[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 141 (Monday, September 19, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D939-D942]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

            Week of September 20 through September 23, 2016

                             Senate Chamber

  On Tuesday, at approximately 10 a.m., Senate will continue 
consideration of the motion to proceed to consideration of H.R. 5325, 
Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, and vote on the motion to invoke 
cloture on the motion to proceed to consideration of the bill at 2:15 
p.m.
  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 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: September 21, 
to hold hearings to examine the Department of Agriculture and the 
current state of the farm economy, 10 a.m., SR-328A.
  Committee on Appropriations: September 21, Subcommittee on 
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies, 
to hold hearings to examine the possible conversion of public 
housing and other project-based rental assistance to Section 8 
vouchers, as well as administrative changes to the Section 8 voucher 
program, in order to improve the delivery of rental assistance to 
vulnerable families and individuals, 10:30 a.m., SD-192.
  September 21, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food 
and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, to hold hearings to 
examine prioritizing public health, focusing on the Food and Drug 
Administration's role in the generic drug marketplace, 2:30 p.m., 
SD-192.
  Committee on Armed Services: September 20, to hold hearings to 
examine the nomination of General John E. Hyten, USAF, for 
reappointment to the grade of general and to be Commander, United 
States Strategic Command, Department of Defense, 9:30 a.m., SH-216.
  September 22, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine United 
States national security challenges and ongoing military operations, 
9:30 a.m., SD-G50.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: September 20, to 
hold hearings to examine Wells Fargo's unauthorized accounts and the 
regulatory response, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  September 21, Subcommittee on National Security and International 
Trade and Finance, to hold hearings to examine terror financing 
risks of America's $1.7 billion cash payments to Iran, 10:30 a.m., 
SD-538.
  September 22, Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and 
Community Development, to hold an oversight hearing to examine the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development inspection process, 10 
a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: September 21, 
business meeting to consider S. 3346, to authorize the programs of 
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, S. 3183, to 
prohibit the circumvention of control measures used by Internet 
ticket sellers to ensure equitable consumer access to tickets for 
any given event, S. 3097, to establish the SelectUSA program, S. 
1788, to require operators that provide online and similar services 
to educational agencies, institutions, or programs to protect the 
privacy and security of personally identifiable information, H.R. 
4755, to inspire women to enter the aerospace field, including 
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, through 
mentorship and outreach, and H.R. 4742, to authorize the National 
Science Foundation to support entrepreneurial programs for women, 10 
a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: September 22, to hold 
hearings to examine S. 346, to withdraw certain land located in 
Curry County and Josephine County, Oregon, from all forms of entry, 
appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws, location, 
entry, and patent under the mining laws, and operation under the 
mineral leasing and geothermal leasing laws, S. 437, to provide for 
congressional approval of national monuments and restrictions on the 
use of national monuments, to establish requirements for the 
declaration of marine national monuments, S. 1416, to amend title 
54, United States Code, to limit the authority to reserve water 
rights in designating a national monument, S. 2056, to provide for 
the establishment of the National Volcano Early Warning and 
Monitoring System, S. 2380, to require the Secretary of the Interior 
to establish a pilot program for commercial recreation concessions 
on certain land managed by the Bureau of Land Management, S. 2681, 
to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to retire coal preference 
right lease applications for which the Secretary has made an 
affirmative commercial quantities determination, to substitute 
certain land selections of the Navajo Nation, to designate certain 
wilderness areas, S. 2991, to withdraw certain land in Okanogan 
County, Washington, to protect the land, S. 3049, to designate the 
Organ Mountains and other public land as components of the National 
Wilderness Preservation System in the State of New Mexico, S. 3102, 
to promote conservation, improve public land management, and provide 
for sensible development in Pershing County, Nevada, S. 3167, to 
establish the Appalachian Forest National Heritage Area, S. 3192, to 
designate a mountain peak in the State of Montana as ``Alex Diekmann 
Peak'', S. 3203, to provide for economic development and access to 
resources in Alaska, S. 3204, to provide for the exchange of Federal 
land and non-Federal land in the State of Alaska for the 
construction of a road between King Cove and Cold Bay, S. 3254, to 
provide for a land exchange involving certain National Forest System 
land in the State of South Dakota, S. 3273, to make technical 
corrections to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, S. 3312, to 
extend the authorization of the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation 
Control Act of 1978 relating to the disposal site in Mesa County, 
Colorado, S. 3315, to authorize the modification or augmentation of 
the Second Division Memorial, S. 3316, to maximize land management 
efficiencies, promote land conservation, generate education funding, 
S. 3317, to prohibit the further extension or establishment of 
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monuments in the State of Utah except by express authorization of 
Congress, H.R. 1838, to establish the Clear Creek National 
Recreation Area in San Benito and Fresno Counties, California, to 
designate the Joaquin Rocks Wilderness in such counties, and H.R. 
2009, to provide for the conveyance of certain land inholdings owned 
by the United States to the Tucson Unified School District and to 
the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona, 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: September 21, 
Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife, to hold an oversight 
hearing to examine the proposed revisions to the Fish and Wildlife 
Service mitigation policy, 2:30 p.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: September 21, business meeting to consider 
an original bill entitled, ``Miner's Protection Act of 2016'', and 
an original bill entitled, ``Retirement and Enhancement Savings Act 
of 2016'', 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: September 20, business meeting to 
consider the nominations of Christopher Coons, of Delaware, and 
Ronald H. Johnson, of Wisconsin, both to be a Representative of the 
United States of America to the Seventy-first Session of the General 
Assembly of the United Nations, and Sung Y. Kim, of California, to 
be Ambassador to the Republic of the Philippines, Rena Bitter, of 
Texas, to be Ambassador to the Lao People's Democratic Republic, 
Kamala Shirin Lakhdhir, of Connecticut, to be Ambassador to 
Malaysia, and a routine list in the Foreign Service, all of the 
Department of State, Time to be announced, S-216, Capitol.
  September 20, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of W. Stuart Symington, of Missouri, to be Ambassador to 
the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Andrew Robert Young, of California, 
to be Ambassador to Burkina Faso, and Joseph R. Donovan Jr., of 
Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Indonesia, all of the 
Department of State, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  September 20, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine South 
Sudan, focusing on options in crisis, 2:45 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: September 20, 
to hold hearings to examine laboratory testing in the era of 
precision medicine, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  September 22, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine 
exploring current practices in cosmetic development and safety, 10 
a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: September 
21, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, to hold hearings to 
examine combatting the opioid epidemic, focusing on a review of 
anti-abuse efforts by Federal authorities and private insurers, 10 
a.m., SD-342.
  September 22, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine 
exploring a right to try for terminally ill patients, 10 a.m., SD-
342.
  September 22, Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal 
Management, to hold hearings to examine agency regulatory guidance, 
3 p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: September 21, business meeting to 
consider S. 2953, to promote patient-centered care and 
accountability at the Indian Health Service, S. 3234, to amend the 
Native American Business Development, Trade Promotion, and Tourism 
Act of 2000, the Buy Indian Act, the Indian Trader Act, and the 
Native American Programs Act of 1974 to provide industry and 
economic development opportunities to Indian communities, and S. 
3261, to establish a business incubators program within the 
Department of the Interior to promote economic development in Indian 
reservation communities, 2 p.m., SD-628.
  Committee on the Judiciary: September 20, to hold hearings to 
examine consolidation and competition in the United States seed and 
agrochemical industry, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  September 21, Subcommittee on Immigration and the National 
Interest, to hold an oversight hearing to examine the 
Administration's fiscal year 2017 refugee resettlement program, 2:30 
p.m., SD-226.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: September 20, to receive a 
closed briefing on certain intelligence matters, 11:30 a.m., SH-219.
  September 20, Full Committee, to receive a closed briefing on 
certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  September 21, Full Committee, to receive a closed briefing on 
certain intelligence matters, 1 p.m., SH-219.
  September 22, Full Committee, to receive a closed briefing on 
certain intelligence matters, 2 p.m., SH-219.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Agriculture, September 22, Subcommittee on 
Conservation and Forestry, hearing entitled ``Rehabilitation of the 
Chesapeake Bay: Healing in the Bay the Voluntary Way'', 10 a.m., 
1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Armed Services, September 21, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``15 Years after 9-11: The State of the Fight Against 
Islamic Terrorism'', 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  September 21, Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces, 
hearing entitled ``Seapower and Projection Forces in the South China 
Sea'', 2 p.m., 2212 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Budget, September 21, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``Restoring the Trust for Families and Working-Age 
Americans'', 10 a.m., 210 Cannon.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, September 21, 
Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary 
Education, hearing entitled ``Supplanting the Law and Local 
Education Authority Through Regulatory Fiat'', 10 a.m., 2175 
Rayburn.
  September 22, Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and 
Pensions, hearing entitled ``Discussion Draft to Modernize 
Multiemployer Pensions'', 9:30 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, September 21, Full Committee, 
markup on H.R. 2566, the ``Improving Rural Call Quality and 
Reliability Act of 2016''; H.R. 2669, the ``Anti-Spoofing Act of 
2016''; H.R. 1192, the ``National Diabetes Clinical Care Commission 
Act''; H.R. 1209, the ``Improving Access to Maternity Care Act''; 
H.R. 1877, the ``Mental Health First Aid Act of 2015''; H.R. 2713, 
the ``Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act of 2015''; 
H.R. 3537, the ``Synthetic

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Drug Control Act of 2015''; and H.R. 4365, the ``Protecting Patient 
Access to Emergency Medications Act of 2016'' (continued), 10 a.m., 
HVC-210.
  September 22, Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade; 
and Subcommittee on Energy and Power, joint hearing entitled 
``Midterm Review and Update on the Corporate Average Fuel Economy 
Program and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Motor Vehicles'', 
10 a.m., HVC-210.
  September 22, Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, 
hearing entitled ``Modernizing the Telephone Consumer Protection 
Act'', 11 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  September 23, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, 
hearing entitled ``Bioresearch Labs and Inactivation of Dangerous 
Pathogens'', 9 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, September 21, Subcommittee on 
Housing and Insurance, hearing entitled ``The Future of Housing in 
America: A Better Way to Increase Efficiencies for Housing Vouchers 
and Create Upward Economic Mobility'', 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  September 21, Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government 
Sponsored Enterprises, hearing entitled ``Corporate Governance: 
Fostering a System that Promotes Capital Formation and Maximizes 
Shareholder Value'', 2 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  September 22, Full Committee, hearing entitled ``The Annual Report 
of the Financial Stability Oversight Council'', 10 a.m., 2128 
Rayburn.
  September 22, Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government 
Sponsored Enterprises, hearing entitled ``Examining the Agenda of 
Regulators, SROs, and Standards-Setters for Accounting, Auditing, 
and Municipal Securities'', 2 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  September 23, Subcommittee on Monetary Policy and Trade, hearing 
entitled ``The Financial Stability Board's Implications for U.S. 
Growth and Competitiveness'', 9:15 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, September 22, Subcommittee on Asia 
and the Pacific, hearing entitled ``Diplomacy and Security in the 
South China Sea: After the Tribunal'', 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  September 22, Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human 
Rights, and International Organizations, markup on H.R. 2189, the 
``Walter Patterson and Werner Foerster Justice and Extradition 
Act''; and H.R. 3833, to require a regional strategy to address the 
threat posed by Boko Haram, 2 p.m., 2200 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, September 21, Full Committee, 
hearing entitled ``Stopping the Next Attack: How to Keep Our City 
Streets from Becoming the Battleground'', 10 a.m., 311 Cannon.
  September 22, Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency, 
hearing entitled ``Identifying the Enemy: Radical Islamist Terror'', 
10 a.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on the Judiciary, September 21, Full Committee, hearing 
on the Impeachment Articles Referred on John Koskinen, Part III, 10 
a.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  September 22, Full Committee, hearing entitled ``Oversight of 
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement'', 10 a.m., 2237 
Rayburn.
  September 22, Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and 
Antitrust Law, hearing entitled ``Treating the Opioid Epidemic: The 
State of Competition in the Markets for Addiction Medicine'', 2 
p.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  September 23, Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, 
hearing entitled ``The Ultimate Civil Right: Examining the Hyde 
Amendment and the Born Alive Infants Protection Act'', 9 a.m., 2237 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, September 21, Full Committee, 
hearing entitled ``The Impacts of the Obama CEQ's Final Guidance for 
GHG Emissions and the Effects of Climate Change'', 10 a.m., 1334 
Longworth.
  September 21, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, 
hearing entitled ``The Status of the Federal Government's Management 
of Wolves'', 2 p.m., 1334 Longworth.
  September 21, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 564, ``Endangered 
Salmon and Fisheries Predation Prevention Act''; H.R. 2387, the 
``Alaska Native Veterans Land Allotment Equity Act''; H.R. 5780, the 
``Utah Public Lands Initiative Act''; H.R. 5984, the ``Pechanga Band 
of Luiseno Mission Indians Water Rights Settlement Act''; and S. 
3028, the ``Daniel J. Evans Olympic National Park Wilderness Act'', 
5 p.m., 1334 Longworth.
  September 22, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 564, ``Endangered 
Salmon and Fisheries Predation Prevention Act''; H.R. 2387, the 
``Alaska Native Veterans Land Allotment Equity Act''; H.R. 5780, the 
``Utah Public Lands Initiative Act''; H.R. 5984, the ``Pechanga Band 
of Luiseno Mission Indians Water Rights Settlement Act''; and S. 
3028, the ``Daniel J. Evans Olympic National Park Wilderness Act'' 
(continued), 10 a.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, September 21, Full 
Committee, hearing entitled ``Reviewing the Rising Price of 
EpiPens'', 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  September 22, Full Committee, hearing entitled ``Examining 
Preservation of State Department Federal Records'' (continued); and 
possible business meeting to consider a resolution and report 
recommending that the House of Representatives find Bryan Pagliano 
in contempt of Congress for refusal to comply with a subpoena duly 
issued by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, in the 
event that the witness fails to appear at the hearing, 10 a.m., 2154 
Rayburn.
  September 22, Full Committee, hearing entitled ``Examining 
Misconduct and Mismanagement at the National Park Service'', 1 p.m., 
2154 Rayburn.
  September 22, Subcommittee on Information Technology, hearing 
entitled ``Closing the Talent Gap in Federal IT'', 3 p.m., 2154 
Rayburn.
  September 22, Subcommittee on Government Operations, hearing 
entitled ``Examining Billion Dollar Waste through Improper 
Payments'', 3 p.m., 2247 Rayburn.
  September 23, Subcommittee on Transportation and Public Assets, 
hearing entitled ``Vacant Federal Properties'', 9 a.m., 2154 
Rayburn.
  September 23, Subcommittee on Government Operations, hearing 
entitled ``Reviewing the Tennessee Valley

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Authority's Prohibition on Houseboats'', 9 a.m., 2247 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, September 21, Full Committee, hearing on H.R. 
5931, the ``Prohibiting Future Ransom Payments to Iran Act'', 3 
p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology,  September 21, 
Subcommittee on Oversight; and Subcommittee on Energy, joint hearing 
entitled ``Examining Misconduct and Intimidation of Scientists by 
Senior DOE Officials'', 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  September 21, Full Committee, markup on the ``To Research, 
Evaluate, Assess, and Treat Astronauts Act''; the ``Cybersecurity 
Responsibility and Accountability Act of 2016''; and H.R. 5829, the 
``ADVISE Now Act'', 1 p.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, September 21, Full 
Committee, hearing entitled ``An Examination of FEMA's Limited Role 
in Local Land Use Development Decisions'', 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, September 21, Full Committee, 
markup on H.R. 5047, the ``Protecting Veterans' Educational Choice 
Act of 2016''; H.R. 5428, the ``Military Residency Choice 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. 5166, the ``WINGMAN Act''; H.R. 3216, the ``VET Act''; H.R. 
4150, the ``Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Medical 
Staffing Recruitment and Retention Act''; H.R. 5099, to establish a 
pilot program on partnership agreements to construct new facilities 
for the Department of Veterans Affairs; H.R. 5162, the ``Vet Connect 
Act of 2016''; H.R. 5392, the ``No Veterans Crisis Line Call Should 
Go Unanswered Act''; H.R. 5399, the ``Ethical Patient Care for 
Veterans Act of 2016''; and H.R. 5600, the ``No Hero Left Untreated 
Act'', 10:45 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, September 21, Subcommittee on Social 
Security, hearing entitled ``Understanding Social Security's 
Solvency Challenge'', 10 a.m., B-318 Rayburn.
  September 21, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 5879, to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the credit for production 
from advanced nuclear power facilities; H.R. 5406, the ``Helping 
Ensure Accountability, Leadership, and Trust in Tribal Healthcare 
Act''; H.R. 5204, the ``Stop Taxing Death and Disability Act''; and 
H.R. 4220, the ``Water and Agriculture Tax Reform Act of 2015'', 2 
p.m., 1100 Longworth.


                             Joint Meetings

  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: September 22, to 
hold hearings to examine atrocities in Iraq and Syria, focusing on 
relief for survivors and accountability for perpetrators, 10 a.m., 
2200, Rayburn Building.
  September 22, Full Committee, to receive a briefing on Moldova at 
a crossroads, 4 p.m., 2456, Rayburn Building.