[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 48 (Monday, March 15, 2021)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D242-D245]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

                Week of March 16 through March 19, 2021

                             Senate Chamber

  On Tuesday, Senate will resume consideration of the nomination of 
Isabella Casillas Guzman, of California, to be Administrator of the 
Small Business Administration, with a vote on the motion to invoke 
cloture thereon at 12 noon.
  Also, Senate expects to vote on confirmation of the nomination of 
Isabella Casillas Guzman, of California, to be Administrator of the 
Small Business Administration, to be followed by a vote on the motion 
to invoke cloture on the nomination of Katherine C. Tai, of the 
District of Columbia, to be United States Trade Representative, with 
the rank of Ambassador.
  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 Armed Services: March 16, to hold hearings to examine 
United States Southern Command and United States Northern Command in 
review of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2022 and 
Future Years Defense program, 9:30 a.m., SD-G50.
  March 18, Full Committee, to receive a closed briefing on the 
planning, programming, budget, and execution process of the 
Department of Defense, 9:30 a.m., SD-G50.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: March 16, to 
hold hearings to examine the state of housing in America, 2 p.m., 
WEBEX.
  March 18, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 21st 
century economy, focusing on protecting the financial system from 
risks associated with climate change, 10 a.m., WEBEX.
  Committee on the Budget: March 17, to hold hearings to examine the 
income and wealth inequality crisis in America, 11 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: March 17, to 
hold hearings to examine recent Federal actions to expand broadband, 
10 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: March 16, to hold 
hearings to examine ways to strengthen research and development in 
innovative transportation technologies with a focus on solutions 
that decrease emissions, reduce our reliance on foreign supply 
chains, and increase manufacturing in the United States, 9:30 a.m., 
SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: March 17, with the 
Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water, to hold joint 
hearings to examine the challenges

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facing drinking water and waste water infrastructure projects, 10 
a.m., SD-G50.
  Committee on Finance: March 16, to hold hearings to examine the 
effect of the U.S. tax code on domestic manufacturing, 10 a.m., 
WEBEX.
  March 17, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine COVID-19 in 
the Nation's nursing homes, 10 a.m., WEBEX.
  March 18, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine fighting 
forced labor, focusing on closing loopholes and improving customs 
enforcement to mandate clean supply chains and protect workers, 10 
a.m., WEBEX.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: March 17, to hold hearings to 
examine advancing effective U.S. policy for strategic competition 
with China in the twenty-first century, 10 a.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: March 16, to 
hold hearings to examine the nomination of Julie A. Su, of 
California, to be Deputy Secretary of Labor, 10 a.m., SD-106.
  March 17, Full Committee, business meeting to consider the 
nominations of Vivek Hallegere Murthy, of Florida, to be Medical 
Director in the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service, and to 
be Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, and Rachel Leland 
Levine, of Pennsylvania, to be an Assistant Secretary, both of the 
Department of Health and Human Services, and other pending calendar 
business, 9:30 a.m., SD-430.
  March 18, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the COVID-19 
response, focusing on an update from Federal officials, 10 a.m., SH-
216.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: March 17, 
business meeting to consider S. 231, to direct the Administrator of 
the Federal Emergency Management Agency to develop guidance for 
firefighters and other emergency response personnel on best 
practices to protect them from exposure to PFAS and to limit and 
prevent the release of PFAS into the environment, S. 272, to amend 
the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006, to 
require the budget justifications and appropriation requests of 
agencies be made publicly available, S. 583, to promote innovative 
acquisition techniques and procurement strategies, S. 517, to 
provide for joint reports by relevant Federal agencies to Congress 
regarding incidents of terrorism, S. 671, to require the collection 
of voluntary feedback on services provided by agencies, S. 693, to 
amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for the halt in 
pension payments for Members of Congress sentenced for certain 
offenses, S. 658, to authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security to 
work with cybersecurity consortia for training, S. 636, to require 
the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to submit to 
Congress an annual report on projects that are over budget and 
behind schedule, S. 688, to prohibit contracting with persons that 
have business operations with the Maduro regime, S. 522, to require 
each agency, in providing notice of a rule making, to include a link 
to a 100 word plain language summary of the proposed rule, S. 111, 
to establish the Federal Clearinghouse on School Safety Best 
Practices, S. 664, to require the Comptroller General of the United 
States to review certain legislation in order to identify potential 
risks of duplication of and overlap with existing Federal programs, 
offices, and initiatives, S. 566, to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 42 Main Street in 
Slatersville, Rhode Island, as the ``Specialist Matthew R. Turcotte 
Post Office'', H.R. 208, to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 500 West Main Street, Suite 102 in 
Tupelo, Mississippi, as the ``Colonel Carlyle 'Smitty' Harris Post 
Office'', and H.R. 264, to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 1101 Charlotte Street in 
Georgetown, South Carolina, as the ``Joseph Hayne Rainey Memorial 
Post Office Building'', 9:30 a.m., SD-342.
  March 18, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
SolarWinds supply chain attack, focusing on the Federal perspective, 
10:15 a.m., SD-342/WEBEX.
  Committee on the Judiciary: March 17, to hold hearings to examine 
the Equality Act, focusing on LGBTQ rights, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  March 18, Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. 632, to 
amend chapter 11 of title 35, United States Code, to require the 
voluntary collection of demographic information for patent 
inventors, S. 169, to amend title 17, United States Code, to require 
the Register of Copyrights to waive fees for filing an application 
for registration of a copyright claim in certain circumstances, and 
the nominations of Lisa O. Monaco, of the District of Columbia, to 
be Deputy Attorney General, and Vanita Gupta, of Virginia, to be 
Associate Attorney General, both of the Department of Justice, 10 
a.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: March 17, to 
hold hearings to examine the Paycheck Protection Program, focusing 
on performance, impact, and next steps, 2:30 p.m., SR-301.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: March 18, to resume joint hearings 
with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to examine the 
legislative presentation of veterans services organizations, 10 
a.m., WEBEX.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: March 16, closed business 
meeting to consider pending intelligence matters; to be immediately 
followed by a closed briefing on certain intelligence matters, 2:30 
p.m., SVC-217.
  Special Committee on Aging: March 18, to hold hearings to examine 
COVID-19 one year later, focusing on addressing health care needs 
for at-risk Americans, 9:30 a.m., VTC.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Appropriations, March 17, Subcommittee on Defense, 
hearing entitled ``Climate Change, National Security, and the 
Arctic'', 9 a.m., Webex.
  March 17, Subcommittee on Homeland Security, hearing entitled 
``DHS Management Challenges'', 10 a.m., Webex.
  March 17, Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and 
Related Agencies, hearing entitled ``Domestic Manufacturing for a 
Clean Energy Future'', 1 p.m., Webex.

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  March 18, Subcommittee on Legislative Branch, budget hearing on 
the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights, 10 a.m., Webex.
  March 18, Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related 
Agencies, hearing entitled ``Efforts to Address Marine Plastic 
Pollution Through Recycling'', 11 a.m., Webex.
  March 18, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related 
Agencies, hearing entitled ``COVID Outbreaks and Management 
Challenges: Evaluating the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Pandemic 
Response and the Way Forward'', 2 p.m., Webex.
  Committee on Armed Services, March 18, Subcommittee on Seapower 
and Projection Forces, hearing entitled ``Unmanned Systems of the 
Department of the Navy'', 11 a.m., 2118 Rayburn and Webex.
  March 19, Subcommittee on Readiness, hearing entitled ``Investing 
in an Organic Industrial Base to Support Service Modernization 
Plans'', 11 a.m., 2118 Rayburn and Webex.
  March 19, Subcommittee on Cyber, Innovative Technologies, and 
Information Systems, hearing entitled ``Department of Defense 
Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations: Challenges and Opportunities in 
the Invisible Battlespace'', 3 p.m., Webex.
  Committee on Education and Labor, March 17, Subcommittee on Higher 
Education and Workforce Investment, hearing entitled ``Rising to the 
Challenge: The Future of Higher Education Post COVID-19'', 1 p.m., 
Zoom.
  March 18, Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services; and 
Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, joint hearing entitled 
``Fighting for Fairness: Examining Legislation to Confront Workplace 
Discrimination'', 10:15 a.m., Zoom.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, March 17, Subcommittee on 
Oversight and Investigations, hearing entitled ``Leading the Way 
Forward: Biden Administration Actions to Increase COVID-19 
Vaccinations'', 10 a.m., Webex.
  March 17, Subcommittee on Health, hearing entitled ``Averting a 
Crisis: Protecting Access to Health Care in the U.S. Territories'', 
1 p.m., Webex.
  March 18, Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change, hearing 
entitled ``The CLEAN Future Act: Industrial Climate Policies to 
Create Jobs and Support Working Communities'', 11 a.m., Webex.
  Committee on Financial Services, March 17, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``Game Stopped? Who Wins and Loses When Short Sellers, 
Social Media, and Retail Investors Collide, Part II'', 10 a.m., 
Webex.
  March 18, Subcommittee on Diversity and Inclusion, hearing 
entitled ``By the Numbers, How Diversity Data Can Measure Commitment 
to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion'', 10 a.m., Webex.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, March 17, Subcommittee on Europe, 
Energy, the Environment, and Cyber, hearing entitled ``Women Leading 
the Way: The Democratic Movement in Belarus'', 9:30 a.m., Webex.
  March 17, Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Global Human 
Rights, hearing entitled ``Update on COVID-19 in Africa'', 1 p.m., 
2172 Rayburn and Webex.
  March 18, Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa, and 
Global Counterterrorism, hearing entitled ``Assessing the Human 
Rights Situation in Saudi Arabia'', 10 a.m., Webex.
  March 18, Full Committee, hearing entitled ``A Year Out: 
Addressing International Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic'', 1 p.m., 
Webex.
  March 19, Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia, and 
Nonproliferation, hearing entitled ``America's Way Forward in the 
Indo-Pacific'', 10 a.m., Webex.
  Committee on Homeland Security, March 17, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``The Way Forward on Homeland Security'', 9:30 a.m., Webex.
  March 18, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 1833, the ``DHS 
Industrial Control Systems Capabilities Enhancement Act of 2021''; 
H.R. 1850, the ``Supporting Research and Development for First 
Responders Act''; H.R. 1870, the ``Strengthening Local 
Transportation Security Capabilities Act of 2021''; H.R. 1871, the 
``Transportation Security Transparency Improvement Act''; H.R. 1877, 
the ``Security Screening During COVID-19 Act''; H.R. 1893, the 
``Transportation Security Preparedness Act of 2021''; and 
legislation on the Transportation Security Public Health Threat 
Preparedness Act of 2021, 10 a.m., Webex.
  Committee on the Judiciary, March 18, Subcommittee on the 
Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, hearing entitled 
``Discrimination and Violence Against Asian Americans'', 10 a.m., 
2141 Rayburn and Webex.
  March 18, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and 
Administrative Law, hearing entitled ``Reviving Competition, Part 3: 
Strengthening the Laws to Address Monopoly Power'', 2 p.m., 2141 
Rayburn and Webex.
  Committee on Natural Resources, March 18, Subcommittee on Energy 
and Mineral Resources, hearing entitled ``Restoring Abandoned Mine 
Lands, Local Economies, and the Environment'', 12 p.m., Webex.
  Committee on Oversight and Reform, March 17, Select Subcommittee 
on the Coronavirus Crisis, hearing entitled ``From Rescue to 
Recovery: Building a Thriving and Inclusive Post-Pandemic Economy'', 
11 a.m., Webex.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, March 17, 
Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight, hearing entitled 
``Brain Drain: Rebuilding the Federal Scientific Workforce'', 10 
a.m., Webex.
  March 18, Full Committee, hearing entitled ``Lessons Learned from 
the Texas Blackouts: Research Needs for a Secure and Resilient 
Grid'', 10 a.m., Webex.
  Committee on Small Business, March 18, Subcommittee on 
Underserved, Agricultural, and Rural Business Development, hearing 
entitled ``The Role of Community Navigators in Reaching Underserved 
Businesses'', 10 a.m., 2360 Rayburn and Webex.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, March 17, Full 
Committee, hearing entitled ``The Business Case for Climate 
Solutions'', 11 a.m., 2167 Rayburn and Webex.
  March 18, Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, 
and Emergency Management, hearing entitled ``Building Smarter: The 
Benefits of Investing in

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Resilience and Mitigation'', 2 p.m., 2167 Rayburn and Webex.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, March 18, Subcommittee on Health, 
hearing entitled ``Beyond Deborah Sampson: Improving Healthcare for 
America's Women Veterans in the 117th Congress'', 2:30 p.m., Zoom.
  Committee on Ways and MEANS, March 18, Subcommittee on Oversight, 
hearing entitled ``Hearing with the IRS Commissioner on the 2021 
Filing Season'', 2 p.m., 1100 Longworth and Webex.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, March 17, Full 
Committee, organizational meeting, 1 p.m., HVC-304 Hearing Room. 
This meeting is closed.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Hearing: March 18, Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, to 
resume joint hearings with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs 
to examine the legislative presentation of veterans services 
organizations, 10 a.m., WEBEX.