[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 49 (Tuesday, March 16, 2021)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D252-D253]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                             MARCH 17, 2021

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on the Budget: to hold hearings to examine the income 
and wealth inequality crisis in America, 11 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold 
hearings to examine recent Federal actions to expand broadband, 10 
a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: with the Subcommittee 
on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water, to hold joint hearings to examine 
the challenges facing drinking water and waste water infrastructure 
projects, 10 a.m., SD-G50.
  Committee on Finance: to hold hearings to examine COVID-19 in the 
Nation's nursing homes, 10 a.m., WEBEX.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine 
advancing effective U.S. policy for strategic competition with China 
in the twenty-first century, 10 a.m., VTC.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: 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.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: 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 
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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.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to hold hearings to examine the 
Equality Act, focusing on LGBTQ rights, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: to hold hearings 
to examine the Paycheck Protection Program, focusing on performance, 
impact, and next steps, 2:30 p.m., SR-301.


                                 House

  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Defense, hearing 
entitled ``Climate Change, National Security, and the Arctic'', 9 
a.m., Webex.
  Subcommittee on Homeland Security, hearing entitled ``DHS 
Management Challenges'', 10 a.m., Webex.
  Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Related 
Agencies, hearing entitled ``Domestic Manufacturing for a Clean 
Energy Future'', 1 p.m., Webex.
  Committee on Education and Labor, 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.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations, hearing entitled ``Leading the Way Forward: Biden 
Administration Actions to Increase COVID-19 Vaccinations'', 10 a.m., 
Webex.
  Subcommittee on Health, hearing entitled ``Averting a Crisis: 
Protecting Access to Health Care in the U.S. Territories'', 1 p.m., 
Webex.
  Committee on Financial Services, 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.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Europe, Energy, the 
Environment, and Cyber, hearing entitled ``Women Leading the Way: 
The Democratic Movement in Belarus'', 9:30 a.m., Webex.
  Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Global Human Rights, 
hearing entitled ``Update on COVID-19 in Africa'', 1 p.m., 2172 
Rayburn and Webex.
  Committee on Homeland Security, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``The Way Forward on Homeland Security'', 9:30 a.m., Webex.
  Committee on Oversight and Reform, 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, Subcommittee on 
Investigations and Oversight, hearing entitled ``Brain Drain: 
Rebuilding the Federal Scientific Workforce'', 10 a.m., Webex.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Full Committee, 
hearing entitled ``The Business Case for Climate Solutions'', 11 
a.m., 2167 Rayburn and Webex.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Full Committee, 
organizational meeting, 1 p.m., HVC-304 Hearing Room. This meeting 
is closed.