[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 146 (Tuesday, October 6, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1064-D1065]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                            OCTOBER 7, 2015

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, 
Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies, to 
hold hearings to examine the National Institutes of Health, focusing 
on investing in a healthier future, 10 a.m., SD-124.
  Committee on Armed Services: to hold hearings to examine Iranian 
influence in Iraq and the case of Camp Liberty, 9:30 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold 
hearings to examine removing barriers to wireless broadband 
deployment, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: to hold an oversight 
hearing to examine the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 9:30 a.m., SD-
406.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asia, the 
Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy, to hold hearings to 
examine the North Korea threat and United States policy, 2:30 p.m., 
SD-419.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: business 
meeting to consider S. 708, to establish an independent advisory 
committee to review certain regulations, 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. 1818, to amend title 5, United States 
Code, to reform the rule making process of agencies, 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. 1873, to strengthen 
accountability for deployment of border security technology at the 
Department of Homeland Security, S. 2021, to prohibit Federal 
agencies and Federal contractors from requesting that an applicant 
for employment disclose criminal history record information before 
the applicant has received a conditional offer, 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. 2093, to provide that the Secretary of 
Transportation shall have sole authority to appoint Federal 
Directors to the Board of Directors of the Washington Metropolitan 
Area Transit Authority, H.R. 998, to establish the conditions under 
which the Secretary of Homeland Security may establish preclearance 
facilities, conduct preclearance operations, and provide customs 
services outside the United States, H.R. 322, to designate the 
facility of the United States Postal Service located at 16105 
Swingley Ridge Road in Chesterfield, Missouri, as the ``Sgt. Zachary 
M. Fisher Post Office'', H.R. 323, to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 55 Grasso Plaza in St. 
Louis, Missouri, as the ``Sgt. Amanda N. Pinson Post Office'', H.R. 
324, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 11662 Gravois Road in St. Louis, Missouri, as the ``Lt. 
Daniel P. Riordan Post Office'', H.R. 558, to designate the facility 
of the United States Postal Service located at 55 South Pioneer 
Boulevard in Springboro, Ohio, as the ``Richard `Dick' Chenault Post 
Office Building'', H.R. 1442, to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 90 Cornell Street in 
Kingston, New York, as the ``Staff Sergeant Robert H. Dietz Post 
Office Building'', H.R. 1884, to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 206 West Commercial Street 
in East Rochester, New York, as the ``Officer Daryl R. Pierson 
Memorial Post Office Building'', H.R. 3059, to designate the 
facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4500 SE 28th 
Street, Del City, Oklahoma, as the James Robert Kalsu Post Office 
Building, an original bill entitled, ``Directing Dollars to Disaster 
Relief Act of 2015'', an original bill entitled, ``Inspector General 
Mandates Reporting Act of 2015'', and an original bill entitled, 
``Fraud Reduction and Data Analytics Act of 2015'', 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: business meeting to consider S. 1579, 
to enhance and integrate Native American tourism, empower Native 
American communities, increase coordination and collaboration 
between Federal tourism assets, and expand heritage and cultural 
tourism opportunities in the United States, and H.R. 487, to allow 
the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma to lease or transfer certain lands; to 
be immediately followed by a hearing to examine S. 817, to provide 
for the addition of certain real property to the reservation of the 
Siletz Tribe in the State of Oregon, S. 818, to amend the Grand 
Ronde Reservation Act to make technical corrections, S. 1436, to 
require the Secretary of the Interior to take land into trust for 
certain Indian tribes, S. 1761, to take certain Federal land located 
in Lassen County, California, into trust for

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the benefit of the Susanville Indian Rancheria, S. 1822, to take 
certain Federal land located in Tuolumne County, California, into 
trust for the benefit of the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians, S. 
1986, to provide for a land conveyance in the State of Nevada, and 
H.R. 387, to provide for certain land to be taken into trust for the 
benefit of Morongo Band of Mission Indians, 2:15 p.m., SD-628.
  Committee on Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition 
Policy and Consumer Rights, to hold hearings to examine S. 2102, to 
amend the Clayton Act and the Federal Trade Commission Act to 
provide that the Federal Trade Commission shall exercise authority 
with respect to mergers only under the Clayton Act and only in the 
same procedural manner as the Attorney General exercises such 
authority, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: business meeting 
to consider S. 1811, to require the Administrator of the Small 
Business Administration to establish a program to make loans to 
certain businesses, homeowners, and renters affected by Superstorm 
Sandy, S. 2116, to improve certain programs of the Small Business 
Administration to better assist small business customers in 
accessing broadband technology, S. 2126, to reauthorize the women's 
business center program of the Small Business Administration, an 
original bill entitled, ``Small Contractors Improve Competition Act 
of 2015'', an original bill entitled, ``Small Business 
Subcontracting Transparency Act of 2015'', and an original bill 
entitled, ``Improving Small Business Innovative Research and 
Technologies Act of 2015'', 11 a.m., SR-428A.
  Special Committee on Aging: to hold hearings to examine if the 
Federal Government is doing enough to protect seniors from identity 
theft, 2 p.m., SD-562.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, Full Committee, hearing to review the 
development of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 9 a.m., 
1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, 
hearing entitled ``Plutonium Disposition and the MOX Project'', 3:30 
p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``Strengthening Head Start for Current and Future 
Generations'', 10 a.m., HVC-210.
  Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, hearing entitled 
``Protecting America's Workers: An Enforcement Update from the 
Occupational Safety and Health Administration'', 1 p.m., 2261 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and 
Power, hearing entitled ``EPA's CO2 Regulations for New and Existing 
Power Plants'', 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, hearing entitled 
``Improving Federal Spectrum Systems'', 10:15 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Reforming Food Aid: Desperate Need to Do Better'', 10 a.m., 2172 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and 
International Organizations, hearing entitled ``Food Security and 
Nutrition Programs in Africa'', 12:45 p.m., 2255 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, hearing entitled ``Reviewing 
President Xi's State Visit'', 12:15 p.m., 2200 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, 
Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies, hearing 
entitled ``Examining the Mission, Structure, and Reorganization 
Effort of the National Protection and Programs Directorate'', 10 
a.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on Natural Resources, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 
974, the ``Yellowstone and Grand Teton Paddling Act''; H.R. 1107, 
the ``Bureau of Reclamation Transparency Act''; H.R. 1452, to 
authorize Escambia County, Florida, to convey certain property that 
was formerly part of Santa Rosa Island National Monument and that 
was conveyed to Escambia County subject to restrictions on use and 
reconveyance; H.R. 1820, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior 
to retire coal preference right lease applications for which the 
Secretary has made an affirmative commercial quantities 
determination, and for other purposes; H.R. 2212, to take certain 
Federal lands located in Lassen County, California, into trust for 
the benefit of the Susanville Indian Rancheria, and for other 
purposes; H.R. 2270, the ``Billy Frank Jr. Tell Your Story Act''; 
H.R. 2406, the ``SHARE Act''; and H.R. 3382, the ``Lake Tahoe 
Restoration Act of 2015'', 4 p.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Rules, Full Committee, hearing on H.R. 538, the 
``Native American Energy Act''; and H.R. 702, to adapt to changing 
crude oil market conditions, 3 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Small Business, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``The EMV Deadline and What It Means for Small Businesses'', 11 
a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Aviation, hearing entitled ``Ensuring Aviation Safety in the Era of 
Unmanned Aircraft Systems'', 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``A Call for System-Wide Change: Evaluating the Independent 
Assessment of the Veterans Health Administration'', 10 a.m., 334 
Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Oversight, hearing on 
the rising costs of higher education and tax policy, 10 a.m., 1100 
Longworth.