[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 120 (Tuesday, July 28, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D898-D901]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                             JULY 29, 2015

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Armed Services: to hold hearings to examine the 
impacts of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on United 
States interests and the military balance in the Middle East, 9:45 
a.m., SD-G50.
  Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support, to hold hearings 
to examine best practices at public and private shipyards, 2:30 
p.m., SR-232A.

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  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection, to hold hearings to 
examine the role of bankruptcy reform in addressing too-big-to-fail, 
10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold 
hearings to examine wireless broadband and the future of spectrum 
policy, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: business meeting to 
continue consideration of an original bill to provide for the 
modernization of the energy policy of the United States, S. 133, to 
approve and implement the Klamath Basin agreements, to improve 
natural resource management, support economic development, and 
sustain agricultural production in the Klamath River Basin in the 
public interest and the interest of the United States, S. 145, to 
require the Director of the National Park Service to refund to 
States all State funds that were used to reopen and temporarily 
operate a unit of the National Park System during the October 2013 
shutdown, S. 146, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior or the 
Secretary of Agriculture to enter into agreements with States and 
political subdivisions of States providing for the continued 
operation, in whole or in part, of public land, units of the 
National Park System, units of the National Wildlife Refuge System, 
and units of the National Forest System in the State during any 
period in which the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of 
Agriculture is unable to maintain normal level of operations at the 
units due to a lapse in appropriations, S. 329, to amend the Wild 
and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain segments of the 
Farmington River and Salmon Brook in the State of Connecticut as 
components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, S. 403, to 
revise the authorized route of the North Country National Scenic 
Trail in northeastern Minnesota and to extend the trail into Vermont 
to connect with the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, S. 521, to 
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special 
resource study of President Station in Baltimore, Maryland, 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. 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. 610, to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to conduct a special resource study of P.S. 103 in West 
Baltimore, Maryland and for other purposes, S. 720, to promote 
energy savings in residential buildings and industry, S. 873, to 
designate the wilderness within the Lake Clark National Park and 
Preserve in the State of Alaska as the Jay S. Hammond Wilderness 
Area, S. 1103, to reinstate and extend the deadline for commencement 
of construction of a hydroelectric project involving Clark Canyon 
Dam, S. 1104, to extend the deadline for commencement of 
construction of a hydroelectric project involving the Gibson Dam, S. 
1240, to designate the Cerro del Yuta and Rio San Antonio Wilderness 
Areas in the State of New Mexico, S. 1305, to amend the Colorado 
River Storage Project Act to authorize the use of the active 
capacity of the Fontenelle Reservoir, S. 1483, to direct the 
Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility 
of designating the James K. Polk Home in Columbia, Tennessee, as a 
unit of the National Park System, S. 1694, to amend Public Law 103-
434 to authorize Phase III of the Yakima River Basin Water 
Enhancement Project for the purposes of improving water management 
in the Yakima River basin, and an original bill to provide for 
reforms of the administration of the Outer Continental Shelf of the 
United States, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: business meeting to 
consider the nominations of Vanessa Lorraine Allen Sutherland, of 
Virginia, to be Chairperson of the Chemical Safety and Hazard 
Investigation Board for a term of five years, Kristen Marie 
Kulinowski, of New York, to be a Member of the Chemical Safety and 
Hazard Investigation Board for a term of five years, Gregory Guy 
Nadeau, of Maine, to be Administrator of the Federal Highway 
Administration, Department of Transportation, and Eric Martin Satz, 
of Tennessee, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the 
Tennessee Valley Authority for a term expiring May 18, 2018, Time to 
be announced, Room to be announced.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: business meeting to consider S. 
284, to impose sanctions with respect to foreign persons responsible 
for gross violations of internationally recognized human rights, S. 
1632, to require a regional strategy to address the threat posed by 
Boko Haram, an original bill entitled, ``Afghanistan Accountability 
Act'', and the nominations of Michele Thoren Bond, to be an 
Assistant Secretary of State (Consular Affairs), and Sarah Elizabeth 
Mendelson, to be Representative of the United States of America on 
the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, with the rank 
of Ambassador, and to be an Alternate Representative of the United 
States of America to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the 
United Nations, both of the District of Columbia, Sheila Gwaltney, 
of California, to be Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic, Perry L. 
Holloway, of South Carolina, to be Ambassador to the Co-operative 
Republic of Guyana, Laura Farnsworth Dogu, of Texas, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Nicaragua, Peter F. Mulrean, of 
Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Haiti, Paul Wayne 
Jones, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Poland, 
Gayle Smith, of Ohio, to be Administrator of the United States 
Agency for International Development, Kathleen Ann Doherty, of New 
York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Cyprus, James Desmond 
Melville, Jr., of New Jersey, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Estonia, Samuel D. Heins, of Minnesota, to be Ambassador to the 
Kingdom of Norway, all of the Department of State, and routine lists 
in the Foreign Service; to be immediately followed by a hearing to 
examine the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation, to hold 
hearings to examine the financial crisis in Greece, focusing on 
implications and lessons learned, 2 p.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 combating campus sexual assault, 9 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: business 
meeting to consider an original bill entitled, ``Department of 
Homeland Security Border Security Metrics Act of 2015'', an original 
bill entitled, ``Critical Infrastructure Protection Act of 2015'', 
an original bill entitled, ``EINSTEIN Act of 2015'', 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, an original bill entitled, ``Quarterly 
Financial Reporting Reauthorization Act of 2015'', S. 1607, to 
affirm the authority of the President to require independent 
regulatory agencies to comply with regulatory analysis requirements 
applicable to executive agencies, S. 1526, to amend title 10 and 
title 41, United States Code, to improve the manner in which Federal 
contracts for construction and design services are awarded, to 
prohibit the use of reverse auctions for design and construction 
services procurements, to amend title 31 and 41, United States Code, 
to improve the payment protections available to construction 
contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers for work performed, S. 
1820, to require agencies to publish an advance notice of proposed 
rule making for major rules, S. 1817, to improve the effectiveness 
of major rules in accomplishing their regulatory objectives by 
promoting retrospective review, S. 1808, to require the Secretary of 
Homeland Security to conduct a Northern Border threat analysis, S. 
779, to provide for Federal agencies to develop public access 
policies relating to research conducted by employees of that agency 
or from funds administered by that agency, S. Res. 104, to express 
the sense of the Senate regarding the success of Operation 
Streamline and the importance of prosecuting first time illegal 
border crossers, S. 708, to establish an independent advisory 
committee to review certain regulations, S. 1170, to amend title 39, 
United States Code, to extend the authority of the United States 
Postal Service to issue a semipostal to raise funds for breast 
cancer research, H.R. 1531, to amend title 5, United States Code, to 
provide a pathway for temporary seasonal employees in Federal land 
management agencies to compete for vacant permanent positions under 
internal merit promotion procedures, an original bill to designate 
the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 99 West 
2nd Street in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, as the ``Lieutenant Colonel 
James `Maggie' Megellas Post Office'', S. 1596, to designate the 
facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2082 
Stringtown Road in Grove City, Ohio, as the ``Specialist Joseph W. 
Riley Post Office Building'', and the nomination of Denise Turner 
Roth, of North Carolina, to be Administrator of General Services, 10 
a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: business meeting to consider S. 383, 
to provide for Indian trust asset management reform, and S. 732, to 
amend the Act of June 18, 1934, to reaffirm the authority of the 
Secretary of the Interior to take land into trust for Indian tribes, 
to be immediately followed by an oversight hearing to examine the 
true costs of alcohol and drug abuse in Native communities, 2:15 
p.m., SD-628.
  Committee on Judiciary: Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, 
Federal Rights and Federal Courts, to hold hearings to examine IRS 
targeting, focusing on progress of agency reforms and congressional 
options, 2 p.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: business meeting 
to consider S. 1400, to amend the Small Business Act to direct the 
task force of the Office of Veterans Business Development to provide 
access to and manage the distribution of excess or surplus property 
to veteran-owned small businesses, S. 1756, to help small businesses 
take advantage of energy efficiency, S. 1857, to amend the Small 
Business Act to provide for expanded participation in the microloan 
program, S. 1866, to establish the veterans' business outreach 
center program, to improve the programs for veterans of the Small 
Business Administration, an original bill entitled, ``A Sense of the 
Committee on the Small Business Tax Compliance Relief Act of 2015'', 
and an original bill entitled, ``Veterans Entrepreneurial Transition 
Act of 2015'', Time to be announced, S-216, Capitol.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: to hold hearings to examine ending 
veteran homelessness, 2:30 p.m., SR-418.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, Full Committee, hearing entitled ``Dodd-
Frank Turns Five: Assessing the Progress of Global Derivatives 
Reforms'', 10 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Armed Services, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Potential Implications in the Region of the Iran Deal'', 10 a.m., 
2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 
985, ``Concrete Masonry Products Research, Education, and Promotion 
Act of 2015''; H.R. 3154, ``E-Warranty Act of 2015''; H.R. 1344, 
``Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Act of 2015''; H.R. 1462, 
``Protecting Our Infants Act of 2015''; H.R. 1725, ``National All 
Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Authorization Act of 
2015''; and H.R. 2820, ``Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research 
Reauthorization Act of 2015'', 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 
766, the ``Financial Institution Customer Protection Act of 2015''; 
H.R. 1210, the ``Portfolio Lending and Mortgage Access Act''; H.R. 
1317, to amend the Commodity Exchange Act and the Securities 
Exchange Act of 1934 to specify how clearing requirements apply to 
certain affiliate transactions, and for other purposes; H.R. 1553, 
the ``Small Bank Exam Cycle Reform Act of 2015''; H.R. 1737, the 
``Reforming CFPB Indirect Auto Financing Guidance Act''; H.R. 1839, 
the ``Reforming Access for Investments in Startup Enterprises Act of 
2015''; H.R. 1941, the ``Financial Institutions Examination Fairness 
and Reform Act''; H.R. 2091, the ``Child Support Assistance Act of 
2015''; H.R. 2243, the ``Equity in Government Compensation Act of 
2015''; H.R. 2643, the ``State Licensing Efficiency Act of 2015''; 
H.R. 2912,

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the ``Centennial Monetary Commission Act of 2015''; H.R. 3032, the 
``Securities and Exchange Commission Reporting Modernization Act''; 
H.R. 3189, the ``Fed Oversight Reform and Modernization Act of 
2015''; and H.R. 3192, the ``Homebuyers Assistance Act'' 
(continued), 9 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Women Under ISIS Rule: From Brutality to Recruitment'', 10 a.m., 
2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, hearing entitled ``Threats 
to Press Freedom in the Americas'', 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Aviation Security Challenges: Is TSA ready for the threats of 
today?'', 10 a.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual 
Property, and the Internet, hearing entitled ``Internet of Things'', 
10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Federal Agencies' Selective Enforcement of ESA Consultation'', 10 
a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Full Committee, 
hearing entitled ``EPA Mismanagement, Part II'', 9 a.m., 2154 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Information Technology; and Subcommittee on 
Government Operations, joint hearing entitled ``DATA Act 
Implementation'', 1 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Subcommittee on 
Energy, hearing entitled ``A Review of the Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission's Licensing Process'', 9 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.