[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 104 (Tuesday, June 28, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D724-D725]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                             JUNE 29, 2016

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: 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 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, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  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, 2:30 p.m., SD-406.
  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, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: to hold 
hearings to examine preparing for and protecting the nation from 
Zika, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  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, 2:30 p.m., SD-628.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to hold hearings to examine protecting 
older Americans from financial exploitation, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: to hold hearings 
to examine the consequences of dwindling startup activity, 10 a.m., 
SR-428A.
  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

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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.


                                 House

  No hearings are scheduled.