[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 176 (Tuesday, October 31, 2017)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1148-D1149]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                            NOVEMBER 1, 2017

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: business meeting 
to consider the nominations of David J. Ryder, of New Jersey, to be 
Director of the Mint, Department of the Treasury, and Hester Maria 
Peirce, of Ohio, and Robert J. Jackson, Jr., of New York, both to be 
a Member of the Securities and Exchange Commission; to be 
immediately followed by a hearing to examine the nominations of 
Scott Garrett, of New Jersey, to be President, Kimberly A. Reed, of 
West Virginia, to be First Vice President, Mark L. Greenblatt, of 
Maryland, to be Inspector General, and Spencer Bachus III, of 
Alabama, Judith Delzoppo Pryor, of Ohio, and Claudia Slacik, of New 
York, each to be a Member of the Board of Directors, all of the 
Export-Import Bank, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold 
hearings to examine the nominations of James Bridenstine, of 
Oklahoma, to be Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration, Dana Baiocco, of Ohio, to be a Commissioner of the 
Consumer Product Safety Commission, and Nazakhtar Nikakhtar, of 
Maryland, and Neil Jacobs, of North Carolina, both to be an 
Assistant Secretary of Commerce, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Irwin Steven Goldstein, of New York, to be Under 
Secretary for Public Diplomacy, Rebecca Eliza Gonzales, of Texas, to 
be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Lesotho, Lisa A. Johnson, of 
Washington, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Namibia, James 
Randolph Evans, of Georgia, to be Ambassador to Luxembourg, and Sean 
P. Lawler, of Maryland, to be Chief of Protocol, and to have the 
rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service, all of the 
Department of State, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Subcommittee on Multilateral International Development, 
Multilateral Institutions, and International Economic, Energy, and 
Environmental Policy, to hold hearings to examine energy and 
international development, 2:30 p.m., SD-419.

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  Committee on Indian Affairs: to hold an oversight hearing to 
examine building tribal economies, focusing on modernizing tax 
policies that work for Indian country, 2:30 p.m., SD-628.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Leonard Steven Grasz, of Nebraska, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, Terry A. Doughty, to be 
United States District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana, 
Terry Fitzgerald Moorer, to be United States District Judge for the 
Southern District of Alabama, and Mark Saalfield Norris, Sr., to be 
United States District Judge for the Western District of Tennessee, 
10 a.m., SD-226.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold hearings to examine 
social media influence in the 2016 United States elections, 9:30 
a.m., SH-216.


                                 House

  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on State, Foreign 
Operations, and Related Programs, oversight hearing entitled 
``Accountable Soft Power in the National Interest'', 10:30 a.m., 
2359 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Digital Commerce 
and Consumer Protection, hearing entitled ``Securing Consumers' 
Credit Data in the Age of Digital Commerce'', 10:30 a.m., 2123 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, hearing entitled 
``Oversight of FirstNet: State Perspectives'', 10:40 a.m., 2322 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations, hearing entitled ``Examining the Community 
Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery Program'', 10:30 a.m., 
2128 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, 
hearing entitled ``Data Security: Vulnerabilities and Opportunities 
for Improvement'', 2 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``An Insider's Look at the North Korean Regime'', 10:30 a.m., 2172 
Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, 
Commercial and Antitrust Law, hearing entitled ``Net Neutrality and 
the Role of Antitrust'', 10:30 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, hearing on 
H.R. 490, the ``Heartbeat Protection Act of 2017'', 11:30 a.m., 2237 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security, hearing entitled 
``Oversight of the Executive Office for Immigration Review'', 2 
p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on 
National Security, hearing entitled ``Overview of 16 Years of 
Involvement in Afghanistan'', 10:30 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, Full Committee, hearing on H.R. 849, the 
``Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 2017''; and H.R. 
3922, the ``Community Health And Medical Professionals Improve Our 
Nation Act of 2017'', 3 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Subcommittee on 
Energy, hearing entitled ``The Future of Low Dose Radiation 
Research'', 10:30 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Russia Investigative 
Task Force, hearing entitled ``Impact of Russian Advertisements on 
Social Media'', 2 p.m., HVC-210.