[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 114 (Monday, July 9, 2018)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D775-D779]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

                 Week of July 10 through July 13, 2018

                             Senate Chamber

  On Tuesday, Senate will continue consideration of the nomination of 
Mark Jeremy Bennett, of Hawaii, to be United States Circuit Judge for 
the Ninth Circuit, post-cloture, and vote on confirmation of the 
nomination at 2:15 p.m.
  Following disposition of the Bennett nomination, Senate will vote on 
the motion to invoke cloture on the nomination of Brian Allen 
Benczkowski, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Attorney General, 
Department of Justice.

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  Following disposition of the Benczkowski nomination, Senate will vote 
on the motion to invoke cloture on the nomination of Paul C. Ney, Jr., 
of Tennessee, to be General Counsel of the Department of Defense.
  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: July 12, to hold 
hearings to examine the credit bureaus and the Fair Credit Reporting 
Act, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: July 11, to 
hold hearings to examine complex cybersecurity vulnerabilities, 
focusing on lessons learned from Spectre and Meltdown, 10 a.m., SR-
253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: July 11, Subcommittee 
on National Parks, to hold hearings to examine S. 3172, to amend 
title 54, United States Code, to establish, fund, and provide for 
the use of amounts in a National Park Service Legacy Restoration 
Fund to address the maintenance backlog of the National Park 
Service, 3 p.m., SD-366.
  July 12, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the policy 
issues facing interstate delivery networks for natural gas and 
electricity, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: July 11, to hold 
hearings to examine the long-term value to United States taxpayers 
of low-cost Federal infrastructure loans, 10 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: July 11, Subcommittee on Social Security, 
Pensions, and Family Policy, to hold hearings to examine the 
importance of paid family leave for American working families, 3 
p.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: July 10, business meeting to 
consider S. 2497, to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and 
the Arms Export Control Act to make improvements to certain defense 
and security assistance provisions and to authorize the 
appropriations of funds to Israel, S. Res. 557, expressing the sense 
of the Senate regarding the strategic importance of NATO to the 
collective security of the transatlantic region and urging its 
member states to work together at the upcoming summit to strengthen 
the alliance, the nominations of Randy W. Berry, of Colorado, to be 
Ambassador to the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, Donald Lu, 
of California, to be Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic, and Alaina 
B. Teplitz, of Colorado, to be Ambassador to the Democratic 
Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, and to serve concurrently and 
without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of 
Maldives, all of the Department of State, and routine lists in the 
Foreign Service, 2:15 p.m., S-116, Capitol.
  July 12, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine tariffs, 
focusing on implications for United States foreign policy and the 
international economy, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: July 11, 
Subcommittee on Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management, 
to hold hearings to examine warrantless smartphone searches at the 
border, 2:30 p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: July 11, business meeting to consider 
H.R. 597, to take lands in Sonoma County, California, into trust as 
part of the reservation of the Lytton Rancheria of California; to be 
immediately followed by a hearing to examine S. 2599, to provide for 
the transfer of certain Federal land in the State of Minnesota for 
the benefit of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, 2:30 p.m., SD-628.
  Committee on the Judiciary: July 11, to hold hearings to examine 
the nominations of Ryan Douglas Nelson, of Idaho, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Stephen R. Clark, Sr., 
to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of 
Missouri, John M. O'Connor, to be United States District Judge for 
the Northern, Eastern and Western Districts of Oklahoma, Joshua 
Wolson, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District 
of Pennsylvania, and James W. Carroll, Jr., of Virginia, to be 
Director of National Drug Control Policy, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  July 12, Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. 2946, to 
amend title 18, United States Code, to clarify the meaning of the 
terms ``act of war'' and ``blocked asset'', and the nominations of 
Britt Cagle Grant, of Georgia, to be United States Circuit Judge for 
the Eleventh Circuit, David James Porter, of Pennsylvania, to be 
United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, A. Marvin 
Quattlebaum, Jr., of South Carolina, and Julius Ness Richardson, of 
South Carolina, both to be a United States Circuit Judge for the 
Fourth Circuit, Roy Kalman Altman, and Rodolfo Armando Ruiz II, both 
to be a United States District Judge for the Southern District of 
Florida, Raul M. Arias-Marxuach, to be United States District Judge 
for the District of Puerto Rico, and Maria Chapa Lopez, to be United 
States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, and Richard E. 
Taylor, Jr., to be United States Marshal for the Northern District 
of Texas, both of the Department of Justice, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Rules and Administration: July 11, to hold hearings 
to examine election security preparations, focusing on Federal and 
vendor perspectives, 10:30 a.m., SR-301.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: July 10, business meeting to 
consider the nomination of Robert L. Wilkie, of North Carolina, to 
be Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Time to be announced, Room to be 
announced.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: July 12, closed business meeting 
to consider pending intelligence matters; to be immediately followed 
by a closed briefing on certain intelligence matters, 2 p.m., SH-
219.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Appropriations, July 11, Full Committee, markup on FY 
2019 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Bill, 10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Armed Services, July 11, Subcommittee on Emerging 
Threats and Capabilities, hearing entitled ``Department of Defense's 
Role in Foreign Assistance'', 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.

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  Committee on Energy and Commerce, July 11, Subcommittee on Health, 
hearing entitled ``Opportunities to Improve the 340B Drug Pricing 
Program'', 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  July 11, Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, hearing 
entitled ``Protecting Customer Proprietary Network Information in 
the Internet Age'', 10:15 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  July 11, Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, 
hearing entitled ``Examining Drug-Impaired Driving'', 1 p.m., 2123 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, July 11, Full Committee, markup 
on H.R. 1611, the ``Gender Diversity in Corporate Leadership Act of 
2017''; H.R. 3555, the ``Exchange Regulatory Improvement Act''; H.R. 
6021, the ``Small Business Audit Correction Act of 2018''; H.R. 
6177, the ``Developing and Empowering our Aspiring Leaders Act''; 
legislation on the Expanding Investment in Small Businesses Act; 
legislation on the Enhancing Multi-Class Stock Disclosure Act; 
legislation on the Middle Market IPO Underwriting Cost Act; 
legislation on the Promoting Transparent Standards for Corporate 
Insiders Act; legislation on the Investment Adviser Regulatory 
Flexibility Improvement Act; and legislation on the National Senior 
Investor Initiative Act of 2018, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  July 12, Full Committee, hearing entitled ``The Annual Testimony 
of the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of the International 
Financial System'', 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  July 12, Subcommittee on Terrorism and Illicit Finance, hearing 
entitled ``Countering the Financial Networks of Weapons 
Proliferation'', 2 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, July 11, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``Advancing U.S. Interests in the Western Hemisphere'', 10 
a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  July 11, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade; 
and Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, joint hearing entitled 
``China's Predatory Trade and Investment Strategy'', 2 p.m., 2172 
Rayburn.
  July 12, Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human 
Rights, and International Organizations, hearing entitled 
``Combating Tuberculosis in Southern Africa'', 2 p.m., 2200 Rayburn.
  July 12, Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, hearing entitled 
``Nicaraguan Crisis: Next Steps to Advancing Democracy''; and markup 
on H. Res. 981, condemning the violence, persecution, intimidation, 
and murders committed by the Government of Nicaragua against its 
citizens, 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, July 11, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``DHS's Progress in Securing Election Systems and Other 
Critical Infrastructure'', 10:30 a.m., HVC-210.
  July 12, Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence; and 
Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency, joint hearing 
entitled ``Access Denied: Keeping Adversaries Away from the Homeland 
Security Supply Chain'', 10 a.m., HVC-210.
  Committee on the Judiciary, July 12, Full Committee; and full 
Committee of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 
hearing entitled ``Oversight of FBI and DOJ Actions Surrounding the 
2016 Election: Testimony by FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter 
Strzok'', 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, July 11, Full Committee, markup on 
H.R. 577, to designate a peak in the State of Nevada as Maude 
Frazier Mountain; H.R. 1482, to authorize the Secretary of 
Agriculture to maintain or replace certain facilities and structures 
for commercial recreation services at Smith Gulch in Idaho, and for 
other purposes; H.R. 3764, the ``Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa 
Indians Restoration Act of 2017''; H.R. 5613, the ``Quindaro 
Townsite National Historic Landmark Act''; H.R. 6077, the ``National 
Comedy Center Recognition Act''; and H.R. 6302, to enact as law 
certain regulations relating to the taking of double-crested 
cormorants, 10:15 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  July 11, Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans, hearing on H.R. 
6038, to establish a procedure for the conveyance of certain Federal 
property around the Dickinson Reservoir in the State of North 
Dakota; H.R. 6039, to establish a procedure for the conveyance of 
certain Federal property around the Jamestown Reservoir in the State 
of North Dakota, and for other purposes; H.R. 6040, the ``Contra 
Costa Canal Transfer Act''; and H.R. 5556, the ``Environmental 
Compliance Cost Transparency Act of 2018'', 2 p.m., 1324 Longworth.
  July 12, Subcommittee on Federal Lands, hearing entitled ``The 
Essential Role of Livestock Grazing on Federal Lands and its 
Importance to Rural America'', 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, July 11, 
Subcommittee on National Security, hearing entitled ``The Muslim 
Brotherhood's Global Threat'', 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, July 11, Full Committee, hearing on H.R. 6237, 
the ``Matthew Young Pollard Intelligence Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Years 2018 and 2019'', 3 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, July 12, Subcommittee 
on Energy; and Subcommittee on Research and Technology, joint 
hearing entitled ``Big Data Challenges and Advanced Computing 
Solutions'', 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, July 11, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``Innovation Nation: How Small Businesses in the Digital 
Technology Industry Use Intellectual Property'', 11 a.m., 2360 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, July 12, Full Committee, business 
meeting to assign Representative Bill Flores of Texas to 
subcommittees; amend the Committee Rules to establish a Subcommittee 
on Technology Modernization; set the membership ratio of the 
subcommittee; assign a chair and ranking member of the subcommittee; 
assign majority and minority members of the subcommittee; and for 
other purposes, 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  July 12, Full Committee, markup on pending legislation, 10:15 
a.m., 334 Cannon.

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                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Economic Committee: July 12, to hold hearings to examine the 
innovation economy, entrepreneurship, and barriers to capital 
access, 2:30 p.m., SH-216.


* These figures include all measures reported, even if there was 
no accompanying report. A total of 92 written reports have been 
filed in the Senate, 319 reports have been filed in the House.

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