[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 143 (Wednesday, September 21, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D962-D963]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                           SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Armed Services: 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: 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 Energy and Natural Resources: 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 
national 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 Foreign Relations: 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.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: 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: to hold 
hearings to examine exploring a right to try for terminally ill 
patients, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management, to hold 
hearings to examine agency regulatory guidance, 3 p.m., SD-342.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to receive a closed briefing on 
certain intelligence matters, 2 p.m., SH-219.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, 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 Education and the Workforce, 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, 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.
  Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, hearing entitled 
``Modernizing the Telephone Consumer Protection Act'', 11 a.m., 2322 
Rayburn.

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  Committee on Financial Services, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``The Annual Report of the Financial Stability Oversight Council'', 
10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  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.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Asia and the 
Pacific, hearing entitled ``Diplomacy and Security in the South 
China Sea: After the Tribunal'', 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  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, Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Management Efficiency, hearing entitled ``Identifying the Enemy: 
Radical Islamist Terror'', 10 a.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Oversight of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement'', 
10 a.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  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.
  Committee on Natural Resources, 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, 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.
  Full Committee, hearing entitled ``Examining Misconduct and 
Mismanagement at the National Park Service'', 1 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Information Technology, hearing entitled ``Closing 
the Talent Gap in Federal IT'', 3 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Government Operations, hearing entitled 
``Examining Billion Dollar Waste through Improper Payments'', 3 
p.m., 2247 Rayburn.


                             Joint Meetings

  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: 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.
  Full Committee, to receive a briefing on Moldova at a crossroads, 
4 p.m., 2456, Rayburn Building.