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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, October 19, 2021 may be found in the Daily Digest of today's Record.
MEETINGS SCHEDULED
OCTOBER 209:30 a.m.
Committee on Foreign Relations
Business meeting to consider pending calendar business; to be immediately followed by a hearing to examine the nominations of R. Nicholas Burns, of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to the People's Republic of China, Rahm
Emanuel, of Illinois, to be Ambassador to Japan, and
Jonathan Eric Kaplan, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore, all of the Department of
State, and other pending nominations.
SD-G5010 a.m.
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Victoria
Marie Baecher Wassmer, of the District of Columbia, to be Chief Financial Officer, Mohsin Raza Syed, of
Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary, Amitabha Bose, of New Jersey, to be Administrator of the Federal
Railroad Administration, and Meera Joshi, of
Pennsylvania, to be Administrator of the Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Administration, all of the Department of
Transportation, Mary T. Boyle, of Maryland, to be a
Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission,
Rear Admiral Nancy A. Hann, of Maryland, to be
Director, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration Corps and Director, Office of Marine and
Aviation Operations, Department of Commerce, and routine lists in the Coast Guard; to be immediately followed by a hearing to examine the nominations of Max
Vekich, of Washington, to be a Federal Maritime
Commissioner, Christopher A. Coes, of Georgia, to be an
Assistant Secretary of Transportation, and Laurie E.
Locascio, of Maryland, to be Under Secretary of
Commerce for Standards and Technology.
SR-253
Committee on Environment and Public Works
To hold hearings to examine evaluating the Federal response to the persistence and impacts of PFAS chemicals on our environment.
SD-406
Committee on Finance
To hold hearings to examine health insurance coverage in
America, focusing on the current and future role of
Federal programs.
SD-215
Committee on the Judiciary
To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Holly A.
Thomas, of California, to be United States Circuit
Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Mary Katherine Dimke, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern
District of Washington, Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, to be United States District Judge for the Central
District of California, Charlotte N. Sweeney, to be
United States District Judge for the District of
Colorado, Jennifer L. Thurston, to be United States
District Judge for the Eastern District of California, and Hernan D. Vera, of California, to be United States
District Judge for the Central District of California.
SD-22610:30 a.m.
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Ernest W.
DuBester, of Virginia, and Susan Tsui Grundmann, of
Virginia, both to be Member, and Kurt Thomas Rumsfeld, of Maryland, to be General Counsel, all of the Federal
Labor Relations Authority.
VTC2 p.m.
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Subcommittee on Economic Policy
To hold hearings to examine protecting companies and communities from private equity abuse.
SD-106
Committee on Foreign Relations
To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Patricia
Mahoney, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Central
African Republic, Peter Hendrick Vrooman, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Mozambique, Peter
D. Haas, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the People's
Republic of Bangladesh, Julie Chung, of California, to be Ambassador to the Democratic Socialist Republic of
Sri Lanka, Brian Wesley Shukan, of Virginia, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Benin, Elizabeth Anne
Noseworthy Fitzsimmons, of Delaware, to be Ambassador to the Togolese Republic, and David R. Gilmour, of the
District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, all of the Department of State, and other pending nominations.
VTC
Select Committee on Intelligence
To receive a closed briefing on certain intelligence matters.
SH-2192:30 p.m.
Committee on Indian Affairs
To hold hearings to examine investing in economic sovereignty, focusing on leveraging Federal financing for new and sustained development in Native communities.
SD-628
Committee on the Judiciary
Subcommittee on the Constitution
To hold hearings to examine restoring the Voting Rights
Act, focusing on protecting the Native American and
Alaska Native vote.
SD-2263 p.m.
Committee on Rules and Administration
To hold an oversight hearing to examine Library of
Congress modernization efforts.
SR-301
Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Guy T.
Kiyokawa, of Hawaii, to be an Assistant Secretary of
Veterans Affairs (Enterprise Integration), and James D.
Rodriguez, of Texas, to be Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans' Employment and Training; to be immediately followed by a hearing to examine S. 1342, to establish an interagency committee on the development of green alert systems that would be activated when a veteran goes missing, S. 1779, to amend title 38, United States Code, to eliminate copayments by the Department of Veterans Affairs for medicines relating to preventive health services, S.
1937, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a pilot program to furnish doula services to veterans, S. 1944, to improve Vet Centers of the
Department of Veterans Affairs, S. 2283, to improve the
Veterans Crisis Line of the Department of Veterans
Affairs, S. 2386, to amend the VA MISSION Act of 2018, to expand the peer specialist support program of the
Department of Veterans Affairs to all medical centers of the Department, S. 2526, to authorize the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enter into agreements for the planning, design, and construction of facilities to be operated as shared medical facilities, S. 2533, to improve mammography services furnished by the Department of Veterans
Affairs, S. 2624, to authorize major medical facility projects for the Department of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2022, S. 2720, to direct the Secretary of
Veterans Affairs to establish a national clinical pathway for prostate cancer, S. 2787, to amend title
38, United States Code, to clarify the role of doctors of podiatric medicine in the Department of Veterans
Affairs, S. 2852, to amend title 38, United States
Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enter into contracts and agreements for the payment of care in non-Department of Veterans Affairs medical foster homes for certain veterans who are unable to live independently, S. 2924, to amend title 38, United States Code, to require the
Secretary of Veterans Affairs to transmit certain information to personnel of Vet Centers of the
Department of Veterans Affairs regarding members of the
Armed Forces transitioning from service in the Armed
Forces to civilian life, an original bill entitled,
``Servicemembers and Veterans Empowerment and Support
Act'', an original bill to amend title 38, United
States Code, to establish new requirements for State homes for veterans that receive per diem from the
Secretary of Veterans Affairs, an original bill entitled, ``Veterans Dental Care Eligibility Expansion and Enhancement Act'', an original bill entitled,
``Veterans State Eligibility Standardization Act'', and an original bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to reorganize the Chaplain Service of the Department of
Veterans Affairs.
SR-418
OCTOBER 219 a.m.
Committee on the Judiciary
Business meeting to consider S. 2428, to amend title 31,
United States Code, to modify False Claims Act procedures, S. 2429, to amend chapter 38 of title 31,
United States Code, relating to civil remedies, S. 998, to provide grants to States that do not suspend, revoke, or refuse to renew a driver's license of a person or refuse to renew a registration of a motor vehicle for failure to pay a civil or criminal fine or fee, and the nominations of Beth Robinson, of Vermont, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Second
Circuit, Jennifer Sung, of Oregon, to be United States
Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Lucy Haeran Koh, of California, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Jane M. Beckering, to be United
States District Judge for the Western District of
Michigan, Shalina D. Kumar, to be United States
District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan,
Armando O. Bonilla, of the District of Columbia, and
Carolyn N. Lerner, of Maryland, both to be a Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims, and Jonathan
Kanter, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Attorney
General, Department of Justice.
SD-10610 a.m.
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
To hold hearings to examine how private equity landlords are changing the housing market.
SD-538
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Subcommittee on Space and Science
To hold hearings to examine international collaboration and competition in space, focusing on oversight of
NASA's role and programs.
SR-253
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
To hold hearings to examine S. 1734, to direct the
Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of
Agriculture to encourage and expand the use of prescribed fire on land managed by the Department of the Interior or the Forest Service, with an emphasis on units of the National Forest System in the western
United States, S. 1964, to amend the Omnibus Parks and
Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to provide for the establishment of a Ski Area Fee Retention Account, S.
2404, to improve Federal activities relating to wildfires, S. 2436, to amend the Healthy Forests
Restoration Act of 2003 to establish emergency fireshed management areas, S. 2561, to amend the Forest and
Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to provide that a land resource management plan or land use plan approved, amended, or revised under those Acts shall not be considered to be a continuing Federal agency action or constitute a discretionary Federal involvement or control for a distinct Federal purpose,
S. 2564, to establish a pilot program under which the
Chief of the Forest Service may use alternative dispute resolution in lieu of judicial review for certain projects, S. 2650, to provide mandatory funding for hazardous fuels reduction projects on certain Federal land, S. 2806, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to select and implement landscape-scale forest restoration projects, to assist communities in increasing their resilience to wildfire, and S. 2836, to improve revegetation and carbon sequestration activities in the United States.
SD-366
Committee on the Judiciary
To hold an oversight hearing to examine the Department of
Homeland Security.
SD-10610:15 a.m.
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
To hold hearings to examine safeguarding inspector general independence and integrity.
SD-342/VTC
OCTOBER 2710 a.m.
Committee on Foreign Relations
To hold hearings to examine the Department of State and
Department of State authorizations.
SD-G50
NOVEMBER 22 p.m.
Committee on Foreign Relations
Subcommittee on State Department and USAID Management,
International Operations, and Bilateral International
Development
To hold hearings to examine training the Department of
State's workforce for the 21st century diplomacy.
SD-G50/VTC
NOVEMBER 310 a.m.
Committee on Environment and Public Works
To hold hearings to examine programs at the Economic
Development Administration.
SD-406
