[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 182 (Monday, October 18, 2021)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1103-E1104]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                       SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS

  Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, agreed to by the Senate of February 
4, 1977, calls for establishment of a system for a computerized 
schedule of all meetings and hearings of Senate committees, 
subcommittees, joint committees, and committees of conference. This 
title requires all such committees to notify the Office of the Senate 
Daily Digest--designated by the Rules Committee--of the time, place and 
purpose of the meetings, when scheduled and any cancellations or 
changes in the meetings as they occur.
  As an additional procedure along with the computerization of this 
information, the Office of the Senate Daily Digest will prepare this 
information for printing in the Extensions of Remarks section of the 
Congressional Record on Monday and Wednesday of each week.
  Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, October 19, 2021 may be found in the 
Daily Digest of today's Record.

                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED

                               OCTOBER 20
     9:30 a.m.
       Committee on Foreign Relations
         Business meeting to consider pending calendar business; 
           to be immediately followed by a hearing to examine the 
           nominations of R. Nicholas Burns, of Massachusetts, to 
           be Ambassador to the People's Republic of China, Rahm 
           Emanuel, of Illinois, to be Ambassador to Japan, and 
           Jonathan Eric Kaplan, of California, to be Ambassador 
           to the Republic of Singapore, all of the Department of 
           State, and other pending nominations.
                                                            SD-G50
     10 a.m.
       Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         Business meeting to consider the nominations of Victoria 
           Marie Baecher Wassmer, of the District of Columbia, to 
           be Chief Financial Officer, Mohsin Raza Syed, of 
           Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary, Amitabha Bose, 
           of New Jersey, to be Administrator of the Federal 
           Railroad Administration, and Meera Joshi, of 
           Pennsylvania, to be Administrator of the Federal Motor 
           Carrier Safety Administration, all of the Department of 
           Transportation, Mary T. Boyle, of Maryland, to be a 
           Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, 
           Rear Admiral Nancy A. Hann, of Maryland, to be 
           Director, National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
           Administration Corps and Director, Office of Marine and 
           Aviation Operations, Department of Commerce, and 
           routine lists in the Coast Guard; to be immediately 
           followed by a hearing to examine the nominations of Max 
           Vekich, of Washington, to be a Federal Maritime 
           Commissioner, Christopher A. Coes, of Georgia, to be an 
           Assistant Secretary of Transportation, and Laurie E. 
           Locascio, of Maryland, to be Under Secretary of 
           Commerce for Standards and Technology.
                                                            SR-253
       Committee on Environment and Public Works
         To hold hearings to examine evaluating the Federal 
           response to the persistence and impacts of PFAS 
           chemicals on our environment.
                                                            SD-406
       Committee on Finance
         To hold hearings to examine health insurance coverage in 
           America, focusing on the current and future role of 
           Federal programs.
                                                            SD-215
       Committee on the Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Holly A. 
           Thomas, of California, to be United States Circuit 
           Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Mary Katherine Dimke, to 
           be United States District Judge for the Eastern 
           District of Washington, Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, to 
           be United States District Judge for the Central 
           District of California, Charlotte N. Sweeney, to be 
           United States District Judge for the District of 
           Colorado, Jennifer L. Thurston, to be United States 
           District Judge for the Eastern District of California, 
           and Hernan D. Vera, of California, to be United States 
           District Judge for the Central District of California.
                                                            SD-226
     10:30 a.m.
       Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Ernest W. 
           DuBester, of Virginia, and Susan Tsui Grundmann, of 
           Virginia, both to be Member, and Kurt Thomas Rumsfeld, 
           of Maryland, to be General Counsel, all of the Federal 
           Labor Relations Authority.
                                                               VTC
     2 p.m.
       Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
       Subcommittee on Economic Policy
         To hold hearings to examine protecting companies and 
           communities from private equity abuse.
                                                            SD-106
       Committee on Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Patricia 
           Mahoney, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Central 
           African Republic, Peter Hendrick Vrooman, of New York, 
           to be Ambassador to the Republic of Mozambique, Peter 
           D. Haas, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the People's 
           Republic of Bangladesh, Julie Chung, of California, to 
           be Ambassador to the Democratic Socialist Republic of 
           Sri Lanka, Brian Wesley Shukan, of Virginia, to be 
           Ambassador to the Republic of Benin, Elizabeth Anne 
           Noseworthy Fitzsimmons, of Delaware, to be Ambassador 
           to the Togolese Republic, and David R. Gilmour, of the 
           District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Republic 
           of Equatorial Guinea, all of the Department of State, 
           and other pending nominations.
                                                               VTC
       Select Committee on Intelligence
         To receive a closed briefing on certain intelligence 
           matters.
                                                            SH-219
     2:30 p.m.
       Committee on Indian Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine investing in economic 
           sovereignty, focusing on leveraging Federal financing 
           for new and sustained development in Native 
           communities.
                                                            SD-628
       Committee on the Judiciary
       Subcommittee on the Constitution
         To hold hearings to examine restoring the Voting Rights 
           Act, focusing on protecting the Native American and 
           Alaska Native vote.
                                                            SD-226
     3 p.m.
       Committee on Rules and Administration
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine Library of 
           Congress modernization efforts.
                                                            SR-301
       Committee on Veterans' Affairs
         Business meeting to consider the nominations of Guy T. 
           Kiyokawa, of Hawaii, to be an Assistant Secretary of 
           Veterans Affairs (Enterprise Integration), and James D. 
           Rodriguez, of Texas, to be Assistant Secretary of Labor 
           for Veterans' Employment and Training; to be 
           immediately followed by a hearing to examine S. 1342, 
           to establish an interagency committee on the 
           development of green alert systems that would be 
           activated when a veteran goes missing, S. 1779, to 
           amend title 38, United States Code, to eliminate 
           copayments by the Department of Veterans Affairs for 
           medicines relating to preventive health services, S. 
           1937, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to 
           establish a pilot program to furnish doula services to 
           veterans, S. 1944, to improve Vet Centers of the 
           Department of Veterans Affairs, S. 2283, to improve the 
           Veterans Crisis Line of the Department of Veterans 
           Affairs, S. 2386, to amend the VA MISSION Act of 2018, 
           to expand the peer specialist support program of the 
           Department of Veterans Affairs to all medical centers 
           of the Department, S. 2526, to authorize the Secretary 
           of Defense and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to 
           enter into agreements for the planning, design, and 
           construction of facilities to be operated as shared 
           medical facilities, S. 2533, to improve mammography 
           services furnished by the Department of Veterans 
           Affairs, S. 2624, to authorize major medical facility 
           projects for the Department of Veterans Affairs for 
           fiscal year 2022, S. 2720, to direct the Secretary of 
           Veterans Affairs to establish a national clinical 
           pathway for prostate cancer, S. 2787, to amend title 
           38, United States Code, to clarify the role of doctors 
           of podiatric medicine in the Department of Veterans 
           Affairs, S. 2852, to amend title 38, United States 
           Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to 
           enter into contracts and agreements for the payment of 
           care in non-Department of Veterans Affairs medical 
           foster homes for certain veterans who are unable to 
           live independently, S. 2924, to

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           amend title 38, United States Code, to require the 
           Secretary of Veterans Affairs to transmit certain 
           information to personnel of Vet Centers of the 
           Department of Veterans Affairs regarding members of the 
           Armed Forces transitioning from service in the Armed 
           Forces to civilian life, an original bill entitled, 
           ``Servicemembers and Veterans Empowerment and Support 
           Act'', an original bill to amend title 38, United 
           States Code, to establish new requirements for State 
           homes for veterans that receive per diem from the 
           Secretary of Veterans Affairs, an original bill 
           entitled, ``Veterans Dental Care Eligibility Expansion 
           and Enhancement Act'', an original bill entitled, 
           ``Veterans State Eligibility Standardization Act'', and 
           an original bill to amend title 38, United States Code, 
           to reorganize the Chaplain Service of the Department of 
           Veterans Affairs.
                                                            SR-418
                               OCTOBER 21
     9 a.m.
       Committee on the Judiciary
         Business meeting to consider S. 2428, to amend title 31, 
           United States Code, to modify False Claims Act 
           procedures, S. 2429, to amend chapter 38 of title 31, 
           United States Code, relating to civil remedies, S. 998, 
           to provide grants to States that do not suspend, 
           revoke, or refuse to renew a driver's license of a 
           person or refuse to renew a registration of a motor 
           vehicle for failure to pay a civil or criminal fine or 
           fee, and the nominations of Beth Robinson, of Vermont, 
           to be United States Circuit Judge for the Second 
           Circuit, Jennifer Sung, of Oregon, to be United States 
           Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Lucy Haeran Koh, 
           of California, to be United States Circuit Judge for 
           the Ninth Circuit, Jane M. Beckering, to be United 
           States District Judge for the Western District of 
           Michigan, Shalina D. Kumar, to be United States 
           District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, 
           Armando O. Bonilla, of the District of Columbia, and 
           Carolyn N. Lerner, of Maryland, both to be a Judge of 
           the United States Court of Federal Claims, and Jonathan 
           Kanter, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Attorney 
           General, Department of Justice.
                                                            SD-106
     10 a.m.
       Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine how private equity landlords 
           are changing the housing market.
                                                            SD-538
       Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
       Subcommittee on Space and Science
         To hold hearings to examine international collaboration 
           and competition in space, focusing on oversight of 
           NASA's role and programs.
                                                            SR-253
       Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings to examine S. 1734, to direct the 
           Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of 
           Agriculture to encourage and expand the use of 
           prescribed fire on land managed by the Department of 
           the Interior or the Forest Service, with an emphasis on 
           units of the National Forest System in the western 
           United States, S. 1964, to amend the Omnibus Parks and 
           Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to provide for the 
           establishment of a Ski Area Fee Retention Account, S. 
           2404, to improve Federal activities relating to 
           wildfires, S. 2436, to amend the Healthy Forests 
           Restoration Act of 2003 to establish emergency fireshed 
           management areas, S. 2561, to amend the Forest and 
           Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 and 
           the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to 
           provide that a land resource management plan or land 
           use plan approved, amended, or revised under those Acts 
           shall not be considered to be a continuing Federal 
           agency action or constitute a discretionary Federal 
           involvement or control for a distinct Federal purpose, 
           S. 2564, to establish a pilot program under which the 
           Chief of the Forest Service may use alternative dispute 
           resolution in lieu of judicial review for certain 
           projects, S. 2650, to provide mandatory funding for 
           hazardous fuels reduction projects on certain Federal 
           land, S. 2806, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture 
           to select and implement landscape-scale forest 
           restoration projects, to assist communities in 
           increasing their resilience to wildfire, and S. 2836, 
           to improve revegetation and carbon sequestration 
           activities in the United States.
                                                            SD-366
       Committee on the Judiciary
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine the Department of 
           Homeland Security.
                                                            SD-106
     10:15 a.m.
       Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine safeguarding inspector 
           general independence and integrity.
                                                        SD-342/VTC
                               OCTOBER 27
     10 a.m.
       Committee on Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine the Department of State and 
           Department of State authorizations.
                                                            SD-G50
                               NOVEMBER 2
     2 p.m.
       Committee on Foreign Relations
       Subcommittee on State Department and USAID Management, 
           International Operations, and Bilateral International 
           Development
         To hold hearings to examine training the Department of 
           State's workforce for the 21st century diplomacy.
                                                        SD-G50/VTC
                               NOVEMBER 3
     10 a.m.
       Committee on Environment and Public Works
         To hold hearings to examine programs at the Economic 
           Development Administration.
                                                            SD-406