[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 83 (Tuesday, May 14, 2024)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D488-D491]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

                  Week of May 15 through May 17, 2024

                             Senate Chamber

  On Wednesday, Senate will continue consideration of the nomination of 
Courtney Diesel O'Donnell, of California, to be United States Permanent 
Representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and 
Cultural Organization, with the rank of Ambassador, post-cloture, and 
vote on confirmation of the nomination at 11:30 a.m.
  Following disposition of the nomination of Courtney Diesel O'Donnell, 
Senate will vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the nomination of 
Sanket Jayshukh Bulsara, of New York, to be United States District 
Judge for the Eastern 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, Senate will vote on 
confirmation of the nomination of Eric C. Schulte, of South Dakota, to 
be United States District Judge for the District of South Dakota.
  Following disposition of the nomination of Eric C. Schulte, Senate 
will begin consideration of S.J. Res. 57, providing for congressional 
disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule 
submitted by the Department of the Treasury relating to ``Coronavirus 
State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds'', and vote on passage thereon at 
6:00 p.m.
  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 Appropriations: May 15, Subcommittee on Defense, to 
hold hearings to examine select Department of Defense acquisition 
programs, 10 a.m., SD-192.
  May 15, Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, to hold 
hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for 
fiscal year 2025 for the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of 
Reclamation, 10 a.m., SD-138.
  May 15, Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related 
Programs, to hold hearings to examine strengthening American 
competitiveness, focusing on the roles of the U.S. International 
Development Finance Corporation, Export-Import Bank, and Millennium 
Challenge Corporation, 2 p.m., SD-138.
  May 15, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related 
Agencies, to hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and 
justification for fiscal year 2025 for the Department of Commerce, 
2:30 p.m., SD-192.
  May 15, Subcommittee on Legislative Branch, to hold hearings to 
examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 
2025 for the Library of Congress and the Architect of the Capitol, 
2:30 p.m., SD-124.
  Committee on Armed Services: May 15, 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, 4 p.m., SR-232A.
  May 16, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the posture of 
the Department of the Navy 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, 9:15 
a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: May 16, to hold 
an oversight hearing to examine U.S. financial regulators, focusing 
on accountability and financial stability, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on the Budget: May 15, to hold hearings to examine 
climate change and the costs to national security, 10 a.m., SD-608.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: May 16, 
business meeting to consider S. 275, to require the Federal 
Communications Commission to establish a vetting process for 
prospective applicants for high-cost universal service program 
funding, S. 690, to direct the Federal Communications Commission to 
evaluate and consider the impact of the telecommunications network 
equipment supply chain on the deployment of universal service, S. 
1570, to amend the Bottles and Breastfeeding Equipment Screening Act 
to require hygienic handling of breast milk and baby formula by 
security screening personnel of the Transportation Security 
Administration and personnel of private security companies providing 
security screening, S. 1956, to improve the commercialization of 
Federal research by domestic manufacturers, S. 2086, to require the 
Secretary of Commerce to establish the Sea Turtle Rescue Assistance 
Grant Program, S. 2233, to ban the sale of products with a high 
concentration of sodium nitrite to individuals, S. 2498, to prohibit 
unfair and deceptive advertising of prices for hotel rooms and other 
places of short-term lodging, S. 3277, to amend the Marine Debris 
Act to reauthorize the Marine Debris Program of the National Oceanic 
and Atmospheric Administration, S. 3475, to amend title 49, United 
States Code, to allow the Secretary of Transportation to designate 
an authorized operator of the commercial driver's license 
information system, S. 3788, to reauthorize the National Landslide 
Preparedness Act, S. 3879, to require the Under Secretary of 
Commerce for Standards and Technology and the Administrator of 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to develop a 
standard methodology for identifying the country of origin of red 
snapper imported into the United States, S. 4207, to reauthorize the 
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Communications Commission, S. 4213, to prohibit users who are under 
age 13 from accessing social media platforms, to prohibit the use of 
personalized recommendation systems on individuals under age 17, and 
limit the use of social media in schools, and the nomination of 
Samuel H. Slater, of Massachusetts, to be a Member of the Board of 
Directors of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, 10 
a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: May 15, Subcommittee on 
National Parks, to hold hearings to examine the President's proposed 
budget request for fiscal year 2025 for the National Park Service, 
including S. 2620, to establish the Chesapeake National Recreation 
Area as a unit of the National Park System, S. 2742, to establish 
the Fort Ontario National Monument in the State of New York as a 
unit of the National Park System, S. 2743, to amend the John D. 
Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act to 
designate as a component of the National Heritage Area System the 
Finger Lakes National Heritage Area in the State of New York, S. 
2784, to amend the Dayton Aviation Heritage Preservation Act of 1992 
to adjust the boundary of the Dayton Aviation Heritage National 
Historical Park, S. 3195, to designate the General George C. 
Marshall House, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, as an affiliated 
area of the National Park System, S. 3241, to establish the Grand 
Village of the Natchez Indians and Jefferson College as affiliated 
areas of the Natchez Historical Park, S. 3251, to modify the 
boundary of the Lincoln Home National Historic Site in the State of 
Illinois, S. 3474, to redesignate the Hulls Cove Visitor Center at 
Acadia National Park as the ``George J. Mitchell, Jr., Visitor 
Center'', S. 3534, to authorize the Pines Foundation to establish 
the Fire Island AIDS Memorial, S. 3542, to amend the Atchafalaya 
National Heritage Area Act to modify the boundary of the Atchafalaya 
National Heritage Area, S. 3543, to establish the Historic Greenwood 
District-Black Wall Street National Monument in the State of 
Oklahoma, S. 3568/H.R. 3448, to amend chapter 3081 of title 54, 
United States Code, to enhance the protection and preservation of 
America's battlefields, S. 4129, to contribute funds and artifacts 
to the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North 
Dakota, S. 4209, to provide greater regional access to the Katahdin 
Woods and Waters National Monument in the State of Maine, S. 4216, 
to establish the Ocmulgee Mounds National Park and Preserve in the 
State of Georgia, S. 4218, to designate the visitor center for the 
First State National Historical Park to be located at the Sheriff's 
House in New Castle, Delaware, as the ``Thomas R. Carper Visitor 
Center'', S. 4222, to adjust the boundary of the Mojave National 
Preserve in the State of California to include the land within the 
Castle Mountains National Monument, S. 4227, to amend the California 
Desert Protection Act of 1994 to expand the boundary of Joshua Tree 
National Park, S. 4228, to redesignate the Cottonwood Visitor Center 
at Joshua Tree National Park as the ``Senator Dianne Feinstein 
Visitor Center'', S. 4259, to require the Secretary of the Interior 
to conduct a study to assess the suitability and feasibility of 
designating certain land as the Lahaina National Heritage Area, H.R. 
359, to establish Fort San Geronimo del Boqueron in Puerto Rico as 
an affiliated area of the National Park System, and H.R. 2717, to 
authorize the National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation to establish 
a commemorative work on the National Mall to honor the extraordinary 
acts of valor, selfless service, and sacrifice displayed by Medal of 
Honor recipients, and H.R. 4984, to amend the District of Columbia 
Stadium Act of 1957 to provide for the transfer of administrative 
jurisdiction over the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium Campus to 
the Administrator of General Services and the leasing of the Campus 
to the District of Columbia for purposes which include commercial 
and residential development, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  May 16, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2025 for the 
Forest Service, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Finance: May 16, to hold hearings to examine rural 
health care, focusing on supporting lives and improving communities, 
10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: May 15, to hold hearings to 
examine the future of arms control and deterrence, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  May 16, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine Department of 
State modernization and management, focusing on building a 
Department to address 21st century challenges, 10:30 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: May 16, to 
hold hearings to examine the dental care crisis in America, focusing 
on making dental care more affordable and more available, 10 a.m., 
SD-430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: May 15, 
business meeting to consider S. 4066, to improve Federal technology 
procurement, S. 3015, to amend title 5, United States Code, to 
address telework for Federal employees, S. 4043, to amend title 5, 
United States Code, to make executive agency telework policies 
transparent, to track executive agency use of telework, S. 3810, to 
prohibit conflict of interests among consulting firms that 
simultaneously contract with the Government of the People's Republic 
of China and the United States Government, S. 2492, to amend title 
II of the Social Security Act to improve coordination between the Do 
Not Pay working system and Federal and State agencies authorized to 
use the system, S. 4181, to require the development of a workforce 
plan for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, S. 4035, to 
require the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to take 
certain actions with respect to the health insurance program carried 
out under chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code, H.R. 6249, to 
provide for a review and report on the assistance and resources that 
the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency 
provides to individuals with disabilities and the families of such 
individuals that are impacted by major disasters, S. 4305, to 
improve the effectiveness of body armor issued to female agents and 
officers of the Department of Homeland Security, H.R. 5528, to 
require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget conduct 
a review to determine the impact of the lowest price technically 
acceptable source selection process on national security, and S. 
4294, to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to negotiate with

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the Government of Canada regarding an agreement for integrated cross 
border aerial law enforcement operations, 10:30 a.m., SD-342.
  May 15, Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight, 
to hold hearings to examine the findings and recommendations of 
GAO's 2024 Report on Opportunities to Reduce Fragmentation, Overlap, 
and Duplication and Achieve Financial Benefits, 2:45 p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: May 16, business meeting to consider 
S. 930, to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968 to provide public safety officer benefits for exposure-related 
cancers, S. 3335, to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 to establish a grant program to help law 
enforcement agencies with civilian law enforcement tasks, S. 4235, 
to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
reauthorize grants to support for law enforcement officers and 
families, and S. 1306, to reauthorize the COPS ON THE BEAT grant 
program, 10 a.m., SD-G50.
  Committee on Rules and Administration: May 15, business meeting to 
consider S. 2770, to prohibit the distribution of materially 
deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media relating to candidates 
for Federal office, S. 3875, to amend the Federal Election Campaign 
Act of 1971 to provide further transparency for the use of content 
that is substantially generated by artificial intelligence in 
political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include 
a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative 
AI was used to generate any image, audio, or video footage in the 
advertisements, and S. 3897, to require the Election Assistance 
Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for the administration of 
elections that address the use and risks of artificial intelligence 
technologies, 10 a.m., SR-301.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: May 15, to hold hearings to 
examine frontier health care, focusing on ensuring veterans' access 
no matter where they live, 3:30 p.m., SR-418.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: May 15, to hold hearings to 
examine an update on foreign threats to the 2024 elections, 2:30 
p.m., SH-216.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Appropriations, May 16, Subcommittee on Financial 
Services and General Government, budget hearing on the Federal 
Communications Commission, 10 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Budget, May 16, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 
8341, the ``Cost Estimates Improvement Act''; H.R. 8195, the 
``Strengthening Administrative PAYGO Act of 2024''; H.R. 8342, the 
``Improper Payments Transparency Act''; H.R. 8343, the ``Enhancing 
Improper Payment Accountability Act''; and legislation on the Debt 
Per Taxpayer Information Act, 10 a.m., 210 Cannon.
  Committee on Financial Services, May 16, Full Committee, markup on 
H.R. 758, the ``Promoting Access to Capital in Underbanked 
Communities Act''; H.R. 3161, the ``CDFI Fund Transparency Act''; 
H.R. 8337, the ``Bank Resilience and Regulatory Improvement Act''; 
H.R. 8338, the ``Clarity in Lending Act''; H.R. 8339, the ``SEC 
Reform and Restructuring Act''; H.R. 4551, the ``Protecting 
Investors' Personally Identifiable Information Act''; H.J. Res. 100, 
providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, 
United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Securities and 
Exchange Commission relating to ``Cybersecurity Risk Management, 
Strategy, Governance, and Incident Disclosure; H.R. 8302, the ``HUD 
Evaluation and Optimization Act of 2024''; H.R. 3507, the ``Yes in 
My Backyard Act''; H.R. 7480, the ``Disabled Veterans Housing 
Support Act''; and H.R. 8340, the ``Housing Unhoused Disabled 
Veterans Act'', 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, May 16, Full Committee, markup on 
H.R. 8315, to amend the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 to prevent 
foreign adversaries from exploiting United States artificial 
intelligence and other enabling technologies, and for other 
purposes; H.R. 8361, to impose sanctions with respect to economic or 
industrial espionage by foreign adversarial companies, and for other 
purposes; H.R. 8152, to amend the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 
to provide for control of remote access of items, and for other 
purposes; H.R. 3012, to reauthorize the North Korean Human Rights 
Act of 2004, and for other purposes; H.R. 8001, to impose sanctions 
on the Houthis for attacks on international shipping, and for other 
purposes; H.R. 8046, to impose sanctions with respect to Rosatom, 
and for other purposes; H.R. 3246, to authorize the imposition of 
sanctions with respect to any foreign person endangering the 
integrity or safety of the Zaporzhzhia nuclear power plant; H.R. 
681, to reauthorize the READ Act; H.R. 8310, to require strategies 
on United States policy towards the Democratic Republic of the 
Congo, and for other purposes; H.R. 7586, to establish a Department 
of State Domestic Protection Mission relating to unmanned aircraft 
system and unmanned aircraft; H.R. 8368, to establish a Coordinator 
for Afghan Relocation Efforts in the Department of State, and for 
other purposes; H. Res. 1056, recognizing the importance of 
trilateral cooperation among the United States, Japan, and South 
Korea; H. Res. 1063, reaffirming the United States full and 
unwavering commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 
its 75th anniversary year and its goals of achieving collective 
security through transatlantic partnerships; H.R. 8362, to direct 
the Secretary of State to host regular U.S.-Africa Leaders Summits, 
and for other purposes; and H.R. 8234, to authorize the Secretary of 
State to designate additional persons eligible to serve as passport 
acceptance agents, and for other purposes, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  May 17, Subcommittee on Global Health, Global Human Rights, and 
International Organizations, hearing entitled ``Eliminating U.S. Aid 
to Terrorists--New Policies for the U.S. Government and Its 
Partners'', 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, May 16, Subcommittee on Emergency 
Management and Technology; and Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law 
Enforcement, and Intelligence, joint hearing entitled ``Unmanned 
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Systems: An Examination of the Use of Drones in Emergency 
Response'', 10 a.m., 310 Cannon.
  May 16, Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and 
Accountability, hearing entitled ``Security Risk: The Unprecedented 
Surge in Chinese Illegal Immigration'', 2 p.m., 310 Cannon.
  Committee on House Administration, May 16, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``American Confidence in Elections: Preventing Noncitizen 
Voting and Other Foreign Interference'', 10:15 a.m., 1310 Longworth.
  Committee on the Judiciary, May 16, Full Committee, markup on a 
Report Recommending that the House of Representatives Cite United 
States Attorney General Merrick B. Garland for Contempt of Congress; 
H.R. 1398, the ``Protect America's Innovation and Economic Security 
from CCP Act''; H.R. 7909, the ``Violence Against Women by Illegal 
Aliens Act''; H.R. 7803, to amend title 35, United States Code, to 
provide a good faith exception to the imposition of certain fines, 
and for other purposes; and legislation on the GAO Database 
Modernization Act, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, May 16, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``Examining the Council on Environmental Quality Fiscal 
Year 2025 Budget Request and Related Policy Matters'', 10 a.m., 1324 
Longworth.
  May 16, Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries, hearing 
entitled ``Examining the President's FY 2025 Budget Proposal for the 
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Power Marketing 
Administrations'', 2:30 p.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Accountability, May 16, Select 
Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, hearing entitled 
``Overseeing the Overseers: A Hearing with NIH Deputy Director 
Lawrence Tabak'', 9 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  May 16, Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign 
Affairs, hearing entitled ``Intruder Alert: Assessing the CCP's 
Ongoing Infiltration of U.S. Military Installations'', 9 a.m., HVC-
301. This hearing will be closed.
  May 16, Full Committee, markup on legislation recommending that 
the House of Representatives find Attorney General Merrick B. 
Garland in Contempt of Congress for refusal to comply with a 
subpoena duly issued by the Committee on Oversight and 
Accountability, 11 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, May 16, Subcommittee 
on Research and Technology, hearing entitled ``Oversight and 
Examination of the National Science Foundation's Priorities for 2025 
and Beyond'', 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, May 16, Subcommittee on Oversight 
and Investigations, hearing entitled ``Ensuring VA's Security: How 
Can Congress Best Support VA's Law Enforcement'', 2 p.m., 360 
Cannon.
  Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United 
States and the Chinese Communist Party, May 16, Full Committee, 
hearing entitled ``All Roads Leading to Beijing? The CCP's Global 
Development Offensive'', 9:30 a.m., HVC-210.


                             Joint Meeting

  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: May 16, to hold 
hearings to examine Ukraine and its defensive needs, 2 p.m., 2212, 
Rayburn Building.