[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 103 (Monday, June 27, 2016)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E999-E1001]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                       SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS

  Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, agreed to by the Senate of February 
4, 1977, calls for establishment of a system for a computerized 
schedule of all meetings and hearings of Senate committees, 
subcommittees, joint committees, and committees of conference. This 
title requires all such committees to notify the Office of the Senate 
Daily Digest--designated by the Rules Committee--of the time, place and 
purpose of the meetings, when scheduled and any cancellations or 
changes in the meetings as they occur.
  As an additional procedure along with the computerization of this 
information, the Office of the Senate Daily Digest will prepare this 
information for printing in the Extensions of Remarks section of the 
Congressional Record on Monday and Wednesday of each week.
  Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, June 28, 2016 may be found in the 
Daily Digest of today's Record.

                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED

                                JUNE 29
     10 a.m.
       Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         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.
                                                            SR-253
       Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
         To hold hearings to examine Every Student Succeeds Act 
           implementation, focusing on an update from the 
           Secretary of Education on proposed regulations.
                                                            SD-430
       Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine preparing for and protecting 
           the nation from Zika.
                                                            SD-342
       Committee on the Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine protecting older Americans 
           from financial exploitation.
                                                            SD-226
       Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
         To hold hearings to examine the consequences of dwindling 
           startup activity.
                                                           SR-428A
     2 p.m.
       Committee on Appropriations
         Business meeting to markup an original bill entitled, 
           ``State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs 
           Appropriations Act, Fiscal Year 2017''.
                                                            SD-106
     2:30 p.m.
       Committee on Environment and Public Works
       Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Management, and Regulatory 
           Oversight
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine the Environmental 
           Protection Agency enforcement and compliance programs.
                                                            SD-406
       Committee on Indian Affairs
         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.
                                                            SD-628
       Committee on Veterans' Affairs
         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

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           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.
                                                            SR-418

                                JUNE 30
     9 a.m.
       Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
       Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management
         To hold hearings to examine the use of agency regulatory 
           guidance.
                                                            SD-342
     9:30 a.m.
       Committee on Armed Services
         To hold closed hearings to examine national security 
           cyber and encryption challenges.
                                                           SVC-217
       Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
         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 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.
                                                            SD-366
       Committee on the Judiciary
         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.
                                                            SD-226
     10 a.m.
       Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
         To hold hearings to examine small business survival 
           amidst flood insurance rate increases.
                                                           SR-428A
     10:30 a.m.
       Committee on Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine corruption, focusing on 
           violent extremism, kleptocracy, and the dangers of 
           failing governance.
                                                            SD-419
     2 p.m.
       Select Committee on Intelligence
         To receive a closed briefing on certain intelligence 
           matters.
                                                            SH-219

                                JULY 13
     10:30 a.m.
       Committee on Appropriations
       Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, 
           and Related Agencies

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         To hold hearings to examine a review of the Department of 
           Veterans Affairs' electronic health record (VistA), 
           progress toward interoperability with the Department of 
           Defense's electronic health record, and plans for the 
           future.
                                                            SD-124

                                JULY 14
     10 a.m.
       Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine evaluating the financial 
           risks of China.
                                                            SD-538