[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 60 (Tuesday, April 19, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D399-D401]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                             APRIL 20, 2016

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of 
Defense, to hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and 
justification for fiscal year 2017 for Defense innovation and 
research, 10:30 a.m., SD-192.
  Subcommittee on Department of the Interior, Environment, and 
Related Agencies, to hold hearings to examine proposed budget 
estimates and justification for fiscal year 2017 for the 
Environmental Protection Agency, 10:45 a.m., SD-124.

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  Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on SeaPower, to hold 
hearings to examine Navy and Marine Corps aviation programs in 
review of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2017 and 
the Future Years Defense Program, 2 p.m., SR-232A.
  Subcommittee on Personnel, to hold hearings to examine the current 
state of research, diagnosis, and treatment for post-traumatic 
stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, 2:30 p.m., SR-222.
  Committee on the Budget: to hold hearings to examine restoring 
stability to government operations, 10:30 a.m., SD-608.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee 
on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety 
and Security, to hold hearings to examine the state of the United 
States maritime industry, focusing on stakeholder perspectives, 10 
a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: to hold hearings to 
examine new approaches and innovative technologies to improve water 
supply, 10 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: business meeting to consider an original 
bill to prevent identity theft and tax refund fraud, and an original 
bill entitled, ``Taxpayer Protection Act of 2016'', 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to receive a closed briefing on an 
Administration update on the Mosul Dam, 5 p.m., SVC-217.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: to hold 
hearings to examine the administrative state, focusing on an 
examination of Federal rulemaking, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Inga S. Bernstein, to be United States District Judge 
for the District of Massachusetts, Stephanie A. Gallagher, to be 
United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, Suzanne 
Mitchell, and Scott L. Palk, both to be a United States District 
Judge for the Western District of Oklahoma, and Ronald G. Russell, 
to be United States District Judge for the District of Utah, 10 
a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Rules and Administration: to hold hearings to examine 
the nomination of Carla D. Hayden, of Maryland, to be Librarian of 
Congress, 2:15 p.m., SR-301.


                                 House

  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Legislative Branch, 
markup on the Legislative Branch Appropriations Bill, FY 2017, 11:30 
a.m., HT-2 Capitol.
  Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Military Personnel, 
markup on H.R. 4909, the National Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 2017, 11:30 a.m., 2212 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces, markup on H.R. 4909, 
the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, 1:30 
p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces, markup on H.R. 
4909, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, 3 
p.m., 2212 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and 
Power; and Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, joint 
hearing entitled ``Fiscal Year 2017 Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
Budget'', 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Select Investigative Panel of the Committee on Energy and 
Commerce, hearing entitled ``The Pricing of Fetal Tissue'', 10 a.m., 
HVC-210.
  Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing entitled 
``How Secure are U.S. Bioresearch Labs? Preventing the Next Safety 
Lapse'', 10:15 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Health, markup on H.R. 4978, the ``Nurturing and 
Supporting Healthy Babies Act''; H.R. 4641, to provide for the 
establishment of an inter-agency task force to review, modify, and 
update best practices for pain management and prescribing pain 
medication, and for other purposes; H.R. 3680, the ``Co-Prescribing 
to Reduce Overdoses Act of 2015''; H.R. 3691, the ``Improving 
Treatment for Pregnant and Postpartum Women Act''; H.R. 1818, the 
``Veteran Emergency Medical Technician Support Act''; the ``Opioid 
Use Disorder Treatment Expansion and Modernization Act''; H.R. 3250, 
the ``DXM Abuse Prevention Act''; H.R. 4969, the ``John Thomas 
Decker Act of 2016''; H.R. 4586, ``Lali's Law''; H.R. 4599, the 
``Reducing Unused Medications Act of 2016''; H.R. 4976, the ``Opioid 
Review Modernization Act''; and the ``Examining Opioid Treatment 
Infrastructure Act of 2016'', 1:30 p.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 1150, 
the ``Frank R. Wolf International Religious Freedom Act of 2015''; 
H.R. 3694, the ``Strategy to Oppose Predatory Organ Trafficking 
Act''; H.R. 4939, the ``United States-Caribbean Strategic Engagement 
Act of 2016''; H. Con. Res. 88, reaffirming the Taiwan Relations Act 
and the Six Assurances as the cornerstone of United States-Taiwan 
relations; S. 284, the ``Global Magnitsky Human Rights 
Accountability Act''; and S. 2143, to provide for the authority for 
the successors and assigns of the Starr-Camargo Bridge Company to 
maintain and operate a toll bridge across the Rio Grande near Rio 
Grande City, Texas, and for other purposes, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Full Committee, markup on S. 1890, the 
``Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016''; S. 125, the ``Bulletproof Vest 
Partnership Grant Program Reauthorization Act of 2015''; H.R. 3380, 
the ``Transnational Drug Trafficking Act of 2015''; and H.R. 4985, 
to amend the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act to protect 
classified information in Federal court challenges, 10 a.m., 2141 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Water, Power and 
Oceans, hearing on H.R. 1869, the ``Environmental Compliance Cost 
Transparency Act of 2015''; H.R. 2993, the ``Water Recycling 
Acceleration Act of 2015''; and H.R. 4582, the ``Save Our Salmon 
(SOS) Act'', 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Federal Lands, hearing entitled ``Exploring 
Current Natural Resource Research Efforts and the Future of 
America's Land-Grant Colleges and Universities'', 10:30 a.m., 1334 
Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on 
Information Technology, hearing entitled

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``Federal Cybersecurity Detection, Response, and Mitigation'', 9:30 
a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on the Interior, hearing entitled ``Barriers to 
Endangered Species Act Delisting, Part I'', 1 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Subcommittee on 
Energy, hearing entitled ``An Overview of Fusion Energy Science'', 
10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Small Business and the Federal Government: How Cyber-Attacks 
Threaten Both'', 11 a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Full Committee, 
markup on General Services Administration Capital Investment and 
Leasing Program Resolutions; H.R. 4957, to designate the Federal 
building located at 99 New York Avenue, N.E., in the District of 
Columbia as the ``Ariel Rios Federal Building''; H.R. 4937, the 
``Protecting our Infrastructure of Pipelines and Enhancing Safety 
Act of 2016''; H.R. 4231, to direct the Librarian of Congress to 
obtain a stained glass panel depicting the seal of the District of 
Columbia and install the panel among the stained glass panels 
depicting the seals of States which overlook the Main Reading Room 
of the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building; and possible 
other matters cleared for consideration, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Health, hearing on 
H.R. 2460, to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the 
provision of adult day health care services for veterans; H.R. 3956, 
the ``VA Health Center Management Stability and Improvement Act''; 
H.R. 3974, the ``Grow Our Own Directive: Physician Assistant 
Employment and Education Act of 2015''; H.R. 3989, the ``Support Our 
Military Caregivers Act''; draft legislation to ensure that each VA 
medical facility complies with requirements relating to scheduling 
veterans for health care appointments and to improve the uniform 
application of directives; and draft legislation to direct VA to 
establish a list of drugs that require an increased level of 
informed consent, 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity, hearing entitled ``A Review 
of Veterans Preference in Federal Government Hiring'', 2:30 p.m., 
334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 4923, 
the ``American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2016'', 10 a.m., 
1100 Longworth.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Economic Committee: to hold hearings to examine our complex 
tax code and the economy, 2:30 p.m., SD-562.