[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 27 (Monday, February 9, 2026)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D169-D171]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

             Week of February 10 through February 13, 2026

                             Senate Chamber

  On Tuesday, Senate will vote on confirmation of the nomination of 
Daniel E. Burrows, of Colorado, to be an Assistant Attorney General.
  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: February 10, Subcommittee on 
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, to hold hearings 
to examine a review of broadband deployment funding at the 
Department of Commerce, 9:30 a.m., SD-138.
  February 10, Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and 
Related Programs, to hold hearings to examine Haiti 2026, focusing 
on security and foreign assistance priorities, 2:30 p.m., SD-138.
  Committee on Armed Services: February 11, Subcommittee on 
Personnel, to hold hearings to examine the Senior Enlisted Leaders 
on servicemember and family quality of life, 3 p.m., SR-222.
  February 12, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
American small drone industrial base, 9:30 a.m., SD-G50.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: February 12, to 
hold oversight hearings to examine the Securities and Exchange 
Commission, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: February 10, 
to hold hearings to examine media ownership in the digital age, 10 
a.m., SR-253.
  February 11, Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. 71, 
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tables in bathrooms on passenger rail cars, S. 1898, to establish a 
demonstration program for the active remediation of orbital debris 
and to require the development of uniform orbital debris standard 
practices in order to support a safe and sustainable orbital 
environment, S. 2585, to modernize and improve the Broadband Funding 
Map in order to promote the most efficient use of Federal funds for 
broadband deployment, S. 3199, to establish a multi-stakeholder 
advisory committee tasked with providing detailed recommendations to 
address challenges to transmitting geolocation information with 
calls to the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, S. 3266, to support 
the athletic programs of the United States Merchant Marine Academy, 
S. 3468, to establish a national programmable cloud laboratories 
network to enhance research efficiency, innovation, and 
collaboration, S. 3639, to expedite processing of satellite and 
space licenses, S. 3700, to establish an expert review panel to make 
recommendations for a comprehensive agency-wide safety management 
system at the FAA, and routine lists in the Coast Guard, 2 p.m., S-
216, Capitol.
  February 12, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the NTSB 
final report on the DCA midair collision, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: February 10, to receive 
a closed briefing on recent developments in Venezuela, 4:30 p.m., 
SVC-217.
  February 12, Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining, to 
hold hearings to examine S. 462, to provide for economic development 
and conservation in Washoe County, Nevada, S. 1349, to withdraw the 
National Forest System land in the Ruby Mountains subdistrict of the 
Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest and the National Wildlife Refuge 
System land in Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Elko and White 
Pine Counties, Nevada, from operation under the mineral leasing 
laws, S. 1464, to withdraw certain Bureau of Land Management land 
from mineral development, S. 1497, to amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. 
Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act to establish the Cerro 
de la Olla Wilderness in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument 
and to modify the boundary of the Rio Grande del Norte National 
Monument, S. 1981, to require the Secretary of Agriculture and the 
Secretary of the Interior to utilize grazing for wildfire risk 
reduction, S. 2417, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to issue 
a special use permit with respect to the maintaining of a flagpole 
bearing the flag of the United States at Kyhv Peak Lookout Point, 
Utah, S. 2554, to provide for the recognition of certain Alaska 
Native communities and the settlement of certain claims under the 
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, S. 2754, to direct the 
Secretary of Agriculture to convey to the City of Ouray, Colorado, 
certain land managed by the Forest Service, together with a 
reservoir, S. 2787, to amend the Federal Land Policy and Management 
Act of 1976 to ensure that ranchers who have grazing agreements on 
national grasslands are treated the same as permittees on other 
Federal land, S. 2860, to unleash United States offshore critical 
minerals and resources, S. 2968, to ensure access to certain public 
land, S. 3004, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey 
certain Bureau of Land Management land to the city of Price, Utah, 
S. 3082, to prohibit oil and natural gas exploration, development, 
and production in certain areas of the outer Continental Shelf off 
the coast of Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina, S. 3493, to 
provide for the conveyance of certain Federal land in Carson City, 
Nevada, S. 3526, to provide for the protection of and investment in 
certain Federal land in the State of California, S. 3527, to release 
from wilderness study area designation certain land in the State of 
Montana, to improve the management of that land, S. 3695, to amend 
Public Law 96-586 to modernize the authority of the Forest Service 
to acquire and administer land under that Act, H.R. 204, to require 
that the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior 
submit accurate reports regarding hazardous fuels reduction 
activities, H.R. 677, to establish a process to expedite the review 
of appeals of certain decisions by the Department of the Interior, 
H.R. 952, to convey the reversionary interest of the United States 
in certain land in Sacramento, California, H.R. 1829, to require the 
Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain lands within the Apache-
Sitgreaves National Forest, H.R. 3872, to amend the Mineral Leasing 
Act for Acquired Lands to make that Act applicable to hardrock 
minerals, H.R. 3937, to provide for the conveyance of certain 
Federal land in Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, 10 a.m., SD-
366.
  Committee on Finance: February 12, to hold hearings to examine the 
U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, focusing on evaluating North American 
competitiveness, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: February 12, to hold hearings to 
examine the nominations of Wesley Brooks, of Florida, to be 
Assistant Secretary for Oceans and International Environmental and 
Scientific Affairs, and Jeremy Carl, of Montana, to be an Assistant 
Secretary (International Organizations), both of the Department of 
State, 10:30 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: February 12, 
to hold hearings to examine preventing fraud in child care 
assistance programs, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: February 
10, Subcommittee on Disaster Management, District of Columbia, and 
Census, to hold hearings to examine fraud and foreign influence in 
state and federal programs, 2:30 p.m., SD-342.
  February 12, Full Committee, to hold an oversight hearing, 9 a.m., 
SD-342.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: February 10, to hold hearings to 
examine the Small Business Administration Native 8(a) program, 9:30 
a.m., SD-628.
  Committee on the Judiciary: February 10, Subcommittee on Privacy, 
Technology, and the Law, to hold hearings to examine Arctic Frost 
accountability, focusing on oversight of telecommunications 
carriers, 10:15 a.m., SH-216.
  February 10, Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration, to 
hold hearings to examine fraud in Minnesota, 2:30 p.m., SD-226.
  February 12, Full Committee, business meeting to consider H.R. 
6719, to prohibit threats to a minor, S. 3398, to amend title 18, 
United States Code, to criminalize intentional threats to distribute 
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and to provide appropriate penalties for the use of child sexual 
abuse material to extort or coerce victims, S. 3397, to make 
coercion of children to commit harm a criminal offense, S. 3394, to 
direct the United States Sentencing Commission to amend the 
sentencing guideline relating to child sexual abuse material, S. 
3798, to amend title 18, United States Code, to establish criminal 
offenses with respect to violations involving ATMs, regardless of 
whether the ATM is located on the physical premises of a financial 
institution, and the nomination of Gregory Gilmore, to be United 
States Attorney for the Central District of Illinois for the term of 
four years, 10:15 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: February 11, to hold hearings to 
examine building a 21st century VA health care system, focusing on 
assessing the next generation of VA's community care network, 3 
p.m., SR-418.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: February 10, closed business 
meeting to consider pending intelligence matters; to be immediately 
followed by a closed briefing on certain intelligence matters, 3 
p.m., SH-219.
  February 11, Full Committee, to receive a closed briefing on 
certain intelligence matters, 3 p.m., SH-219.
  Special Committee on Aging: February 11, to hold hearings to 
examine how Washington's rules drove physicians out of medicine, 
3:30 p.m., SH-216.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Appropriations, February 11, Subcommittee on Homeland 
Security, hearing entitled ``Potential DHS Shutdown Impacts'', 10 
a.m., 2362-A Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, February 11, 
Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, hearing entitled ``Building 
an AI-Ready America: Safer Workplaces Through Smarter Technology'', 
10:15 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, February 11, Subcommittee on 
Health, hearing entitled ``Lowering Health Care Costs for All 
Americans: An Examination of the Prescription Drug Supply Chain'', 
10:15 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, February 11, Full Committee, 
hearing entitled ``Oversight of the Securities and Exchange 
Commission'', 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  February 11, Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance, hearing 
entitled ``Homeownership and the Role of the Secondary Mortgage 
Market'', 2 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, February 11, South and Central Asia 
Subcommittee, hearing entitled ``South Asia: U.S. Foreign Policy in 
the Region'', 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, February 11, Subcommittee on 
Emergency Management and Technology, hearing entitled ``Surveying 
the Threat of Agroterrorism, Part II: Assessing Federal Government 
Efforts'', 2 p.m., 310 Cannon.
  Committee on the Judiciary, February 11, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``Oversight of the Department of Justice'', 10 a.m., 2141 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, February 11, Full Committee, 
markup on H.R. 755, the ``Critical Mineral Consistency Act of 
2025''; H.R. 1352, to designate the General George C. Marshall 
House, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, as an affiliated area of the 
National Park System, and for other purposes; H.R. 1945, the 
``America's National Churchill Museum National Historic Landmark 
Act''; H.R. 2196, to provide for an extension of the legislative 
authority of the National Emergency Medical Services Memorial 
Foundation to establish a commemorative work in the District of 
Columbia and its environs; H.R. 3706, the ``SUSHI Act''; H.R. 3922, 
the ``Cross-Boundary Wildfire Solutions Act''; H.R. 4463, to amend 
the Catawba Indian Tribe of South Carolina Land Claims Settlement 
Act of 1993; H.R. 4671, the ``Ensuring Casualty Assistance for our 
Firefighters Act''; H.R. 5419, the ``Enhancing Administrative 
Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act''; H.R. 5497, the ``Apostle 
Islands National Park and Preserve Act''; H.R. 6300, the 
``Grasslands Grazing Act of 2025''; and H.R. 6380, ``Chiricahua 
National Park Act'', 1:45 p.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, February 11, 
Subcommittee on Research and Technology, hearing entitled 
``Accelerating Progress: U.S. Surface Transportation Research'', 2 
p.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, February 11, Full Committee, markup 
on H.R. 7401, the ``Small Business Lending Fraud Prevention Act''; 
H.R. 7396, the ``Native American Entrepreneurial Opportunity Act''; 
and H.R. 7412, the ``Put America on Commission Act of 2026'', 9 
a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, February 11, Full Committee, 
hearing entitled ``Opportunities with VHA Reorganization'', 10:15 
a.m., 360 Cannon.
  February 12, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 6047, the ``Sharri 
Briley and Eric Edmundson Veterans Benefits Expansion Act of 2026''; 
H.R. 3726, the ``Fisher House Availability Act of 2025''; H.R. 3482, 
the ``Veterans Community Care Scheduling Improvement Act''; H.R. 
785, the ``Representing our Seniors at VA Act of 2025''; and H.R. 
2148, the ``Veteran Caregiver Reeducation, Reemployment, and 
Retirement Act'', 9 a.m., 360 Cannon.
  Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United 
States and the Chinese Communist Party, February 11, Full Committee, 
hearing entitled ``Lies, Lawfare, and Leverage: The CCP's 
Gaslighting and Manipulation to Marginalize Taiwan'', 10 a.m., 1310 
Longworth.


                             Joint Meeting

  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: February 11, to 
receive a briefing on the Georgian dream's escalating crackdown on 
dissent, 2 p.m., 2358A, Rayburn Building.