[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 55 (Tuesday, April 12, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D355-D357]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                             APRIL 13, 2016

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction 
and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies, business meeting to mark 
up proposed legislation making appropriations for fiscal year 2017 
for military construction, Veterans Affairs, and related agencies, 
10:15 a.m., SD-124.
  Subcommittee on Department of Defense, to hold hearings to examine 
proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2017 for 
the Missile Defense Agency, 10:30 a.m., SD-192.
  Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, business meeting to 
mark up proposed legislation making appropriations for fiscal year 
2017 for energy and water development, 2:30 p.m., SD-124.
  Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on SeaPower, to hold 
hearings to examine Marine Corps ground modernization in review of 
the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2017 and the 
Future Years Defense Program, 2 p.m., SR-232A.
  Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, to hold hearings to examine 
ballistic missile defense policies and programs in review of the 
Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2017 and the Future 
Years Defense Program, 2:30 p.m., SR-222.
  Committee on the Budget: to hold hearings to examine budgeting for 
outcomes to maximize taxpayer value, 10:30 a.m., SD-608.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: to hold hearings to 
examine the role of environmental policies on access to energy and 
economic opportunity, 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine ending 
sexual abuse in United Nations peacekeeping, 2:15 p.m., SD-419.

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  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: to hold 
hearings to examine America's insatiable demand for drugs, 9:30 
a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: business meeting to consider the 
issuance of a subpoena to Environmental Protection Agency 
Administrator Gina McCarthy, to testify before the Senate Committee 
on Indian Affairs, on April 22, 2016, in Phoenix, Arizona; to be 
immediately followed by a hearing to examine S. 2205, to establish a 
grant program to assist tribal governments in establishing tribal 
healing to wellness courts, S. 2421, to provide for the conveyance 
of certain property to the Tanana Tribal Council located in Tanana, 
Alaska, and to the Bristol Bay Area Health Corporation located in 
Dillingham, Alaska, S. 2564, to modernize prior legislation relating 
to Dine College, S. 2643, to improve the implementation of the 
settlement agreement reached between the Pueblo de Cochiti of New 
Mexico and the Corps of Engineers, and S. 2717, to improve the 
safety and address the deferred maintenance needs of Indian dams to 
prevent flooding on Indian reservations, 2:15 p.m., SD-628.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to hold hearings to examine EB-5 
targeted employment areas, 10 a.m., SD-226.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Energy and the Rural Economy: The Impacts of Oil and Gas 
Production'', 10 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, Full Committee, markup on the 
Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Bill, FY 
2017, and Interim Report on the Suballocation of Budget Allocations 
for FY 2017, 11 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, markup on the Energy 
and Water Development Appropriations Bill, FY 2017, 1:30 p.m., 2362-
B Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
Administration, and Related Agencies, markup on the Agriculture, 
Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Bill, FY 2017, 4 p.m., 2362-A Rayburn.
  Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Seapower and 
Projection Forces, hearing entitled ``Building the Navy of the 
Future: A Look at Navy Force Structure'', 3:30 p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Environment and 
the Economy; and Subcommittee on Health, joint hearing entitled 
``Flint Water Crisis: Impacts and Lessons Learned'', 10 a.m., 2123 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, hearing on seven 
communications bills, 10:15 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 
1486, the ``Taking Account of Bureaucrats' Spending Act of 2015''; 
and H.R. 4894, to repeal title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street 
Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and for other purposes, 10 a.m., 
2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on the Middle East and 
North Africa, hearing entitled ``Assessing President Obama's Middle 
East and North Africa FY 2017 Budget Request'', 11:30 a.m., 2172 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, hearing entitled 
``Countering Extremism and the Threat of ISIS in Southeast Asia'', 2 
p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and 
International Organizations, hearing entitled ``Peacekeepers: 
Allegations of Abuse and Absence of Accountability at the United 
Nations'', 2 p.m., 2200 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Full Committee, markup on S. 125, the 
``Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program Reauthorization Act of 
2015''; and H.R. 699, the ``Email Privacy Act'', 10:30 a.m., 2141 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, Full Committee, hearing on a 
discussion draft of the ``Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and 
Economic Stability Act'', 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans, hearing entitled 
``Empowering States and Western Water Users Through Regulatory and 
Administrative Reforms'', 1 p.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Full Committee, markup on H.R. 4900, the ``Puerto Rico Oversight, 
Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA)'', 5 p.m., 1324 
Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Full Committee, 
hearing entitled ``Waste and Inefficiency in the Federal Government: 
GAO's 2016 Duplication Report'', 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Transportation and Public Assets; and Subcommittee 
on Government Operations, joint hearing entitled ``Examining the 
Safety and Service of D.C. Metro'', 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax 
and Capital Access, hearing entitled ``Keep It Simple: Small 
Business Tax Simplification and Reform, Main Street Speaks'', 11 
a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Full Committee, hearing entitled ``Keep It Simple: Small Business 
Tax Simplification and Reform, the Commissioner Responds'', 2:30 
p.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Disability 
Assistance and Memorial Affairs, hearing on H.R. 3936, the ``VET 
Act''; H.R. 4087, the ``Fair Treatment for Families of Veterans 
Act''; H.R. 4757, to amend title 38, United States Code, to expand 
the eligibility for headstones, markers, and medallions furnished by 
the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for deceased individuals who were 
awarded the Medal of Honor and are buried in private cemeteries; 
H.R. 4758, to amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the 
award of the Presidential Memorial Certificate to certain deceased 
members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces and certain 
deceased members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps; H.R. 4759, 
to amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs to pay costs relating to the transportation of 
certain deceased veterans to veterans' cemeteries owned by a State 
or tribal organization; H.R. 4782, the ``Veterans' Compensation 
Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2016''; H.R. 3715, the ``Final 
Farewell Act of 2015''; a draft of the ``Medal of Honor Legacy 
Act''; a draft of the ``Love Lives On Act of 2016'';

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a draft bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the 
consideration of evidence by Board of Veterans' Appeals; and a draft 
bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to pay special 
compensation to certain veterans with the loss or loss of use of 
creative organs, 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 3724, 
the ``Ensuring Integrity in the IRS Workforce Act of 2015''; H.R. 
4890, to impose a ban on the payment of bonuses to employees of the 
Internal Revenue Service until the Secretary of the Treasury 
develops and implements a comprehensive customer service strategy; 
H.R. 4885, the ``IRS Oversight While Eliminating Spending (OWES) Act 
of 2016''; H.R. 1206, the ``No Hires for the Delinquent IRS Act'', 
10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Tax Policy, hearing on Member proposals relating 
to fundamental reform of the income tax system, 3:30 p.m., 1100 
Longworth.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Subcommittee on 
Department of Defense Intelligence and Overhead Architecture, 
hearing entitled ``Ongoing Intelligence Activities'', 4:30 p.m., 
HVC-304. This hearing will be closed.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies--2016: 
organizational business meeting to consider an original resolution 
authorizing expenditures for committee operations and committee's 
rules and procedure for the 114th Congress, 2:15 p.m., S-219, 
Capitol.