[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 4 (Monday, January 8, 2018)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D16-D17]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

               Week of January 9 through January 12, 2018

                             Senate Chamber

  On Tuesday, Senate will continue consideration of the nomination of 
William L. Campbell, Jr., of Tennessee, to be United States District 
Judge for the Middle District of Tennessee, post-cloture, and vote on 
confirmation of the nomination at 2:15 p.m.
  Following disposition of the nomination of William L. Campbell, Jr., 
Senate will vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the nomination of 
Thomas Lee Robinson Parker, of Tennessee, to be United States District 
Judge for the Western District of Tennessee.
  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 Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: January 9, to 
hold hearings to examine combating money laundering and other forms 
of illicit finance, focusing on opportunities to reform and 
strengthen Bank Secrecy Act enforcement, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: January 10, to hold 
hearings to examine America's water infrastructure needs and 
challenges, 10 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: January 9, to hold hearings to examine the 
anticipated nomination of Alex Michael Azar II, of Indiana, to be 
Secretary of Health and Human Services, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: January 9, Subcommittee on Western 
Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human 
Rights, and Global Women's Issues, to hold hearings to examine 
attacks on United States diplomats in Cuba, focusing on response and 
oversight, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  January 11, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine United 
States policy in Syria post-ISIS, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: January 9, to 
hold hearings to examine the opioid crisis, focusing on how to move 
forward, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  January 11, Full Committee, business meeting to consider the 
nominations of Mitchell Zais, of South Carolina, to be Deputy 
Secretary, Kenneth L. Marcus, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary 
for Civil Rights, and James Blew, of California, to be Assistant 
Secretary for Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development, all of 
the Department of Education, Patrick Pizzella, of Virginia, to be 
Deputy Secretary, Scott A. Mugno, of Pennsylvania, to be an 
Assistant Secretary, Cheryl Marie Stanton, of South Carolina, to be 
Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division, and William Beach, of 
Kansas, to be Commissioner of Labor Statistics, all of Department of 
Labor, and

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Brett Giroir, of Texas, to be Medical Director in the Regular Corps 
of the Public Health Service, and to be an Assistant Secretary of 
Health and Human Services, Time to be announced, Room to be 
announced.
  Committee on the Judiciary: January 10, to hold hearings to 
examine the nominations of Kurt D. Engelhardt, of Louisiana, to be 
United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, Barry W. Ashe, to 
be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of 
Louisiana, Howard C. Nielson, Jr., to be United States District 
Judge for the District of Utah, and James R. Sweeney II, to be 
United States District Judge for the Southern District of Indiana, 
10 a.m., SD-226.
  January 11, Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. 2152, 
to amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for assistance for 
victims of child pornography, and the nominations of Stuart Kyle 
Duncan, of Louisiana, to be United States Circuit Judge for the 
Fifth Circuit, David Ryan Stras, of Minnesota, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, Fernando Rodriguez, Jr., to be 
United States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas, 
Elizabeth L. Branch, of Georgia, to be United States Circuit Judge 
for the Eleventh Circuit, Annemarie Carney Axon, to be United States 
District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama, R. Stan Baker, 
to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of 
Georgia, Jeffrey Uhlman Beaverstock, to be United States District 
Judge for the Southern District of Alabama, Liles Clifton Burke, to 
be United States District Judge for the Northern District of 
Alabama, Thomas Alvin Farr, to be United States District Judge for 
the Eastern District of North Carolina, Charles Barnes Goodwin, to 
be United States District Judge for the Western District of 
Oklahoma, Michael Joseph Juneau, to be United States District Judge 
for the Western District of Louisiana, Matthew J. Kacsmaryk, to be 
United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas, 
Emily Coody Marks, to be United States District Judge for the Middle 
District of Alabama, Terry Fitzgerald Moorer, to be United States 
District Judge for the Southern District of Alabama, Mark Saalfield 
Norris, Sr., to be United States District Judge for the Western 
District of Tennessee, William M. Ray II, to be United States 
District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia, Eli Jeremy 
Richardson, to be United States District Judge for the Middle 
District of Tennessee, Holly Lou Teeter, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of Kansas, and Brian Allen 
Benczkowski, of Virginia, Jeffrey Bossert Clark, of Virginia, and 
Eric S. Dreiband, of Maryland, each to be an Assistant Attorney 
General, Joseph D. Brown, to be United States Attorney for the 
Eastern District of Texas, Matthew D. Krueger, to be United States 
Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Norman Euell 
Arflack, to be United States Marshal for the Eastern District of 
Kentucky, and Ted G. Kamatchus, to be United States Marshal for the 
Southern District of Iowa, all of the Department of Justice, 10 
a.m., SD-226.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: January 9, to receive a closed 
briefing on certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  January 11, Full Committee, to receive a closed briefing on 
certain intelligence matters, 2 p.m., SH-219.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Armed Services, January 10, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``Department of Defense Update on the Financial Improvement 
and Audit Remediation (FIAR) Plan'', 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, January 10, Subcommittee on 
Monetary Policy and Trade, hearing entitled ``A Further Examination 
of Federal Reserve Reform Proposals'', 2 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, January 10, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``Sanctions and Financial Pressure: Major National Security 
Tools'', 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  January 10, Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, hearing 
entitled ``Upcoming Elections in the Western Hemisphere: 
Implications for U.S. Policy'', 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, January 10, Full Committee, 
ratification of subcommittee assignments; markup on H.R. 506, the 
``Preventing Crimes Against Veterans Act of 2017'', 10 a.m., 2141 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, January 10, Full Committee, markup 
on H.R. 219, the ``Swan Lake Hydroelectric Project Boundary 
Correction Act''; H.R. 801, the ``Route 66 National Historic Trail 
Designation Act''; H.R. 1220, to establish the Adams Memorial 
Commission to carry out the provisions of Public Law 107-62, and for 
other purposes; H.R. 2711, the ``National Memorial to Fallen 
Educators Act''; H.R. 3133, the ``Streamlining Environmental 
Approvals Act of 2017''; and S. 117, the ``Alex Diekmann Peak 
Designation Act of 2017'', 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, January 10, Full 
Committee, markup on H.R. 4675, the ``Low Dose Radiation Research 
Act of 2017'', 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, January 10, Subcommittee on 
Economic Opportunity, hearing entitled ``Home Loan Churning 
Practices and How Veteran Homebuyers are Being Affected'', 10 a.m., 
334 Cannon.