[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 66 (Monday, May 4, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D488-D491]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

                   Week of May 4 through May 8, 2015

                             Senate Chamber

  On Tuesday, at approximately 10 a.m., Senate will continue 
consideration of the veto message to accompany S.J. Res. 8, National 
Labor Relations Board Veto Message.
  At approximately 10:15 a.m., Senators should expect a vote on the 
motion to proceed to consideration of the Budget Conference report.
  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 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: May 5, to hold 
hearings to examine the U.S. Grain Standards Act, 2:30 p.m., SR-
328A.
  May 7, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine child nutrition 
programs, 10 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Appropriations: May 5, Subcommittee on Financial 
Services and General Government, to hold hearings to examine 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2016 for the Securities 
and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission, 
10:30 a.m., SD-138.
  May 6, Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related 
Programs, to hold hearings to examine global health problems, 10 
a.m., SD-124.
  May 6, Subcommittee on Department of Defense, to hold hearings to 
examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 
2016 for the Department of Defense, 10:30 a.m., SD-192.
  May 7, Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies, to hold hearings to 
examine rural health, 10 a.m., SD-124.
  May 7, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related 
Agencies, to hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for 
fiscal year 2016 for the Department of Justice, 10:30 a.m., SD-192.

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  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: May 5, 
Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine 
Infrastructure, Safety and Security, to hold hearings to examine 
surface transportation reauthorization, focusing on the importance 
of a long term reauthorization, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  May 6, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the nominations 
of Daniel R. Elliott III, of Ohio, to be a Member of the Surface 
Transportation Board, and Mario Cordero, of California, to be a 
Federal Maritime Commissioner, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: May 5, to hold 
oversight hearings to examine the Federal government's role in 
wildfire management, the impact of fires on communities, and 
potential improvements to be made in fire operations, 10 a.m., SD-
366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: May 5, Subcommittee on 
Clean Air and Nuclear Safety, to hold hearings to examine the legal 
implications of the Clean Power Plan, 10 a.m., SD-406.
  May 6, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine proposed budget 
estimates for fiscal year 2015 for the Fish and Wildlife Service, 
and S. 1036, to require the Secretary of the Interior and the 
Secretary of Agriculture to provide certain Western States 
assistance in the development of statewide conservation and 
management plans or the protection and recovery of sage-grouse 
species, S. 855, to amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to 
permit Governors of States to regulate intrastate endangered species 
and intrastate threatened species, S. 736, to amend the Endangered 
Species Act of 1973 to require disclosure to States of the basis of 
determinations under such Act, to ensure use of information provided 
by State, tribal, and county governments in decisionmaking under 
such Act, S. 655, to prohibit the use of funds by the Secretary of 
the Interior to make a final determination on the listing of the 
northern long-eared bat under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, S. 
468, to provide a categorical exclusion under the National 
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to allow the Director of the Bureau 
of Land Management and the Chief of the Forest Service to remove 
Pinyon-Juniper trees to conserve and restore the habitat of the 
greater sage-grouse and the mule deer, S. 293, to amend the 
Endangered Species Act of 1973 to establish a procedure for approval 
of certain settlements, S. 292, to amend the Endangered Species Act 
of 1973 to require publication on the Internet of the basis for 
determinations that species are endangered species or threatened 
species, S. 112, to amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to 
require the Secretary of the Interior to publish and make available 
for public comment a draft economic analysis at the time a proposed 
rule to designate critical habitat is published, and S. 1081, to end 
the use of body-gripping traps in the National Wildlife Refuge 
System, 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: May 5, Subcommittee on Western 
Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human 
Rights, and Global Women's Issues, to hold hearings to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2016 for the 
Department of State, 3:30 p.m., SD-419.
  May 6, Subcommittee on Multilateral International Development, 
Multilateral Institutions, and International Economic, Energy, and 
Environmental Policy, to hold oversight hearings to examine 
multilateral and bilateral international development programs and 
policies, 2:30 p.m., SD-419.
  May 7, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine safeguarding 
American interests in the East and South China Seas, 10 a.m., SD-
419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: May 5, to 
hold hearings to examine precision medicine for patients, 2:30 p.m., 
SD-430.
  May 6, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine reauthorizing 
the Higher Education Act, focusing on the role of consumer 
information in college choice, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: May 6, 
business meeting to consider S. 280, to improve the efficiency, 
management, and interagency coordination of the Federal permitting 
process through reforms overseen by the Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget, S. 1180, to amend the Homeland Security Act 
of 2002 to direct the Administrator of the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency to modernize the integrated public alert and 
warning system of the United States, S. 750, to achieve border 
security on certain Federal lands along the Southern border, S. 282, 
to provide taxpayers with an annual report disclosing the cost and 
performance of Government programs and areas of duplication among 
them, S. 1109, to require adequate information regarding the tax 
treatment of payments under settlement agreements entered into by 
Federal agencies, S. 1172, to improve the process of presidential 
transition, S. 434, to strengthen the accountability of individuals 
involved in misconduct affecting the integrity of background 
investigations, to update guidelines for security clearances, to 
prevent conflicts of interest relating to contractors providing 
background investigation fieldwork services and investigative 
support services, H.R. 623, to amend the Homeland Security Act of 
2002 to authorize the Department of Homeland Security to establish a 
social media working group, S. 179, to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 14 3rd Avenue, NW, in 
Chisholm, Minnesota, as the ``James L. Oberstar Memorial Post Office 
Building'', S. 994, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 1 Walter Hammond Place in Waldwick, New 
Jersey, as the ``Staff Sergeant Joseph D'Augustine Post Office 
Building'', and the nominations of David Michael Bennett, of North 
Carolina, Mickey D. Barnett, of New Mexico, Stephen Crawford, of 
Maryland, and James C. Miller, III, of Virginia, each to be a 
Governor of the United States Postal Service, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  May 7, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine social media in 
the next evolution of terrorist recruitment, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: May 6, to hold hearings to examine 
ensuring an informed citizenry, focusing on examining the 
Administration's efforts to improve open government, 9:30 a.m., SD-
226.

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  May 6, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the nominations 
of Dale A. Drozd, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern 
District of California, Lawrence Joseph Vilardo, to be United States 
District Judge for the Western District of New York, and LaShann 
Moutique DeArcy Hall, and Ann Donnelly, both to be a United States 
District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, 2:15 p.m., SD-
226.
  May 7, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine S. 1137, to 
amend title 35, United States Code, and the Leahy-Smith America 
Invents Act to make improvements and technical corrections, 10 a.m., 
SD-226.
  Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: May 6, to hold 
hearings to examine the impact of federal labor and safety laws on 
the U.S. seafood industry, 2:30 p.m., SR-428A.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: May 5, to hold hearings to examine 
pending nominations, 2:30 p.m., SR-418.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: May 5, to receive closed 
briefings on certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  May 7, Full Committee, to receive closed briefings on certain 
intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  Special Committee on Aging: May 6, to hold hearings to examine 
aging in place, focusing on advances in technology that help seniors 
live independently, 2 p.m., SH-216.
  United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control: 
May 5, to hold hearings to examine improving management of the 
controlled substances quota process, 10 a.m., SD-226.


                            House Committees

  No hearings are scheduled.


* These figures include all measures reported, even if there was 
no accompanying report. A total of 34 written reports have been 
filed in the Senate, 96 reports have been filed in the House.

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