[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 176 (Monday, December 7, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1281-D1282]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





            COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2015

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Armed Services: to hold hearings to examine improving 
the Pentagon's development of policy, strategy, and plans, 9:30 
a.m., SD-G50.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee 
on Space, Science, and Competitiveness, to

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hold hearings to examine promoting open inquiry in the debate over 
the magnitude of human impact on earth's climate, 3 p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: to hold hearings to 
examine S. 2257, to prepare the National Park Service for its 
Centennial in 2016 and for a second century of protecting our 
national parks' natural, historic, and cultural resources for 
present and future generations, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: business meeting to consider S. 
Res. 189, expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the 25th 
anniversary of democracy in Mongolia, an original resolution 
celebrating the 135th Anniversary of the United States and Romania 
Diplomatic Relations, and routine lists in the Foreign Service; to 
be immediately followed by a hearing to examine the Millennium 
Challenge Corporation, focusing on lessons learned after a decade 
and outlook for the future, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: to hold 
hearings to examine opioid abuse in America, focusing on facing the 
epidemic and examining solutions, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition 
Policy and Consumer Rights, to hold hearings to examine the AB 
InBev/SABMiller merger and the state of competition in the beer 
industry, 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 Armed Services, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, 
hearing entitled ``Prompt Global Strike: American and Foreign 
Developments'', 2 p.m., 2212 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations, hearing entitled ``An Overdue Checkup Part II: 
Examining the ACA's State Insurance Marketplaces'', 10 a.m., 2322 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Oversight of the Financial Stability Oversight Council'', 10 a.m., 
2128 Rayburn.
  Full Committee, markup on H.R. 2187, the ``Fair Investment 
Opportunities for Professional Experts Act''; H.R. 2205, the ``Data 
Security Act of 2015''; H.R. 2287, the ``National Credit Union 
Administration Budget Transparency Act''; H.R. 3700, the ``Housing 
Opportunity Through Modernization Act of 2015''; H.R. 3784, the 
``SEC Small Business Advocate Act of 2015; H.R. 3791, to raise the 
consolidated assets threshold under the small bank holding company 
policy statement, and for other purposes; H.R. 4168, the ``Small 
Business Capital Formation Enhancement Act''; and Task Force to 
Investigate Terrorism Financing Resolution of 2016, 2 p.m., 2128 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Terrorism, 
Nonproliferation, and Trade, hearing entitled ``Civil Nuclear 
Cooperation with Pakistan: Prospects and Consequences'', 2 p.m., 
2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and 
International Organizations, hearing entitled ``Drug Resistant 
Tuberculosis: The Next Global Health Crisis?'', 2 p.m., 2200 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Transportation 
Security, hearing entitled ``Examining TSA's Global Efforts to 
Protect the Homeland from Aviation Threats and Enhance Security at 
Last Point of Departure Airports'', 1 p.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral 
Resources, hearing entitled ``Ensuring Certainty for Royalty 
Payments on Federal Resource Production'', 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs, hearing 
on H.R. 3764, the ``Tribal Recognition Act of 2015'' (Part II), 11 
a.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Full Committee, 
hearing entitled ``Review of the New London Embassy Project'', 10 
a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on the Interior; and Subcommittee on Health Care, 
Benefits and Administrative Rules, joint hearing entitled 
``Examining the Stream Protection Rule'', 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Transportation and Public Assets, hearing entitled 
``Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21) Program 
Consolidation'', 2 p.m., 2247 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, Full Committee, hearing on H.R. 2130, the 
``Red River Private Property Protection Act'', 3 p.m., H-313 
Capitol.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Subcommittee on 
Research and Technology, hearing entitled ``The Future of 
Biotechnology: Solutions for Energy, Agriculture and 
Manufacturing'', 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Health, hearing on 
H.R. 3262, to provide for the conveyance of land of the Illiana 
Health Care System of the Department of Veterans Affairs in 
Danville, Illinois; H.R. 3484, the ``Los Angeles Homeless Veterans 
Leasing Act of 2015''; H.R. 4056, to authorize the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs to convey to the Florida Department of Veterans 
Affairs all right, title, and interest of the United States to the 
property known as ``The Community Living Center'' at the Lake 
Baldwin Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic, Orlando, Florida; draft 
of a bill to amend the Veterans' Benefits Programs Improvement Act 
of 1991 to authorize VA to sell Pershing Hall; and VA's legislative 
proposal regarding fiscal year 2016 construction projects, 10 a.m., 
334 Cannon.