
travel by registered child-sex offenders outside the United States 
to the government of the country of destination, requesting foreign 
governments to notify the United States when a known child-sex 
offender is seeking to enter the United States, S. 2922, to 
reinstate reporting requirements related to United States-Hong Kong 
relations, the nominations of Antony Blinken, of New York, to be 
Deputy Secretary of State, Leslie Berger Kiernan, of Maryland, as an 
Alternate Representative of the United States of America, to the 
Sixty-ninth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, 
and lists in the Foreign Service, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: with the 
Committee on Environment and Public Works, to hold a joint oversight 
hearing to examine the implementation of the President's executive 
order on Improving Chemical Facility Safety and Security, 9:30 a.m., 
SD-406.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider 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, 10 a.m., SD-226.


                                 House

  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and 
Power, hearing entitled ``The Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 
1975: Are We Positioning America for Success in an Era of Energy 
Abundance?'', 9:30 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Subcommittee on 
Energy, hearing entitled ``The Future of Nuclear Energy'', 10 a.m., 
2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Full Committee, business meeting 
to approve the second annual activities report for the 113th 
Congress; hearing entitled ``Evaluating Federal and Community 
Efforts to Eliminate Veteran Homelessness'', 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.