[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 121 (Wednesday, July 29, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D911]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                             JULY 30, 2015

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction 
and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies, to hold hearings to 
examine whistleblower claims at the Department of Veterans Affairs, 
10:30 a.m., SD-124.
  Committee on Armed Services: to hold hearings to examine the 
nomination of Admiral John M. Richardson, USN, to be Chief of Naval 
Operations, 9:30 a.m., SD-G50.
  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 Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine 
sanctions and the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, 10 a.m., SD-
419.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the nominations of 
Lucy Tamlyn, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Benin, 
Jeffrey J. Hawkins, Jr., of California, to be Ambassador to the 
Central African Republic, David R. Gilmour, of Texas, to be 
Ambassador to the Togolese Republic, Daniel H. Rubinstein, of 
Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Tunisia, and Carolyn 
Patricia Alsup, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic of The 
Gambia, all of the Department of State, 2 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations, to hold hearings to examine the 
impact of the United States tax code on the market for corporate 
control and jobs, 9:30 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider S. 1814, 
to withhold certain Federal funding from sanctuary cities, and S. 
32, to provide the Department of Justice with additional tools to 
target extraterritorial drug trafficking activity, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to receive a closed briefing on 
certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign 
Agriculture, hearing entitled ``Examination of Federal and State 
Response to Avian Influenza'', 8:30 a.m., 1300 Longworth.