[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 66 (Monday, May 4, 2015)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E653-E654]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS

  Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, agreed to by the Senate of February 
4, 1977, calls for establishment of a system for a computerized 
schedule of all meetings and hearings of Senate committees, 
subcommittees, joint committees, and committees of conference. This 
title requires all such committees to notify the Office of the Senate 
Daily Digest--designated by the Rules Committee--of the time, place and 
purpose of the meetings, when scheduled and any cancellations or 
changes in the meetings as they occur.
  As an additional procedure along with the computerization of this 
information, the Office of the Senate Daily Digest will prepare this 
information for printing in the Extensions of Remarks section of the 
Congressional Record on Monday and Wednesday of each week.
  Meetings scheduled for Monday, May 4, 2015 may be found in the Daily 
Digest of today's Record.

                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED

                                 MAY 5
     10 a.m.
       Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
       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.
                                                            SR-253
       Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
         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.
                                                            SD-366
       Committee on Environment and Public Works
       Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety
         To hold hearings to examine the legal implications of the 
           Clean Power Plan.
                                                            SD-406
       United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics 
           Control
         To hold hearings to examine improving management of the 
           controlled substances quota process.
                                                            SD-226
     10:30 a.m.
       Committee on Appropriations
       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.
                                                            SD-138
     2:30 p.m.
       Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
         To hold hearings to examine the U.S. Grain Standards Act.
                                                           SR-328A
       Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
         To hold hearings to examine precision medicine for 
           patients.
                                                            SD-430
       Committee on Veterans' Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine pending nominations.
                                                            SR-418
       Select Committee on Intelligence
         To receive closed briefings on certain intelligence 
           matters.
                                                            SH-219
     3:30 p.m.
       Committee on Foreign Relations
       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.
                                                            SD-419

                                 MAY 6
     9:30 a.m.
       Committee on Environment and Public Works
         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.
                                                            SD-406
       Committee on the Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine ensuring an informed 
           citizenry, focusing on examining the Administration's 
           efforts to improve open government.
                                                            SD-226
     10 a.m.
       Committee on Appropriations
       Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related 
           Programs
         To hold hearings to examine global health problems.
                                                            SD-124
       Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         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.
                                                            SR-253
       Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
         To hold hearings to examine reauthorizing the Higher 
           Education Act, focusing on the role of consumer 
           information in college choice.
                                                            SD-430
       Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         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

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           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.
                                                            SD-342
     10:30 a.m.
       Committee on Appropriations
       Subcommittee on Department of Defense
         To hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and 
           justification for fiscal year 2016 for the Department 
           of Defense.
                                                            SD-192
     2 p.m.
       Special Committee on Aging
         To hold hearings to examine aging in place, focusing on 
           advances in technology that help seniors live 
           independently.
                                                            SH-216
     2:15 p.m.
       Committee on the Judiciary
         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.
                                                            SD-226
     2:30 p.m.
       Committee on Foreign Relations
       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.
                                                            SD-419
       Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
         To hold hearings to examine the impact of federal labor 
           and safety laws on the U.S. seafood industry.
                                                           SR-428A

                                 MAY 7
     10 a.m.
       Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
         To hold hearings to examine child nutrition programs.
                                                            SH-216
       Committee on Appropriations
       Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human 
           Services, and Education, and Related Agencies
         To hold hearings to examine rural health.
                                                            SD-124
       Committee on Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine safeguarding American 
           interests in the East and South China Seas.
                                                            SD-419
       Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine social media in the next 
           evolution of terrorist recruitment.
                                                            SD-342
       Committee on the Judiciary
         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.
                                                            SD-226
     10:30 a.m.
       Committee on Appropriations
       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.
                                                            SD-192
     2:30 p.m.
       Select Committee on Intelligence
         To receive closed briefings on certain intelligence 
           matters.
                                                            SH-219

                                 MAY 11
     2:30 p.m.
       Committee on Armed Services
       Subcommittee on Airland
         Closed business meeting to markup those provisions which 
           fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the 
           proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 
           year 2016.
                                                            SR-222

                                 MAY 12
     9:30 a.m.
       Committee on Armed Services
       Subcommittee on SeaPower
         Closed business meeting to markup those provisions which 
           fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the 
           proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 
           year 2016.
                                                            SR-222
     10 a.m.
       Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings to examine S. 883, to facilitate the 
           reestablishment of domestic, critical mineral 
           designation, assessment, production, manufacturing, 
           recycling, analysis, forecasting, workforce, education, 
           and research capabilities in the United States.
                                                            SD-366
     11 a.m.
       Committee on Armed Services
       Subcommittee on Strategic Forces
         Closed business meeting to markup those provisions which 
           fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the 
           proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 
           year 2016.
                                                            SR-222
     2 p.m.
       Committee on Armed Services
       Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support
         Business meeting to markup those provisions which fall 
           under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed 
           National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 
           2016.
                                                            SD-106
     3:30 p.m.
       Committee on Armed Services
       Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities
         Business meeting to markup those provisions which fall 
           under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed 
           National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 
           2016.
                                                            SD-106
     5:30 p.m.
       Committee on Armed Services
       Subcommittee on Personnel
         Business meeting to markup those provisions which fall 
           under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed 
           National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 
           2016.
                                                            SD-106

                                 MAY 13
     9:30 a.m.
       Committee on Armed Services
         Closed business meeting to markup the proposed National 
           Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2016.
                                                            SR-222
     2:15 p.m.
       Committee on Indian Affairs
         Business meeting to consider S. 986, to require the 
           Secretary of the Interior to take into trust 4 parcels 
           of Federal land for the benefit of certain Indian 
           Pueblos in the State of New Mexico; to be immediately 
           followed by an oversight hearing to examine the Bureau 
           of Indian Education, focusing on organizational 
           challenges in transforming educational opportunities 
           for Indian children.
                                                            SD-628

                                 MAY 14
     9:30 a.m.
       Committee on Armed Services
         Closed business meeting to continue to markup the 
           proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 
           year 2016.
                                                            SR-222

                                 MAY 15
     9:30 a.m.
       Committee on Armed Services
         Closed business meeting to continue to markup the 
           proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 
           year 2016.
                                                            SR-222