[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 123 (Monday, July 22, 2019)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E954-E955]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS

  Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, agreed to by the Senate of February 
4, 1977, calls for establishment of a system for a computerized 
schedule of all meetings and hearings of Senate committees, 
subcommittees, joint committees, and committees of conference. This 
title requires all such committees to notify the Office of the Senate 
Daily Digest--designated by the Rules Committee--of the time, place and 
purpose of the meetings, when scheduled and any cancellations or 
changes in the meetings as they occur.
  As an additional procedure along with the computerization of this 
information, the Office of the Senate Daily Digest will prepare this 
information for printing in the Extensions of Remarks section of the 
Congressional Record on Monday and Wednesday of each week.
  Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, July 23, 2019 may be found in the 
Daily Digest of today's Record.

                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED

                                JULY 24
     9:30 a.m.
       Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         Business meeting to consider S. 2162, to require the 
           Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to 
           annually hire at least 600 new Border Patrol agents, to 
           report quarterly to Congress on the status of the 
           Border Patrol workforce, and to conduct a comprehensive 
           staffing analysis, S. 1976, to amend the FAST Act to 
           improve the Federal permitting process, S. 2065, to 
           require the Secretary of Homeland Security to publish 
           an annual report on the use of deepfake technology, S. 
           2183, to require the Comptroller General of the United 
           States to analyze certain legislation in order prevent 
           duplication of and overlap with existing Federal 
           programs, offices, and initiatives, S. 2177, to provide 
           taxpayers with an improved understanding of Government 
           programs through the disclosure of cost, performance, 
           and areas of duplication among them, leverage existing 
           data to achieve a functional Federal program inventory, 
           S. 2169, to amend section 3116 of title 5, United 
           States Code, to clarify the applicability of the 
           appointment limitations for students appointed under 
           the expedited hiring authority for post-secondary 
           students, S. 2107, to increase the number of CBP 
           Agriculture Specialists and support staff in the Office 
           of Field Operations of U.S. Customs and Border 
           Protection, S. 2193, to require the Administrator of 
           General Services to issue guidance to clarify that 
           Federal agencies may pay by charge card for the 
           charging of Federal electric motor vehicles, S. 764, to 
           provide for congressional approval of national 
           emergency declarations, S. 439, to allow Members of 
           Congress to opt out of the Federal Employees Retirement 
           System, and allow Members who opt out of the Federal 
           Employees Retirement System to continue to participate 
           in the Thrift Savings Plan, S. 2119, to amend title 5, 
           United States Code, to appropriately limit the 
           authority to award bonuses to Federal employees, H.R. 
           2590, to require a Department of Homeland Security 
           overseas personnel enhancement plan, H.R. 3305, to 
           designate the facility of the United States Postal 
           Service located at 2509 George Mason Drive in Virginia 
           Beach, Virginia, as the ``Ryan Keith Cox Post Office 
           Building'', and the nominations of Chad F. Wolf, of 
           Virginia, to be Under Secretary for Strategy, Policy, 
           and Plans, and William Bryan, of Virginia, to be Under 
           Secretary for Science and Technology, both of the 
           Department of Homeland Security, Robert M. Duncan, of 
           Kentucky, to be a Governor of the United States Postal 
           Service, Ann C. Fisher, of the District of Columbia, 
           and Ashley Jay Elizabeth Poling, of North Carolina, 
           both to be a Commissioner of the Postal Regulatory 
           Commission, Catherine Bird, of Texas, to be General 
           Counsel of the Federal Labor Relations Authority, and 
           Rainey R. Brandt, and Shana Frost Matini, both to be an 
           Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District 
           of Columbia.
                                                            SD-342
     10 a.m.
       Committee on Armed Services
         To hold hearings to examine the expected nomination of 
           David L. Norquist to be Deputy Secretary of Defense.
                                                            SD-G50
       Committee on Environment and Public Works
         To hold hearings to examine the Theodore Roosevelt Genius 
           Prize, focusing on innovative solutions to reduce 
           human-predator conflict.
                                                            SD-406
     10:15 a.m.
       Committee on Finance
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Brent 
           James McIntosh, of Michigan, to be an Under Secretary, 
           Brian Callanan, of New Jersey, to be General Counsel, 
           and Brian McGuire, of New York, to be a Deputy Under 
           Secretary, all of the Department of the Treasury, and 
           Travis Greaves, of the District of Columbia, to be a 
           Judge of the United States Tax Court for a term of 
           fifteen years.
                                                            SD-215
       Committee on Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine authorities for the use of 
           military force.
                                                            SD-419

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     10:30 a.m.
       Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         Business meeting to consider S. 496, to preserve United 
           States fishing heritage through a national program 
           dedicated to training and assisting the next generation 
           of commercial fishermen, S. 893, to require the 
           President to develop a strategy to ensure the security 
           of next generation mobile telecommunications systems 
           and infrastructure in the United States and to assist 
           allies and strategic partners in maximizing the 
           security of next generation mobile telecommunications 
           systems, infrastructure, and software, S. 1148, to 
           amend title 49, United States Code, to require the 
           Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to 
           give preferential consideration to individuals who have 
           successfully completed air traffic controller training 
           and veterans when hiring air traffic control 
           specialists, S. 1341, to adopt a certain California 
           flammability standard as a Federal flammability 
           standard to protect against the risk of upholstered 
           furniture flammability, S. 1349, to expand enrollment 
           in TSA PreCheck to expedite commercial travel screening 
           and improve airport security, S. 1625, to promote the 
           deployment of commercial fifth-generation mobile 
           networks and the sharing of information with 
           communications providers in the United States regarding 
           security risks to the networks of those providers, S. 
           1822, to require the Federal Communications Commission 
           to issue rules relating to the collection of data with 
           respect to the availability of broadband services, S. 
           1858, to ensure the Chief Information Office of the 
           Consumer Product Safety Commission has a significant 
           role in decisions related to information technology, 
           proposed legislation entitled, ``Regional Ocean 
           Partnership Act'', S. 2035, to require the 
           Transportation Security Administration to develop a 
           strategic plan to expand eligibility for the PreCheck 
           Program to individuals with Transportation Worker 
           Identification Credentials or Hazardous Materials 
           Endorsements, S. 2134, to extend the transfer of 
           Electronic Travel Authorization System fees from the 
           Travel Promotion Fund to the Corporation for Travel 
           Promotion (Brand USA) through fiscal year 2027, and a 
           promotion list in the Coast Guard; to be immediately 
           followed by hearings to examine the nominations of 
           Theodore Rokita, of Indiana, to be a Director of the 
           Amtrak Board of Directors, Jennifer L. Homendy, of 
           Virginia, and Michael Graham, of Kansas, both to be a 
           Member of the National Transportation Safety Board, 
           Carl Whitney Bentzel, of Maryland, to be a Federal 
           Maritime Commissioner, Michael J.K. Kratsios, of South 
           Carolina, to be an Associate Director of the Office of 
           Science and Technology Policy, and Ian Paul Steff, of 
           Indiana, to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce and 
           Director General of the United States and Foreign 
           Commercial Service.
                                                            SH-216
     11 a.m.
       Committee on Rules and Administration
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine the Government 
           Publishing Office, Office of the Inspector General.
                                                            SR-301
     2:30 p.m.
       Committee on Foreign Relations
       Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Policy
         To hold hearings to examine confronting Ebola, focusing 
           on addressing a 21st century global health crisis.
                                                            SD-419
       Committee on Indian Affairs
         Business meeting to consider S. 2159, to repeal the Act 
           entitled ``An Act to confer jurisdiction on the State 
           of North Dakota over offenses committed by or against 
           Indians on the Devils Lake Indian Reservation''; to be 
           immediately followed by a hearing to examine the 
           nomination of E. Sequoyah Simermeyer, of Maryland, to 
           be Chairman of the National Indian Gaming Commission.
                                                            SD-628
       Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
         Business meeting to markup an original bill entitled, 
           ``Small Business Administration Reauthorization Act''.
                                                           SR-428A
                                JULY 25
     9:30 a.m.
       Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
         To hold hearings to examine hemp production and the 2018 
           farm bill.
                                                           SR-328A
       Committee on Armed Services
         Business meeting to consider pending military 
           nominations.
                                                           SVC-217
       Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine state and Federal 
           recommendations for enhancing school safety against 
           targeted violence.
                                                            SD-342
     10 a.m.
       Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings to examine the importance of energy 
           innovation to economic growth and competitiveness.
                                                            SD-366
       Committee on the Judiciary
         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.
                                                            SD-226
     10:30 a.m.
       Committee on Foreign Relations
         Business meeting to consider S. 398, to support the 
           peaceful resolution of the civil war in Yemen, to 
           address the resulting humanitarian crisis, and to hold 
           the perpetrators responsible for murdering a Saudi 
           dissident, S. 2066, to review United States Saudi 
           Arabia Policy, S. 1441, to impose sanctions with 
           respect to the provision of certain vessels for the 
           construction of Russian energy export pipelines, 
           protocol to the North Atlantic Treaty of 1949 on the 
           Accession of the Republic of North Macedonia (Treaty 
           Doc. 116-01), and the nominations of Pamela Bates, of 
           Virginia, to be Representative of the United States of 
           America to the Organization for Economic Cooperation 
           and Development, with the rank of Ambassador, Jonathan 
           R. Cohen, of California, to be Ambassador to the Arab 
           Republic of Egypt, 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, 
           Philip S. Goldberg, of the District of Columbia, to be 
           Ambassador to the Republic of Colombia, Christopher 
           Landau, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the United 
           Mexican States, Doug Manchester, of California, to be 
           Ambassador to the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, Richard 
           B. Norland, of Iowa, to be Ambassador to Libya, John 
           Rakolta, Jr., of Michigan, to be Ambassador to the 
           United Arab Emirates, Adrian Zuckerman, of New Jersey, 
           to be Ambassador to Romania, 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, and Jennifer D. Nordquist, of Virginia, to 
           be United States Executive Director of the 
           International Bank for Reconstruction and Development 
           for a term of two years.
                                                             S-116
     2 p.m.
       Select Committee on Intelligence
         To hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence 
           matters.
                                                            SH-219
     3 p.m.
       Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
         To hold hearings to examine the state of media freedom in 
           the Organization for Security and Co-operation in 
           Europe region.
                                                           HVC-210

                                JULY 30
     9:30 a.m.
       Committee on Armed Services
         To hold hearings to examine the nomination of Vice 
           Admiral Michael M. Gilday, USN, to be Admiral and Chief 
           of Naval Operations, Department of Defense.
                                                            SD-G50
     2:30 p.m.
       Committee on the Judiciary
       Subcommittee on Intellectual Property
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine the United States 
           Copyright Office.
                                                            SD-226