[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 101 (Tuesday, June 23, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D751-D753]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                             JUNE 24, 2015

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on the Budget: business meeting to markup S. 1495, to 
curtail the use of changes in mandatory programs affecting the Crime 
Victims Fund to inflate spending, Time to be announced, Room to be 
announced.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: business meeting to 
consider an original bill entitled, ``Developing a Reliable and 
Innovative Vision for the Economy Act'', 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: business meeting to consider S. 607, to 
amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a five-
year extension of the rural community hospital demonstration 
program, S. 1349, to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to 
require hospitals to provide certain notifications to individuals 
classified by such hospitals under observation status rather than 
admitted as inpatients of such hospitals, S. 1461, to provide for 
the extension of the enforcement instruction on supervision 
requirements for outpatient therapeutic services in critical access 
and small rural hospitals through 2015, S. 313, to amend title XVIII 
of the Social Security Act to add physical therapists to the list of 
providers allowed to utilize locum tenens arrangements under 
Medicare, S. 1253, to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act 
to provide coverage of certain disposable medical technologies under 
the Medicare program, S. 1347, to amend title XVIII of the Social 
Security Act with respect to the treatment of patient encounters in 
ambulatory surgical centers in determining meaningful EHR use, S. 
704, to establish a Community-Based Institutional Special Needs Plan 
demonstration program to target home and community-based care to 
eligible Medicare beneficiaries, S. 1362, to amend title XI of the 
Social Security Act to clarify waiver authority regarding programs 
of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE programs), S. 861, to 
amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to curb waste, 
fraud, and abuse in the Medicare and Medicaid programs, S. 349, to 
amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to empower individuals 
with disabilities to establish their own supplemental needs trusts, 
S. 466, to amend title XI of the Social Security Act to improve the 
quality, health outcomes, and value of maternity care under the 
Medicaid and CHIP programs by developing maternity care quality 
measures and supporting maternity care quality collaboratives, and 
S. 599, to extend and expand the Medicaid emergency psychiatric 
demonstration project, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine 
lessons learned from past WMD negotiations, 10:30 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: business 
meeting to consider S. 742, to appropriately limit the authority to 
award bonuses to employees, S. 1411, to amend the Act of August 25, 
1958, commonly known as the ``Former Presidents Act of 1958'', with 
respect to the monetary allowance payable to a former President, S. 
1550, to amend title 31, United States Code, to establish entities 
tasked with improving program and project management in certain 
Federal agencies, S. 1073, to amend the Improper Payments 
Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act of 2012, including making 
changes to the Do Not Pay initiative, for improved detection, 
prevention, and recovery of improper payments to deceased 
individuals, S. 1580, to allow additional appointing authorities to 
select individuals from competitive service certificates, S. 1090, 
to amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act to provide eligibility for broadcasting facilities to 
receive certain disaster assistance, S. 1115, to close out expired, 
empty grant accounts, S. 779, to provide for Federal

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agencies to develop public access policies relating to research 
conducted by employees of that agency or from funds administered by 
that agency, S. 310, to prohibit the use of Federal funds for the 
costs of painting portraits of officers and employees of the Federal 
Government, S. 991, to establish the Commission on Evidence-Based 
Policymaking, H.R. 1626, to reduce duplication of information 
technology at the Department of Homeland Security, H.R. 1640, to 
direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to submit to Congress a 
report on the Department of Homeland Security headquarters 
consolidation project in the National Capital Region, H.R. 728, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 7050 Highway BB in Cedar Hill, Missouri, as the ``Sergeant First 
Class William B. Woods, Jr. Post Office'', H.R. 891, to designate 
the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 141 
Paloma Drive in Floresville, Texas, as the ``Floresville Veterans 
Post Office Building'', H.R. 1326, to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 2000 Mulford Road in 
Mulberry, Florida, as the ``Sergeant First Class Daniel M. Ferguson 
Post Office'', H.R. 1350, to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 442 East 167th Street in Bronx, New 
York, as the ``Herman Badillo Post Office Building'', an original 
bill entitled, ``District of Columbia Court Services and Offender 
Supervision Agency Act of 2015'', an original bill entitled, 
``EINSTEIN Act of 2015'', an original bill entitled, 
``Representative Payee Fraud Prevention Act of 2015'', an original 
bill entitled, ``Saving Federal Dollars Through Better Use of 
Government Purchase and Travel Cards Act of 2015'', and an original 
to actively recruit members of the Armed Forces who are separating 
from military service to serve as Customs and Border Protection 
Officers, and the nominations of Carol Fortine Ochoa, of Virginia, 
to be Inspector General, General Services Administration, and Steven 
M. Wellner, and William Ward Nooter, both to be an Associate Judge 
of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: to hold an oversight hearing to 
examine demanding results to end Native youth suicides, 2:15 p.m., 
SD-628.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: to hold hearings to examine 
pending health care and benefits legislation, 2:30 p.m., SR-418.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: closed business meeting to 
consider certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  Special Committee on Aging: to hold hearings to examine work in 
retirement, focusing on career reinventions and the new retirement 
workscape, 2:15 p.m., SD-562.
  United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control: to 
hold hearings to examine cannabidiol, focusing on barriers to 
research and potential medical benefits, 9:30 a.m., SD-226.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, Full Committee, hearing on review of 
U.S. international food aid programs, 10 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, Full Committee, markup on the Labor, 
Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Bill for FY 
2016, 10:15 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and 
Capabilities, hearing entitled ``The Counterterrorism Strategy 
Against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL): Are We on 
the Right Path?'', 2 p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on Early 
Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, hearing entitled 
``Child Nutrition Assistance: Looking at the Cost of Compliance for 
States and Schools'', 10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health, hearing 
entitled ``Examining the Administration's Approval of Medicaid 
Demonstration Projects'', 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Task Force to Investigate 
Terrorism Financing, hearing entitled ``Evaluating the Security of 
the U.S. Financial Sector'', 2 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on the Western 
Hemisphere, hearing entitled ``Colombia: Peace with the FARC?'', 3 
p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Counterterrorism 
and Intelligence, hearing entitled ``Admitting Syrian Refugees: The 
Intelligence Void and the Emerging Homeland Security Threat'', 10 
a.m., 311 Cannon.
  Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and 
Security Technologies, hearing entitled ``DHS' Efforts to Secure 
.Gov'', 2 p.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 1927, 
the ``Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act of 2015'', 10 a.m., 
2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations, hearing entitled ``GAO Report Documents BLM's 
Chronic Mismanagement of Wind and Solar Reclamation Bonds'', 10:30 
a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs, hearing 
entitled ``Examining Procedures Regarding Puerto Rico's Political 
Status and Economic Outlook'', 2 p.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Full Committee, 
hearing entitled ``OPM Data Breach: Part II'', 10 a.m., 2154 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Subcommittee on 
Environment; and Subcommittee on Energy, joint hearing entitled 
``U.S. Energy Information Administration Report: Analysis of the 
Impacts of the EPA's Clean Power Plan'', 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials, hearing entitled 
``The State of Positive Train Control Implementation in the United 
States'', 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, hearing entitled ``Meeting 
the Transportation Needs of Rural America'', 2 p.m., 2167 Rayburn.

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  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Disability 
Assistance and Memorial Affairs, hearing on H.R. 2214, the 
``Disabled Veterans' Access to Medical Exams Improvement Act''; H.R. 
1380, to amend title 38, United States Code, to expand the 
eligibility for a medallion furnished by the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs to signify the veteran status of a deceased individual; H.R. 
2706, the ``Veterans National Remembrance Act''; H.R. 2691, the 
``Veterans' Survivors Claims Processing Automation Act of 2015''; 
H.R. 303, the ``Retired Pay Restoration Act''; H.R. 1338, the 
``Dignified Interment of Our Veterans Act of 2015''; H.R. 1302, the 
``VA Appeals Backlog Relief Act''; H.R. 2605, the ``Veterans 
Fiduciary Reform Act of 2015''; and H.R. 1384, the ``Honor America's 
Guard-Reserve Retirees Act'', 2 p.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Oversight, hearing on 
rising health insurance premiums under Obamacare, 10 a.m., 1100 
Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures, hearing on repatriation 
of foreign earnings as a source of funding for the Highway Trust 
Fund, 2 p.m., 1100 Longworth.