[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 123 (Monday, July 29, 2024)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D784-D787]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

                 Week of July 30 through August 2, 2024

                             Senate Chamber

  On Tuesday, Senate will continue consideration of the nomination of 
Stacey D. Neumann, of Maine, to be United States District Judge for the 
District of Maine.
  At 12 noon, Senate will vote on the motion to concur in the House 
amendment to S. 2073, Eliminate Useless Reports Act (the legislative 
vehicle for the Kids Online Safety Act/Children and Teens' Online 
Privacy Protection Act), with Schumer Amendment No. 3021.
  At 2:30 p.m., Senate will vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the 
nomination of Stacey D. Neumann. If cloture is invoked on the 
nomination, Senate will vote on confirmation thereon at 4:15 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: August 1, business meeting to markup 
an original bill entitled, ``Energy and Water Development and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act'', an original bill entitled, 
``Department of Defense Appropriations Act'', an original bill 
entitled, ``Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and 
Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act'', and an 
original bill entitled, ``Financial Services and General Government 
Appropriations Act'', 9:30 a.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Armed Services: July 30, to hold hearings to examine 
the findings and recommendations of the Commission on the National 
Defense Strategy, 9:30 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: July 30, 
Subcommittee on Economic Policy, to hold hearings to examine banning 
noncompete agreements, focusing on benefits for workers, businesses, 
and the economy, 2:30 p.m., SD-538.
  July 31, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine long-term 
economic benefits and impacts from Federal infrastructure and public 
transportation investment, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on the Budget: July 31, to hold hearings to examine the 
future of electric vehicles, 10 a.m., SD-608.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: July 30, 
Subcommittee on Tourism, Trade, and Export Promotion, to hold 
hearings to examine rural export opportunities, focusing on enabling 
rural businesses to grow at home while competing abroad, 10 a.m., 
SR-253.
  July 31, Full Committee, 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. 1008, to require the Consumer Product 
Safety Commission to promulgate a consumer product safety standard 
with respect to rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used in 
micromobility devices, 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. 2238, to direct the Assistant

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Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to develop 
a National Strategy to Close the Digital Divide, S. 2498, to 
prohibit unfair and deceptive advertising of prices for hotel rooms 
and other places of short-term lodging, S. 2645, to reduce the 
health risks of heat by establishing the National Integrated Heat 
Health Information System within the National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration and the National Integrated Heat Health 
Information System Interagency Committee to improve extreme heat 
preparedness, planning, and response, requiring a study, and 
establishing financial assistance programs to address heat effects, 
S. 2714, to establish the National Artificial Intelligence Research 
Resource, S. 3162, to improve the requirement for the Director of 
the National Institute of Standards and Technology to establish 
testbeds to support the development and testing of trustworthy 
artificial intelligence systems and to improve interagency 
coordination in development of such testbeds, S. 3277, to amend the 
Marine Debris Act to reauthorize the Marine Debris Program of the 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, S. 3312, to provide 
a framework for artificial intelligence innovation and 
accountability, S. 3348, to amend the Harmful Algal Blooms and 
Hypoxia Research and Control Act of 1998 to address harmful algal 
blooms, 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. 3606, to 
reauthorize the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977, S. 3781, 
to amend the National Telecommunications and Information 
Administration Organization Act to codify the Institute for 
Telecommunication Sciences, to direct the Assistant Secretary of 
Commerce for Communications and Information to establish an 
initiative to support the development of emergency communication and 
tracking technologies, S. 3788, to reauthorize the National 
Landslide Preparedness Act, S. 3849, to promote United States 
leadership in technical standards by directing the National 
Institute of Standards and Technology and the Department of State to 
take certain actions to encourage and enable United States 
participation in developing standards and specifications for 
artificial intelligence and other critical and emerging 
technologies, 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. 3943, to require a plan to 
improve the cybersecurity and telecommunications of the U.S. 
Academic Research Fleet, S. 3959, to require the Transportation 
Security Administration to streamline the enrollment processes for 
individuals applying for a Transportation Security Administration 
security threat assessment for certain programs, including the 
Transportation Worker Identification Credential and Hazardous 
Materials Endorsement Threat Assessment programs of the 
Administration, S. 4107, to require Amtrak to report to Congress 
information on Amtrak compliance with the Americans with 
Disabilities Act of 1990 with respect to trains and stations, S. 
4178, to establish artificial intelligence standards, metrics, and 
evaluation tools, to support artificial intelligence research, 
development, and capacity building activities, to promote innovation 
in the artificial intelligence industry by ensuring companies of all 
sizes can succeed and thrive, S. 4212, to amend the Visit America 
Act to promote music tourism, S. 4343, to establish and maintain a 
coordinated program within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration that improves wildfire, fire weather, fire risk, and 
smoke related forecasting, detection, modeling, observations, and 
service delivery, and to address growing needs in the wildland-urban 
interface, S. 4394, to support National Science Foundation education 
and professional development relating to artificial intelligence, S. 
4487, to require the Secretary of Commerce to develop artificial 
intelligence training resources and toolkits for United States small 
businesses, S. 4569, to require covered platforms to remove 
nonconsensual intimate visual depictions, S. 4579, to reauthorize 
the Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative Act to promote 
the protection of the resources of the Northwest Straits, S. 4596, 
to require the Secretary of Commerce to conduct a public awareness 
and education campaign to provide information regarding the benefits 
of, risks relating to, and the prevalence of artificial intelligence 
in the daily lives of individuals in the United States, an original 
bill entitled, ``Validation and Evaluation for Trustworthy 
Artificial Intelligence Act'', the nomination of Chad M. Cary, of 
Alaska, to be Director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration, Department of Commerce, and routine lists in the 
Coast Guard, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: July 31, business 
meeting to consider S. 4753, to reform leasing, permitting, and 
judicial review for certain energy and minerals projects, and the 
nomination of Shannon A. Estenoz, of Florida, to be Deputy Secretary 
of the Interior, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: July 31, Subcommittee 
on Chemical Safety, Waste Management, Environmental Justice, and 
Regulatory Oversight, to hold hearings to examine understanding the 
potential environmental impacts of the chemical 6PPD, 2:30 p.m., SD-
406.
  Committee on Finance: July 30, to hold hearings to examine tax 
tools for local economic development, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: July 30, to hold hearings to 
examine strategic competition with the PRC, focusing on assessing 
U.S. competitiveness beyond the Indo-Pacific, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  July 30, Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation, 
to hold hearings to examine the future of Europe, 2:30 p.m., SD-419.
  August 1, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the United 
States competing for influence around the globe, 10:30 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: July 31, 
business meeting to consider S. 4776, to amend the Older Americans 
Act of 1965 to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2025 
through 2029, S. 4762, to amend the Public Health Service Act to 
reauthorize programs and research relating to autism, S. 4755, to 
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traumatic brain injury programs, and other pending calendar 
business, 10 a.m., SD-562.
  August 1, Full Committee, business meeting to consider the 
nominations of Lauren McGarity McFerran, of the District of 
Columbia, and Joshua L. Ditelberg, of Illinois, both to be a Member 
of the National Labor Relations Board, Mark G. Eskenazi, of 
Virginia, to be a Member of the Occupational Safety and Health 
Review Commission, and other pending calendar business, Time to be 
announced, S-216, Capitol.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: July 30, 
with the Committee on the Judiciary, to hold a joint hearing to 
examine the security failures leading to the assassination attempt 
on former President Trump, 10 a.m., SD-G50.
  July 31, Full Committee, business meeting to continue to consider 
S. 4667, to amend title 31, United States Code, to establish the 
Life Sciences Research Security Board, S. 4373, to provide for 
congressional approval of national emergency declarations, S. 4495, 
to enable safe, responsible, and agile procurement, development, and 
use of artificial intelligence by the Federal Government, S. 4675, 
to require the United States Postal Service to submit a 
comprehensive proposal to the Postal Regulatory Commission before 
implementing any network changes, S. 4630, to establish an 
interagency committee to harmonize regulatory regimes in the United 
States relating to cybersecurity, S. 4654, to amend the Robert T. 
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to allow 
Indian tribal governments to directly request fire management 
assistance declarations and grants, S. 4698, to authorize the Joint 
Task Forces of the Department of Homeland Security, S. 4711, to 
limit the consideration of marijuana use when making an employment 
suitability or security clearance determination, S. 4681, to ensure 
a timely, fair, meaningful, and transparent process for individuals 
to seek redress because they were wrongly identified as a threat 
under the screening and inspection regimes used by the Department of 
Homeland Security, to require a report on the effectiveness of 
enhanced screening programs of the Department of Homeland Security, 
S. 4043, to amend title 5, United States Code, to make executive 
agency telework policies transparent, to track executive agency use 
of telework, S. 4679, to amend title XLI of the FAST Act to improve 
the Federal permitting process, S. 4716, to amend section 7504 of 
title 31, United States Code, to improve the single audit 
requirements, S. 4294, to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security 
to negotiate with the Government of Canada regarding an agreement 
for integrated cross border aerial law enforcement operations, S. 
59, to implement merit-based reforms to the civil service hiring 
system that replace degree-based hiring with skills-and competency-
based hiring, S. 4676, to enhance the effectiveness of the Shadow 
Wolves Program, S. 4672, to require the Commissioner for U.S. 
Customs and Border Protection to assess current efforts to respond 
to hazardous weather and water events at or near United States 
borders and, to the extent such efforts may be improved, to develop 
a hazardous weather and water events preparedness and response 
strategy, S. 4697, to enhance the cybersecurity of the Healthcare 
and Public Health Sector, S. 4715, to require the National Cyber 
Director to submit to Congress a plan to establish an institute 
within the Federal Government to serve as a centralized resource and 
training center for Federal cyber workforce development, S. 4631, to 
amend title 41, United States Code, to prohibit minimum education 
requirements for proposed contractor personnel in certain contract 
solicitations, S. 4700, to modify the governmentwide financial 
management plan, S. 4656, to amend title 5, United States Code, 
concerning restrictions on the participation of certain Federal 
employees in partisan political activity, S. 4651, to require 
agencies to use information and communications technology products 
obtained from original equipment manufacturers or authorized 
resellers, S. 4419, to require the Science and Technology 
Directorate in the Department of Homeland Security to develop 
greater capacity to detect, identify, and disrupt illicit substances 
in very low concentrations, S. 4321, to amend title 5, United States 
Code, to prohibit the payment of annuities and retired pay to 
individuals convicted of certain sex crimes, S. 2546, to designate 
the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 100 
North Taylor Lane in Patagonia, Arizona, as the ``Jim Kolbe Memorial 
Post Office'', S. 3946, to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 1106 Main Street in Bastrop, Texas, 
as the ``Sergeant Major Billy D. Waugh Post Office'', S. 4077, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 180 Steuart Street in San Francisco, California, as the ``Dianne 
Feinstein Post Office'', H.R. 5527, to amend section 1078 of the 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 to increase 
the effectiveness of the Technology Modernization Fund, H.R. 7219, 
to ensure that Federal agencies rely on the best reasonably 
available scientific, technical, demographic, economic, and 
statistical information and evidence to develop, issue or inform the 
public of the nature and bases of Federal agency rules and guidance, 
H.R. 7524, to amend title 40, United States Code, to require the 
submission of reports on certain information technology services 
funds to Congress before expenditures may be made, H.R. 3254, to 
amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish a process to 
review applications for certain grants to purchase equipment or 
systems that do not meet or exceed any applicable national voluntary 
consensus standards, H.R. 6174, to improve the biodetection 
functions of the Department of Homeland Security, H.R. 272, to amend 
title 31, United States Code, to authorize transportation for 
Government astronauts returning from space between their residence 
and various locations, H.R. 4403, to amend the Homeland Security Act 
of 2002 to make improvements to the Securing the Cities program, 
H.R. 5887, to amend chapter 3 of title 5, United States Code, to 
improve Government service delivery, and build related capacity for 
the Federal Government, H.R. 7525, to require the Director of the 
Office of Management and Budget to issue guidance to agencies 
requiring special districts to be recognized as local government for 
the purpose of Federal financial assistance determinations, H.R. 
4467, to direct the Under Secretary for Management of the Department 
of Homeland Security to assess contracts

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for covered services performed by contractor personnel along the 
United States land border with Mexico, H.R. 599, to designate the 
facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3500 West 
6th Street, Suite 103 in Los Angeles, California, as the ``Dosan Ahn 
Chang Ho Post Office'', H.R. 1060, to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 1663 East Date Place in San 
Bernardino, California, as the ``Dr. Margaret B. Hill Post Office 
Building'', H.R. 1098, to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 50 East Derry Road in East Derry, 
New Hampshire, as the ``Chief Edward B. Garone Post Office'', H.R. 
1555, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 2300 Sylvan Avenue in Modesto, California, as the 
``Corporal Michael D. Anderson Jr. Post Office Building'', H.R. 
3608, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 28081 Marguerite Parkway in Mission Viejo, California, as 
the ``Major Megan McClung Post Office Building'', H.R. 3728, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 25 Dorchester Avenue, Room 1, in Boston, Massachusetts, as the 
``Caroline Chang Post Office'', H.R. 5476, to designate the facility 
of the United States Postal Service located at 1077 River Road, 
Suite 1, in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania, as the ``Susan C. 
Barnhart Post Office'', H.R. 5640, to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 12804 Chillicothe Road in 
Chesterland, Ohio, as the ``Sgt. Wolfgang Kyle Weninger Post Office 
Building'', H.R. 5712, to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 220 Fremont Street in Kiel, 
Wisconsin, as the ``Trooper Trevor J. Casper Post Office Building'', 
H.R. 5985, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 517 Seagaze Drive in Oceanside, California, as 
the ``Charlesetta Reece Allen Post Office Building'', H.R. 6073, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 9925 Bustleton Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the 
``Sergeant Christopher David Fitzgerald Post Office Building'', H.R. 
6651, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 603 West 3rd Street in Necedah, Wisconsin, as the 
``Sergeant Kenneth E. Murphy Post Office Building'', H.R. 7192, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 333 West Broadway in Anaheim, California, as the ``Dr. William I. 
`Bill' Kott Post Office Building'', H.R. 7199, to designate the 
facility of the United States Postal Service located at S74w16860 
Janesville Road, in Muskego, Wisconsin, as the ``Colonel Hans 
Christian Heg Post Office'', H.R. 7423, to designate the facility of 
the United States Postal Service located at 103 Benedette Street in 
Rayville, Louisiana, as the ``Luke Letlow Post Office Building'', 
and the nominations of Sherri Malloy Beatty-Arthur, Rahkel Bouchet, 
Erin Camille Johnston, Ray D. McKenzie, and John Cuong Truong, each 
to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of 
Columbia, Ann C. Fisher, of South Dakota, and Ashley Jay Elizabeth 
Poling, of North Carolina, both to be a Commissioner of the Postal 
Regulatory Commission, and Carmen G. Iguina Gonzalez, and Joseph 
Russell Palmore, both to be an Associate Judge of the District of 
Columbia Court of Appeals, 11 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: July 30, with the Committee on 
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, to hold a joint hearing 
to examine the security failures leading to the assassination 
attempt on former President Trump, 10 a.m., SD-G50.
  July 31, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine pending 
nominations, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  July 31, Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law, to hold 
hearings to examine birth behind bars, 2 p.m., SD-226.
  August 1, Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. 1306, to 
reauthorize the COPS ON THE BEAT grant program, and the nominations 
of Karla M. Campbell, of Tennessee, to be United States Circuit 
Judge for the Sixth Circuit, Julia M. Lipez, of Maine, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the First Circuit, Catherine Henry, to be 
United States District Judge for the Eastern District of 
Pennsylvania, Mary Kay Lanthier, to be United States District Judge 
for the District of Vermont, Mary Kathleen Costello, to be United 
States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 
Laura Margarete Provinzino, to be United States District Judge for 
the District of Minnesota, and Noel Wise, to be United States 
District Judge for the Northern District of California, 10 a.m., SD-
G50.
  Committee on Rules and Administration: July 30, to hold hearings 
to examine Senate procedures to confirm nominees, 2:45 p.m., SR-301.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: July 31, to receive a closed 
briefing on certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SVC-217.


                            House Committees

  No hearings are scheduled.