[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 87 (Tuesday, June 2, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D634-D635]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                              JUNE 3, 2015

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Environment and Public Works: to hold hearings to 
examine challenges and implications of EPA's proposed national 
ambient air quality standard for ground-level ozone, including S. 
638, to amend the Clean Air Act with respect to exceptional event 
demonstrations, S. 751, to improve the establishment of any lower 
ground-level ozone standards, and S. 640, to amend the Clean Air Act 
to delay the review and revision of the national ambient air quality 
standards for ozone, 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: business meeting to consider an original 
bill entitled, ``Audit & Appeal Fairness, Integrity, and Reforms in 
Medicare Act of 2015'', 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine 
implications of the Iran nuclear agreement for United States policy 
in the Middle East, 9:30 a.m., SD-419.

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  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: to hold 
hearings to examine reauthorizing the Higher Education Act, focusing 
on ensuring college affordability, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: to hold 
hearings to examine top government investigator positions left 
unfilled for years, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: business meeting 
to consider S. 1292, to amend the Small Business Act to treat 
certain qualified disaster areas as HUBZones and to extend the 
period for HUBZone treatment for certain base closure areas, an 
original bill entitled, ``Recovery Improvements for Small Entities 
(RISE) After Disaster Act of 2015'', an original resolution 
expressing the sense of the Committee on Small Business and 
Entrepreneurship of the Senate that the rule relating to the 
definition of the term ``waters of the United States'' under the 
Clean Water Act will have a significant economic impact on a 
substantial number of small entities, the nomination of Douglas J. 
Kramer, of Kansas, to be Deputy Administrator of the Small Business 
Administration, and other pending calendar business, 10 a.m., SR-
428A.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: to hold hearings to examine S. 
207, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to use existing 
authorities to furnish health care at non-Department of Veterans 
Affairs facilities to veterans who live more than 40 miles driving 
distance from the closest medical facility of the Department that 
furnishes the care sought by the veteran, S. 297, to revive and 
expand the Intermediate Care Technician Pilot Program of the 
Department of Veterans Affairs, S. 425, to amend title 38, United 
States Code, to provide for a five-year extension to the homeless 
veterans reintegration programs and to provide clarification 
regarding eligibility for services under such programs, S. 471, to 
improve the provision of health care for women veterans by the 
Department of Veterans Affairs, S. 684, to amend title 38, United 
States Code, to improve the provision of services for homeless 
veterans, and other pending calendar business, 2:30 p.m., SR-418.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Review of Agricultural Subsidies in Foreign Countries'', 10 a.m., 
1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on State, Foreign 
Operations, and Related Programs, markup on State, Foreign 
Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Bill, FY 2016, 10:30 
a.m., H-140 Capitol.
  Committee on the Budget, Full Committee, hearing entitled ``The 
Congressional Budget Office: Oversight Hearing'', 10 a.m., 210 
Cannon.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``Compulsory Unionization through Grievance Fees: The 
NLRB's Assault on Right-to-Work'', 10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 
2576, the ``TSCA Modernization Act of 2015''; and H.R. 2583, the 
``Federal Communications Commission Process Reform Act of 2015'' 
(continued), 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Energy and Power, hearing entitled ``Discussion 
Draft on Accountability and Department of Energy Perspectives on 
Title IV: Energy Efficiency'', 2 p.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Examining the Export-Import Bank's Reauthorization Request and the 
Government's Role in Export Financing'', 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on the Middle East and 
North Africa, hearing entitled ``U.S. Policy Towards ISIL After 
Terror Group Seizes Ramadi and Palmyra'', 12 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and 
International Organizations, hearing entitled ``The Future of U.S.-
Zimbabwe Relations'', 2 p.m., 2200 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Terrorism Gone Viral: The Attack in Garland, Texas and Beyond'', 
10 a.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on House Administration, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``House Officer Priorities for 2016 and Beyond'', 1 p.m., 
1310 Longworth.
  Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Federal Lands, 
hearing on a discussion draft entitled the ``Returning Resilience to 
our Overgrown, Fire-prone National Forests Act of 2015'', 2 p.m., 
1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Full Committee, 
hearing entitled ``Ensuring Agency Compliance with the Freedom of 
Information Act (FOIA)'', 9 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``The Road Ahead: Small Businesses and the Need for a Long-Term 
Surface Transportation Reauthorization'', 11 a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Health, hearing 
entitled ``Assessing VA's Ability to Promptly Pay Non-VA 
Providers'', 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Human Resources, 
hearing entitled ``Protecting the Safety Net from Waste, Fraud, and 
Abuse'', 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Economic Committee: to hold hearings to examine the 
employment effects of the Affordable Care Act, 2:30 p.m., SD-562.