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“SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS” published by Congressional Record on June 13, 2016

Volume 162, No. 93 covering the 2nd Session of the 114th Congress (2015 - 2016) 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 Environmental Protection Agency was published in the Extensions of Remarks section on pages E900-E901 on June 13, 2016.

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 Tuesday, June 14, 2016 may be found in the Daily Digest of today's Record.

MEETINGS SCHEDULED

JUNE 1510 a.m.

Committee on Appropriations

Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government

Business meeting to mark up an original bill entitled,

``Financial Services and General Government

Appropriations Act, Fiscal Year 2017''.

SD-138

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

Business meeting to consider pending calendar business.

SR-253

Committee on Foreign Relations

Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime,

Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global

Women's Issues

To hold hearings to examine barriers to education globally, focusing on getting girls in the classroom.

SD-419

Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

To hold hearings to examine implementing the Child Care

Development Block Grant Act of 2014, focusing on perspectives of stakeholders.

SD-430

Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

To hold hearings to examine America's insatiable demand for drugs, focusing on examining solutions.

SD-3422 p.m.

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast

Guard

To hold hearings to examine assessing the Coast Guard's increasing duties, focusing on drug and migrant interdiction.

SR-253

Committee on Finance

To hold hearings to examine challenges and opportunities for United States business in the digital age.

SD-2152:15 p.m.

Committee on Foreign Relations

To hold hearings to examine United States policy in

Libya.

SD-4192:30 p.m.

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

Subcommittee on National Parks

To hold hearings to examine S. 2839 and H.R. 3004, bills to amend the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Act to extend the authorization for the Gullah/Geechee

Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission, H.R. 3036, to designate the National September 11 Memorial located at the World Trade Center site in New York City, New York, as a national memorial, H.R. 3620, to amend the

Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Improvement

Act to provide access to certain vehicles serving residents of municipalities adjacent to the Delaware

Water Gap National Recreation Area, H.R. 4119, to authorize the exchange of certain land located in Gulf

Islands National Seashore, Jackson County, Mississippi, between the National Park Service and the Veterans of

Foreign Wars, S. 211, to establish the Susquehanna

Gateway National Heritage Area in the State of

Pennsylvania, S. 630, to establish the Sacramento-San

Joaquin Delta National Heritage Area, S. 1007, to amend the Dayton Aviation Heritage Preservation Act of 1992 to rename a site of the Dayton Aviation Heritage

National Historical Park, S. 1623, to establish the

Maritime Washington National Heritage Area in the State of Washington, S. 1662, to include Livingston County, the city of Jonesboro in Union County, and the city of

Freeport in Stephenson County, Illinois, to the Lincoln

National Heritage Area, S. 1690, to establish the

Mountains to Sound Greenway National Heritage Area in the State of Washington, S. 1696 and H.R. 482, bills to redesignate the Ocmulgee National Monument in the State of Georgia, to revise the boundary of that monument, S.

1824, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to assess the suitability and feasibility of designating certain land as the Finger

Lakes National Heritage Area, S. 2087, to modify the boundary of the Fort Scott National Historic Site in the State of Kansas, S. 2412, to establish the Tule

Lake National Historic Site in the State of California,

S. 2548, to establish the 400 Years of African-American

History Commission, S. 2627, to adjust the boundary of the Mojave National Preserve, S. 2807, to amend title

54, United States Code, to require State approval before the Secretary of the Interior restricts access to waters under the jurisdiction of the National Park

Service for recreational or commercial fishing, S.

2805, to modify the boundary of Voyageurs National Park in the State of Minnesota, S. 2923, to redesignate the

Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site as the ``Saint-

Gaudens National Park for the Arts'', S. 2954, to establish the Ste. Genevieve National Historic Site in the State of Missouri, S. 3020, to update the map of, and modify the acreage available for inclusion in, the

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, S. 3027, to clarify the boundary of Acadia National Park, and S.

3028, to redesignate the Olympic Wilderness as the

Daniel J. Evans Wilderness.

SD-366

Special Committee on Aging

To hold hearings to examine innovations to promote

Americans' financial security.

SD-562

JUNE 169 a.m.

Select Committee on Intelligence

To hold hearings to examine certain intelligence matters.

SH-2169:30 a.m.

Committee on Armed Services

To hold hearings to examine the nomination of General

David L. Goldfein, USAF, for reappointment to the grade of General, and to be Chief of Staff, United States Air

Force.

SD-G50

Committee on Foreign Relations

To hold hearings to examine our evolving understanding and response to transnational criminal threats.

SD-41910 a.m.

Committee on the Judiciary

Business meeting to consider S. 247, to amend section 349 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to deem specified activities in support of terrorism as renunciation of United States nationality, and the nominations of Donald Karl Schott, of Wisconsin, to be

United States Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit,

Stephanie A. Finley, of Louisiana, to be United States

District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana,

Claude J. Kelly III, of Louisiana, to be United States

District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana,

Winfield D. Ong, of Indiana, to be United States

District Judge for the Southern District of Indiana, and Carole Schwartz Rendon, of Ohio, to be United

States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.

SD-22610:30 a.m.

Committee on Appropriations

Business meeting to mark up an original bill entitled,

``Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies

Appropriations Act, 2017'', and an original bill entitled, ``Financial Services and General Government

Appropriations Act, 2017''.

SD-10611 a.m.

Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship

To hold hearings to examine keeping the American dream alive, focusing on creating jobs under the National

Labor Relations Board's new joint employer standard.

SR-428A

JUNE 2110 a.m.

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

To hold hearings to examine the semiannual monetary policy report to the Congress.

SH-216 2:30 p.m.

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining

To hold an oversight hearing to examine the Bureau of

Land Management's Planning 2.0 initiative.

SD-366

Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security

To hold hearings to examine small business retirement pooling, focusing on examining open multiple employer plans.

SH-216

JUNE 222:15 p.m.

Committee on Indian Affairs

To hold an oversight hearing to examine accessing

Department of Agriculture rural development programs in native communities.

SD-6282:30 p.m.

Committee on Environment and Public Works

Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety

To hold hearings to examine pathways towards compliance of the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for ground-level ozone, including S. 2882, to facilitate efficient State implementation of ground-level ozone standards, and S. 2072, to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a program under which the Administrator shall defer the designation of an area as a nonattainment area for purposes of the 8-hour ozone national ambient air quality standard if the area achieves and maintains certain standards under a voluntary early action compact plan.

SD-406

JUNE 2310 a.m.

Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

To hold hearings to examine customer service and billing practices in the cable and satellite television industry.

SD-342

JULY 1310:30 a.m.

Committee on Appropriations

Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies

To hold hearings to examine a review of the Department of

Veterans Affairs' electronic health record (VistA), progress toward interoperability with the Department of

Defense's electronic health record, and plans for the future.

SD-124

POSTPONEMENTS

JUNE 1610 a.m.

Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management

To hold hearings to examine reviewing the rulemaking records of independent regulatory agencies.

SD-342

SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 162, No. 93