[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 103 (Monday, June 27, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D717-D719]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

                  Week of June 28 through July 1, 2016

                             Senate Chamber

  On Tuesday, at 10 a.m., Senate will continue consideration of the 
conference report to accompany H.R. 2577, Transportation, and Housing 
and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, with a 
vote on the motion to invoke cloture thereon, at approximately 11 a.m.
  Senate will continue consideration of the House amendment to S. 2328, 
National Sea Grant College Program Amendments Act, with a vote on the 
motion to invoke cloture on the motion concur in the House amendment to 
the bill.
   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 Appropriations: June 28, Subcommittee on State, 
Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, business meeting to markup 
an original bill entitled, ``State, Foreign Operations, and Related 
Programs Appropriations Act, Fiscal Year 2017'', 2:30 p.m., SD-124.
  June 29, Full Committee, business meeting to markup an original 
bill entitled, ``State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs 
Appropriations Act, Fiscal Year 2017'', 2 p.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Armed Services: June 28, to hold hearings to examine 
improving strategic integration at the Department of Defense, 9:30 
a.m., SH-216.
  June 30, Full Committee, to hold closed hearings to examine 
national security cyber and encryption challenges, 9:30 a.m., SVC-
217.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: June 28, 
Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine 
Infrastructure, Safety and Security, to hold hearings to examine how 
the Internet of Things (IoT) can bring United States transportation 
and infrastructure into the 21st century, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  June 29, Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. 3084, to 
invest in innovation through research and development, and to 
improve the competitiveness of the United States, S. 827, to amend 
the Communications Act of 1934 to ensure the integrity of voice 
communications and to prevent unjust or unreasonable discrimination 
among areas of the United States in the delivery of such 
communications, S. 2770, to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to 
require providers of a covered service to provide call location 
information concerning the telecommunications device of a user of 
such service to an investigative or law enforcement officer in an 
emergency situation involving risk of death or serious physical 
injury or in order to respond to the user's call for emergency 
services, S. 2997, to direct the Federal Communications Commission 
to commence proceedings related to the resiliency of critical 
telecommunications networks during times of emergency, S. 1717, to 
amend title 46, United States Code, to exempt old vessels that only 
operate within inland waterways from the fire-retardant materials 
requirement if the owners of such vessels make annual structural 
alterations to at least 10 percent of the areas of the vessels that 
are not constructed of fire-retardant materials, S. 3088, to provide 
a deadline for compliance with an alternate safety compliance 
program, S. 3087, to establish the American Fisheries Advisory 
Committee to assist in the awarding of fisheries research and 
development grants, S. 3059, to reauthorize and amend the John H. 
Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue and Response Grant Program, S. 2219, 
to require the Secretary of Commerce to conduct an assessment and 
analysis of the outdoor recreation economy of the United States, S. 
3086, to reauthorize and amend the Marine Debris Act to promote 
international action to reduce marine debris, an original bill 
entitled, ``Access for Sportfishing Act of 2016'', and the 
nominations of Peggy E. Gustafson, of Maryland, to be Inspector 
General, Department of Commerce, and Michael A. Khouri, of Kentucky, 
to be a Federal Maritime Commissioner, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: June 28, Subcommittee 
on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining, to hold an oversight hearing 
to examine the status of the the Bureau of Land Management and 
Forest Service's efforts to implement amendments to land use plans 
and specific management plans regarding sage grouse conservation, 
and those agencies' coordination activities with affected states, 
2:30 p.m., SD-366.
  June 30, Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. 651, to 
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire certain land in 
Martinez, California, for inclusion in the John Muir National 
Historic Site, S. 718, to modify the boundary of Petersburg National 
Battlefield in the Commonwealth of Virginia, S. 814, to provide for 
the conveyance of certain Federal land in the State of Oregon to the 
Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians, S. 
815, to provide for the conveyance of certain Federal land in the 
State of Oregon to the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, S. 
1007, to amend the Dayton Aviation Heritage Preservation Act of 1992 
to rename a site of the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical 
Park, S. 1167, to modify the boundaries of the Pole Creek 
Wilderness, the Owyhee River Wilderness, and the North Fork Owyhee 
Wilderness and to authorize the continued use of motorized vehicles 
for livestock monitoring, herding, and grazing in certain wilderness 
areas in the State of Idaho, S. 1329, to remove the use restrictions 
on certain land transferred to Rockingham County, Virginia, S. 1448, 
to designate the Frank Moore Wild Steelhead Sanctuary in the State 
of Oregon, S. 1577, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to 
designate certain segments of East Rosebud Creek in Carbon County, 
Montana, as components of the Wild and

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Scenic Rivers System, S. 1696, to redesignate the Ocmulgee National 
Monument in the State of Georgia, to revise the boundary of that 
monument, S. 1699, to designate certain land administered by the 
Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service in the State of 
Oregon as wilderness and national recreation areas and to make 
additional wild and scenic river designations in the State of 
Oregon, S. 1777, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to 
authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to maintain or replace 
certain facilities and structures for commercial recreation services 
at Smith Gulch in Idaho, S. 1930, to adjust the boundary of the 
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park to include the Wallis 
House and Harriston Hill, S. 1943, to modify the boundary of the 
Shiloh National Military Park located in the State of Tennessee and 
Mississippi, to establish Parker's Crossroads Battlefield as an 
affiliated area of the National Park System, S. 1975, to establish 
the Sewall-Belmont House National Historic Site as a unit of the 
National Park System, S. 1993, to establish the 21st Century 
Conservation Service Corps to place youth and veterans in the United 
States in national service positions to protect, restore, and 
enhance the great outdoors of the United States, S. 2018, to convey, 
without consideration, the reversionary interests of the United 
States in and to certain non-Federal land in Glennallen, Alaska, S. 
2087, to modify the boundary of the Fort Scott National Historic 
Site in the State of Kansas, S. 2177, to authorize the Secretary of 
the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the Medgar Evers 
House, located in Jackson, Mississippi, S. 2223, to transfer 
administrative jurisdiction over certain Bureau of Land Management 
land from the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs for inclusion in the Black Hills National Cemetery, S. 2309, 
to amend title 54, United States Code, to establish within the 
National Park Service the U.S. Civil Rights Network, S. 2360, to 
improve the administration of certain programs in the insular areas, 
S. 2379, to provide for the unencumbering of title to non-Federal 
land owned by the city of Tucson, Arizona, for purposes of economic 
development by conveyance of the Federal reversionary interest to 
the City, S. 2383, to withdraw certain Bureau of Land Management 
land in the State of Utah from all forms of public appropriation, to 
provide for the shared management of the withdrawn land by the 
Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of the Air Force to 
facilitate enhanced weapons testing and pilot training, enhance 
public safety, and provide for continued public access to the 
withdrawn land, to provide for the exchange of certain Federal land 
and State land, S. 2412, to establish the Tule Lake National 
Historic Site in the State of California, S. 2548, to establish the 
400 Years of African-American History Commission, S. 2608, to 
authorize the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of 
Agriculture to place signage on Federal land along the trail known 
as the ``American Discovery Trail'', S. 2616, to modify certain 
cost-sharing and revenue provisions relating to the Arkansas Valley 
Conduit, Colorado, S. 2620, to facilitate the addition of park 
administration at the Coltsville National Historical Park, S. 2805, 
to modify the boundary of Voyageurs National Park in the State of 
Minnesota, S. 2839, to amend the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage 
Act to extend the authorization for the Gullah/Geechee Cultural 
Heritage Corridor Commission, S. 2902, to provide for long-term 
water supplies, optimal use of existing water supply infrastructure, 
and protection of existing water rights, S. 2954, to establish the 
Ste. Genevieve National Historic Site in the State of Missouri, S. 
3020, to update the map of, and modify the acreage available for 
inclusion in, the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, S. 3027, 
to clarify the boundary of Acadia National Park, S. 3028, to 
redesignate the Olympic Wilderness as the Daniel J. Evans 
Wilderness, H.R. 1475, to authorize a Wall of Remembrance as part of 
the Korean War Veterans Memorial and to allow certain private 
contributions to fund that Wall of Remembrance, H.R. 2615, to 
establish the Virgin Islands of the United States Centennial 
Commission, H.R. 2880, to redesignate the Martin Luther King, 
Junior, National Historic Site in the State of Georgia, H.R. 3620, 
to amend the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Improvement 
Act to provide access to certain vehicles serving residents of 
municipalities adjacent to the Delaware Water Gap National 
Recreation Area, and H.R. 4119, to authorize the exchange of certain 
land located in Gulf Islands National Seashore, Jackson County, 
Mississippi, between the National Park Service and the Veterans of 
Foreign Wars, 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: June 29, Subcommittee 
on Superfund, Waste Management, and Regulatory Oversight, to hold an 
oversight hearing to examine the Environmental Protection Agency 
enforcement and compliance programs, 2:30 p.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: June 28, to hold hearings to examine the 
proposed Medicare Part B drug demonstration, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: June 28, to hold hearings to 
examine global efforts to defeat ISIS, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  June 30, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine corruption, 
focusing on violent extremism, kleptocracy, and the dangers of 
failing governance, 10:30 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: June 28, 
Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security, to hold 
hearings to examine small business health care, focusing on costs 
and options, 2 p.m., SD-430.
  June 29, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine Every Student 
Succeeds Act implementation, focusing on an update from the 
Secretary of Education on proposed regulations, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: June 28, 
to hold hearings to examine the nomination of Andrew Mayock, of 
Illinois, to be Deputy Director for Management, Office of Management 
and Budget, 4 p.m., SD-342.
  June 29, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine preparing for 
and protecting the nation from Zika, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  June 30, Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal 
Management, to hold hearings to examine the use of agency regulatory 
guidance, 9 a.m., SD-342.

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  Committee on Indian Affairs: June 29, to hold hearings to examine 
S. 2796, to repeal certain obsolete laws relating to Indians, S. 
2959, to amend the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights 
Quantification Act of 2010 to clarify the use of amounts in the WMAT 
Settlement Fund, and S. 3013, to authorize and implement the water 
rights compact among the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of 
the Flathead Indian Reservation, the State of Montana, and the 
United States, 2:30 p.m., SD-628.
  Committee on the Judiciary: June 28, to hold hearings to examine 
the implementation of the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 
2015, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  June 28, Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights 
and Federal Courts, to hold hearings to examine the consequences of 
agency efforts to deemphasize radical Islam in combating terrorism, 
2:30 p.m., SD-226.
  June 29, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine protecting 
older Americans from financial exploitation, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  June 30, Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. 247, to 
amend section 349 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to deem 
specified activities in support of terrorism as renunciation of 
United States nationality, and the nomination of Carole Schwartz 
Rendon, of Ohio, to be United States Attorney for the Northern 
District of Ohio; to be immediately followed by an oversight hearing 
to examine the Department of Homeland Security, 9:30 a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: June 29, to hold 
hearings to examine the consequences of dwindling startup activity, 
10 a.m., SR-428A.
  June 30, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine small 
business survival amidst flood insurance rate increases, 10 a.m., 
SR-428A.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: June 29, to hold hearings to 
examine S. 244, to require an independent comprehensive review of 
the process by which the Department of Veterans Affairs assesses 
cognitive impairments that result from traumatic brain injury for 
purposes of awarding disability compensation, S. 603, to amend title 
38, United States Code, to make permanent the authority of the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs to transport individuals to and from 
facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs in connection with 
rehabilitation, counseling, examination, treatment, and care, S. 
2210, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a 
program to establish peer specialists in patient aligned care teams 
at medical centers of the Department of Veterans Affairs, S. 2279, 
to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a program 
to increase efficiency in the recruitment and hiring by the 
Department of Veterans Affairs of health care workers that are 
undergoing separation from the Armed Forces, to create uniform 
credentialing standards for certain health care professionals of the 
Department, S. 2316, to amend title 38, United States Code, to 
expand the requirements for reissuance of veterans benefits in cases 
of misuse of benefits by certain fiduciaries to include misuse by 
all fiduciaries, and to improve oversight of fiduciaries, S. 2791, 
to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the treatment 
of veterans who participated in the cleanup of Enewetak Atoll as 
radiation exposed veterans for purposes of the presumption of 
service-connection of certain disabilities by the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs, S. 2958, to establish a pilot program on 
partnership agreements to construct new facilities for the 
Department of Veterans Affairs, S. 3021, to amend title 38, United 
States Code, to authorize the use of Post-9/11 Educational 
Assistance to pursue independent study programs at certain 
educational institutions that are not institutions of higher 
learning, S. 3023, to provide for the reconsideration of claims for 
disability compensation for veterans who were the subjects of 
experiments by the Department of Defense during World War II that 
were conducted to assess the effects of mustard gas or lewisite on 
people, S. 3032, to provide for an increase, effective December 1, 
2016, in the rates of compensation for veterans with service-
connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity 
compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans, S. 
3035, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a 
pilot program to increase the use of medical scribes to maximize the 
efficiency of physicians at medical facilities of the Department of 
Veterans Affairs, S. 3055, to amend title 38, United States Code, to 
provide a dental insurance plan to veterans and survivors and 
dependents of veterans, S. 3076, to amend title 38, United States 
Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to furnish 
caskets and urns for burial in cemeteries of States and tribal 
organizations of veterans without next of kin or sufficient 
resources to provide for caskets or urns, S. 3081, to amend title 
38, United States Code, to provide certain employees of members of 
Congress with access to case-tracking information of the Department 
of Veterans Affairs, an original bill to clarify the scope of 
procedural rights of members of the uniformed services with respect 
to their employment and reemployment rights, to improve the 
enforcement of such employment and reemployment rights, an original 
bill to expand eligibility for readjustment counseling to certain 
members of the Selected Reserve of the Armed Forces, an original 
bill to authorize payment by the Department of Veterans Affairs for 
the costs associated with service by medical residents and interns 
at facilities operated by Indian tribes and tribal organizations, to 
require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a pilot 
program to expand medical residencies and internships at such 
facilities, and an original bill to authorize the American Battle 
Monuments Commission to acquire, operate, and maintain the Lafayette 
Escadrille Memorial in Marnes-la-Coquette, France, 2:30 p.m., SR-
418.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: June 28, to hold closed hearings 
to examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  June 30, Full Committee, to receive a closed briefing on certain 
intelligence matters, 2 p.m., SH-219.


                            House Committees

  No hearings are scheduled.