[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 166 (Monday, November 9, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1200-D1201]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

             Week of November 10 through November 13, 2015

                             Senate Chamber

  On Tuesday, at approximately 10 a.m., Senate will continue 
consideration of H.R. 2029, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs 
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act.
  At 11 a.m., Senate will begin consideration of the House message to 
accompany S. 1356, National Defense Authorization Act, with a vote on a 
motion to concur in the House message at approximately 11:20 a.m.
  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: November 10, to hold hearings to 
examine 30 years of Goldwater-Nichols reform, 9 a.m., SD-G50.
  Committee on the Budget: November 12, to hold hearings to examine 
spending on unauthorized programs, 10:30 a.m., SD-608.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: November 10, 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 Amending 
the Convention between the Government of the United States of 
America and the

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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.
  November 10, Full Committee, to receive a closed briefing on the 
campaign against ISIS in Syria, 10 a.m., SVC-217.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: November 10, to receive a closed 
briefing on certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SVC-217.


                            House Committees

  No hearings are scheduled.