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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 Thursday, July 20, 2017 may be found in the Daily Digest of today's Record.
MEETINGS SCHEDULED
JULY 25Time to be announced
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
To hold hearings to examine commodities, credit, and crop insurance, focusing on perspectives on risk management tools and trends for the 2018 Farm Bill.
SD-10610 a.m.
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast
Guard
To hold hearings to examine efforts on marine debris in the oceans and Great Lakes.
SR-253
Committee on Environment and Public Works
Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety
To hold hearings to examine developing and deploying advanced clean energy technologies.
SD-406
Committee on the Judiciary
To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Ralph R.
Erickson, of North Dakota, to be United States Circuit
Judge for the Eighth Circuit, 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, and Brian Allen
Benczkowski, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Attorney
General, Department of Justice.
SD-2262:30 p.m.
Committee on Armed Services
Subcommittee on SeaPower
To hold hearings to receive testimony on options and considerations for achieving a 355-ship Navy from naval analysts.
SR-222
JULY 26
9:30 a.m.
Special Committee on Aging
To hold hearings to examine progress toward a cure for
Type I Diabetes, focusing on research and the artificial pancreas.
SD-106
10 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 2018 for the Department of the Treasury.
SD-138
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Karen Dunn
Kelley, of Pennsylvania, to be Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, and Peter B. Davidson, of Virginia, to be General Counsel, both of the Department of
Commerce, and Mark H. Buzby, of Virginia, to be
Administrator of the Maritime Administration, and
Ronald L. Batory, of New Jersey, to be Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration, both of the
Department of Transportation.
SR-253
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining
To hold hearings to examine S. 32, to provide for conservation, enhanced recreation opportunities, and development of renewable energy in the California
Desert Conservation Area, S. 90, to survey the gradient boundary along the Red River in the States of Oklahoma and Texas, S. 357, to direct the Secretary of the
Interior to convey certain public lands in San
Bernardino County, California, to the San Bernardino
Valley Water Conservation District, and to accept in return certain exchanged non-public lands, S. 436, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to retire coal preference right lease applications for which the
Secretary has made an affirmative commercial quantities determination, to substitute certain land selections of the Navajo Nation, to designate certain wilderness areas, S. 467, to provide for the disposal of certain
Bureau of Land Management land in Mohave County,
Arizona, S. 468, to establish a procedure for resolving claims to certain rights-of-way, S. 614, to require the
Secretary of the Interior to establish a pilot program for commercial recreation concessions on certain land managed by the Bureau of Land Management, S. 785, to amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to provide for equitable allotment of land to Alaska
Native veterans, S. 837, to provide for the conveyance of certain land to Washington County, Utah, to authorize the exchange of Federal land and non-Federal land in the State of Utah, S. 884, to amend the Omnibus
Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 to require the Bureau of Land Management to provide a claimant of a small miner waiver from claim maintenance fees with a period of 60 days after written receipt of 1 or more defects is provided to the claimant by registered mail to cure the 1 or more defects or pay the claim maintenance fee,
S. 941, to withdraw certain National Forest System land in the Emigrant Crevice area located in the Custer
Gallatin National Forest, Park County, Montana, from the mining and mineral leasing laws of the United
States, S. 1149, to amend the Alaska Native Claims
Settlement Act to repeal a provision limiting the export of timber harvested from land conveyed to the
Kake Tribal Corporation under that Act, S. 1230, to prohibit the conditioning of any permit, lease, or other use agreement on the transfer of any water right to the United States by the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture, S. 1271, to designate certain mountain peaks in the State of Colorado as ``Fowler Peak'' and
``Boskoff Peak'', and S. 1548, to designate certain land administered by the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service in the State of Oregon as wilderness and national recreation areas and to make additional wild and scenic river designations in the State of
Oregon.
SD-366
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Business meeting to consider S. 873, to amend section
8433 of title 5, United States Code, to provide for flexibility in making withdrawals from the Thrift
Savings Fund, S. 288, to require notice and comment for certain interpretative rules, S. 886, to amend the
Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish an
Acquisition Review Board in the Department of Homeland
Security, S. 906, to amend the Homeland Security Act of
2002 to provide for congressional notification regarding major acquisition program breaches, S. 1199, to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to reauthorize the Border Enforcement Security Task Force program within the Department of Homeland Security, S.
938, to require notice of cost-free Federal procurement technical assistance in connection with registration of small business concerns in procurement systems, S.
1208, to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide for an option under the Secure Mail Initiative under which a person to whom a document is sent under that initiative may elect to have the United States
Postal Service use the Hold for Pickup service or the
Signature Confirmation service in delivering the document, S. Con. Res. 15, expressing support for the designation of October 28, 2017, as ``Honoring the
Nation's First Responders Day'', H.R. 1293, to amend title 5, United States Code, to require that the Office of Personnel Management submit an annual report to
Congress relating to the use of official time by
Federal employees, H.R. 1117, to require the
Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management
Agency to submit a report regarding certain plans regarding assistance to applicants and grantees during the response to an emergency or disaster, H.R. 1679, to ensure that the Federal Emergency Management Agency's current efforts to modernize its grant management system includes applicant accessibility and transparency, H.R. 195, to amend title 44, United
States Code, to restrict the distribution of free printed copies of the Federal Register to Members of
Congress and other officers and employees of the United
States, H.R. 194, to ensure the effective processing of mail by Federal agencies, and an original bill to amend the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to reauthorize the
Judicial Conference of the United States to redact sensitive information contained in financial disclosure reports of judicial officers and employees.
SD-342
Committee on the Judiciary
To hold an oversight hearing to examine the Foreign
Agents Registration Act and attempts to influence
United States elections, focusing on lessons learned from current and prior administrations.
SD-2262:30 p.m.
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
To hold an oversight hearing to examine Federal infrastructure permitting and the Federal Permitting
Improvement Steering Council.
SD-342
Committee on Indian Affairs
To hold an oversight hearing to examine the Government
Accountability Office reports on human trafficking of
American Indian and Alaska Natives in the United
States.
SD-628
JULY 2710 a.m.
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Joseph
Otting, of Nevada, to be Comptroller of the Currency,
Department of the Treasury, and Randal Quarles, of
Colorado, to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
(Reappointment), and to be Vice Chairman for
Supervision of the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System.
SD-538
