[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 124 (Tuesday, July 30, 2024)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D793-D795]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                             JULY 31, 2024

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: 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: to hold hearings to examine the future of 
electric vehicles, 10 a.m., SD-608.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: 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 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

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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: 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: 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 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: 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 reauthorize 
traumatic brain injury programs, and other pending calendar 
business, 10 a.m., SD-562.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: 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

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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 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: to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Ryan Young Park, of North Carolina, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit, Byron B. Conway, to be 
United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, 
Jonathan E. Hawley, to be United States District Judge for the 
Central District of Illinois, April M. Perry, to be United States 
District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, and Gail A. 
Weilheimer, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern 
District of Pennsylvania, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law, to hold hearings to 
examine birth behind bars, 2 p.m., SD-226.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to receive a closed briefing on 
certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SVC-217.


                                 House

  No hearings are scheduled.