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“SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Commerce was published in the Extensions of Remarks section on pages E1151-E1152 on July 29, 2013.
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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 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 Tuesday, July 30, 2013 may be found in the Daily Digest of today's record.
MEETINGS SCHEDULED
JULY 319 a.m.
Committee on the Judiciary
To hold hearings to examine strengthening privacy rights and national security, focusing on oversight of the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) surveillance programs.
SH-2169:30 a.m.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
To hold hearings to examine strengthening public health protections by addressing toxic chemical threats.
SD-406
Committee on Environment and Public Works
To hold hearings to examine strengthening public health protections by addressing toxic chemical threats.
SD-40610 a.m.
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Business meeting to consider S. 1376, to improve the
Federal Housing Administration and to ensure the solvency of the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund.
SD-538
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Business meeting to consider S. 1356, to amend the
Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to strengthen the
United States workforce development system through innovation in, and alignment and improvement of, employment, training, and education programs in the
United States, and to promote individual and national economic growth, the nominations of Robert F. Cohen,
Jr., of West Virginia, and William Ira Althen, of
Virginia, both to be a Member of the Federal Mine
Safety and Health Review Commission, Catherine
Elizabeth Lhamon, of California, to be Assistant
Secretary of Education for Civil Rights, and any pending nominations.
SD-608
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled,
``Federal Real Property Asset Management Reform Act'',
S. 1360, to amend the Improper Payments Elimination and
Recovery Improvement Act of 2012, including making changes to the Do Not Pay initiative, for improved detection, prevention, and recovery of improper payments to deceased individuals, S. 994, to expand the
Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of
2006 to increase accountability and transparency in
Federal spending, S. 1276, to increase oversight of the
Revolving Fund of the Office of Personnel Management, strengthen the authority to terminate or debar employees and contractors involved in misconduct affecting the integrity of security clearance background investigations, enhance transparency regarding the criteria utilized by Federal departments and agencies to determine when a security clearance is required, H.R. 1162, to amend title 31, United States
Code, to make improvements in the Government
Accountability Office, S. 1348, to reauthorize the
Congressional Award Act, H.R. 1171, to amend title 40,
United States Code, to improve veterans service organizations access to Federal surplus personal property, S. 643, to strengthen employee cost savings suggestions programs within the Federal Government, S.
1045, to amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that persons having seriously delinquent tax debts shall be ineligible for Federal employment, S. 233, to designate the facility of the United States Postal
Service located at 815 County Road 23 in Tyrone, New
York, as the ``Specialist Christopher Scott Post Office
Building'', S. 668, to designate the facility of the
United States Postal Service located at 14 Main Street in Brockport, New York, as the ``Staff Sergeant
Nicholas J. Reid Post Office Building'', S. 796, to designate the facility of the United States Postal
Service located at 302 East Green Street in Champaign,
Illinois, as the ``James R. Burgess Jr. Post Office
Building'', S. 885, to designate the facility of the
United States Postal Service located at 35 Park Street in Danville, Vermont, as the ``Thaddeus Stevens Post
Office'', S. 1093, to designate the facility of the
United States Postal Service located at 130 Caldwell
Drive in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, as the ``First
Lieutenant Alvin Chester Cockrell, Jr. Post Office
Building'', and the nominations of John H. Thompson, of the District of Columbia, to be Director of the Census,
Department of Commerce, and Katherine Archuleta, of
Colorado, to be Director of the Office of Personnel
Management.
SD-342
Committee on Veterans' Affairs
To hold hearings to examine preserving the rights of servicemembers, veterans, and their families in the financial marketplace.
SR-4182 p.m.
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Subcommittee on Emergency Management, Intergovernmental
Relations, and the District of Columbia
To hold hearings to examine how prepared the National
Capital Region is for the next disaster.
SD-342
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
To hold hearings to examine implications for economic development in Central Asia, focusing on if the government can create the necessary conditions for more trade and exchange, including infrastructure development, efficient customs regimes and reliable transportation networks.
CHOB-340
Joint Economic Committee
To hold hearings to examine how tax reform can boost economic growth, focusing on lessons from Reagan.
SD-G502:30 p.m.
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
To hold hearings to examine energy drinks, focusing on exploring concerns about marketing to youth.
SR-253
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Subcommittee on National Parks
To hold hearings to examine S. 398, to establish the
Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a
National Women's History Museum, S. 524, to amend the
National Trails System Act to provide for the study of the Pike National Historic Trail, S. 618, to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct certain special resource studies, S. 702, to designate the
Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage
Corridor as ``The Last Green Valley National Heritage
Corridor'', S. 781, to modify the boundary of Yosemite
National Park, S. 782, to amend Public Law 101-377 to revise the boundaries of the Gettysburg National
Military Park to include the Gettysburg Train Station,
S. 869, to establish the Alabama Black Belt National
Heritage Area, S. 925, to improve the Lower East Side
Tenement National Historic Site, S. 995, to authorize the National Desert Storm Memorial Association to establish the National Desert Storm and Desert Shield
Memorial as a commemorative work in the District of
Columbia, S. 974, to provide for certain land conveyances in the State of Nevada, S. 1044, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to install in the area of the World War II Memorial in the District of Columbia a suitable plaque or an inscription with the words that
President Franklin D. Roosevelt prayed with the United
States on D-Day, June 6, 1944, S. 1071, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to make improvements to support facilities for National Historic Sites operated by the National Park
Service, S. 1138, to reauthorize the Hudson River
Valley National Heritage Area S. 1151, to reauthorize the America's Agricultural Heritage Partnership in the
State of Iowa, S. 1157, to reauthorize the Rivers of
Steel National Heritage Area, the Lackawanna Valley
National Heritage Area, the Delaware and Lehigh
National Heritage Corridor, and the Schuylkill River
Valley National Heritage Area, S. 1168, to amend the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to limit overbroad surveillance requests and expand reporting requirements, S. 1252, to amend the Wild and Scenic
Rivers Act to designate segments of the Missisquoi
River and the Trout River in the State of Vermont, as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers
System, S. 1253, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers
Act to designate certain segments of the Farmington
River and Salmon Brook in the State of Connecticut as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers
System, H.R. 674, to authorize the Secretary of the
Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of designating prehistoric, historic, and limestone forest sites on Rota, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands, as a unit of the National Park System, H.R.
885, to expand the boundary of the San Antonio Missions
National Historical Park, H.R. 1033 and S. 916, bills to authorize the acquisition and protection of nationally significant battlefields and associated sites of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 under the American Battlefield Protection Program, and
H.R. 1158, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to continue stocking fish in certain lakes in the North
Cascades National Park, Ross Lake National Recreation
Area, and Lake Chelan National Recreation Area.
SD-366
Committee on Finance
Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, and
Infrastructure
To hold hearings to examine principles for energy tax reform.
SD-215
Committee on Indian Affairs
To hold hearings to examine S. 235, to provide for the conveyance of certain property located in Anchorage,
Alaska, from the United States to the Alaska Native
Tribal Health Consortium, S. 920, to allow the Fond du
Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa in the State of
Minnesota to lease or transfer certain land, and S.
1352, the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-
determination Reauthorization Act of 2013.
SD-6283 p.m.
Committee on Foreign Relations
Subcommittee on European Affairs
To hold hearings to examine where Turkey is headed, focusing on Gezi Park, Taksim Square, and the future of the Turkish model.
SD-419
AUGUST 19:30 a.m.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
To hold hearings to examine the November 6, 2012 referendum on the political status of Puerto Rico and the Administration's response.
SD-366
Committee on the Judiciary
Business meeting to consider S. 987, to maintain the free flow of information to the public by providing conditions for the federally compelled disclosure of information by certain persons connected with the news media, S. 933, to amend title I of the Omnibus Crime
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to extend the authorization of the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant
Program through fiscal year 2018, and the nominations of Patricia Ann Millett, of Virginia, to be United
States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia
Circuit, Gregory Howard Woods, to be United States
District Judge for the Southern District of New York,
Elizabeth A. Wolford, to be United States District
Judge for the Western District of New York, and Debra
M. Brown, to be United States District Judge for the
Northern District of Mississippi.
SD-22610:30 a.m.
Committee on Appropriations
Business meeting to mark up proposed legislation making appropriations for fiscal year 2014 for the Department of Defense.
SD-106
Committee on Foreign Relations
Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled,
``Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods, and Glen
Doherty Embassy Security, Threat Mitigation, and
Personnel Protection Act of 2013''.
SD-419
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Subcommittee on Financial and Contracting Oversight
To hold hearings to examine Prisoner of War (POW) and
Missing in Action (MIA) accounting.
SD-3422 p.m.
Committee on the Judiciary
Subcommittee on Oversight, Federal Rights and Agency Action
To hold hearings to examine the human cost of regulatory paralysis.
SD-2262:30 p.m.
Select Committee on Intelligence
To hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence matters.
SH-219
AUGUST 29:30 a.m.
Joint Economic Committee
To hold hearings to examine the employment situation for
July 2013.
SD-G50
SEPTEMBER 1110:30 a.m.
Committee on Appropriations
Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government
To hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2014 for the Federal
Communications Commission.
SD-138
