[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 78 (Wednesday, May 20, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D586-D587]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                              MAY 21, 2015

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: business 
meeting to consider pending legislation, and the nomination of 
Jeffrey Michael Prieto, of California, to be General Counsel of the 
Department of Agriculture, 9:45 a.m., SR-328A.
  Committee on Appropriations: business meeting to consider the 
fiscal year 2016 302(b) allocations, an original bill entitled, 
``Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2016'', and an 
original bill entitled, ``Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, 
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016'', 11 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Armed Services: to hold hearings to examine United 
States policy in Iraq and Syria, 9:30 a.m., SD-G50.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: business meeting 
to markup an original bill entitled, ``The Financial Regulatory 
Improvement Act of 2015'', 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public 
Lands, Forests, and Mining, to hold hearings to examine S. 160, and 
H.R. 373, to direct the Secretary

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of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to expedite access 
to certain Federal land under the administrative jurisdiction of 
each Secretary for good Samaritan search-and-recovery missions, S. 
365, to improve rangeland conditions and restore grazing levels 
within the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah, S. 
472, to promote conservation, improve public land, and provide for 
sensible development in Douglas County, Nevada, S. 583, to establish 
certain wilderness areas in central Idaho and to authorize various 
land conveyances involving National Forest System land and Bureau of 
Land Management land in central Idaho, S. 814, to provide for the 
conveyance of certain Federal land in the State of Oregon to the 
Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians, S. 
815, to provide for the conveyance of certain Federal land in the 
State of Oregon to the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, 
and S. 1240, to designate the Cerro del Yuta and Rio San Antonio 
Wilderness Areas in the State of New Mexico, 2:30 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: business meeting to consider S. 
802, to authorize the Secretary of State and the Administrator of 
the United States Agency for International Development to provide 
assistance to support the rights of women and girls in developing 
countries, S. Res. 87, to express the sense of the Senate regarding 
the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe and to encourage greater 
cooperation with the European governments, the European Union, and 
the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in 
preventing and responding to anti-Semitism, the nominations of 
Charles C. Adams, Jr., of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic 
of Finland, Cassandra Q. Butts, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Ambassador to the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, Paul A. Folmsbee, of 
Oklahoma, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Mali, Stafford 
Fitzgerald Haney, of New Jersey, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Costa Rica, Mary Catherine Phee, of Illinois, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of South Sudan, and Gentry O. Smith, of North Carolina, 
to be Director of the Office of Foreign Missions, and to have the 
rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service, all of the 
Department of State, Matthew T. McGuire, of the District of 
Columbia, to be United States Executive Director of the 
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development for a term of 
two years, and routine lists in the Foreign Service, 9:15 a.m., SD-
419.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: to hold 
hearings to examine understanding America's long-term fiscal 
picture, 9:30 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider pending 
calendar business, Time to be announced, S-216, Capitol.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to receive a closed briefing on 
certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                                 House

  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 
6, the ``21st Century Cures Act'' (continued), 8:30 a.m., 2123 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing entitled 
``What are the State Governments Doing to Combat the Opioid Abuse 
Epidemic?'', 10:15 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Task Force to Investigate 
Terrorism Financing, hearing entitled ``A Dangerous Nexus: 
Terrorism, Crime, and Corruption'', 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 1853, 
to direct the President to develop a strategy to obtain observer 
status for Taiwan in the International Criminal Police Organization, 
and for other purposes; H.R. 2100, the ``Girls Count Act of 2015''; 
H.R. 2323, the ``United States International Communications Reform 
Act of 2015''; H. Res. 213, condemning the April 2015 terrorist 
attack at the Garissa University College in Garissa, Kenya, and 
reaffirming the United States support for the people and Government 
of Kenya, and for other purposes; and H. Res. 235, expressing 
deepest condolences to and solidarity with the people of Nepal 
following the devastating earthquake on April 25, 2015, 10 a.m., 
2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on 
Government Operations, hearing entitled ``Issues Facing Civilian and 
Postal Service Vehicle Fleet Procurement'', 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 
475, the ``GI Bill Processing Improvement Act of 2015''; H.R. 571, 
the ``Veterans Affairs Retaliation Prevention Act of 2015''; H.R. 
675, the ``Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 
2015''; H.R. 1575, to amend title 38, United States Code, to make 
permanent the pilot program on counseling in retreat settings for 
women veterans newly separated from service in the Armed Forces; 
H.R. 1607, the ``Ruth Moore Act of 2015''; and H.R. 2256, the 
``Veterans Information Modernization Act'', 10:30 a.m., 334 Cannon.