[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 198 (Wednesday, December 11, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1363]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                              COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                                             DECEMBER 12, 2019

     (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                                        Senate

       Committee on Armed Services: to receive a closed briefing 
     on national security issues in the Middle East, 10 a.m., SVC-
     217.
       Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: 
     Subcommittee on Security, to hold hearings to examine 
     expanding opportunities, challenges, and threats in the 
     Arctic, focusing on the Coast Guard Arctic Strategic Outlook, 
     10 a.m., SD-562.
       Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: business meeting 
     to consider S. 225, to provide for partnerships among State 
     and 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. 242, to 
     require the Secretary of Agriculture to release reversionary 
     and reserved interests in certain land in the Coconino 
     National Forest in the State of Arizona, S. 258, to prohibit 
     oil and gas leasing on the National Forest System land in the 
     Ruby Mountains Ranger District located in the Humboldt-
     Toiyabe National Forest, Elko and White Pine Counties, 
     Nevada, 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. 430, to extend the Secure Rural Schools and 
     Community Self-Determination Act of 2000, S. 434, to provide 
     for a report on the maintenance of Federal land holdings 
     under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior, S. 
     490, to designate a mountain ridge in the State of Montana as 
     ``B-47 Ridge'', S. 499, to amend the Outer Continental Shelf 
     Lands Act to apply to territories of the United States, to 
     establish offshore wind lease sale requirements, to provide 
     dedicated funding for coral reef conservation, S. 526, to 
     withdraw certain Bureau of Land Management land from mineral 
     development, 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. 1152, to provide for the 
     transfer of administrative jurisdiction over certain parcels 
     of Federal land in Arlington, Virginia, S. 1262, to designate 
     certain land administered by the Bureau of Land Management 
     and the Forest Service in the State of Oregon as wilderness 
     and national recreation areas, to withdraw certain land 
     located in Curry County and Josephine County, Oregon, from 
     all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal under the 
     public land laws, location, entry, and patent under the 
     mining laws, and operation under the mineral leasing and 
     geothermal leasing laws, S. 1890, to provide for grants for 
     energy efficiency improvements and renewable energy 
     improvements at public school facilities, S. 2108, to amend 
     section 6903 of title 31, United States Code, to provide for 
     additional population tiers, S. 2393, to promote a 21st 
     century energy workforce, S. 2399, to amend the Energy Policy 
     Act of 2005 to improve State loan eligibility for projects 
     for innovative technology, S. 2660, to establish a grant 
     program for wind energy research, development, and 
     demonstration, S. 2666, to promote the development of 
     renewable energy on public land, and H.R. 617, to authorize 
     the Department of Energy to conduct collaborative research 
     with the Department of Veterans Affairs in order to improve 
     healthcare services for veterans in the United States, 10:30 
     a.m., SD-366.
       Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: 
     business meeting to consider S. 2971, to amend and 
     reauthorize the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, S. 
     2683, to establish a task force to assist States in 
     implementing hiring requirements for child care staff members 
     to improve child safety, S. 2927, to amend the Public Health 
     Service Act to provide that the authority of the Director of 
     the National Institute on Minority Health and Health 
     Disparities to make certain research endowments applies with 
     respect to both current and former centers of excellence, an 
     original bill entitled, ``Title VII Reauthorization'', and 
     the nomination of Crosby Kemper III, of Missouri, to be 
     Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, 10 
     a.m., SD-430.
       Committee on Rules and Administration: to hold hearings to 
     examine the nomination of J. Brett Blanton, of Virginia, to 
     be Architect of the Capitol, 10 a.m., SR-301.


                                                         House

       Committee on Education and Labor, Full Committee, hearing 
     entitled ``Examining the Education Department's 
     Implementation of Borrower Defense'', 9 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
       Committee on Foreign Affairs, Full Committee, hearing 
     entitled ``Member Day Hearing'', 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
       Committee on the Judiciary, Full Committee, continue markup 
     on H. Res. 755, the ``Articles of Impeachment Against 
     President Donald J. Trump'', 9 a.m., 1100 Longworth.