[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 64 (Monday, April 15, 2024)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E353-E354]
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, April 16, 2024 may be found in the 
Daily Digest of today's Record.

                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED

                                APRIL 17
     9:30 a.m.
       Committee on Armed Services
         To hold hearings to examine the Department of Energy and 
           National Nuclear Security Administration atomic energy 
           defense activities in review of the Defense 
           Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2025 and the 
           Future Years Defense Program; to be immediately 
           followed by a closed session in SVC-217.
                                                            SD-G50
       Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Colleen 
           Duffy Kiko, of North Dakota, and Anne Marie Wagner, of 
           Virginia, both to be a Member of the Federal Labor 
           Relations Authority, and David Huitema, of Maryland, to 
           be Director of the Office of Government Ethics.
                                                            SD-342
     10 a.m.
       Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold hearings to examine the FAA Organization 
           Designation Authorization (ODA) Expert Panel Report.
                                                            SR-253
       Committee on Environment and Public Works
         To hold hearings to examine the nomination of Christopher 
           T. Hanson, of Michigan, to be a Member of the Nuclear 
           Regulatory Commission.
                                                            SD-406
       Committee on Finance
         To hold hearings to examine the President's 2024 trade 
           policy agenda.
                                                            SD-215
       Committee on Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine modernizing United States 
           alliances and partnerships in the Indo-Pacific.
                                                            SD-419
       Committee on the Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine pending nominations.
                                                            SD-226
     11:15 a.m.
       Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
       Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
         To hold hearings to examine Boeing's broken safety 
           culture, focusing on firsthand accounts.
                                                            SD-342
     2:30 p.m.
       Committee on Appropriations
       Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related 
           Agencies
         To hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and 
           justification for fiscal year 2024 for the Department 
           of Justice.
                                                            SD-192
       Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
       Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security
         To hold hearings to examine feeding a healthier America, 
           focusing on current efforts and potential opportunities 
           for Food is Medicine.
                                                            SD-430
       Select Committee on Intelligence
         To hold hearings to examine an update on foreign threats 
           to the 2024 elections.
                                                            SH-216
     3 p.m.
       Committee on Armed Services
       Subcommittee on Personnel
         To hold hearings to examine the Department of Defense's 
           efforts to ensure servicemembers' access to safe, high-
           quality pharmaceuticals.
                                                            SD-G50
     3:30 p.m.
       Committee on Veterans' Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine S. 1299, to amend title 38, 
           United States Code, to require the Secretary of 
           Veterans Affairs to periodically review the automatic 
           maximum coverage under Servicemembers' Group Life 
           Insurance program and the Veterans' Group Life 
           Insurance program, S. 1590, to amend title 38, United 
           States Code, to extend increased dependency and 
           indemnity compensation paid to surviving spouses of 
           veterans who die from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, 
           regardless of how long the veterans had such disease 
           prior to death, S. 1910, to expand the VetSuccess on 
           Campus program of the Department of Veterans Affairs, 
           S. 2014, to ensure that certain members of the Armed 
           Forces who served in female cultural support teams 
           receive proper credit for such service, S. 2181, to 
           amend title 38, United States Code, to repeal the 
           sunset on entitlement to memorial headstones and 
           markers for commemoration of veterans and certain 
           individuals and to repeal the sunset on authority to 
           bury remains of certain spouses and children in 
           national cemeteries, S. 2276, to provide for opt-out 
           sharing of information on members retiring or 
           separating from the Armed Forces with community-based 
           organizations and related entities, S. 2718, to amend 
           title 38, United States Code, to improve matters 
           relating to medical examinations for veterans 
           disability compensation, S. 2778, to require the 
           Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit to Congress a 
           report on competition among suppliers of the Department 
           of Veterans Affairs, S. 2863, to establish the 
           Commission on Equity and Reconciliation in the 
           Uniformed Services, S. 2873, to amend title 38, United 
           States Code, to recognize the Women-Owned Small 
           Business program in the Department of Veterans Affairs 
           procurement hierarchy of small business preferences, S. 
           2888, to amend title 10, United States Code, to 
           authorize representatives of veterans service 
           organizations to participate in presentations to 
           promote certain benefits available to veterans during 
           preseparation counseling under the Transition 
           Assistance Program of the Department of Defense, S. 
           3126, to amend title 38, United States Code, to 
           authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to furnish 
           or replace a headstone, marker, or medallion for the 
           grave of an eligible Medal of Honor recipient 
           regardless of the recipient's dates of service in the 
           Armed Forces, S. 3256, to amend title 38, United States 
           Code, to establish the Veterans Experience Office, S. 
           3295, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to 
           establish a portal for maintaining digital records of 
           former members of the Armed Forces and to establish an 
           advisory committee regarding the maintenance of those 
           records, S. 3452, to authorize the Secretary of 
           Veterans Affairs to determine the eligibility or 
           entitlement of a member or former member of the Armed 
           Forces described in subsection (a) to a benefit under a 
           law administered by the Secretary solely based on 
           alternative sources of evidence when the military 
           service records or medical treatment records of the 
           member or former member are incomplete because of 
           damage or loss of records after being in the possession 
           of the Federal Government, S. 3567, to establish within 
           the Department of Veterans Affairs a Veterans Affairs 
           History Office, S. 3636, to require the Director of the 
           Office of Personnel Management to establish a pilot 
           program to identify and refer veterans for potential 
           employment with Federal land management agencies, S. 
           3728, to amend title 38, United States Code, to modify 
           the administration of housing loans of the Department 
           of Veterans Affairs to prevent or resolve default under 
           such loans, S. 3746, to amend title 38, United States 
           Code, to

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           make certain spouses eligible for services under the 
           disabled veterans' outreach program, S. 3873, to amend 
           title 38, United States Code, to expand eligibility for 
           Post-9/11 Educational Assistance to members of the 
           National Guard who perform certain full-time duty, S. 
           3979, to amend title 38, United States Code, to make 
           permanent and codify the pilot program for use of 
           contract physicians for disability examinations, S. 
           4047, to increase, effective as of December 1, 2024, 
           the rates of compensation for veterans with service-
           connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and 
           indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain 
           disabled veterans, S. 4074, to amend title 38, United 
           States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans 
           Affairs to approve interstate commerce carrier 
           apprenticeship programs for purposes of veterans 
           educational assistance, S. 4100, to amend title 38, 
           United States Code, to establish the National 
           Cemeteries Foundation to support the educational 
           outreach activities of the Veterans Legacy Program, and 
           an original bill to amend title 38, United States Code, 
           to ensure direct access for families to national 
           cemeteries.
                                                            SR-418
     4 p.m.
       Committee on Armed Services
       Subcommittee on Airland
         To hold hearings to examine Army modernization in review 
           of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 
           2025 and the Future Years Defense Program.
                                                           SR-232A
     4:45 p.m.
       Committee on Armed Services
       Subcommittee on Strategic Forces
         To hold hearings to examine the Department of Energy's 
           atomic energy defense activities and Department of 
           Defense nuclear weapons programs in review of the 
           Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2025 and 
           the Future Years Defense Program.
                                                            SR-222

                                APRIL 18
     9:30 a.m.
       Committee on Armed Services
         To hold hearings to examine the posture of the Department 
           of the Army in review of the Defense Authorization 
           Request for Fiscal Year 2025 and the Future Years 
           Defense Program; to be immediately followed by a closed 
           session in SVC-217.
                                                            SH-216
     10 a.m.
       Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine Federal Housing 
           Regulators.
                                                            SD-538
       Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine the President's proposed 
           budget request for fiscal year 2025 for the Department 
           of Homeland Security, focusing on resources and 
           authorities requested to protect and secure the 
           homeland.
                                                            SD-342
       Committee on the Judiciary
         Business meeting to consider S. 1306, to reauthorize the 
           COPS ON THE BEAT grant program, and the nominations of 
           Nancy L. Maldonado, of Illinois, to be United States 
           Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit, Georgia N. 
           Alexakis, to be United States District Judge for the 
           Northern District of Illinois, Krissa M. Lanham, and 
           Angela M. Martinez, both to be a United States District 
           Judge for the District of Arizona, Sparkle L. 
           Sooknanan, to be United States District Judge for the 
           District of Columbia, Claria Horn Boom, of Kentucky, 
           and John Gleeson, of New York, both to be a Member of 
           the United States Sentencing Commission, and Matthew L. 
           Gannon, to be United States Attorney for the Northern 
           District of Iowa, David C. Waterman, to be United 
           States Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa, and 
           Gary D. Grimes, Sr., to be United States Marshal for 
           the Western District of Arkansas, all of the Department 
           of Justice.
                                                            SD-G50

                                 MAY 1
     2:30 p.m.
       Committee on Indian Affairs
         Business meeting to consider S. 616, to amend the Leech 
           Lake Band of Ojibwe Reservation Restoration Act to 
           provide for the transfer of additional Federal land to 
           the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, S. 2868, to accept the 
           request to revoke the charter of incorporation of the 
           Lower Sioux Indian Community in the State of Minnesota 
           at the request of that Community, S. 3022, to amend the 
           Indian Health Care Improvement Act to allow Indian 
           Health Service scholarship and loan recipients to 
           fulfill service obligations through half-time clinical 
           practice, H.R. 1240, to transfer administrative 
           jurisdiction of certain Federal lands from the Army 
           Corps of Engineers to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to 
           take such lands into trust for the Winnebago Tribe of 
           Nebraska; to be immediately followed by a hearing to 
           examine S. 465, to require Federal law enforcement 
           agencies to report on cases of missing or murdered 
           Indians, and S. 2695, to amend the Indian Law 
           Enforcement Reform Act to provide for advancements in 
           public safety services to Indian communities.
                                                            SD-628

                                 MAY 2
     10 a.m.
       Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings to examine the President's proposed 
           budget request for fiscal year 2025 for the Department 
           of the Interior.
                                                            SD-366