[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 130 (Tuesday, August 1, 2017)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D873-D875]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                             AUGUST 2, 2017

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: business 
meeting to consider the nominations of Rostin Behnam, of New Jersey, 
Brian D. Quintenz, of Ohio, and Dawn DeBerry Stump, of Texas, each 
to be a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, 
Time to be announced, Room to be announced.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: business 
meeting to consider S. 374, to enable concrete masonry products 
manufacturers to establish, finance, and carry out a coordinated 
program of research, education, and promotion to improve, maintain, 
and develop markets for concrete masonry products, S. 754, to 
support meeting our Nation's growing cybersecurity workforce needs 
by expanding the cybersecurity education pipeline, S. 1322, to 
establish the American Fisheries Advisory Committee to assist in the 
awarding of fisheries research and development grants, S. 1425, to 
reauthorize the Integrated Coastal and Ocean Observation System Act 
of 2009, S. 1532, to disqualify from operating a commercial motor 
vehicle for life an individual who uses a commercial motor vehicle 
in committing a felony involving human trafficking, S. 1536, to 
designate a human trafficking prevention coordinator and to expand 
the scope of activities authorized under the Federal Motor Carrier 
Safety Administration's outreach and education program to include 
human trafficking prevention activities, S. 1586, to require the 
Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere to update periodically the 
environmental sensitivity index products of the National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration for each coastal area of the Great Lakes, 
S. 1621, to require the Federal Communications Commission to 
establish a methodology for the collection by the Commission of 
information about commercial mobile service and commercial mobile 
data service, and the nominations of Ajit Varadaraj Pai, of Kansas, 
Jessica Rosenworcel, of Connecticut, and Brendan Carr, of Virginia, 
each to be a Member of the Federal Communications Commission, David 
J. Redl, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary for Communications 
and Information, Peter B. Davidson, of Virginia, to be General 
Counsel, Karen Dunn Kelley, of Pennsylvania, to be Under Secretary 
for Economic Affairs, and Elizabeth Erin Walsh, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary and Director General of the 
United States and Foreign Commercial Service, all of the Department 
of Commerce, Steven Gill Bradbury, of Virginia, to be General 
Counsel, Mark H. Buzby, of Virginia, to be Administrator of the 
Maritime Administration, and Ronald L. Batory, of New Jersey, to be 
Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration, all of the 
Department of Transportation, and Robert L. Sumwalt III, of South 
Carolina, to be Chairman of the National Transportation Safety 
Board, 10 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water 
and Power, to hold hearings to examine increasing water security and 
drought preparedness through infrastructure, management, and 
innovation, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: to hold hearings to 
examine the Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters 
consolidation project, 10 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western 
Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human 
Rights, and Global Women's Issues, to hold hearings to examine 
assessing the Colombia peace process, focusing on the way forward in 
United States-Colombia relations; to be immediately followed by a 
full committee hearing to examine the nomination of Doug Manchester, 
of California, to be Ambassador to the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, 
Department of State, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Full Committee, to receive a closed briefing on the Authorizations 
for the Use of Military Force, focusing on Administration 
perspectives, 2 p.m., SVC-217.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: business 
meeting to consider the nominations of Lance Allen Robertson, of 
Oklahoma, to be Assistant Secretary for Aging, Brett Giroir, of 
Texas, and Robert P. Kadlec, of New York, both to be a Medical 
Director in the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service, and to 
be Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, and Elinore F. 
McCance-Katz, of Rhode Island, to be Assistant Secretary for Mental 
Health and Substance Use, all of the Department of Health and Human 
Services, Jerome M. Adams, of Indiana, to be Medical Director in the 
Regular Corps of the Public Health Service, and to be Surgeon 
General of the Public Health Service, Patrick Pizzella, of Virginia, 
to be Deputy Secretary of Labor, and Heather L.

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MacDougall, of Florida, and James J. Sullivan, Jr., of Pennsylvania, 
both to be a Member of the Occupational Safety and Health Review 
Commission, 11 a.m., S-216, Capitol.
  Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: business meeting 
to consider S. 154, to amend the Small Business Act to ensure small 
businesses affected by the onset of transmissible diseases are 
eligible for disaster relief, S. 650, to amend the Small Business 
Act to expand tax credit education and training for small businesses 
that engage in research and development, S. 690, to extend the 
eligibility of redesignated areas as HUBZones from 3 years to 7 
years, S. 929, to improve the HUBZone program, S. 1038, to require 
the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to submit to 
Congress a report on the utilization of small businesses with 
respect to certain Federal contracts, and S. 1428, to amend section 
21 of the Small Business Act to require cyber certification for 
small business development center counselors, 11 a.m., S-219, 
Capitol.


                                 House

  No hearings are scheduled.


* These figures include all measures reported, even if there was 
no accompanying report. A total of 139 written reports have been 
filed in the Senate, 198 reports have been filed in the House.

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