[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 50 (Wednesday, March 25, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D346-D347]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                             MARCH 26, 2015

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, 
Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies, to 
hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification 
for fiscal year 2016 for the Department of Labor, 10 a.m., SD-138.
  Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, 
to hold hearings to examine diplomacy, development, and national 
security, 10 a.m., SD-192.
  Committee on Armed Services: to hold hearings to examine U.S. 
Central Command, U.S. Africa Command and U.S. Special Operations 
Command programs and budget in review of the Defense Authorization 
Request for fiscal year 2016 and the Future Years Defense Program; 
with the possibility of a closed session in SVC-217 following the 
open session, 9:30 a.m., SD-G50.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: to hold 
hearings to examine securing the border, focusing on defining the 
current population living in the shadows and addressing future 
flows, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider S. 665, 
to encourage, enhance, and integrate Blue Alert plans throughout the 
United States in order to disseminate information when a law 
enforcement officer is seriously injured or killed in the line of 
duty, is missing in connection with the officer's official duties, 
or an imminent and credible threat that an individual intends to 
cause the serious injury or death of a law enforcement officer is 
received, and S. 125, to amend title I of the Omnibus Crime Control 
and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to extend the authorization of the 
Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program through fiscal year 2020, 
10 a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: to hold hearings to examine 
Veterans' Affairs opioid prescription policy, practice and 
procedures, 10 a.m., SR-418.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: business meeting to consider 
pending calendar business, 3 p.m., S-214, Capitol.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities 
and Risk Management, hearing on implementing the Agricultural Act of 
2014: commodity policy and crop insurance, 9 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Homeland Security, 
hearing on Department of Homeland Security budget, 9 a.m., 2359 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Defense, hearing on Army budget, 10 a.m., H-140 
Capitol.
  Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, 
hearing on Federal Investments in Neuroscience and Neurotechnology 
oversight, 10:30 a.m., H-309 Capitol.
  Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Readiness, hearing 
entitled ``The Department of Defense's Readiness Posture'', 8 a.m., 
2212 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces, hearing entitled 
``Combat Aviation Modernization Programs and the Fiscal Year 2016 
Budget Request'', 9 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, hearing 
entitled ``Department of Defense Fiscal Year 2016 Science and 
Technology Programs: Laying the Groundwork to Maintain Technological 
Superiority'', 10:30 a.m., 2212 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations, hearing entitled ``Examining the Growing Problems of 
Prescription Drug and Heroin Abuse: State and Local Perspectives'', 
10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, hearing entitled 
``Next Steps for Spectrum Policy'', 10:15 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 
299, the ``Capital Access for Small Community Financial Institutions 
Act of 2015''; H.R. 601, the ``Eliminate Privacy Notice Confusion 
Act''; H.R. 650, the ``Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act 
of 2015''; H.R. 685, the ``Mortgage Choice Act of 2015''; H.R. 1195, 
the ``Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection Advisory Boards Act''; 
H.R. 1259, the ``Helping Expand Lending Practices in Rural 
Communities Act''; H.R. 1265, the ``Bureau Advisory Commission 
Transparency Act''; H.R. 1367, to amend the Expedited Funds 
Availability Act to clarify the application of that Act to American 
Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands; H.R. 1408, the ``Mortgage 
Servicing Asset Capital Requirements Act of 2015''; H.R. 1480, the 
``SAFE Act Confidentiality and Privilege Enhancement Act''; and H.R. 
1529, the ``Community Institution Mortgage Relief Act of 
2015''(continued), 9 a.m., HVC-210.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``The Administration's Strategy to Confront ISIS'', 8:30 a.m., 2172 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, Full Committee, business meeting 
to consider rules change; hearing entitled ``Leadership Challenges 
at the Department of Homeland Security'', 9 a.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral 
Resources, hearing entitled ``Effect of the

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President's FY 2016 Budget and Legislative Proposals for the Bureau 
of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service's Energy and Minerals 
Programs on Private Sector Job Creation, Domestic Energy and 
Minerals Production and Deficit Reduction'', 9:30 a.m., 1324 
Longworth.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Subcommittee on 
Oversight; and Subcommittee on Environment, joint hearing entitled 
``Destruction of Records at EPA--When Records Must Be Kept'', 10 
a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Full Committee, markup 
on cyber legislation, 9 a.m., HVC-304. This markup will be closed.