[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 11 (Friday, January 20, 2017)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D58-D59]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

              Week of January 23 through January 27, 2017

                             Senate Chamber

  On Monday, at approximately 3 p.m., Senate will resume consideration 
of the nomination of Mike Pompeo, of Kansas, to be Director of the 
Central Intelligence Agency, and after a period of debate, vote on 
confirmation of the nomination.
  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: January 24, to hold hearings to 
examine the defense budget for fiscal year 2018 and onwards, 9:30 
a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: January 24, 
organizational business meeting to consider committee rules, 
subcommittee assignments, an original resolution authorizing 
expenditures by the committee during the 115th Congress, and the 
nomination of Benjamin S. Carson, Sr., of Florida, to be Secretary 
of Housing and Urban Development, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on the Budget: January 24, to hold hearings to examine 
the nomination of Mick Mulvaney, of South Carolina, to be Director 
of the Office of Management and Budget, 10:30 a.m., SD-608.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: January 24, 
organizational business meeting to consider committee rules, an 
original resolution authorizing expenditures by the committee during 
the 115th Congress, S. 19, to provide opportunities for broadband 
investment, S. 81, to establish an advisory office within the Bureau 
of Consumer Protection of the Federal Trade Commission to prevent 
fraud targeting seniors, S. 88, to ensure appropriate spectrum 
planning and interagency coordination to support the Internet of 
Things, S. 89, 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 and 
for other purposes, S. 96, 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. 102, to direct the 
Federal Communications Commission to commence proceedings related to 
the resiliency of critical communications networks during times of 
emergency, S. 110, to require the Secretary of Commerce, acting 
through the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration, to establish a constituent-driven program to provide 
a digital information platform capable of efficiently integrating 
coastal data with decision-support tools, training, and best 
practices and to support collection of priority coastal geospatial 
data to inform and improve local, State, regional, and Federal 
capacities to manage the coastal region, S. 118, to make exclusive 
the authority of the Federal Government to regulate the labeling of 
products made in the United States and introduced in interstate or 
foreign commerce, S. 123, to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to 
require multi-line telephone systems to have a default configuration 
that permits users to directly initiate a call to 9-1-1 without 
dialing any additional digit, code, prefix, or post-fix, S. 129, to 
reauthorize and amend the National Sea Grant College Program Act, S. 
134, to expand the prohibition on misleading or inaccurate caller 
identification information, S. 141, to improve understanding and 
forecasting of space weather events, H.R. 255, to authorize the 
National Science Foundation to support entrepreneurial programs for 
women, H.R. 321, to inspire women to enter the aerospace field, 
including science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, through 
mentorship and outreach, an original bill entitled ``Commercial 
Vessel Incidental Discharge Act'', an original bill entitled 
``National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned 
Officer Corps Amendments and Hydrographic Services Improvement Act 
Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2017'', and an original bill 
entitled ``Federal Communications Commission Consolidated Reporting 
Act'', 10 a.m., SD-G50.
  Committee on Finance: January 24, to hold hearings to examine the 
nomination of Thomas Price, of Georgia, to be Secretary of Health 
and Human Services, 10 a.m., SD-215.

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  Committee on Foreign Relations: January 23, business meeting to 
consider the nomination of Rex W. Tillerson, of Texas, to be 
Secretary of State, 4:30 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: January 24, 
organizational business meeting to consider an original resolution 
authorizing expenditures by the committee during the 115th Congress, 
committee rules, subcommittee membership and jurisdiction, and the 
nomination of Elisabeth Prince DeVos, of Michigan, to be Secretary 
of Education, 2:30 p.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: January 
24, to hold hearings to examine the nomination of Mick Mulvaney, of 
South Carolina, to be Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget, 2:30 p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: January 24, organizational business 
meeting to consider committee rules, subcommittee assignments, an 
original resolution authorizing expenditures by the committee during 
the 115th Congress, and the nomination of Jeff Sessions, of Alabama, 
to be Attorney General, Department of Justice, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: January 24, to 
hold hearings to examine the nomination of Linda E. McMahon, of 
Connecticut, to be Administrator of the Small Business 
Administration, 10:30 a.m., SR-428A.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: January 24, to hold closed 
hearings to examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                            House Committees

  Committee on the Budget, January 24, Full Committee, 
organizational meeting for the 115th Congress; hearing entitled 
``The Failures of Obamacare Harmful Effects and Broken Promises'', 
10 a.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, January 24, Full Committee, 
organizational meeting for the 115th Congress, 10:30 a.m., 2172 
Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, January 24, Full Committee, 
organizational meeting for the 115th Congress, 11 a.m., 2141 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, January 24, Full 
Committee, organizational meeting for the 115th Congress, 1 p.m., 
2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, January 24, Subcommittee on 
Oversight, organizational meeting for the 115th Congress; hearing on 
examining the effectiveness of the individual mandate under the 
Affordable Care Act, 2 p.m., 1100 Longworth.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, January 24, Full 
Committee, hearing entitled ``Ongoing Intelligence Activities'', 10 
a.m., HVC-304. This hearing will be closed.