[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 110 (Wednesday, July 15, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D835]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                             JULY 16, 2015

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: to hold 
hearings to examine pending Forest Service and forestry related 
bills, including S. 61, to provide for the conveyance of certain 
National Forest System land in the State of Louisiana, S. 755, to 
designate as wilderness certain public land in the Cherokee National 
Forest in the State of Tennessee, S. 1100, to require State and 
local government approval of prescribed burns on Federal land during 
conditions of drought or fire danger, S. 1110, to direct the 
Secretary of Agriculture to publish in the Federal Register a 
strategy to significantly increase the role of volunteers and 
partners in National Forest System trail maintenance, S. 1671, to 
reauthorize the National Forest Foundation Act, S. 1712, to amend 
the Small Tract Act of 1983 to expand the authority of the Secretary 
of Agriculture to sell or exchange small parcels of National Forest 
System land to enhance the management of the National Forest System, 
resolve minor encroachments, S. 1733, to require the Secretary of 
Agriculture to establish a forest incentives program to keep forests 
intact and sequester carbon on private forest land of the United 
States, and S. 1744, to authorize the sale of certain National 
Forest System land in the State of Georgia, 10 a.m., SR-328A.
  Committee on Appropriations: business meeting to mark up an 
original bill entitled, ``Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and 
Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2016'', 10:30 a.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: to hold hearings 
to examine the semiannual monetary policy report to Congress, 2:30 
p.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public 
Lands, Forests, and Mining, to hold hearings to examine S. 132, to 
improve timber management on Oregon and California Railroad and Coos 
Bay Wagon Road grant land, S. 326, to amend the Healthy Forests 
Restoration Act of 2003 to provide cancellation ceilings for 
stewardship end result contracting projects, and S. 1691, to 
expedite and prioritize forest management activities to achieve 
ecosystem restoration objectives, 2:45 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Finance: to hold hearings to examine HealthCare.gov 
controls, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine human 
rights around the world, focusing on corruption, Global Magnitsky, 
and modern slavery, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Policy, to hold hearings 
to examine wildlife poaching, 2 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: 
Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management, to hold 
hearings to examine the Office of Information and Regulatory 
Affairs' role in the regulatory process, 2 p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider S. 1169, 
to reauthorize and improve the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 
Prevention Act of 1974, and S. 1599, to provide anti-retaliation 
protections for antitrust whistleblowers, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold closed hearings to 
examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                                 House

  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Asia and the 
Pacific; and Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade, 
joint hearing entitled ``Reviewing the U.S.-China Civil Nuclear 
Cooperation Agreement'', 9 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and 
International Organizations, hearing entitled ``The Goldman Act to 
Return Abducted American Children: Ensuring Accurate Numbers and 
Administration Action'', 10 a.m., 2200 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Transportation 
Security, hearing entitled ``Examining the Federal Air Marshal 
Service and Its Readiness to Meet the Evolving Threat'', 10 a.m., 
311 Cannon.