[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 143 (Monday, September 9, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D979-D982]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

            Week of September 10 through September 13, 2019

                             Senate Chamber

  On Tuesday, Senate will continue consideration of the nomination of 
Kelly Craft, of Kentucky, 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, Department of State, post-cloture, and 
vote on confirmation of the nomination at 11:50 a.m.
  Following disposition of the nomination of Kelly Craft, Senate will 
vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the nomination of Elizabeth 
Darling, of Texas, to be Commissioner on Children, Youth, and Families, 
Department of Health and Human Services. If cloture is invoked on the 
nomination, Senate will vote on confirmation of the nomination at 2:15 
p.m.
  Following disposition of the nomination of Elizabeth Darling, Senate 
will vote on the motions to invoke cloture on the nominations of 
Stephen Akard, of Indiana, to be Director of the Office of Foreign 
Missions, with the rank of Ambassador, Department of State, Dale 
Cabaniss, of Virginia, to be Director of the Office of Personnel 
Management, and James Byrne, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs.
  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 Appropriations: September 10, Subcommittee on 
Department of Defense, business meeting to markup an original bill 
making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2020, 10 a.m., SD-192.
  September 10, Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and 
Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies, business 
meeting to markup an original bill making appropriations for the 
Department of

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Labor, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of 
Education, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 
30, 2020, 11:30 a.m., SD-124.
  September 11, Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and 
Related Programs, to hold hearings to examine fragility in the 
Sahel, 2:15 p.m., SD-124.
  September 12, Full Committee, business meeting to markup an 
original bill making appropriations for the Department of Defense 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, an original bill 
making appropriations for Energy and Water Development for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, an original bill making 
appropriations for the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and 
Related Programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, an 
original bill making appropriations for the Department of Labor, 
Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Education, 
and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, 
and 302(b) subcommittee allocations of budget outlays and new budget 
authority allocated to the committee in H. Con. Res. 71, 
establishing the congressional budget for the United States 
Government for fiscal year 2018 and setting forth the appropriate 
budgetary levels for fiscal years 2019 through 2027, 10:30 a.m., SD-
106.
  Committee on Armed Services: September 12, to hold hearings to 
examine the expected nominations of Ryan D. McCarthy, to be 
Secretary of the Army, and Barbara M. Barrett, to be Secretary of 
the Air Force, both of the Department of Defense, 9:30 a.m., SD-G50.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: September 10, to 
hold hearings to examine housing finance reform, focusing on next 
steps, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  September 12, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine 
developments in global insurance regulatory and supervisory forums, 
10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: September 11, 
to hold hearings to examine protecting the nation's transportation 
systems, focusing on oversight of the Transportation Security 
Administration, 10 a.m., SD-G50.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: September 11, 
Subcommittee on Energy, to hold hearings to examine S. 607, to amend 
the Department of Energy Organization Act to address insufficient 
compensation of employees and other personnel of the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission, S. 1739, to enable projects that will aid in 
the development and delivery of related instruction associated with 
apprenticeship and preapprenticeship programs that are focused on 
serving the skilled technical workforce at the National Laboratories 
and certain facilities of the National Nuclear Security 
Administration, S. 1821, to amend the Energy Independence and 
Security Act of 2007 to provide for research on, and the development 
and deployment of, marine energy, S. 2094, to amend the Energy 
Policy and Conservation Act to provide Federal financial assistance 
to States to implement State energy security plans, S. 2095, to 
provide for certain programs and developments in the Department of 
Energy concerning the cybersecurity and vulnerabilities of, and 
physical threat to, the electric grid, S. 2137, to promote energy 
savings in residential buildings and industry, S. 2300, to amend the 
Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to establish a program 
to incentivize innovation and to enhance the industrial 
competitiveness of the United States by developing technologies to 
reduce emissions of nonpower industrial sectors, S. 2368, to amend 
the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 and the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to 
support licensing and relicensing of certain nuclear facilities and 
nuclear energy research, demonstration, and development, and S. 
2393, to promote a 21st century energy workforce, 2:30 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: September 11, to hold 
hearings to examine the nominations of Aurelia Skipwith, of Indiana, 
to be Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 
Department of the Interior, and Katherine Andrea Lemos, of 
California, to be Chairperson of the Chemical Safety and Hazard 
Investigation Board, 10 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on the Judiciary: September 11, to hold hearings to 
examine the nominations of Steven J. Menashi, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, Karen S. Marston, to be United 
States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 
Richard E. Myers II, to be United States District Judge for the 
Eastern District of North Carolina, and Anuraag Singhal, to be 
United States District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, 
10 a.m., SD-226.
  September 11, Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, to hold 
hearings to examine innovation in America, focusing on how Congress 
can make our patent system stronger, 2:30 p.m., SD-226.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: September 10, to receive a 
closed briefing on certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  September 12, Full Committee, to hold closed hearings to examine 
certain intelligence matters, 2 p.m., SH-219.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Education and Labor, September 11, Subcommittee on 
Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education, hearing 
entitled ``The Importance of Trauma-Informed Practices in Education 
to Assist Students Impacted by Gun Violence and Other Adversities'', 
10:15 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, September 11, Subcommittee on 
Environment and Climate Change, hearing entitled ``Protecting and 
Securing Chemical Facilities from Terrorist Attacks'', 10 a.m., 2123 
Rayburn.
  September 11, Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, 
hearing entitled ``Legislating to Connect America: Improving the 
Nation's Broadband Maps'', 10:30 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, September 11, Subcommittee on 
Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship, and Capital Markets, hearing 
entitled ``Examining Private Market Exemptions as a Barrier to IPOs 
and Retail Investment'', 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  September 11, Subcommittee on National Security, International 
Development, and Monetary Policy, hearing

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entitled ``Examining the Macroeconomic Impacts of a Changing 
Climate'', 2 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  September 12, Task Force on Artificial Intelligence, hearing 
entitled ``The Future of Identity in Financial Services: Threats, 
Challenges, and Opportunities'', 9:30 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, September 12, Full Committee, markup 
on Resolution for Investigative Procedures, 8 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  September 12, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and 
Administrative Law, hearing entitled ``Online Platforms and Market 
Power, Part 3: The Role of Data and Privacy in Competition'', 9 
a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, September 11, Subcommittee for 
Indigenous Peoples of the United States, hearing entitled 
``Reviewing the Trump Administration's Approach to the MMIW 
Crisis'', 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Reform, September 11, Subcommittee on 
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, hearing entitled ``The 
Administration's Apparent Revocation of Medical Deferred Action for 
Critically Ill Children'', 12 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, September 11, 
Subcommittee on Energy, markup on H.R. 4091, the ``ARPA-E 
Reauthorization Act of 2019''; and H.R. 4230, the ``Clean Industrial 
Technology Act'', 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, September 11, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``Utilization Management: Barriers to Care and Burdens on 
Small Medical Practice'', 11:30 a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, September 11, 
Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, hearing entitled ``Pricing and 
Technology Strategies to Address Congestion on and Financing of 
America's Roads'', 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, September 11, Subcommittee on 
Health, hearing on H.R. 3636, the ``Caring For Our Women Veterans 
Act''; H.R. 2972, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to 
improve the communications of the Department of Veterans Affairs 
relating to services available for women veterans, and for other 
purposes; H.R. 3036, the ``Breaking Barriers for Women Veterans 
Act''; H.R. 2798, the ``Building Supportive Networks for Women 
Veterans Act''; H.R. 2645, the ``Newborn Care Improvement Act of 
2019''; H.R. 2681, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to 
submit to Congress a report on the availability of prosthetic items 
for women veterans from the Department of Veterans Affairs; H.R. 
3224, to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for 
increased access to Department of Veterans Affairs medical care for 
women veterans; H.R. 2982, the ``Women Veterans Health Care 
Accountability Act''; H.R. 2752, the ``VA Newborn Emergency 
Treatment Act''; H.R. 2628, the ``VET CARE Act of 2019''; H.R. 2816, 
the ``Vietnam-Era Veterans Hepatitis C Testing Enhancement Act of 
2019''; H.R. 1527, the ``Long-Term Care Veterans Choice Act''; H.R. 
1163, the ``VA Hiring Enhancement Act''; H.R. 3798, the ``Equal 
Access to Contraception for Veterans Act''; H.R. 3867, the 
``Violence Against Women Veterans Act''; H.R. 4096, the ``Improving 
Oversight of Women Veterans' Care Act of 2019''; and legislation to 
establish in the Department of Veterans Affairs the Office of 
Women's Health, and for other purposes, 10 a.m., HVC-210.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Economic Committee: September 10, to hold hearings to 
examine making it more affordable to raise a family, 2:30 p.m., SH-
216.
  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: September 11, to 
hold hearings to examine the state of diversity and inclusion in 
Europe, focusing on race, rights, and politics, 10 a.m., 210, Cannon 
Building.
  September 12, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine 
autocratic abuse of INTERPOL, 10 a.m., 210, Cannon Building.


* These figures include all measures reported, even if there was 
no accompanying report. A total of 68 written reports have been 
filed in the Senate, 184 reports have been filed in the House.

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