[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 120 (Wednesday, July 20, 2022)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D825-D827]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                             JULY 21, 2022

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Armed Services: to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Lieutenant General Bryan P. Fenton, USA, to be 
general and Commander, United States Special Operations Command, and 
Lieutenant General Michael E. Langley, USMC, to be general and 
Commander, United States Africa Command, both of the Department of 
Defense, 9:30 a.m., SD-G50.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: to hold hearings 
to examine the state of housing in America, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: business meeting to 
consider S. 192, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to 
designate certain river segments in the State of Oregon as 
components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, S. 387, to 
protect, for current and future generations, the watershed, 
ecosystem, and cultural heritage of the Grand Canyon region in the 
State of Arizona, to provide for a study relating to the uranium 
stockpile in the United States, S. 557, to establish a pilot program 
for native plant species, S. 567, to provide for conservation and 
economic development in the State of Nevada, S. 1344, to redesignate 
the Pullman National Monument in the State of Illinois as the 
Pullman National Historical Park, S. 1493, to sustain economic 
development and recreational use of National Forest System land in 
the State of Montana, to add certain land to the National Wilderness 
Preservation System, to designate new areas for recreation, S. 1538, 
to amend the Smith River National Recreation Area Act to include 
certain additions to the Smith River National Recreation Area, to 
amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain wild 
rivers in the State of Oregon, S. 1718, to amend the Rosie the 
Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park 
Establishment Act of 200 to provide for additional areas to be added 
to the park, S.

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1769, to adjust the boundary of the Santa Monica Mountains National 
Recreation Area to include the Rim of the Valley Corridor, S. 2130, 
to modify the disposition of certain outer Continental Shelf 
revenues and to open Federal financial sharing to heighten 
opportunities for renewable energy, S. 2367, to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to acquire land in Frederick County, 
Maryland, for the Historic Preservation Training Center of the 
National Park Service, 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. 2568, to establish the Open 
Access Evapotranspiration (OpenET) Data Program, S. 2693, to amend 
the Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of 1992 to 
authorize additional projects related to the Salton Sea, S. 2708, to 
provide for greater consultation between the Federal Government and 
the governing bodies and community users of land grant-mercedes in 
New Mexico, to provide for a process for recognition of the 
historic-traditional uses of land grant-mercedes, 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, S. 2980, to authorize the voluntary 
donation of grazing permits and leases in the State of New Mexico, 
S. 2996, to provide for the distribution of certain outer 
Continental Shelf revenues to the State of Alaska, S. 3046, to 
codify the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture and the 
Secretary of the Interior to conduct certain landscape-scale forest 
restoration projects, S. 3129, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers 
Act to designate certain segments of the Gila River system in the 
State of New Mexico as components of the National Wild and Scenic 
Rivers System, to provide for the transfer of administrative 
jurisdiction over certain Federal land in the State of New Mexico, 
S. 3141, to establish the New Philadelphia National Historical Park 
in the State of Illinois as a unit of the National Park System, S. 
3185, to amend the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area 
Improvement Act to extend the exception to the closure of certain 
roads within the Recreation Area for local businesses, S. 3240, to 
waive the application fee for applications for special use permits 
for veterans' special events at war memorials on land administered 
by the National Park Service in the District of Columbia and its 
environs, S. 3269, to provide for the recognition of certain Alaska 
Native communities and the settlement of certain claims under the 
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, S. 3307, to modify the boundary 
of the Wilson's Creek National Battlefield in the State of Missouri, 
S. 3338, to revise the boundary of the Ste. Genevieve National 
Historical Park in the State of Missouri, S. 3370, to release the 
reversionary interest of the United States in certain non-Federal 
land in Salt Lake City, Utah, S. 3404, to provide the consent of 
Congress to an amendment to the Constitution of the State of New 
Mexico, S. 3450, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
construct, operate, and maintain facilities in the Sun River 
project, Montana, for the purpose of hydroelectric power generation, 
S. 3667, to amend title 54, United States Code, to establish within 
the National Park Service the United States African-American Burial 
Grounds Preservation Program, S. 3685, to direct the Secretary of 
the Interior to conduct a special resource study to determine the 
suitability and feasibility of establishing the John P. Parker House 
in Ripley, Ohio, as a unit of the National Park System, S. 3997, to 
amend the Land Between the Lakes Protection Act of 1998 to clarify 
the administration of the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation 
Area, S. 4080, to modify the boundary of the Berryessa Snow Mountain 
National Monument to include certain Federal land in Lake County, 
California, S. 4114, to amend Public Law 99-420 to provide for the 
conveyance of certain Federal land in the State of Maine for use for 
affordable workforce housing, S. 4121, to designate the Kol Israel 
Foundation Holocaust Memorial in Bedford Heights, Ohio, as a 
national memorial, S. 4176, to amend the Infrastructure Investment 
and Jobs Act to modify the eligibility requirements for certain 
small water storage and groundwater storage projects and to 
authorize the use of funds for certain additional Carey Act 
projects, S. 4233, to amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs 
Act to provide for critical maintenance and repair of certain Bureau 
of Reclamation reserved or transferred works, S. 3519, to amend the 
National Trails System Act to designate the Butterfield Overland 
National Historic Trail, S. 4227, to streamline the oil and gas 
permitting process and to recognize fee ownership for certain oil 
and gas drilling or spacing units, H.R. 1931, to provide competitive 
grants for the promotion of Japanese American confinement education 
as a means to understand the importance of democratic principles, 
use and abuse of power, and to raise awareness about the importance 
of cultural tolerance toward Japanese Americans, H.R. 3531, to 
authorize the Women Who Worked on the Home Front Foundation to 
establish a commemorative work in the District of Columbia and its 
environs, H.R. 5001, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
continue to implement endangered fish recovery programs for the 
Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basins, H.R. 6201, to extend the 
authority for the establishment of a commemorative work to honor 
enslaved and free Black persons who served in the American 
Revolution, H.R. 6434, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to 
establish, within the National Park Service, the Japanese American 
World War II History Network, and the nomination of Laura Daniel-
Davis, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Interior, 10 
a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: to hold 
hearings to examine the nomination of David P. Pekoske, of Maryland, 
to be Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration, 
Department of Homeland Security, 10:15 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider S. 4430, 
to amend title 35, United States Code, to establish an interagency 
task force between the United States

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Patent and Trademark Office and the Food and Drug Administration for 
purposes of sharing information and providing technical assistance 
with respect to patents, and the nominations of Rachel Bloomekatz, 
of Ohio, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit, 
Florence Y. Pan, to be United States Circuit Judge for the District 
of Columbia Circuit, Elizabeth Wilson Hanes, to be United States 
District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, Ana C. Reyes, 
to be United States District Judge for the District of Columbia, 
Carlton W. Reeves, of Mississippi, to be a Member, and to be Chair, 
and Laura E. Mate, of Iowa, Claire McCusker Murray, of Maryland, 
Luis Felipe Restrepo, of Pennsylvania, Claria Horn Boom, of 
Kentucky, John Gleeson, of New York, and Candice C. Wong, of the 
District of Columbia, each to be a Member, all of the United States 
Sentencing Commission, and Carlos Felipe Uriarte, of California, to 
be an Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, 9 a.m., SH-
216.


                                 House

  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual 
Property, and the Internet, hearing entitled ``The Patent Trial and 
Appeal Board After 10 Years, Part II: Implications of Adjudicating 
in an Agency Setting'', 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn and Zoom.
  Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and 
Wildlife, hearing on H.R. 4951, the ``Canyon's Law''; H.R. 7918, the 
``Sea Turtle Rescue Assistance Act of 2022''; H.R. 7975, the ``Great 
Lakes Restoration Semipostal Stamp Act of 2022''; and H.R. 8090, to 
reauthorize funding for the Reclamation Climate Change and Water 
Program, 9 a.m., 1324 Longworth and Webex.
  Committee on Oversight and Reform, Subcommittee on Government 
Operations, hearing entitled ``The Future of Federal Work II'', 9 
a.m., 2154 Rayburn and Zoom.
  Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the 
United States Capitol, Full Committee, hearing entitled ``January 
6th Investigation'', 8 p.m., 390 Cannon and Webex.