[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 174 (Monday, December 5, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1093-D1094]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR TUESDAY,

                            DECEMBER 6, 2016

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Armed Services: to hold hearings to examine emerging 
United States defense challenges and worldwide threats, 9:30 a.m., 
SH-216.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: business meeting to consider H.R. 
1150, to amend the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to 
improve the ability of the United States to advance religious 
freedom globally through enhanced diplomacy, training, 
counterterrorism, and foreign assistance efforts, and through 
stronger and more flexible political responses to religious freedom 
violations and violent extremism worldwide, H.R. 2845, to promote 
access to benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act, 
H.R. 4481, to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to provide 
assistance for developing countries to promote quality basic 
education and to establish the goal of all children in school and 
learning as an objective of the United States foreign assistance 
policy, H.R. 4939, to increase engagement with the governments of 
the Caribbean region, the Caribbean diaspora community in the United 
States, and the private sector and civil society in both the United 
States and the Caribbean, S. Res. 537, expressing profound concern 
about the ongoing political, economic, social and humanitarian 
crisis in Venezuela, urging the release of political prisoners, and 
calling for respect of constitutional and democratic processes, S. 
Res. 535, expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the 
trafficking of illicit fentanyl into the United States from Mexico 
and China, an original bill to provide for the approval of the 
Agreement for Cooperation Between the Government of the United 
States of America and the Government of the Kingdom of Norway 
Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy, an original concurrent 
resolution honoring in praise and remembrance the extraordinary 
life, steady leadership, and remarkable, 70-year reign of King 
Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, S.

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Con. Res. 30, expressing concern over the disappearance of David 
Sneddon, protocol to the North Atlantic Treaty of 1949 on the 
Accession of Montenegro (Treaty Doc. 114-12), and the nomination of 
Kamala Shirin Lakhdhir, of Connecticut, to be Ambassador to 
Malaysia, and lists in the Foreign Service, all of the Department of 
State; to be immediately followed by a hearing to examine defeating 
the Iranian threat network, focusing on options for countering 
Iranian proxies, 2:30 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, to 
hold hearings to examine whether additional firewalls are needed to 
protect Congressional oversight staff from retaliatory criminal 
referrals, 2:30 p.m., SD-226.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold closed hearings to 
examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                                 House

  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations, hearing entitled ``Volkswagen's Emissions Cheating 
Settlement: Questions Concerning ZEV Program Implementation'', 11 
a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``American Compassion in India: Government Obstacles'', 10 a.m., 
2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, hearing entitled ``Step or 
Stumble: The Obama Administration's Pivot to Asia'', 2 p.m., 2172 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations, hearing entitled ``Examining Decades of Data 
Manipulation at the United States Geological Survey'', 10 a.m., 1324 
Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on 
Information Technology; and Subcommittee on Government Operations, 
joint hearing entitled ``The Federal Information Technology 
Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) Scorecard 3.0: Measuring Agencies' 
Implementation'', 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, Full Committee, hearing on H.R. 5143, the 
``Transparent Insurance Standards Act of 2016'', 3 p.m., H-313 
Capitol.