[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 197 (Monday, December 4, 2017)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1278-D1279]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





            COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2017

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, 
Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies, to 
hold hearings to examine addressing the opioid crisis in America, 
focusing on prevention, treatment, and recovery, 10 a.m., SD-124.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: business meeting 
to consider S. 2155, to promote economic growth, provide tailored 
regulatory relief, and enhance consumer protections, and the 
nomination of Jerome H. Powell, of Maryland, to be Chairman of the 
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: to hold hearings to 
examine the nominations of Timothy R. Petty, of Indiana, to be an 
Assistant Secretary of the Interior, and Linda Capuano, of Texas, to 
be Administrator of the Energy Information Administration, 
Department of Energy, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  Subcommittee on Energy, to hold hearings to examine S. 1336, to 
amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to reauthorize hydroelectric 
production incentives and hydroelectric efficiency improvement 
incentives, S. 1455, to amend the United States Energy Storage 
Competitiveness Act of 2007 to direct the Secretary of Energy to 
establish new goals for the Department of Energy relating to energy 
storage and to carry out certain demonstration projects relating to 
energy storage, S. 1563, to authorize the Office of Fossil Energy to 
develop advanced separation technologies for the extraction and 
recovery of rare earth elements and minerals from coal and coal 
byproducts, S. 1851, to require the Secretary of Energy to establish 
an energy storage research program, demonstration and deployment 
program, and technical assistance and grant program, S. 1876, to 
direct the Secretary of Energy to establish a program to advance 
energy storage deployment by reducing the cost of energy storage 
through research, development, and demonstration, S. 1981, to amend 
the Natural Gas Act to expedite approval of exports of small volumes 
of natural gas, and S. 2030, to deem the compliance date for amended 
energy conservation standards for ceiling light kits to be January 
21, 2020, 2:30 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: business meeting to consider S. 
1118, to reauthorize the North Korea Human Rights Act of 2004, S. 
1901, to require global economic and political pressure to support 
diplomatic denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, including 
through the imposition of sanctions with respect to the Government 
of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and any enablers of the 
activities of that Government, and to reauthorize the North Korean 
Human Rights Act of 2004, S. 447, to require reporting on acts of 
certain foreign countries on Holocaust era assets and related 
issues, S. Res. 150, recognizing threats to freedom

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of the press and expression around the world and reaffirming freedom 
of the press as a priority in efforts of the United States 
Government to promote democracy and good governance, S. Res. 139, 
condemning the Government of Iran's state-sponsored persecution of 
its Baha'i minority and its continued violation of the International 
Covenants on Human Rights, and the nominations of Eric M. Ueland, of 
Oregon, to be an Under Secretary (Management), and James Randolph 
Evans, of Georgia, to be Ambassador to Luxembourg, both of the 
Department of State; to be immediately followed by a hearing in SD-
419 to examine the President, Congress, and shared authority over 
the international accords, 2:30 p.m., S-116, Capitol.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: to hold 
hearings to examine the nominations of Kenneth L. Marcus, of 
Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, and Johnny 
Collett, of Kentucky, to be Assistant Secretary for Special 
Education and Rehabilitative Services, both of the Department of 
Education, and Scott A. Mugno, of Pennsylvania, to be an Assistant 
Secretary, and William Beach, of Kansas, to be Commissioner of Labor 
Statistics, both of the Department of Labor, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to receive a closed briefing on 
certain intelligence matters, 3 p.m., SH-219.


                                 House

  Committee on Rules, Full Committee, hearing on H.R. 38, the 
``Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017''; and legislation on the 
Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2018, 2 p.m., H-313 Capitol.