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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, September 12, 2017 may be found in the Daily Digest of today's Record.
MEETINGS SCHEDULED
SEPTEMBER 139:55 a.m.
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Business meeting to consider the nomination of Daniel J.
Kaniewski, of Minnesota, to be Deputy Administrator for
National Preparedness, Federal Emergency Management
Agency, Department of Homeland Security.
SD-34210 a.m.
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
To hold hearings to examine transportation innovation, focusing on automated trucks and our Nation's highways.
SR-253
Committee on Environment and Public Works
To hold hearings to examine expanding and accelerating the deployment and use of carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration.
SD-406
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management
To hold hearings to examine the Office of Management and
Budget's memorandum on the Federal workforce, focusing on OMB's ongoing government-wide reorganization.
SD-3422:30 p.m.
Committee on Indian Affairs
Business meeting to consider H.R. 984, to extend Federal recognition to the Chickahominy Indian Tribe, the
Chickahominy Indian Tribe-Eastern Division, the Upper
Mattaponi Tribe, the Rappahannock Tribe, Inc., the
Monacan Indian Nation, and the Nansemond Indian Tribe,
S. 1285, to allow the Confederated Tribes of Coos,
Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians, the Confederated
Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, the
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon, the
Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, and the Cow Creek
Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians to lease or transfer certain lands, and S. 1333, to provide for rental assistance for homeless or at-risk Indian veterans; to be immediately followed by an oversight hearing to examine high risk Indian programs, focusing on progress and efforts in addressing Government Accountability
Office recommendations.
SD-628
SEPTEMBER 149:30 a.m.
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
To hold hearings to examine nutrition programs, focusing on perspectives for the 2018 Farm Bill.
SH-216
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Richard
Glick, of Virginia, and Kevin J. McIntyre, of Virginia, both to be a Member of the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, and David S. Jonas, of Virginia, to be
General Counsel, all of the Department of Energy, and
Joseph Balash, of Alaska, to be an Assistant Secretary, and Ryan Douglas Nelson, of Idaho, to be Solicitor, both of the Department of the Interior.
SD-366
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
To hold hearings to examine the scourge of Russian disinformation.
SD-56210 a.m.
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
To hold hearings to examine the Committee on Foreign
Investment in the United States.
SD-538
Committee on Finance
To hold hearings to examine individual tax reform.
SD-215
Committee on Foreign Relations
To hold hearings to examine United States policy options to support democracy in Venezuela.
SD-419
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
To hold hearings to examine stabilizing premiums and helping individuals in the individual insurance market for 2018, focusing on health care stakeholders.
SD-430
Committee on the Judiciary
Business meeting to consider S. 1766, to reauthorize the
SAFER Act of 2013, and the nominations of Ralph R.
Erickson, of North Dakota, to be United States Circuit
Judge for the Eighth Circuit, Donald C. Coggins, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the District of
South Carolina, Dabney Langhorne Friedrich, of
California, to be United States District Judge for the
District of Columbia, Stephen S. Schwartz, of Virginia, to be a Judge of the United States Court of Federal
Claims, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., to be United States
Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, J.
Cody Hiland, to be United States Attorney for the
Eastern District of Arkansas, Joshua J. Minkler, to be
United States Attorney for the Southern District of
Indiana, Byung J. Pak, to be United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, and Brian Allen
Benczkowski, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Attorney
General, Department of Justice.
SD-22610:15 a.m.
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
To hold hearings to examine Federal Communication
Commission's Lifeline Program, focusing on a case study of government waste and mismanagement.
SD-342
SEPTEMBER 209 a.m.
Special Committee on Aging
To hold hearings to examine disaster preparedness and response, focusing on the special needs of older
Americans.
SD-562
SEPTEMBER 272 p.m.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Subcommittee on National Parks
To hold hearings to examine encouraging the next generation to visit National Parks.
SD-366
POSTPONEMENTS
SEPTEMBER 1310 a.m.
Committee on the Judiciary
To hold hearings to examine the long-term impact of immigration, focusing on exploring potential reforms to our Nation's guest worker programs and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, and their potential impact on the American economy and local communities.
SD-226
