[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 166 (Monday, November 9, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1199-D1200]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR TUESDAY,

                           NOVEMBER 10, 2015

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Armed Services: to hold hearings to examine 30 years 
of Goldwater-Nichols reform, 9 a.m., SD-G50.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: business meeting to consider S. 
2184, to direct the President to establish guidelines for United 
States foreign development and economic assistance programs, H.R. 
515, to protect children from exploitation, especially sex 
trafficking in tourism, by providing advance notice of intended 
travel by registered child-sex offenders outside the United States 
to the government of the country of destination, requesting foreign 
governments to notify the United States when a known child-sex 
offender is seeking to enter the United States, an original 
resolution calling upon the President to condemn the ongoing sexual 
violence against women and children from Yezidi, Christian, Shabak, 
Turkmen, and other religious communities by Islamic State of Iraq 
and Syria militants and to urge the prosecution of the perpetrators 
and those complicit in these crimes, the nominations of Linda I. 
Etim, of Wisconsin, to be an Assistant Administrator of the United 
States Agency for International Development, Kenneth Damian Ward, of 
Virginia, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as 
United States Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition 
of Chemical Weapons, and Roberta S. Jacobson, of Maryland, to be 
Ambassador to the United Mexican States, Marc Jonathan Sievers, of 
Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman, and Elisabeth 
I. Millard, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Tajikistan, all of the Department of State, protocol Amending the 
Convention between the United States of America and the Swiss 
Confederation for the Avoidance of Double Taxation with Respect to 
Taxes on Income, signed at Washington on October 2, 1996, signed on 
September 23, 2009, at Washington, as corrected by an exchange of 
notes effected November 16, 2010 and a related agreement effected by 
an exchange of notes on September 23, 2009 (Treaty Doc. 112-01), 
protocol Amending the Convention between the Government of the 
United States of America and the Government of the Grand Duchy of 
Luxembourg for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention 
of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income and Capital, 
signed on May 20, 2009, at Luxembourg (the ``proposed Protocol'') 
and a related agreement effected by the exchange of notes also 
signed on May 20, 2009 (Treaty Doc. 111-08), convention between the 
Government of the United States of America and the Government of the 
Republic of Hungary for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the 
Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income, signed 
on February 4, 2010, at Budapest (the ``proposed Convention'') and a 
related agreement effected by an exchange of notes on February 4, 
2010 (Treaty Doc. 111-07), the Convention between the Government of 
the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of 
Chile for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of 
Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income and Capital, signed 
in Washington on February 4, 2010, with a Protocol signed the same 
day, as corrected by exchanges of notes effected February 25, 2011, 
and February 10 and 21, 2012, and a related agreement effected by 
exchange of notes (the ``related Agreement'') on February 4, 2010 
(Treaty Doc. 112-08), the Protocol Amending the Convention on Mutual 
Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters, done at Paris on May 27, 
2010 (the ``proposed Protocol''), which was signed by the United 
States on May 27, 2010 (Treaty Doc. 112-05), the Protocol Amending 
the Convention between the United States of America and the Kingdom 
of Spain for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of 
Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income and its Protocol, 
signed at Madrid on February 22, 1990 (Treaty Doc. 113-04), the 
Convention between the United States of America and the Republic of 
Poland for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of 
Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income, signed on February 
13, 2013, at Warsaw (Treaty Doc. 113-05), and the Protocol

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Amending the Convention between the Government of the United States 
of America and the Government of Japan for the Avoidance of Double 
Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to Taxes 
on Income and a related agreement entered into by an exchange of 
notes (together the ``proposed Protocol''), both signed on January 
24, 2013, at Washington, together with correcting notes exchanged 
March 9 and March 29, 2013 (Treaty Doc. 114-01), 9:45 a.m., S-116, 
Capitol.
  Full Committee, to receive a closed briefing on the campaign 
against ISIS in Syria, 10 a.m., SVC-217.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to receive a closed briefing on 
certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SVC-217.


                                 House

  No hearings are scheduled.