[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 12 (Monday, January 23, 2017)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D64-D65]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR TUESDAY,

                            JANUARY 24, 2017

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Armed Services: 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: 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: 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: 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'', 10:15 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Finance: 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.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: business meeting to consider the 
nomination of Nikki R. Haley, of South Carolina, to be the 
Representative of the United States of America to the United 
Nations, with the rank and status of Ambassador, and the 
Representative of the United States of America in the Security 
Council of the United Nations, and to be Representative of the 
United States of America to the Sessions of the General Assembly of 
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United Nations during her tenure of service as Representative of the 
United States of America to the United Nations, 12 noon, S-116, 
Capitol.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: 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: 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: 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.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: organizational business meeting to 
consider committee rules, and an original resolution authorizing 
expenditures by the committee during the 115th Congress, 3 p.m., SR-
418.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold closed hearings to 
examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                                 House

  Committee on the Budget, 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 Education and the Workforce, Full Committee, 
organizational meeting for the 115th Congress, 11:15 a.m., 2175 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Full Committee, organizational 
meeting for the 115th Congress, 1 p.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Full Committee, organizational 
meeting for the 115th Congress, 10:30 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Full Committee, organizational meeting 
for the 115th Congress, 11 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Full Committee, 
organizational meeting for the 115th Congress, 1 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, 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, Full Committee, 
hearing entitled ``Ongoing Intelligence Activities'', 10 a.m., HVC-
304. This hearing will be closed.