[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 194 (Monday, November 27, 2023)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1219-D1221]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

              Week of November 28 through December 1, 2023

                             Senate Chamber

  On Tuesday, Senate will continue consideration of the nomination of 
Jeffrey M. Bryan, of Minnesota, to be United States District Judge for 
the District of Minnesota, post-cloture, and vote on confirmation 
thereon at 11:30 a.m.
  Following disposition of the nomination of Jeffrey M. Bryan, Senate 
will vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the nomination of Margaret 
M. Garnett, of New York, to be United States District Judge for the 
Southern District of New York. If cloture is invoked on the nomination, 
Senate will vote on confirmation thereon at 2:15 p.m.
  Following disposition of the nomination of Margaret M. Garnett, 
Senate will vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the nomination of 
Jose Javier Rodriguez, of Florida, to be an Assistant Secretary of 
Labor.
  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 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: November 30, to 
hold hearings to examine the nominations of Basil Ivanhoe Gooden, of 
Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural 
Development, and Summer K. Mersinger, of South Dakota, to be a 
Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, 10 a.m., 
SR-328A.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: November 30, to 
hold hearings to examine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's 
Semi-Annual Report to Congress, 10:15 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: November 30, to hold 
hearings to examine opportunities and challenges associated with 
advanced nuclear reactor commercialization, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: November 29, to hold 
hearings to examine the Water Resources Development Act of 2024, 
focusing on stakeholder feedback on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 
project partnership agreements, 10 a.m., SD-406.

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  Committee on Finance: November 28, business meeting to consider 
the nomination of Martin O'Malley, of Maryland, to be Commissioner 
of Social Security, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: November 29, to receive a closed 
briefing on the US-PRC relationship after APEC, 2:30 p.m., SVC-217.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: November 
29, to hold hearings to examine the security of Federal facilities, 
10 a.m., SD-562.
  November 30, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Hampton Y. Dellinger, of North Carolina, to be 
Special Counsel, Office of Special Counsel, and Henry J. Kerner, of 
Virginia, to be a Member of the Merit Systems Protection Board, 10 
a.m., SD-562.
  Committee on the Judiciary: November 28, to hold hearings to 
examine the gun violence epidemic, 10 a.m., SH-216.
  November 29, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine pending 
nominations, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  November 30, Full Committee, business meeting to consider an 
authorization for subpoenas relating to the Supreme Court ethics 
investigation, and the nominations of Mustafa Taher Kasubhai, to be 
United States District Judge for the District of Oregon, Eumi K. 
Lee, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of 
California, Seth Robert Aframe, of New Hampshire, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the First Circuit, Edward Sunyol Kiel, to 
be United States District Judge for the District of New Jersey, 
Sarah French Russell, to be United States District Judge for the 
District of Connecticut, Christopher Charles Fonzone, of 
Pennsylvania, to be an Assistant Attorney General, Department of 
Justice, Sara E. Hill, and John David Russell, both to be a United 
States District Judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma, and 
Ramona Villagomez Manglona, to be Judge for the District Court for 
the Northern Mariana Islands, 10 a.m., SH-216.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: November 29, to receive a closed 
briefing on certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                            House Committees

  Committee on the Budget, November 29, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``Examining the Need for a Fiscal Commission Reviewing H.R. 
710, H.R. 5779, and S. 3262'', 10 a.m., 210 Cannon.
  Committee on Education and Workforce, November 29, Subcommittee on 
Workforce Protections, hearing entitled ``Bad for Business: DOL's 
Proposed Overtime Rule'', 10:15 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  November 30, Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and 
Pensions, hearing entitled ``Safeguarding Workers' Rights and 
Liberties'', 10:15 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  December 1, Full Committee, hearing entitled ``Member Day'', 9:15 
a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, November 29, Subcommittee on 
Health, hearing entitled ``Understanding How AI is Changing Health 
Care'', 10:30 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  November 29, Subcommittee on Environment, Manufacturing, and 
Critical Materials, hearing entitled ``America Leads the Way: Our 
History as the Global Leader at Reducing Emissions'', 10 a.m., 2123 
Rayburn.


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  November 27, 2023, on page D1220, the following language 
appears: November 30, Subcommittee on Environment, Manufacturing, 
and Critical Materials, hearing entitled "America Leads the Way: 
Our History as the Global Leader at Reducing Emissions", 10 a.m., 
2123 Rayburn.
  
  The online version has been corrected to read: November 29, 
Subcommittee on Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical 
Materials, hearing entitled "America Leads the Way: Our History as 
the Global Leader at Reducing Emissions", 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.


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       November 30, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, 
     hearing entitled ``Unmasking Challenges CDC Faces in 
     Rebuilding Public Trust Amid Respiratory Illness Season'', 10 
     a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
       November 30, Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, 
     hearing entitled ``Oversight of President Biden's Broadband 
     Takeover'', 10:30 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
       Committee on Financial Services, November 29, Full 
     Committee, hearing entitled ``The Semi-Annual Report of the 
     Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection'', 10 a.m., 2128 
     Rayburn.
       Committee on Foreign Affairs, November 29, Full Committee, 
     markup on H.R. 6349, to prohibit or require notification with 
     respect to certain activities of United States persons 
     involving countries of concern, and for other purposes; H.R. 
     533, to amend the Tibetan Policy Act of 2002 to modify 
     certain provisions of that Act; H.R. 2766, to support the 
     human rights of Uyghurs and members of other minority groups 
     residing primarily in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 
     and safeguard their distinct identity, and for other 
     purposes; H.R. 5375, to require a strategy for bolstering 
     engagement and cooperation between the United States, 
     Australia, India, and Japan and to seek to establish a Quad 
     Intra-Parliamentary Working Group to facilitate closer 
     cooperation on shared interests and values; H.R. 1103, to 
     require the President to remove the extension of certain 
     privileges, exemptions, and immunities to the Hong Kong 
     Economic and Trade Offices if Hong Kong no longer enjoys a 
     high degree of autonomy from the People's Republic of China, 
     and for other purposes; and H.R. 5532, to provide for the 
     imposition of sanctions with respect to North Korea's support 
     for Russia's illegal war in Ukraine, 10 a.m., HVC-210.
       November 30, Subcommittee on Africa, hearing entitled 
     ``Ethiopia: Promise or Perils, The State of U.S. Policy'', 10 
     a.m., HVC-210.
       November 30, Subcommittee on Global Health, Global Human 
     Rights, and International Organizations, hearing entitled 
     ``Part 2--The Martyrdom of Bishop Alvarez: Nicaragua's 
     Prisoner of Conscience'', 10 a.m., 2200 Rayburn.
       November 30, Full Committee, hearing entitled ``The U.S. 
     Border Crisis and the American Solution to an International 
     Problem'', 2 p.m., HVC-210.
       Committee on Homeland Security, November 29, Full 
     Committee, hearing entitled ``The High North: How U.S. Arctic 
     Strategy Impacts Homeland Security'', 10 a.m., 310 Cannon.
       Committee on House Administration, November 30, Full 
     Committee, markup on H.R. 4460, the ``NO VOTE for Non-
     Citizens Act''; H.R. 4396, the ``American Confidence in 
     Elections: District of Columbia Citizen Voter Act''; H.R. 
     4316, the ``Citizen Ballot Protection Act'';

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     H.R. 3162, the ``Protecting American Voters Act''; H.R. 3229, 
     the ``Stop Foreign Funds in Elections Act''; H.R. 4474, the 
     ``Confirmation of Congressional Observer Access Act of 
     2023''; and H.R. 4555, the ``Federal Election Audit Act'', 
     10:15 a.m., 1310 Longworth.
  Committee on the Judiciary, November 30, Select Subcommittee on 
the Weaponization of the Federal Government, hearing entitled 
``Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government'', 10 a.m., 
2141 Rayburn.
  November 30, Subcommittee on Responsiveness and Accountability to 
Oversight, hearing entitled ``Hearing on Compliance with Committee 
Oversight'', 2 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, November 29, Subcommittee on 
Energy and Mineral Resources, hearing on H.R. 6285, the ``Alaska's 
Right to Produce Act of 2023'', 10:15 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  November 30, Subcommittee on Federal Lands, hearing on legislation 
on the EXPLORE Act, 10 a.m., 1325 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Accountability,  November 29, 
Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Federal Workforce, 
hearing entitled ``Oversight of Federal Agencies' Post-Pandemic 
Telework Policies: Part II'', 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  November 29, Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information 
Technology, and Government Innovation, hearing entitled 
``Safeguarding the Federal Software Supply Chain'', 2 p.m., 2247 
Rayburn.
  November 30, Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and 
Regulatory Affairs, hearing entitled ``Digging Deeper: Ensuring 
Safety and Security in the Critical Mineral Supply Chain'', 2 p.m., 
2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, November 30, Full 
Committee, hearing entitled ``The Role of Federal Research in 
Establishing a Robust U.S. Supply Chain of Critical Minerals and 
Materials'', 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  November 30, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations; and 
Subcommittee on Environment, joint hearing entitled ``Missing the 
Target: CEQ's Meritless Selection of SBTi'', 2 p.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, November 30, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``Member Day'', 10 a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, November 29, 
Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials, 
hearing entitled ``Getting on the Right Track: Navigating the Future 
of Intercity Passenger Rail in America'', 11 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  November 30, Subcommittee on Aviation, hearing entitled 
``Turbulence Ahead: Consequences of Delaying a Long-Term FAA Bill'', 
10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, November 29, Subcommittee on 
Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs, markup on H.R. 1753, the 
``Jax Act''; H.R. 3790, the ``Justice for ALS Veterans Act of 
2023''; H.R. 4016, the ``Veteran Fraud Reimbursement Act''; H.R. 
4190, the ``Restoring Benefits to Defrauded Veterans Act''; H.R. 
4306, the ``Michael Lecik Military Firefighters Protection Act''; 
H.R. 5559, ``Protecting Veterans Claim Options Act''; H.R. 5891, 
``Veteran Appeals Decision Clarity Act''; H.R. 5870, ``Veteran 
Appeals Transparency Act of 2023''; H.R. 5890, the ``Review Every 
Veterans Claim Act of 2023''; and H.R. 5938, the ``Veterans Exam 
Expansion Act of 2023'', 10:30 a.m., 360 Cannon.
  November 29, Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial 
Affairs, hearing entitled ``Examining the VA Appeals Process: 
Ensuring High Quality Decision-Making for Veterans' Claims on 
Appeal'', 11 a.m., 360 Cannon.


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  November 27, 2023, on page D1221, the following language 
appears: Committee on Veterans' Affairs, November 29, Subcommittee 
on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs, markup on H.R. 
1753, the "Jax Act"; H.R. 3790, the "Justice for ALS Veterans Act 
of 2023"; H.R. 4016, the "Veteran Fraud Reimbursement Act"; H.R. 
4190, the "Restoring Benefits to Defrauded Veterans Act"; H.R. 
4306, the "Michael Lecik Military Firefighters Protection Act"; 
H.R. 5559, "Protecting Veterans Claim Options Act"; H.R. 5891, 
"Veteran Appeals Decision Clarity Act"; H.R. 5870, "Veteran 
Appeals Transparency Act of 2023"; H.R. 5890, the "Review Every 
Veterans Claim Act of 2023"; and H.R. 5938, the "Veterans Exam 
Expansion Act of 2023", 10:30 a.m., 360 Cannon. November 29, 
Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs, 
hearing entitled "Examining the VA Appeals Process: Ensuring High 
Quality Decision-Making for Veterans' Claims on Appeal", 11 a.m., 
360 Cannon.
  
  The online version has been corrected to read: Committee on 
Veterans' Affairs, November 29, Subcommittee on Disability 
Assistance and Memorial Affairs, markup on H.R. 1753, the "Jax 
Act"; H.R. 3790, the "Justice for ALS Veterans Act of 2023"; H.R. 
4016, the "Veteran Fraud Reimbursement Act"; H.R. 4190, the 
"Restoring Benefits to Defrauded Veterans Act"; H.R. 4306, the 
"Michael Lecik Military Firefighters Protection Act"; H.R. 5559, 
"Protecting Veterans Claim Options Act"; H.R. 5891, "Veteran 
Appeals Decision Clarity Act"; H.R. 5870, "Veteran Appeals 
Transparency Act of 2023"; H.R. 5890, the "Review Every Veterans 
Claim Act of 2023"; and H.R. 5938, the "Veterans Exam Expansion 
Act of 2023", 10:30 a.m., 360 Cannon. November 29, Subcommittee on 
Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs, hearing entitled 
"Examining the VA Appeals Process: Ensuring High Quality Decision-
Making for Veterans' Claims on Appeal", 11 a.m., 360 Cannon.


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       Committee on Ways and Means, November 29, Subcommittee on 
     Work and Welfare; and Subcommittee on Oversight, joint 
     hearing entitled ``Strengthening the Child Support 
     Enforcement Program for States and Tribes'', 2 p.m., 1100 
     Longworth.


                             Joint Meeting

  Conference: November 29, meeting of conferees on H.R. 2670, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2024 for military 
activities of the Department of Defense and for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of 
Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal 
year, 9:30 a.m., SD-G50.