[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 8 (Tuesday, January 14, 2020)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D47]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                            JANUARY 15, 2020

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: business meeting to markup H.R. 5430, 
to implement the Agreement between the United States of America, the 
United Mexican States, and Canada attached as an Annex to the 
Protocol Replacing the North American Free Trade Agreement, 10:15 
a.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: business 
meeting to consider H.R. 5430, to implement the Agreement between 
the United States of America, the United Mexican States, and Canada 
attached as an Annex to the Protocol Replacing the North American 
Free Trade Agreement; to be immediately followed by a hearing to 
examine industries of the future, 10 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: to hold hearings to 
examine an update on implementation of the Nuclear Energy Innovation 
and Modernization Act, 10 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: business meeting to consider H.R. 
5430, to implement the Agreement between the United States of 
America, the United Mexican States, and Canada attached as an Annex 
to the Protocol Replacing the North American Free Trade Agreement, 
the nominations of Todd C. Chapman, of Texas, to be Ambassador to 
the Federative Republic of Brazil, John Hennessey-Niland, of 
Illinois, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Palau, Dorothy Shea, 
of North Carolina, to be Ambassador to the Lebanese Republic, and 
Donald Wright, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the United Republic 
of Tanzania, all of the Department of State, and other pending 
calendar business, 9:30 a.m., S-116, Capitol.
  Full Committee, to receive a closed briefing on United States-Iran 
policy and authorities for the use of force, 10 a.m., SVC-217.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: business 
meeting to consider H.R. 5430, to implement the Agreement between 
the United States of America, the United Mexican States, and Canada 
attached as an Annex to the Protocol Replacing the North American 
Free Trade Agreement, 10 a.m., SD-430.


                                 House

  Committee on Armed Services, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``DOD's Role in Competing with China'', 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Budget, Full Committee, hearing entitled ``Why 
Federal Investments Matter: Stability from Congress to State 
Capitals'', 10 a.m., 210 Cannon.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health, hearing 
entitled ``Cannabis Policies for the New Decade'', 10 a.m., 2123 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, hearing entitled 
``Lifting Voices: Legislation to Promote Media Marketplace 
Diversity'', 10:30 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on National 
Security, International Development, and Monetary Policy, hearing 
entitled ``A Persistent and Evolving Threat: An Examination of the 
Financing of Domestic Terrorism and Extremism'', 10 a.m., 2128 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship, and Capital 
Markets, hearing entitled ``Overseeing the Standard Setters: An 
Examination of the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the 
Public Company Accounting Oversight Board'', 2 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``U.S. Lessons Learned in Afghanistan'', 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Civilian Security, and 
Trade, hearing entitled ``Strengthening Security and the Rule of Law 
in Mexico'', 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``U.S.-Iran Tensions: Implications for Homeland Security'', 10 a.m., 
310 Cannon.
  Subcommittee on Intelligence and Counterterrorism, hearing 
entitled ``Confronting the Rise in Anti-Semitic Domestic 
Terrorism'', 2 p.m., 310 Cannon.
  Committee on Natural Resources, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 
306, the ``Kettle Creek Battlefield Study Act''; H.R. 496, the 
``Sinkhole Mapping Act of 2019''; H.R. 895, the ``Tribal School 
Federal Insurance Parity Act''; H.R. 1702, the ``Free Veterans from 
Fees Act''; H.R. 2640, the ``Buffalo Tract Protection Act''; H.R. 
3068, the ``Offshore Wind Jobs and Opportunity Act''; H.R. 3160, the 
``Blackwater Trading Post Land Transfer Act''; H.R. 3465, the 
``Fallen Journalists Memorial Act of 2019''; H.R. 4248, the 
``Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act Amendments of 2019''; 
and H.R. 5552, the ``Migratory Bird Protection Act of 2020'', 10 
a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Reform, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``Facial Recognition Technology (Part III): Ensuring 
Commercial Transparency and Accuracy'', 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Full Committee, 
hearing entitled ``An Update on the Climate Crisis: From Science to 
Solutions'', 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Energy, hearing entitled ``The Department of 
Energy's Office of Science: Exploring the Next Frontiers in Energy 
Research and Scientific Discovery'', 2 p.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Enhancing Patent Diversity for America's Innovators'', 11:30 a.m., 
2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Aviation, hearing entitled ``Oversight of Working Conditions for 
Airline Ground Workers'', 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn