[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 97 (Wednesday, June 17, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D724-D725]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





             COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 2015

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: business meeting to markup an 
original bill entitled, ``Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 
2016'', and an original bill entitled ``Interior,

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Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016'', 10 
a.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water 
and Power, to hold hearings to examine S. 593, to require the 
Secretary of the Interior to submit to Congress a report on the 
efforts of the Bureau of Reclamation to manage its infrastructure 
assets, S. 982, to prohibit the conditioning of any permit, lease, 
or other use agreement on the transfer of any water right to the 
United States by the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture, 
and to require the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture to 
develop water planning instruments consistent with State law, S. 
1305, to amend the Colorado River Storage Project Act to authorize 
the use of the active capacity of the Fontenelle Reservoir, S. 1365, 
to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to use designated funding 
to pay for construction of authorized rural water projects, S. 1291, 
to authorize early repayment of obligations to the Bureau of 
Reclamation within the Northport Irrigation District in the State of 
Nebraska, S. 1552, to authorize the Dry-Redwater Regional Water 
Authority System and the Musselshell-Judith Rural Water System in 
the State of Montana, and S. 1533, to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to coordinate Federal and State permitting processes 
related to the construction of new surface water storage projects on 
lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior and 
the Secretary of Agriculture and to designate the Bureau of 
Reclamation as the lead agency for permit processing, 2 p.m., SD-
366.
  Committee on Finance: to hold hearings to examine challenges to 
the future of highway funding, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: 
Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management, to hold 
hearings to examine the EPA's management of the renewable fuel 
standard program, 9 a.m., SD-342.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold closed hearings to 
examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                                 House

  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural 
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, 
markup on the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, FY 2016, 
10:30 a.m., 2362-A Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health, hearing 
entitled ``A National Framework for the Review and Labeling of 
Biotechnology in Food'', 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on the Western 
Hemisphere, hearing entitled ``The Future of Property Rights in 
Cuba'', 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, 
Homeland Security, and Investigations, hearing on H.R. 320, the 
``Rapid DNA Act'', 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.