[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 106 (Monday, June 24, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D744-D747]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

                 Week of June 25 through June 28, 2019

                             Senate Chamber

  On Tuesday, Senate will continue consideration of 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 25, to 
hold hearings to examine the state of the derivatives market and 
perspectives for Commodity Futures Trading Commission 
reauthorization, 9:45 a.m., SR-328A.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: June 25, to hold 
hearings to examine whether Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should be 
designated as systematically important financial institutions, 10 
a.m., SD-538.
  June 27, Full Committee, to hold an oversight hearing to examine 
reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, 10 
a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on the Budget: June 26, to hold hearings to examine 
fixing a broken budget and spending process, focusing on securing 
the nation's fiscal future, 2:30 p.m., SD-608.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: June 25, 
Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the 
Internet, to hold hearings to examine the use of persuasive 
technology on internet platforms, focusing on optimizing for 
engagement, 10 a.m., SH-216.
  June 25, Subcommittee on Transportation and Safety, to hold 
hearings to examine technological innovations in transportation, 
2:30 p.m., SD-562.
  June 26, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine Amtrak, 
focusing on next steps for passenger rail, 10 a.m., SH-216.

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  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: June 25, to hold 
hearings to examine the implementation of the Land and Water 
Conservation Fund program, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  June 26, Full Committee, business meeting to consider the 
nominations of Daniel Habib Jorjani, of Kentucky, to be Solicitor, 
and Mark Lee Greenblatt, of Maryland, to be Inspector General, both 
of the Department of the Interior, Time to be announced, Room to be 
announced.
  June 26, Subcommittee on Water and Power, to hold hearings to 
examine S. 325, to require the Secretary of the Interior to convey 
the Garrison Diversion Unit Project Oakes Test Area in Dickey 
County, North Dakota, to the Dickey-Sargent Irrigation District, S. 
860, to amend the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to 
modify the terms of the Jackson Gulch rehabilitation project in 
Colorado, S. 990, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
participate in the implementation of the Platte River Recovery 
Implementation Program First Increment Extension for threatened and 
endangered species in the Central and Lower Platte River Basin, S. 
1305, to establish a Federal cost share percentage for the Milk 
River Project in the State of Montana, S. 1758, to extend a 
repayment contract relating to the Purgatoire River Water 
Conservancy District and to authorize the District to develop an 
excess capacity contract to offset repayment costs, and S. 1882, to 
make available the continued use of Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin 
Program project use power by the Kinsey Irrigation Company and the 
Sidney Water Users Irrigation District, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  June 27, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine options for 
the interim and long-term storage of nuclear waste, including S. 
1234, to establish a new organization to manage nuclear waste, 
provide a consensual process for siting nuclear waste facilities, 
ensure adequate funding for managing nuclear waste, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: June 25, business meeting to 
consider S. 727, to combat international extremism by addressing 
global fragility and violence and stabilizing conflict-affected 
areas, S. 1102, to promote security and energy partnerships in the 
Eastern Mediterranean, S. 1309, to identify and combat corruption in 
countries, to establish a tiered system of countries with respect to 
levels of corruption by their governments and their efforts to 
combat such corruption, and to assess United States assistance to 
designated countries in order to advance anti-corruption efforts in 
those countries and better serve United States taxpayers, S. 1945, 
to amend section 36 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2776) 
to preserve congressional review and oversight of foreign arms 
sales, S. Res. 34, expressing the sense of the Senate that the 
Governments of Burma and Bangladesh ensure the safe, dignified, 
voluntary, and sustainable return of the Rohingya refugees who have 
been displaced by the campaign of ethnic cleansing conducted by the 
Burmese military and to immediately release unjustly imprisoned 
journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, S. Res. 198, condemning 
Brunei's dramatic human rights backsliding, S. Res. 206, marking the 
70th anniversary of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, expressing 
concern about significant violations of international humanitarian 
law on contemporary battlefields, and encouraging United States 
leadership in ensuring greater respect for international 
humanitarian law in current conflicts, particularly with its 
security partners, S. Con. Res. 10, recognizing that Chinese 
telecommunications companies such as Huawei and ZTE pose serious 
threats to the national security of the United States and its 
allies, the Protocol Amending the Convention between the United 
States of America and the Kingdom of Spain for the Avoidance of 
Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to 
Taxes on Income and its Protocol, signed at Madrid on February 22, 
1990 (Treaty Doc. 113-04), protocol Amending the Convention between 
the United States of America and the Swiss Confederation for the 
Avoidance of Double Taxation with Respect to Taxes on Income, signed 
at Washington on October 2, 1996, signed on September 23, 2009, at 
Washington, as corrected by an exchange of notes effected November 
16, 2010 and a related agreement effected by an exchange of notes on 
September 23, 2009 (Treaty Doc. 112-01), the Protocol Amending the 
Convention between the Government of the United States of America 
and the Government of Japan for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and 
the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income and 
a related agreement entered into by an exchange of notes (together 
the ``proposed Protocol''), both signed on January 24, 2013, at 
Washington, together with correcting notes exchanged March 9 and 
March 29, 2013 (Treaty Doc. 114-01), protocol Amending the 
Convention between the Government of the United States of America 
and the Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg for the 
Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion 
with Respect to Taxes on Income and Capital, signed on May 20, 2009, 
at Luxembourg (the ``proposed Protocol'') and a related agreement 
effected by the exchange of notes also signed on May 20, 2009 
(Treaty Doc. 111-08), the nomination of Eliot Pedrosa, of Florida, 
to be United States Executive Director of the Inter-American 
Development Bank, and other pending calendar business, 2:15 p.m., S-
116, Capitol.
  June 26, Full Committee, business meeting to consider pending 
calendar business, 10:15 a.m., S-116, Capitol.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: June 26, 
business meeting to consider S. 1199, to amend the Public Health 
Service Act to revise and extend the poison center network program, 
S. 1173, to amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the 
Emergency Medical Services for Children program, S. 1895, to lower 
health care costs, and pending nominations, 10:30 a.m., SD-124.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: June 26, 
to hold hearings to examine unprecedented migration at the United 
States southern border, focusing on the exploitation of migrants 
through smuggling, trafficking, and involuntary servitude, 9:30 
a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: June 26, to hold hearings to examine 
the nominations of Douglas Russell Cole, and Matthew Walden 
McFarland, both to be a United States District Judge for the 
Southern District of Ohio, Robert Anthony Molloy, to be Judge for 
the District Court of the Virgin Islands, and Kea Whetzal Riggs, to 
be United

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States District Judge for the District of New Mexico, 10 a.m., SD-
226.
  June 27, Full Committee, business meeting to consider 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 Peter Joseph Phipps, 
to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, Charles R. 
Eskridge III, to be United States District Judge for the Southern 
District of Texas, William Shaw Stickman IV, to be United States 
District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Jennifer 
Philpott Wilson, to be United States District Judge for the Middle 
District of Pennsylvania, and Wilmer Ocasio, to be United States 
Marshal for the District of Puerto Rico, Department of Justice, 10 
a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: June 26, to hold 
hearings to examine reauthorization of the Small Business 
Administration's Small Business Investment Company program, 2:30 
p.m., SR-428A.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: June 25, to hold closed hearings 
to examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  June 27, Full Committee, to hold closed hearings to examine 
certain intelligence matters, 2 p.m., SH-219.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Agriculture, June 26, Subcommittee on Commodity 
Exchanges, Energy, and Credit, hearing entitled ``Brexit and Other 
International Developments Affecting U.S. Derivatives Markets'', 10 
a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on the Budget, June 26, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Building A More Dynamic Economy: The Benefits of Immigration'', 10 
a.m., 210 Cannon.
  Committee on Education and Labor, June 26, Subcommittee on Energy, 
markup on H.R. 3432, the ``Safer Pipelines Act of 2019'', 10 a.m., 
2123 Rayburn.
  June 26, Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, 
hearing entitled ``Standing with Public Servants: Protecting the 
Right to Organize'', 10:15 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  June 26, Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce 
Investment, hearing entitled ``Examining the Consequences of the 
Trump Administration's Attacks on the Job Corps Program'', 2 p.m., 
2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, June 26, Task Force on Artificial 
Intelligence, hearing entitled ``Perspectives on Artificial 
Intelligence: Where We Are and the Next Frontier in Financial 
Services'', 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  June 26, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 3407, the ``United States 
Export Finance Agency Act of 2019''; and H.R. 1690, the ``Safe Housing 
for Families Act of 2019'', 12:30 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, June 26, Full Committee, markup on 
H.R. 3352, the ``Department of State Authorization Act of 2019''; H. 
Res. 220, recognizing the interdependence of diplomacy, development, 
and defense as critical to effective national security; H. Res. 221, 
reaffirming the importance of upholding democracy, human rights, and 
the rule of law in United States foreign policy; H. Res. 222, 
emphasizing the importance of alliances and partnerships; H. Res. 
358, calling on the Government of Cameroon and armed groups to 
respect the human rights of all Cameroonian citizens, to end all 
violence, and to pursue a broad-based dialogue without preconditions 
to resolve the conflict in the Northwest and Southwest regions; H.R. 
2037, the ``Saudi Arabia Human Rights and Accountability Act of 
2019''; H.R. 3206, to impose sanctions with respect to the provision 
of certain vessels for the construction of Russian energy export 
pipelines; and legislation on the End Neglected Tropical Diseases 
Act, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  June 26, Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, Energy, and the 
Environment, hearing entitled ``Transatlantic Policy Impacts of the 
U.S.--EU Trade Conflict'', 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, June 26, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``Examining Social Media Companies' Efforts to Counter 
Online Terror Content and Misinformation'', 10 a.m., 310 Cannon.
  Committee on the Judiciary, June 26, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``Oversight of the U.S. Copyright Office'', 10 a.m., 2141 
Rayburn.
  June 26, Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship, markup on 
Request for a Department of Homeland Security Departmental Report on 
the Beneficiary of H.R. 2737, 3 p.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, June 26, Subcommittee on Water, 
Oceans, and Wildlife, hearing on H.R. 644, the ``Navajo Utah Water 
Rights Settlement Act''; H.R. 2459, the ``Hualapai Tribe Water 
Rights Settlement Act''; and H.R. 3292, the ``Aamodt Litigation 
Settlement Completion Act of 2019'', 2 p.m., 1324 Longworth.
  June 26, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 823, the ``Colorado Outdoor 
Recreation and Economy Act''; and H.R. 1225, the ``Restore Our Parks 
and Public Lands Act'', 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Reform, June 26, Full Committee, 
hearing entitled ``Violations of the Hatch Act Under the Trump 
Administration'', 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  June 26, Full Committee, business meeting on ``A Resolution 
offered by Chairman Elijah E. Cummings authorizing the Chairman to 
issue a subpoena to Ms. Kellyanne Conway, Counselor to the 
President, for testimony in connection with her failure to comply 
with the Hatch Act and ethics laws'', 10:20 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.

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  June 26, Subcommittee on Government Operations, hearing entitled 
``FITARA 8.0'', 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  June 26, Subcommittee on National Security, hearing entitled 
``U.S. Biodefense, Preparedness, and Implications of Antimicrobial 
Resistance for National Security'', 2 p.m., 2247 Rayburn.
  June 27, Subcommittee on Government Operations, hearing entitled 
``Document Production Status Update: OPM, FBI, and GSA'', 10 a.m., 
2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, June 26, Full 
Committee, hearing entitled ``Artificial Intelligence: Societal and 
Ethical Implications'', 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  June 26, Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, hearing entitled 
``NASA's Aeronautics Mission: Enabling the Transformation of 
Aviation'', 2 p.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, June 26, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``Crushed by Confessions of Judgement: The Small Business 
Story'', 11:30 a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, June 26, Full 
Committee, markup on H.R. 2548, the ``Hazard Eligibility and Local 
Projects Act''; H.R. 2726, the ``Banning Smoking on Amtrak Act of 
2019''; H.R. 3362, the ``Small Airport Mothers' Rooms Act of 2019''; 
H.R. 3409, the ``Coast Guard Authorization of 2019'', 10 a.m., 2167 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, June 26, Subcommittee on Health, 
hearing entitled ``Beyond the Million Veterans Program: Barriers to 
Precision Medicine'', 2 p.m., HVC-210.
  Committee on Ways and Means, June 26, Full Committee, markup on 
H.R. 3417, the ``The Beneficiary Education Tools, Telehealth, and 
Extenders Reauthorization Act of 2019''; legislation on the HEARTS 
and Rural Relief Act; legislation amending title XVIII of the Social 
Security Act to remove cost-sharing responsibilities for chronic 
care management services under the Medicare program; H.R. 3414, 
``The Opioid Workforce Act of 2019''; legislation on amending the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and title XI of the Social Security 
Act to extend appropriations and transfers to the Patient-Centered 
Outcomes Research Trust Fund and to extend certain health insurance 
fees for such transfers, and for other purposes, 10 a.m., 1100 
Longworth.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, June 27, Full 
Committee, markup on legislation on The Damon Paul Nelson and 
Matthew Young Pollard Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Years 2018, 2019, and 2020; and to authorize all Members of the 
House of Representatives to review, at a time to be determined by 
the Committee, the Classified Annex The Damon Paul Nelson and 
Matthew Young Pollard Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Years 2018, 2019, and 2020, 9 a.m., HVC-304. This meeting is closed.