[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 149 (Tuesday, September 24, 2024)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D947-D949]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                           SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on the Budget: to hold hearings to examine economic 
risks from housing unaffordability, focusing on the costs of 
inaction, 10 a.m., SD-608.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold 
hearings to examine the nominations of Carl Whitney Bentzel, of 
Maryland, to be a Federal Maritime Commissioner, Thomas. B. Chapman, 
of Maryland, to be a Member of the National Transportation Safety 
Board, and Lanhee J. Chen, of California, to be a Director of the 
Amtrak Board of Directors, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibility and 
Economic Growth, to hold hearings to examine providing small 
business relief from remote sales tax collection, 3 p.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: business meeting to consider S. 
4425, to support democracy and the rule of law in Georgia, H.R. 
8282, to impose sanctions with respect to the International Criminal 
Court engaged in any effort to investigate, arrest, detain, or 
prosecute any protected person of the United States and its allies, 
the nominations of Vivek Hallegere Murthy, of Florida, to be 
Representative of the United States on the Executive Board of the 
World Health Organization, Kristen Sarri, of Maryland, to be 
Assistant Secretary for Oceans and International Environmental and 
Scientific Affairs, John N. Nkengasong, of Georgia, to be 
Ambassador-At-Large for Global Health Security and Diplomacy, 
Elizabeth K. Horst, of Minnesota, to be Ambassador to the Democratic 
Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Troy Fitrell, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Seychelles, Kelly Adams-Smith, of New 
Jersey, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Moldova, Juan Carlos 
Iturregui, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, 
Jennifer D. Gavito, of Colorado, to be Ambassador to the State of 
Libya, Tracey Ann Jacobson, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Iraq, Joshua M. Harris, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to 
the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, Peter W. Lord, of 
Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Senegal, and to serve 
concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to 
the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, Stephanie L. Hallett, of Florida, to 
be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Bahrain, Douglas D. Jones, of 
Maryland, to be Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Michael G. 
Heath, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Malawi, 
Mary E. Daschbach, of Rhode Island, to be Ambassador to the Togolese 
Republic, John W. McIntyre, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the 
Kingdom of Eswatini, Jeremey Neitzke, of Illinois, to be Ambassador 
to the Kingdom of Lesotho, Abigail L. Dressel, of Connecticut, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Angola, and to serve concurrently and 
without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Democratic 
Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, James Holtsnider, of Iowa, to be 
Ambassador to the Independent State of Samoa, Brian K. Stimmler, of 
Nebraska, to be Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic, Amanda S. 
Jacobsen, of Washington, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Equatorial Guinea, Keith D. Hanigan, of New Jersey, to be Ambassador 
to the Solomon Islands, Kali C. Jones, of Louisiana, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Benin, Stephanie A. Miley, of 
Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to the Republic of The Gambia, and 
Christophe Andre Tocco, of California, to be Ambassador to the 
Islamic Republic of Mauritania, all of the Department of State, and 
routine lists in the Foreign Service, 10 a.m., S-116, Capitol.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee 
on Employment and Workplace Safety, to hold hearings to examine 
preparing workers for AI, 2 p.m., SD-562.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: business 
meeting to consider S. 4667, to amend title 31, United States Code, 
to establish the Life Sciences Research Security Board, S. 5105, to 
require a report by the Secretary of Homeland Security regarding the 
failed assassination attempt on the life of Donald J. Trump in 
Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024, S. 4900, to amend the Robert 
T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to 
incentivize certain preparedness measures, S. 131, to amend chapter 
81 of title 5, United States Code, to cover, for purposes of 
workers' compensation under such chapter, services by physician 
assistants and nurse practitioners provided to injured Federal 
workers, S. 2924, to amend title 31, United States Code, to improve 
the management of improper payments, S. 5067, to improve individual 
assistance provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, S. 
4898, to amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act to include extreme heat in the definition of a major 
disaster, S. 3926, to amend the Federal Funding Accountability and 
Transparency Act of 2006 to ensure that other transaction agreements 
are reported to USAspending.gov, S. 4679, to amend title XLI of the 
FAST Act to improve the Federal permitting process, S. 5098, to 
require certain agencies to develop plans for internal control in 
the event of an emergency or crisis, S. 5133, to establish a tracker 
for Senate-confirmed executive branch positions, S. 5109, to amend 
section 3520A of title 44, United States Code, to extend the Chief 
Data Officer Council's sunset and add new authorities for improving 
Federal agency data governance, including to enable reliable and 
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of emerging technologies and artificial intelligence, S. 5093, to 
sunset the Advisory Committee on the Records of Congress, S. 5092, 
to amend the Northern Border Security Review Act to require updates 
to the northern border threat analysis and northern border strategy, 
S. 5099, to prescribe requirements relating to the management of the 
Federal property commonly known as Plum Island, New York, S. 5102, 
to require annual reports on counter illicit cross-border tunnel 
operations, S. 3181, to designate the Air and Marine Operations 
Marine Unit of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection located at 101 
Km 18.5 in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, as the ``Michel O. Maceda Marine 
Unit'', S. 4404, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 840 Front Street in Casselton, North 
Dakota, as the ``Commander Delbert Austin Olson Post Office'', S. 
4803, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 31143 State Highway 65 in Pengilly, Minnesota, as the 
``First Lieutenant Richard Arne Koski Post Office'', S. 4634, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 154 First Avenue East in Jerome, Idaho, as the ``Representative 
Maxine Bell Post Office.'', H.R. 5799, to designate the checkpoint 
of the United States Border Patrol located on United States Highway 
90 West in Uvalde County, Texas, as the ``James R. Dominguez Border 
Patrol Checkpoint'', H.R. 1823, to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 207 East Fort Dade Avenue in 
Brooksville, Florida, as the ``Specialist Justin Dean Coleman 
Memorial Post Office Building'', H.R. 3354, to designate the 
facility of the United States Postal Service located at 220 North 
Hatcher Avenue in Purcellville, Virginia, as the ``Secretary of 
State Madeleine Albright Post Office Building'', H.R. 6810, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 518 North Ridgewood Drive in Sebring, Florida, as the ``U.S. Army 
Air Corps Major Thomas B. McGuire Post Office Building'', H.R. 6983, 
to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 15 South Valdosta Road in Lakeland, Georgia, as the 
``Nell Patten Roquemore Post Office'', H.R. 7180, to designate the 
facility of the United States Postal Service located at 80 1st 
Street in Kingsland, Arkansas, as the ``Kingsland 'Johnny Cash' Post 
Office'', H.R. 7385, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 29 Franklin Street in Petersburg, 
Virginia, as the ``John Mercer Langston Post Office Building'', H.R. 
7417, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 135 West Spring Street in Titusville, Pennsylvania, as 
the ``Edwin L. Drake Post Office Building'', H.R. 7606, to designate 
the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1087 
Route 47 South in Rio Grande, New Jersey, as the ``Carlton H. Hand 
Post Office Building'', H.R. 7607, to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at Block 1025, Lots 18 & 19, 
Northeast Corner of US Route 9 South and Main Street in the Township 
of Middle, County of Cape May, New Jersey, as the ``George Henry 
White Post Office Building'', and H.R. 7893, to designate the 
facility of the United States Postal Service located at 306 Pickens 
Street in Marion, Alabama, as the ``Albert Turner, Sr. Post Office 
Building'', 9:30 a.m., SD-342.
  Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, to hold hearings to 
examine FAA oversight of Boeing's broken safety culture, 2 p.m., SD-
342.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: business meeting to consider S. 465, 
to require Federal law enforcement agencies to report on cases of 
missing or murdered Indians, S. 2908, to assist Tribal governments 
in the management of buffalo and buffalo habitat and the 
reestablishment of buffalo on Indian land, and S. 4370, to amend the 
Tribal Forest Protection Act of 2004 to improve that Act; to be 
immediately followed by a hearing to examine S. 4444, to take 
certain mineral interests into trust for the benefit of the Crow 
Tribe of Montana, S. 4633, to provide for the settlement of the 
water rights claims of the Navajo Nation, the Hopi Tribe, and the 
San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe, S. 4643, to approve the settlement 
of water rights claims of the Zuni Indian Tribe in the Zuni River 
Stream System in the State of New Mexico, to protect the Zuni Salt 
Lake, S. 4705, to approve the settlement of water rights claims of 
the Yavapai-Apache Nation in the State of Arizona, to authorize 
construction of a water project relating to those water rights 
claims, and S. 4998, to approve the settlement of water rights 
claims of the Navajo Nation in the Rio San Jose Stream System in the 
State of New Mexico, 2:30 p.m., SD-628.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Anthony J. Brindisi, and Elizabeth C. Coombe, both to 
be a United States District Judge for the Northern District of New 
York, Sarah Morgan Davenport, to be United States District Judge for 
the District of New Mexico, Sharad Harshad Desai, to be United 
States District Judge for the District of Arizona, Tiffany Rene 
Johnson, to be United States District Judge for the Northern 
District of Georgia, and Keli Marie Neary, to be United States 
District Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, 10 a.m., SD-
226.
  Subcommittee on Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism, to hold 
hearings to examine sexual assault in U.S. prisons two decades after 
the Prison Rape Elimination Act, 2 p.m., SD-226.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to receive a closed briefing on 
certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                                 House

  Committee on the Budget, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 9716, the 
``Increasing Baseline Updates Act''; H.R. 9751, the ``Executive 
Action Cost Transparency Act''; H.R. 9714, the ``CBO Oversight 
Act''; H.R. 9711, the ``Congressional Budget Office Scheduling 
Reform Act''; H.R. 9686, the ``HEALTH Panel Act''; and H.R. 8068, 
the ``Stop the Baseline Bloat Act of 2024'', 10 a.m., 210 Cannon.
  Committee on Education and Workforce, Subcommittee on Early 
Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, hearing entitled 
``Innovative Teacher Preparation: Properly Equipping America's 
Educators'', 10:15 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Financial 
Institutions and Monetary Policy, hearing entitled

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``Regulatory Recipe for Economic Uncertainty: The Endless Basel 
Endgame and an Onslaught of Hurried Rulemaking Undertaken by the 
Administration'', 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 
3169, the ``Port Crane Security and Inspection Act of 2023''; H.R. 
3386, the ``Bottles and Breastfeeding Equipment Screening 
Enhancement Act''; H.R. 4406, the ``DHS Basic Training Accreditation 
Improvement Act of 2023''; H.R. 5729, a bill to prohibit the use of 
Federal funds to establish a Homeland Intelligence Experts Group, 
and for other purposes; H.R. 5840, the ``Transportation Security 
Screening Modernization Act''; H.R. 7311, the ``Combatting 
International Drug Trafficking and Human Smuggling Partnership Act 
of 2024''; H.R. 7365, the ``VETS Safe Travel Act''; H.R. 8119, the 
``PEARL Act''; H.R. 9469, the ``Pipeline Security Act''; H.R. 9668, 
the ``SHIELD Against CCP Act''; H.R. 9689, the ``DHS Cybersecurity 
Internship Program Act''; H.R. 9722, the ``CATCH Fentanyl Act''; 
legislation on the Tren de Aragua Southwest Border Security Threat 
Assessment Act''; legislation on the Special Interest Alien 
Reporting Act of 2024''; legislation on a bill to amend the Homeland 
Security Act of 2002 to abolish the reorganization authority of the 
Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes; legislation 
on the Cyber PIVOTT Act; legislation on the Strengthening Cyber 
Resilience Against State-Sponsored Threats Act; legislation on the 
Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative Act; legislation on the DHS 
International Cyber Partner Act of 2024; legislation on the Research 
Security and Accountability in DHS Act; and legislation on the 
Northern Border Coordination Act, 10 a.m., 310 Cannon.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Select Subcommittee on the 
Weaponization of the Federal Government, hearing entitled ``Hearing 
on the Weaponization of the Federal Government'', 10 a.m., 2141 
Rayburn.
  Full Committee, markup on H.R. 7137, the ``Trafficking Survivors 
Relief Act of 2024''; H.R. 9563, the ``Protecting Americans from 
Russian Litigation Act of 2024''; H.R. 9151, the ``Protecting 
American Industry and Labor from International Trade Crimes Act of 
2024''; and H.R. 9732, the ``Protection of Child Victims from Online 
Predators Act'', 3:15 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Oversight and Accountability, Subcommittee on 
Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs, hearing 
entitled ``Kitchen Table Economics: How Failed Biden-Harris Policies 
Continue to Hurt Consumers'', 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign 
Affairs, hearing entitled ``The Border Crisis: The Cost of Chaos'', 
2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Full Committee, 
markup on H.R. 9671, the ``Department of Energy Artificial 
Intelligence Act of 2024''; H.R. 9710, the ``Small Modular Reactor 
Demonstration Act of 2024''; H.R. 9720, the ``AI Incident Reporting 
and Security Enhancement Act''; and H.R. 9723, the ``National 
Windstorm Impact Reduction Program Reauthorization Act of 2024'', 10 
a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Innovation, 
Entrepreneurship, and Workforce Development, hearing entitled 
``Avenues to Success: Examining Workforce Training Programs for 
Employees'', 10 a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Full Committee, 
markup on H.R. 7671, the ``Disaster Management Costs Modernization 
Act''; and H.R. 9750, the ``Natural Disaster Recovery Program Act of 
2024'', 9 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and 
Emergency Management, hearing entitled ``Examining the Role and 
Effectiveness of Building Codes in Mitigating Against Disasters'', 
10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, hearing 
entitled ``Always Ready: A Day in The Life of a U.S. Coast Guard 
Sentinel'', 2 p.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Everyday Heroes: Supporting the Veteran Caregiver Community'', 
10:15 a.m., 360 Cannon.