July 23, 2014 sees Congressional Record publish “SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS”

Volume 160, No. 116 covering the 2nd Session of the 113th Congress (2013 - 2014) was published by the Congressional Record.

The Congressional Record is a unique source of public documentation. It started in 1873, documenting nearly all the major and minor policies being discussed and debated.

“SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the Extensions of Remarks section on pages E1218-E1219 on July 23, 2014.

The publication is reproduced in full below:

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 Thursday, July 24, 2014 may be found in the Daily Digest of today's Record.

MEETINGS SCHEDULED

JULY 299:30 a.m.

Committee on the Judiciary

To hold hearings to examine certain nominations.

SD-22610 a.m.

Committee on the Budget

To hold hearings to examine the economic and budgetary consequences of climate change, focusing on the cost of inaction.

SD-608

Committee on Finance

To hold hearings to examine tobacco, focusing on taxes owed, avoided, and evaded.

SD-21510:30 a.m.

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast

Guard

To hold hearings to examine revisiting the Resources and

Ecosystems Sustainability, Tourist Opportunities and

Revived Economies (RESTORE) Act, focusing on progress and challenges in Gulf restoration post-Deepwater

Horizon.

SR-2532:15 p.m.

Committee on Foreign Relations

To hold hearings to examine the nomination of John

Francis Tefft, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the

Russian Federation, Department of State.

SD-4192:30 p.m.

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

To hold hearings to examine breaking the logjam at the

Bureau of Land Management (BLM), focusing on ways to more efficiently process permits for energy production on Federal lands, and understanding the obstacles in permitting more energy projects on Federal lands, including S. 279, to promote the development of renewable energy on public land, and S. 2440, to expand and extend the program to improve permit coordination by the Bureau of Land Management.

SD-366

Committee on Environment and Public Works

Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety

To hold hearings to examine the threats posed by climate change.

SD-406

Committee on Finance

Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and Global

Competitiveness

To hold hearings to examine the United States-Korea free trade agreement, focusing on lessons learned two years later.

SD-215

Joint Economic Committee

To hold hearings to examine increasing economic opportunity for African Americans, focusing on local initiatives that are making a difference.

SD-G503 p.m.

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine

Infrastructure, Safety, and Security

To hold hearings to examine opportunities and challenges for improving truck safety on our highways.

SR-253

JULY 309:30 a.m.

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining

To hold hearings to examine S. 1049 and H.R. 2166, bills to direct the Secretary of the Interior and Secretary of Agriculture to expedite access to certain Federal lands under the administrative jurisdiction of each

Secretary for good Samaritan search-and-recovery missions, S. 1437, to provide for the release of the reversionary interest held by the United States in certain land conveyed in 1954 by the United States, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Land

Management, to the State of Oregon for the establishment of the Hermiston Agricultural Research and Extension Center of Oregon State University in

Hermiston, Oregon, S. 1554, to direct the heads of

Federal public land management agencies to prepare reports on the availability of public access and egress to Federal public land for hunting, fishing, and other recreational purposes, to amend the Land and Water

Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to provide funding for recreational public access to Federal land, S. 1605, for the relief of Michael G. Faber, S. 1640, to facilitate planning, permitting, administration, implementation, and monitoring of pinyon-juniper dominated landscape restoration projects within Lincoln

County, Nevada, S. 1888 and H.R. 1241, bills to facilitate a land exchange involving certain National

Forest System lands in the Inyo National Forest, S.

2123, to authorize the exchange of certain Federal land and non-Federal land in the State of Minnesota, S.

2616, to require the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain Federal land to Idaho County in the

State of Idaho, H.R. 1684, to convey certain property to the State of Wyoming to consolidate the historic

Ranch A, and H.R. 3008, to provide for the conveyance of a small parcel of National Forest System land in Los

Padres National Forest in California.

SD-36610 a.m.

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community

Development

To hold hearings to examine flood insurance claims process in communities after Sandy, focusing on lessons learned and potential improvements.

SD-538

Committee on Finance

To hold hearings to examine the ``African Growth and

Opportunity Act'' at 14, focusing on the road ahead.

SD-215

Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

Business meeting to consider H.R. 4007, to recodify and reauthorize the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism

Standards Program, S. 1618, to enhance the Office of

Personnel Management background check system for the granting, denial, or revocation of security clearances or access to classified information of employees and contractors of the Federal Government, S. 1347, to provide transparency, accountability, and limitations of Government sponsored conferences, S. 1396, to authorize the Federal Emergency Management Agency to award mitigation financial assistance in certain areas affected by wildfire, an original bill entitled,

``Presidential Library Donation Reform Act of 2014'',

S. 2547, to establish the Railroad Emergency Services

Preparedness, Operational Needs, and Safety Evaluation

(RESPONSE) Subcommittee under the Federal Emergency

Management Agency's National Advisory Council to provide recommendations on emergency responder training and resources relating to hazardous materials incidents involving railroads, S. 2323, to amend chapter 21 of title 5, United States Code, to provide that fathers of certain permanently disabled or deceased veterans shall be included with mothers of such veterans as preference eligibles for treatment in the civil service, an original bill entitled, ``Integrated Public Alert and

Warning System Authorization Act of 2014'', an original bill entitled, ``DHS OIG Mandates Revision Act of

2014'', H.R. 4197, to amend title 5, United States

Code, to extend the period of certain authority with respect to judicial review of Merit Systems Protection

Board decisions relating to whistleblowers, an original bill entitled, ``Emergency Information Improvement Act of 2014'', S. 1898, to require adequate information regarding the tax treatment of payments under settlement agreements entered into by Federal agencies,

S. 2447, to amend title 31, United States Code, to clarify the use of credentials by enrolled agents, H.R.

606, 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'', H.R. 1671, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 6937

Village Parkway in Dublin, California, as the ``James

`Jim' Kohnen Post Office'', H.R. 2291, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at

450 Lexington Avenue in New York, New York, as the

``Vincent R. Sombrotto Post Office'', H.R. 3472, to designate the facility of the United States Postal

Service located at 13127 Broadway Street in Alden, New

York, as the ``Sergeant Brett E. Gornewicz

Memorial Post Office'', H.R. 3762, to impose penalties for the unauthorized disclosure of personal tax information by Federal employees, and the nominations of Joseph L. Nimmich, of Maryland, to be Deputy

Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency,

Department of Homeland Security, Anne E. Rung, of

Pennsylvania, to be Administrator for Federal

Procurement Policy, and James C. Miller, III, of

Virginia, Stephen Crawford, of Maryland, David Michael

Bennett, of North Carolina, and Victoria Reggie

Kennedy, of Massachusetts, all to be a Governor of the

United States Postal Service.

SD-342

Committee on the Judiciary

To hold hearings to examine the next steps for the

``Violence Against Women Act'' (VAWA), focusing on protecting women from gun violence.