[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 102 (Tuesday, June 18, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D696-D699]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

                 Week of June 19 through June 21, 2019

                             Senate Chamber

  On Wednesday, Senate will resume consideration of the nomination of 
Matthew J. Kacsmaryk, to be United States District Judge for the 
Northern District of Texas, post-cloture.
  At 3:30 p.m., Senate will vote on confirmation of the nominations of 
Matthew J. Kacsmaryk, to be United States District Judge for the 
Northern District of Texas, Allen Cothrel Winsor, to be United States 
District Judge for the Northern District of Florida, James David Cain, 
Jr., to be United States District Judge for the Western District of 
Louisiana, and Greg Gerard Guidry, to be United States District Judge 
for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
  Following disposition of the nomination of Greg Gerard Guidry, Senate 
will vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to 
S. 1790, National Defense Authorization Act.
  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 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: June 20, 
Subcommittee on Livestock, Marketing, and Agriculture Security, to 
hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence matters, 2 
p.m., SH-219.
  Committee on Appropriations: June 19, business meeting to markup 
an original bill entitled, ``Emergency Supplemental Appropriations 
for Humanitarian Assistance and Security at the Southern Border, 
2019'', 10:30 a.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Armed Services: June 19, with the Committee on 
Foreign Relations, to receive a closed joint briefing on Iran's 
recent escalation and United States policy responses, 2 p.m., SVC-
217.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: June 20, to hold 
hearings to examine outside perspectives on the collection of 
beneficial ownership information, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on the Budget: June 19, to hold hearings to examine 
fixing a broken budget process, focusing on lessons from states, 
2:30 p.m., SD-608.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: June 19, to 
hold hearings to examine the Fixing America's Surface Transportation 
Act reauthorization, focusing on transportation and safety issues, 
10 a.m., SH-216.
  June 20, Subcommittee on Manufacturing, Trade, and Consumer 
Protection, to hold an oversight hearing to examine the Consumer 
Product Safety Commission, 10:30 a.m., SD-562.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: June 19, Subcommittee 
on National Parks, to hold hearings to examine S. 225, to provide 
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local governments, regional entities, and the private sector to 
preserve, conserve, and enhance the visitor experience at nationally 
significant battlefields of the American Revolution, War of 1812, 
and Civil War, S. 298, to establish the Springfield Race Riot 
National Historic Monument in the State of Illinois, S. 327, to 
amend the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act to provide for a 
lifetime National Recreational Pass for any veteran with a service-
connected disability, S. 389, to authorize the Society of the First 
Infantry Division to make modifications to the First Division 
Monument located on Federal land in Presidential Park in the 
District of Columbia, S. 641, to update the map of, and modify the 
maximum acreage available for inclusion in, the Yucca House National 
Monument, S. 774, to adjust the boundary of the Santa Monica 
Mountains National Recreation Area to include the Rim of the Valley 
Corridor, S. 849, to provide for the inclusion on the Vietnam 
Veterans Memorial Wall of the names of the lost crew members of the 
U.S.S. Frank E. Evans killed on June 3, 1969, S. 1152, to provide 
for the transfer of administrative jurisdiction over certain parcels 
of Federal land in Arlington, Virginia, S. 1582, to establish the 
White Sands National Park in the State of New Mexico as a unit of 
the National Park System, and S. 1705, to authorize the Every Word 
We Utter Monument to establish a commemorative work in the District 
of Columbia and its environs, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  June 20, Full Committee, business meeting to consider the 
nomination of Robert Wallace, of Wyoming, to be Assistant Secretary 
for Fish and Wildlife, Department of the Interior, 9:45 a.m., SD-
366.
  June 20, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine opportunities 
and challenges for advanced geothermal energy development in the 
United States, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: June 19, business 
meeting to consider S. 1345, to amend and reauthorize the Morris K. 
Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation Act, S. 1833, to transfer a 
bridge over the Wabash River to the New Harmony River Bridge 
Authority and the New Harmony and Wabash River Bridge Authority, S. 
1014, to establish the Route 66 Centennial Commission, S. 349, to 
require the Secretary of Transportation to request nominations for, 
and make determinations regarding, roads to be designated under the 
national scenic byways program, S. 1507, to include certain 
perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances in the toxics release 
inventory, S. 1689, to permit States to transfer certain funds from 
the clean water revolving fund of a State to the drinking water 
revolving fund of the State in certain circumstances, and the 
nominations of Robert Wallace, of Wyoming, to be Assistant Secretary 
for Fish and Wildlife, Department of the Interior, and William B. 
Kilbride, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee 
Valley Authority, and 41 General Services Administration 
resolutions, 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: June 19, to hold hearings to 
examine the nominations of Kelly Craft, of Kentucky, to be the 
Representative of the United States of America to the United 
Nations, with the rank and status of Ambassador and the 
Representative of the United States of America in the Security 
Council of the United Nations, and to be Representative of the 
United States of America to the Sessions of the General Assembly of 
the United Nations during her tenure of service as Representative of 
the United States of America to the United Nations, 10:15 a.m., SD-
419.
  June 19, Full Committee, with the Committee on Armed Services, to 
receive a closed joint briefing on Iran's recent escalation and 
United States policy responses, 2 p.m., SVC-217.
  June 20, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Andrew P. Bremberg, of Virginia, to be Representative 
of the United States of America to the Office of the United Nations 
and Other International Organizations in Geneva, with the rank of 
Ambassador, Philip S. Goldberg, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Colombia, Doug Manchester, of 
California, to be Ambassador to the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, 
Adrian Zuckerman, of New Jersey, to be Ambassador to Romania, 
Richard B. Norland, of Iowa, to be Ambassador to Libya, Jonathan R. 
Cohen, of California, to be Ambassador to the Arab Republic of 
Egypt, and John Rakolta, Jr., of Michigan, to be Ambassador to the 
United Arab Emirates, all of the Department of State, and other 
pending nominations, 9:45 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: June 19, 
business meeting to consider S. 1867, to amend the Homeland Security 
Act of 2002 to establish in the Department of Homeland Security an 
Unmanned Aircraft Systems Coordinator, S. 1877, to establish 
procedures and consequences in the event of a failure to complete 
regular appropriations, S. 1869, to require the disclosure of 
ownership of high-security space leased to accommodate a Federal 
agency, S. 1539, to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to 
provide funding to secure nonprofit facilities from terrorist 
attacks, S. 1419, to require agencies to publish an advance notice 
of proposed rule making for major rules, S. 1151, to prohibit 
contracting with persons that have business operations with the 
Maduro regime, S. 1521, to amend section 327 of the Robert T. 
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to clarify 
that National Urban Search and Rescue Response System task forces 
may include Federal employees, S. 1004, to increase the number of 
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operations 
officers and support staff and to require reports that identify 
staffing, infrastructure, and equipment needed to enhance security 
at ports of entry, S. 1846, to amend the Homeland Security Act of 
2002 to provide for engagements with State, local, Tribal, and 
territorial governments, S. 1874, to amend title 40, United States 
Code, to require the Administrator of General Services to procure 
the most life-cycle cost effective and energy efficiency lighting 
products and to issue guidance on the efficiency, effectiveness, and 
economy of those products, S. 764, to provide for congressional 
approval of national emergency declarations, S. 979, to amend the 
Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006 to incorporate 
the recommendations made by the Government Accountability Office 
relating to advance contracts, S. 731, to amend the Anti-Border 
Corruption Act of 2010 to authorize certain polygraph

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waiver authority, S. 734, to leverage Federal Government procurement 
power to encourage increased cybersecurity for Internet of Things 
devices, S. 1272, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 575 Dexter Street in Central Falls, Rhode 
Island, as the ``Elizabeth Buffum Chace Post Office'', S. 1759, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 456 North Meridian Street in Indianapolis, Indiana, as the 
``Richard G. Lugar Post Office Building'', H.R. 150, to modernize 
Federal grant reporting, H.R. 1198, to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 404 South Boulder Highway in 
Henderson, Nevada, as the ``Henderson Veterans Memorial Post Office 
Building'', H.R. 1449, to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 3033 203rd Street in Olympia 
Fields, Illinois, as the ``Captain Robert L. Martin Post Office'', 
and the nominations of Chad F. Wolf, of Virginia, to be Under 
Secretary for Strategy, Policy, and Plans, Jeffrey Byard, of 
Alabama, to be Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management 
Agency, and Troy D. Edgar, of California, to be Chief Financial 
Officer, all of the Department of Homeland Security, John McLeod 
Barger, of California, to be a Governor of the United States Postal 
Service, and B. Chad Bungard, of Maryland, to be a Member of the 
Merit Systems Protection Board, 9:30 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: June 19, business meeting to consider S. 
1211, to provide for improvements to Tribal transportation facilities and 
Tribal transportation safety, and H.R. 1388, 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. 227, to direct the Attorney General to review, revise, and 
develop law enforcement and justice protocols appropriate to address 
missing and murdered Indians, S. 288, to amend the Indian Civil Rights 
Act of 1968 to extend the jurisdiction of tribal courts to cover crimes 
involving sexual violence, S. 290, to protect Native children and promote 
public safety in Indian country, S. 982, to increase intergovernmental 
coordination to identify and combat violent crime within Indian lands and 
of Indians, and S. 1853, to require Federal law enforcement agencies to 
report on cases of missing or murdered Indians, 2:30 p.m., SD-628.
  Committee on the Judiciary: June 19, to hold hearings to examine 
combating kleptocracy, focusing on beneficial ownership, money 
laundering, and other reforms, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  June 20, Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. 1494, to amend 
the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization 
Act of 2008 to protect alien minors and to amend the Immigration and 
Nationality Act to end abuse of the asylum system and establish refugee 
application and processing centers outside the United States, S. 1227, to 
require the Federal Trade Commission to study the role of intermediaries 
in the pharmaceutical supply chain and provide Congress with appropriate 
policy recommendations, S. 440, to amend title 35, United States Code, to 
provide that a patent owner may not assert sovereign immunity as a 
defense in certain actions before the United States Patent and Trademark 
Office, S. 1224, to enable the Federal Trade Commission to deter filing 
of sham citizen petitions to cover an attempt to interfere with approval 
of a competing generic drug or biosimilar, to foster competition, and 
facilitate the efficient review of petitions filed in good faith to raise 
legitimate public health concerns, S. 1416, to amend the Federal Trade 
Commission Act to prohibit anticompetitive behaviors by drug product 
manufacturers, and the nominations of Daniel Aaron Bress, of California, 
to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Peter Joseph 
Phipps, of Pennsylvania, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third 
Circuit, Mary S. McElroy, to be United States District Judge for the 
District of Rhode Island, Gary Richard Brown, Diane Gujarati, Eric Ross 
Komitee, and Rachel P. Kovner, each to be a United States District Judge 
for the Eastern District of New York, Stephanie Dawkins Davis, to be 
United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, 
Stephanie A. Gallagher, to be United States District Judge for the 
District of Maryland, Charles R. Eskridge III, to be United States 
District Judge for the Southern District of Texas, Lewis J. Liman, and 
Mary Kay Vyskocil, both to be a United States District Judge for the 
Southern District of New York, Martha Maria Pacold, Mary M. Rowland, and 
Steven C. Seeger, each to be a United States District Judge for the 
Northern District of Illinois, Jason K. Pulliam, to be United States 
District Judge for the Western District of Texas, John L. Sinatra, Jr., 
to be United States District Judge for the Western District of New York, 
William Shaw Stickman IV, to be United States District Judge for the 
Western District of Pennsylvania, Frank William Volk, to be United States 
District Judge for the Southern District of West Virginia, Jennifer 
Philpott Wilson, to be United States District Judge for the Middle 
District of Pennsylvania, David Austin Tapp, of Kentucky, to be a Judge 
of the United States Court of Federal Claims, and Edward W. Felten, of 
New Jersey, to be a Member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight 
Board, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: June 19, to hold 
hearings to examine the Small Business Administration's Office of 
Disaster Assistance and the response to recent catastrophic floods, 2:30 
p.m., SR-428A.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: June 19, to hold hearings to examine 
leveraging veteran networks to tackle suicide, focusing on harnessing the 
power of community, 2:30 p.m., SR-418.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: June 20, to hold closed hearings to 
examine certain intelligence matters, 2 p.m., SH-219.
  Special Committee on Aging: June 19, to hold hearings to examine the 
complex web of prescription drug prices, focusing on examining agency 
efforts to further competition and increase affordability, 9 a.m., SD-
562.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Agriculture, June 20, Subcommittee on General Farm 
Commodities and Risk Management, hearing entitled ``How Farm Policy Helps 
Farmers in Adverse Conditions'', 10 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  June 20, Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department 
Operations, hearing entitled ``The Potential Implications of Eliminating 
Broad-Based Categorical Eligibility for SNAP Households'', 2 p.m., 1300 
Longworth.
  Committee on Education and Labor, June 20, Subcommittee on Workforce 
Protections, hearing entitled ``Breathless and Betrayed: What is MSHA 
Doing to Protect Miners from the Resurgence of Black Lung Disease?'', 
10:15 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.

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  Committee on Energy and Commerce, June 20, Subcommittee on Consumer 
Protection and Commerce; and Subcommittee on Environment and Climate 
Change, joint hearing entitled ``Driving in Reverse: The Administration's 
Rollback of Fuel Economy and Clean Car Standards'', 10 a.m., 2123 
Rayburn.
  June 20, Subcommittee on Health, hearing entitled ``Strengthening 
Health Care in the U.S. Territories for Today and Into the Future'', 
10:30 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, June 20, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``Diversity in the Boardroom; Examining Proposals to Increase 
the Diversity of America's Boards'', 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  June 20, Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development, and Insurance, 
hearing entitled ``What's Your Home Worth? A Review of the Appraisal 
Industry'', 2 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, June 20, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 
3190, the ``BURMA Act of 2019''; H.R. 2327, the ``Burma Political 
Prisoners Assistance Act''; H.R. 1632, the ``Southeast Asia Strategy 
Act''; H.R. 3194, the ``NATO Defense Financing Act''; H.R. 3206, to 
impose sanctions with respect to the provision of certain vessels for the 
construction of Russian energy export pipelines; H.R. 3252, the ``Global 
Respect Act''; H. Res. 259, expressing the sense of the House of 
Representatives to support the repatriation of religious and ethnic 
minorities in Iraq to their ancestral homelands; H. Res. 432, condemning 
the attacks on peaceful protesters and supporting an immediate peaceful 
transition to a civilian-led democratic government in Sudan; H. Res. 441, 
condemning the attack on the AMIA Jewish Community Center in Buenos 
Aires, Argentina, in July 1994 and expressing the concern of the United 
States regarding the continuing, 25-year-long delay in the resolution of 
this case and encouraging accountability for the attack; H.R. 2529, the 
``Richard G. Lugar and Ellen O. Tauscher Act to Maintain Limits on 
Russian Nuclear Forces''; H. Res. 444, reaffirming the importance of the 
United States to promote the safety, health, and well-being of refugees 
and displaced persons; and H.R. 2229, the ``First Responders Passport Act 
of 2019'', 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  June 20, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing entitled 
``The State Department and USAID FY 2020 Operations Budget'', 3 p.m., 
2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, June 20, Subcommittee on Border 
Security, Facilitation, and Operations, hearing entitled ``Examining the 
Department of Defense's Deployment to the U.S.-Mexico Border'', 10 a.m., 
310 Cannon.
  Committee on House Administration, June 20, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``Oversight of the Congressional Research Service'', 10 a.m., 
1310 Longworth.
  Committee on the Judiciary, June 20, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Lessons from the Mueller Report, Part II: Bipartisan Perspectives'', 10 
a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  June 21, Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and the Internet, 
hearing entitled ``The Federal Judiciary in the 21st Century: Ideas for 
Promoting Ethics, Accountability, and Transparency'', 9 a.m., 2141 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, June 20, Subcommittee on Energy and 
Mineral Resources, hearing entitled ``Oil and Gas Development: Restoring 
Community Input and Public Participation in Leasing Decisions'', 10 a.m., 
1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Reform, June 20, Subcommittee on Government 
Operations, hearing entitled ``Ensuring Quality Health Care for Our 
Veterans'', 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, June 20, Full Committee, 
markup on H.R. 2528, the ``STEM Opportunities Act of 2019''; H.R. 36, the 
``Combating Sexual Harassment in Science Act of 2019''; H.R. 3196, the 
``Vera Rubin Survey Telescope Designation Act''; and H.R. 3153, the 
``Expanding Findings for Federal Opioid Research and Treatment Act'', 10 
a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, June 20, Subcommittee on Economic Growth, 
Tax, and Capital Access, hearing entitled ``The Importance of Accurate 
Census Data to Small Business Formation and Growth'', 10 a.m., 2360 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, June 20, Subcommittee 
on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials, hearing entitled ``The 
State of the Rail Workforce'', 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, June 20, Subcommittee on Disability 
Assistance and Memorial Affairs, hearing entitled ``Ensuring Access to 
Disability Benefits for Veterans Survivors of Military Sexual Trauma'', 
10 a.m., HVC-210.
  June 20, Full Committee, business meeting to assign Representative 
Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan of Northern Mariana Islands to the Health 
Subcommittee, 2 p.m., HVC-210.
  June 20, Full Committee, hearing on H.R. 2943, to direct the Secretary 
of Veterans Affairs to make all fact sheets of the Department of Veterans 
Affairs in English and Spanish; H.R. 2942, to direct the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs to carry out the Women's Health Transition Training 
pilot program through at least fiscal year 2020, and for other purposes; 
H.R. 2676, the ``VA Survey of Cannabis Use Act''; H.R. 2677, to require 
the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide training in the use of 
medical cannabis for all Department of Veterans Affairs primary care 
providers, and for other purposes; H.R. 712, the ``VA Medicinal Cannabis 
Research Act of 2019''; H.R. 1647, the ``Veterans Equal Access Act''; 
H.R. 3083, the ``AIR Acceleration Act''; H.R. 485, the ``VREASA''; 
legislation on Specially Adaptive Housing; and legislation on Work Study, 
2:05 p.m., HVC-210.
  Committee on Ways and Means, June 20, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 
3298, the ``The Child Care Quality and Access Act of 2019''; H.R. 3299, 
the ``The Promoting Respect for Individuals' Dignity and Equality Act of 
2019''; H.R. 3300, the ``The Economic Mobility Act of 2019''; and H.R. 
3301, the ``The Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2019'', 
9:30 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress, June 20, Full 
Committee, hearing entitled ``Cultivating Diversity and Improving 
Retention Among Congressional Staff'', 2 p.m., 2253 Rayburn.


                             Joint Meetings

  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: June 19, to receive a 
briefing on international election observation in the United States and 
beyond, 10 a.m., 2200, Rayburn Building.