[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 174 (Monday, December 5, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1094-D1095]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

              Week of December 6 through December 9, 2016

                             Senate Chamber

  On Tuesday, at approximately 10 a.m., Senate will continue 
consideration of the message of the House to accompany H.R. 34, Tsunami 
Warning, Education, and Research Act (the legislative vehicle for 21st 
Century Cures Act), post-cloture.
  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 Armed Services: December 6, to hold hearings to 
examine emerging United States defense challenges and worldwide 
threats, 9:30 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: December 7, 
Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine 
Infrastructure, Safety and Security, to hold hearings to examine 
assessing the security of our critical surface transportation 
infrastructure, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: December 6, 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. 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.
  December 8, Subcommittee on State Department and USAID Management, 
International Operations, and Bilateral International Development, 
to hold hearings to examine State Department and United States 
Agency for International Development management challenges and 
opportunities for the next administration, 10 a.m., SD-419.

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  Committee on Indian Affairs: December 7, to hold an oversight 
hearing to examine the Department of the Interior's Land Buy-Back 
Program for Tribal Nations, four years later, 2:15 p.m., SD-628.
  Committee on Judiciary: December 6, 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.
  December 7, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and 
Consumer Rights, to hold hearings to examine the competitive impact 
of the AT&T-Time Warner transaction, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: December 6, to hold closed 
hearings to examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  December 7, Full Committee, to receive a closed briefing on 
certain intelligence matters, 3 p.m., SH-219.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Agriculture, December 7, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``1890 Land-Grant Institutions: Recruitment Challenges and 
Scholarship Opportunities'', 10 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Armed Services, December 7, Subcommittee on Military 
Personnel, hearing entitled ``California National Guard Bonus 
Repayment Issue'', 2 p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  December 8, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing 
entitled ``Oversight Review of the U.S. Navy's Littoral Combat Ship 
(LCS) Program'', 9 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, December 7, Subcommittee on 
Health, hearing entitled ``Waste and Duplication in the USDA Catfish 
Inspection Program'', 10 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  December 8, Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, 
hearing entitled ``Mixed Martial Arts: Issues and Perspectives'', 10 
a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, December 7, Subcommittee on 
Monetary Policy and Trade, hearing entitled ``Unconventional 
Monetary Policy'', 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  December 8, Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government 
Sponsored Enterprises, hearing entitled ``The Impact of Regulations 
on Short-Term Financing'', 9:30 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, December 7, Subcommittee on Europe, 
Eurasia, and Emerging Threats, hearing entitled ``Corruption: A 
Danger to Democracy in Europe and Eurasia'', 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, December 7, Full 
Committee, hearing entitled ``Examining the Costs of 
Overclassification on Transparency and Security'', 9 a.m., 2154 
Rayburn.
  December 7, Subcommittee on Government Operations, hearing 
entitled ``Time and Attendance Abuse at the U.S. Patent and 
Trademark Office'', 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  December 8, Subcommittee on Government Operations, hearing 
entitled ``DATA Act Implementation Check-In'', 9 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, December 7, Full Committee, hearing on S. 612, 
to designate the Federal building and United States courthouse 
located at 1300 Victoria Street in Laredo, Texas, as the ``George P. 
Kazen Federal Building and United States Courthouse'', 3 p.m., H-313 
Capitol.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, December 7, Full 
Committee, markup on General Services Administration Capital 
Investment and Leasing Program Resolutions; and possible other 
matters cleared for consideration, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.


                             Joint Meetings

  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: December 7, to 
receive a briefing on Baltic security after the Warsaw NATO summit, 
2 p.m., 340, Cannon Building.