[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 22 (Monday, February 5, 2018)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D116-D119]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

              Week of February 6 through February 9, 2018

                             Senate Chamber

  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 Armed Services: February 6, to receive a closed 
briefing on the National Defense Strategy, 2:30 p.m., SVC-217.
  February 7, Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, to 
hold hearings to examine defending the homeland, focusing on 
Department of Defense's role in countering weapons of mass 
destruction, 2:30 p.m., SR-232A.
  February 7, Subcommittee on Airland, to hold hearings to examine 
Army modernization, 3:30 p.m., SR-222.
  February 8, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Paul C. Ney, Jr., of Tennessee, to be General 
Counsel, Kevin Fahey, of Massachusetts, to be an Assistant 
Secretary, and Thomas E. Ayres, of Pennsylvania, to be General 
Counsel of the Department of the Air Force, all of the Department of 
Defense, and Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary 
for Nuclear Security, Department of Energy, 10:30 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: February 6, to 
hold hearings to examine virtual currencies, focusing on the 
oversight role of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the 
Commodity Futures Trading Commission, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  February 8, Full Committee, business meeting to consider 
subcommittee assignments for the Second Session of the 115th 
Congress, and the nominations of Jelena McWilliams, of Ohio, to be 
Chairperson of the Board of Directors, and to be a Member of the 
Board of Directors, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Marvin 
Goodfriend, of Pennsylvania, to be a Member of the Board of 
Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and Thomas E. Workman, of 
New York, to be a Member of the Financial Stability Oversight 
Council, 11 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: February 6, 
Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance, and 
Data Security, to hold hearings to examine data security and bug 
bounty programs, focusing on lessons learned from the Uber breach 
and security researchers, 3 p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: February 6, to hold 
hearings to examine S. 2182, to provide for the resettlement and 
relocation of the people of Bikini, and S. 2325, to incentivize the 
hiring of United States workers in the Commonwealth of the Northern 
Mariana Islands, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  February 7, Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining, to 
hold hearings to examine S. 414 and H.R. 1107, bills to promote 
conservation, improve public land management, and provide for 
sensible development

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in Pershing County, Nevada, S. 441, to designate the Organ Mountains 
and other public land as components of the National Wilderness 
Preservation System in the State of New Mexico, S. 507, to sustain 
economic development and recreational use of National Forest System 
land in the State of Montana, to add certain land to the National 
Wilderness Preservation System, to designate new areas for 
recreation, S. 612 and H.R. 1547, bills to provide for the 
unencumbering of title to non-Federal land owned by the city of 
Tucson, Arizona, for purposes of economic development by conveyance 
of the Federal reversionary interest to the City, S. 1046, to 
facilitate certain pinyon-juniper related projects in Lincoln 
County, Nevada, to modify the boundaries of certain wilderness areas 
in the State of Nevada, and to fully implement the White Pine County 
Conservation, Recreation, and Development Act, S. 1219 and H.R. 
3392, bills to provide for stability of title to certain land in the 
State of Louisiana, S. 1222, to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to convey certain land to La Paz County, Arizona, S. 1481, 
to make technical corrections to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement 
Act, S. 1665 and H.R. 2582, bills to authorize the State of Utah to 
select certain lands that are available for disposal under the Pony 
Express Resource Management Plan to be used for the support and 
benefit of State institutions, S. 2062, to require the Secretary of 
Agriculture to convey at market value certain National Forest System 
land in the State of Arizona, S. 2206, to release certain wilderness 
study areas in the State of Montana, S. 2218, to provide for the 
conveyance of a Forest Service site in Dolores County, Colorado, to 
be used for a fire station, S. 2249, to permanently reauthorize the 
Rio Puerco Management Committee and the Rio Puerco Watershed 
Management Program, H.R. 995, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture 
and the Secretary of the Interior to modernize terms in certain 
regulations, and H.R. 1404, to provide for the conveyance of certain 
land inholdings owned by the United States to the Tucson Unified 
School District and to the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona, 10 a.m., 
SD-366.
  February 8, Full Committee, to hold an oversight hearing to 
examine the evolution of energy infrastructure in the United States 
and how lessons learned from the past can inform future 
opportunities, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: February 7, business 
meeting to consider the nomination of Andrew Wheeler, of Virginia, 
to be Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, 
9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  February 7, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the impact 
of Federal environmental regulations and policies on American 
farming and ranching communities, 10 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: February 6, to hold hearings to 
examine the Administration's South Asia strategy on Afghanistan, 10 
a.m., SD-419.
  February 7, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine S. 2286, 
to amend the Peace Corps Act to provide greater protection and 
services for Peace Corps volunteers, S. 2060, to promote democracy 
and human rights in Burma, S. Res. 92, expressing concern over the 
disappearance of David Sneddon, H.R. 1625, to amend the State 
Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to include severe forms of 
trafficking in persons within the definition of transnational 
organized crime for purposes of the rewards program of the 
Department of State, H.R. 535, to encourage visits between the 
United States and Taiwan at all levels, and the nominations of Peter 
Hendrick Vrooman, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Rwanda, and Eric M. Ueland, of Oregon, to be an Under Secretary 
(Management), both of the Department of State, 4:15 p.m., S-116, 
Capitol.
  February 7, Full Committee, to receive a closed briefing on 
Turkey, 5 p.m., SVC-217.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: February 6, 
to hold hearings to examine reauthorizing the Higher Education Act, 
focusing on improving college affordability, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  February 6, Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement 
Security, to hold hearings to examine the ``Gig Economy'' and the 
future of retirement savings, 2:30 p.m., SD-430.
  February 8, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the opioid 
crisis, focusing on the impact on children and families, 10 a.m., 
SD-430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: February 
6, Subcommittee on Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency 
Management, to hold hearings to examine the cost to taxpayers of 
spending uncertainty caused by governing through continuing 
resolutions, giant omnibus spending bills, and shutdown crises, 2:30 
p.m., SD-562.
  February 7, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine 
reauthorizing the Department of Homeland Security, focusing on 
positioning DHS to address new and emerging threats to the Homeland, 
10 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: February 6, to hold hearings to 
examine beneficial ownership, focusing on fighting illicit 
international financial networks through transparency, 10 a.m., SD-
226.
  February 8, Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. 1917, 
to reform sentencing laws and correctional institutions, and the 
nominations of Kurt D. Engelhardt, of Louisiana, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, Michael B. Brennan, of 
Wisconsin, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Seventh 
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, James R. Sweeney II, 
to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of 
Indiana, Susan Paradise Baxter, to be United States District Judge 
for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Daniel Desmond Domenico, 
to be United States District Judge for the District of Colorado, 
Adam I. Klein, of the District of Columbia, to be Chairman and 
Member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, and John 
C. Anderson, to be United States Attorney for the District of New 
Mexico, Brandon J. Fremin, to be United States Attorney for the 
Middle District of Louisiana, Joseph P. Kelly, to be United States 
Attorney for the District of Nebraska, Scott W. Murray, to be United 
States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire, David C. Weiss, 
to be United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, David G. 
Jolley, to be

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United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Tennessee, and 
Thomas M. Griffin, Jr., to be United States Marshal for the District 
of South Carolina, all of the Department of Justice, 10:30 a.m., SD-
226.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: February 7, to hold hearings to 
examine S. 242, to amend title 38, United States Code, to permit 
veterans to grant access to their records in the databases of the 
Veterans Benefits Administration to certain designated congressional 
employees, S. 624, to allow servicemembers to terminate their cable, 
satellite television, and Internet access service contracts while 
deployed, S. 1072, to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve 
the provision of services for homeless veterans, S. 2038, to amend 
title 38, United States Code, to provide for a presumption of 
herbicide exposure for certain veterans who served in Korea, S. 
2097, to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the 
administration of State homes furnishing care to veterans under the 
laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, S. 2105, to 
modify the presumption of service connection for veterans who were 
exposed to herbicide agents while serving in the Armed Forces in 
Thailand during the Vietnam era, S. 2107, to amend title 38, United 
States Code, to require the Under Secretary of Health to report 
major adverse personnel actions involving certain health care 
employees to the National Practitioner Data Bank and to applicable 
State licensing boards, S. 2131, to amend title 38, United States 
Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to furnish 
medically necessary transportation for newborn children of certain 
women veterans, S. 2247, to amend title 38, United States Code, to 
provide for a consistent eligibility date for provision of 
Department of Veterans Affairs memorial headstones and markers for 
eligible spouses and dependent children of veterans whose remains 
are unavailable, S. 2248, to amend title 38, United States Code, to 
authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide certain 
burial benefits for spouses and children of veterans who are buried 
in tribal cemeteries, S. 2294, to amend title 38, United States 
Code, to ensure that individuals may access documentation verifying 
the monthly housing stipend paid to the individual under the Post-9/
11 Educational Assistance Program of the Department of Veterans 
Affairs, S. 2304, to amend title 38, United States Code, to protect 
veterans from predatory lending, S. 2341, to amend title 38, United 
States Code, to improve the processing of veterans benefits by the 
Department of Veterans Affairs, to limit the authority of the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs to recover overpayments made by the 
Department and other amounts owed by veterans to the United States, 
to improve the due process accorded veterans with respect to such 
recovery, S. 2357, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to 
review the processes and requirements of the Department of Veterans 
Affairs for scheduling appointments for health care and conducting 
consultations under the laws administered by the Secretary, an 
original bill to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to 
furnish organ transplant care to veterans at non-Department of 
Veterans Affairs facilities, an original bill to provide additional 
protections for our veterans, an original bill to provide outer 
burial receptacles for remains buried in National Parks, and an 
original bill entitled ``Department of Veterans Affairs Senior 
Executive Accountability Act of 2017'', 2:30 p.m., SR-418.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: February 6, to receive a closed 
briefing regarding certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  February 8, Full Committee, to receive a closed briefing regarding 
certain intelligence matters, 2 p.m., SH-219.
  Special Committee on Aging: February 7, to hold hearings to 
examine cost and competition among rheumatoid arthritis therapies, 
9:30 a.m., SD-562.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Armed Services, February 7, Subcommittee on Military 
Personnel, hearing entitled ``Senior Leader Misconduct: Prevention 
and Accountability'', 9 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways And Means, February 7, Subcommittee on Social 
Security, hearing entitled ``Ensuring Social Security Serves 
America's Veterans'', 9 a.m., 2253 Rayburn.


* These figures include all measures reported, even if there was 
no accompanying report. A total of 4 written reports have been 
filed in the Senate, 57 reports have been filed in the House.

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