[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 141 (Wednesday, September 11, 2024)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E886-E888]
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

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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 Thursday, September 12, 2024 may be found in 
the Daily Digest of today's Record.

                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED

                              SEPTEMBER 17
     9:30 a.m.
       Committee on Armed Services
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Lieutenant 
           General Randall Reed, USAF, to be general and 
           Commander, United States Transportation Command, and 
           Lieutenant General Xavier T. Brunson, USA, to be 
           general and Commander, United Nations Command/Combined 
           Forces Command/United States Forces Korea, both of the 
           Department of Defense.
                                                            SH-216
     10 a.m.
       Committee on Finance
         To hold hearings to examine lowering health care costs 
           for Americans, focusing on the Inflation Reduction Act.
                                                            SD-215
       Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine the national security risks 
           of replacing nonpartisan civil servants with political 
           appointees, focusing on ensuring a trustworthy 
           government.
                                                            SD-342
       Committee on the Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine stemming the tide of hate 
           crimes in America.
                                                            SD-G50
     2 p.m.
       Committee on the Judiciary
       Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine AI, focusing on 
           insiders' perspectives.
                                                            SD-226
     2:30 p.m.
       Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
       Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer 
           Protection
         To hold hearings to examine risks and harm in the private 
           student lending and servicing market.
                                                            SD-538
       Select Committee on Intelligence
         To receive a closed briefing on certain intelligence 
           matters.
                                                           SVC-217

                              SEPTEMBER 18
     10 a.m.
       Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold hearings to examine aviation cybersecurity 
           threats.
                                                            SR-253
       Committee on Environment and Public Works
         To hold hearings to examine America's regional 
           commissions, focusing on sharing best practices in 
           regional and economic development.
                                                            SD-406
       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 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

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           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.
                                                            SD-342
       Committee on Indian Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine the nomination of Patrice H. 
           Kunesh, of Minnesota, to be Chairman of the National 
           Indian Gaming Commission.
                                                            SD-628
     2 p.m.
       Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
       Subcommittee on Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, 
           Organics, and Research
         To hold hearings to examine keeping kids learning in the 
           National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast 
           Program.
                                                            SD-562
       Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
       Subcommittee on Economic Policy
         To hold hearings to examine the macroeconomic impacts of 
           potential tax reform in 2025.
                                                            SD-538
       Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
         To hold hearings to examine Russia's imperial identity.
                                                       2358-C-RHOB
     2:30 p.m.
       Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
         To hold hearings to examine streamlining and coordinating 
           support for rural small businesses.
                                                           SR-428A
       Select Committee on Intelligence
         To hold hearings to examine foreign threats to elections 
           in 2024, focusing on roles and responsibilities of U.S. 
           tech providers.
                                                            SH-216
     3 p.m.
       Committee on Veterans' Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine current and future VA budget 
           challenges, focusing on providing for veterans.
                                                            SR-418

                              SEPTEMBER 19
     10 a.m.
       Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings to examine fusion energy technology 
           development and commercialization efforts.
                                                            SD-366

                              SEPTEMBER 24
     10 a.m.
       Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
         To hold hearings to examine Novo Nordisk's high prices 
           for Ozempic and Wegovy for patients with diabetes and 
           obesity.
                                                            SD-562