[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 124 (Monday, August 3, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D922-D925]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

                Week of August 4 through August 7, 2015

                             Senate Chamber

  On Tuesday, at approximately 11 a.m., Senate will continue 
consideration of motion to proceed to consideration of S. 754, 
Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act.
  During the balance of the week, Senate may consider any cleared 
legislative and executive business.


                           Senate Committees

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
  Committee on Armed Services: August 4, to hold hearings to examine 
the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and the military 
balance in the Middle East, 9:30 a.m., SD-G50.
  August 6, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
procurement, acquisition, testing, and oversight of the Navy's 
Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier program, 9:30 a.m., SD-G50.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: August 5, to 
hold hearings to examine the implications of sanctions relief under 
the Iran agreement, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: August 5, 
business meeting to consider pending calendar business, Time to be 
announced, Room to be announced.

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  Committee on Environment and Public Works: August 4, Subcommittee 
on Superfund, Waste Management, and Regulatory Oversight, to hold an 
oversight hearing to examine litigation at the Environmental 
Protection Agency and Fish and Wildlife Service, focusing on impacts 
on the United States economy, States, local communities, and the 
environment, 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  August 5, Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. 1324, to 
require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to 
fulfill certain requirements before regulating standards of 
performance for new, modified, and reconstructed fossil fuel-fired 
electric utility generating units, S. 1523, to amend the Federal 
Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize the National Estuary 
Program, S. 1500, to clarify Congressional intent regarding the 
regulation of the use of pesticides in or near navigable waters, S. 
722, to extend the date after which interest earned on obligations 
held in the wildlife restoration fund may be available for 
apportionment, S. 1707, to designate the Federal building located at 
617 Walnut Street in Helena, Arkansas, as the ``Jacob Trieber 
Federal Building, United States Post Office, and United States Court 
House'', S. 1147, to designate the Federal building and United 
States courthouse located at 83 Meeting Street in Charleston, South 
Carolina, as the ``J. Waties Waring Judicial Center'', S. 124, to 
amend the Water Resources Development Act of 1996 to deauthorize the 
Ten Mile Creek Water Preserve Area Critical Restoration Project, 
H.R. 2559, to designate the ``PFC Milton A. Lee Medal of Honor 
Memorial Highway'' in the State of Texas, and other pending calendar 
business, 10 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: August 4, to hold hearings to examine 
preserving families and reducing the need for foster care, 10 a.m., 
SD-215.
  August 5, Full Committee, closed business meeting to consider 
pending calendar business, S-211, to be immediately followed by a 
business meeting to consider the nominations of Marisa Lago, of New 
York, to be a Deputy United States Trade Representative, with the 
rank of Ambassador, and W. Thomas Reeder, Jr., of Virginia, to be 
Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, 10 a.m., SD-
215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: August 4, to hold hearings to 
examine the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, focusing on non-
proliferation, inspections, and nuclear constraints, 10 a.m., SD-
419.
  August 4, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Ann Calvaresi Barr, of Maryland, to be Inspector 
General, United States Agency for International Development, and 
David Malcolm Robinson, of Connecticut, to be an Assistant Secretary 
(Conflict and Stabilization Operations), and to be Coordinator for 
Reconstruction and Stabilization, Edwin Richard Nolan, Jr., of 
Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Suriname, John L. 
Estrada, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Trinidad 
and Tobago, and Scott Allen, of Maryland, to be United States 
Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 
all of the Department of State, 2:30 p.m., SD-419.
  August 5, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
implications of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action for United 
States policy in the Middle East, 2 p.m., SD-419.
  August 6, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 2015 
Trafficking in Persons Report, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: August 5, to 
hold hearings to examine reauthorizing the Higher Education Act, 
focusing on opportunities to improve student success, 10 a.m., SD-
430.
  August 6, Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. 799, to 
combat the rise of prenatal opioid abuse and neonatal abstinence 
syndrome, S. 1893, to reauthorize and improve programs related to 
mental health and substance use disorders, S. 481, to amend the 
Controlled Substances Act and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic 
Act with respect to drug scheduling recommendations by the Secretary 
of Health and Human Services, and with respect to registration of 
manufacturers and distributors seeking to conduct clinical testing, 
and the nominations of Karen Bollinger DeSalvo, of Louisiana, to be 
an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathryn K. 
Matthew, of South Carolina, to be Director of the Institute of 
Museum and Library Services for a term of four years, W. Thomas 
Reeder, Jr., of Virginia, to be Director of the Pension Benefit 
Guaranty Corporation, and Walter A. Barrows, of Ohio, to be a Member 
of the Railroad Retirement Board for a term expiring August 28, 
2019, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: August 4, 
to hold an oversight hearing to examine the Bureau of Prisons, 
focusing on first-hand accounts of challenges facing the Federal 
prison system, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  August 6, Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal 
Management, to hold hearings to examine agency progress in 
retrospective review of existing regulations, 9 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: August 5, to hold hearings to examine 
the Department of Justice's legal obligation to ensure Inspector 
General access to all records needed for independent oversight, 10 
a.m., SD-106.
  August 6, Full Committee, 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, and the nominations of 
John Michael Vazquez, to be United States District Judge for the 
District of New Jersey, Wilhelmina Marie Wright, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of Minnesota, and Paula Xinis, to be 
United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, 10 a.m., 
SD-226.

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  Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: August 6, to 
hold hearings to examine rising after disaster, focusing on 
improvements and continuing challenges, 1 p.m., SR-428A.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: August 4, to hold closed 
hearings to examine certain intelligence matters, 3 p.m., SH-219.


                            House Committees

  No hearings are scheduled.


* These figures include all measures reported, even if there was 
no accompanying report. A total of 109 written reports have been 
filed in the Senate, 239 reports have been filed in the House.

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