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June 20, 2016 sees Congressional Record publish “SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS”

Volume 162, No. 98 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 E956-E957 on June 20, 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 21, 2016 may be found in the Daily Digest of today's Record.

MEETINGS SCHEDULED

JUNE 2210 a.m.

Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

To hold hearings to examine renewing communities and providing opportunities through innovative solutions to poverty.

SD-342

Committee on the Judiciary

To hold an oversight hearing to examine the Drug

Enforcement Administration.

SD-22610:30 a.m.

Committee on Foreign Relations

To hold closed hearings to examine security assistance, focusing on cutting through a tangled web of authorities.

SVC-2172:15 p.m.

Committee on Indian Affairs

Business meeting to consider S. 2785, to protect Native children and promote public safety in Indian country,

S. 2920, to amend the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010 and the Indian Law Enforcement Reform Act to provide for advancements in public safety services to Indian communities, and S. 3014, to improve the management of

Indian forest land; to be immediately followed by 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

Committee on Veterans' Affairs

To hold hearings to examine the progress and challenges in modernizing information technology at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

SR-418

JUNE 2310 a.m.

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

To hold hearings to examine bank capital and liquidity regulation, focusing on industry perspectives.

SD-538

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

To hold hearings to examine an original bill entitled,

``Wildfire Budgeting, Response and Forest Management

Act of 2016''.

SD-366

Committee on Foreign Relations

Business meeting to consider S. Res. 432, supporting respect for human rights and encouraging inclusive governance in Ethiopia, S. Res. 482, urging the

European Union to designate Hizballah in its entirety as a terrorist organization and to increase pressure on the organization and its members to the fullest extent possible, an original resolution expressing the sense of the Senate in support of the North Atlantic Treaty

Organization and the NATO summit to be held in Warsaw,

Poland from July 8-9, 2016, and in support of committing NATO to a security posture capable of deterring threats to the Alliance, an original resolution expressing the sense of the Senate regarding compliance enforcement of Russian violations of the

Open Skies Treaty, International Treaty on Plant

Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, adopted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United

Nations on November 3, 2001, and signed by the United

States on November 1, 2002 (the ``Treaty'') (Treaty

Doc. 110-19), the Convention on the Law Applicable to

Certain Rights in Respect of Securities Held with an

Intermediary (the ``Convention''), done at The Hague on

July 5, 2006, and signed by the United States on that same day (Treaty Doc. 112-06), the nominations of Geeta

Pasi, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of

Chad, Mary Beth Leonard, of Massachusetts, to be

Representative of the United States of America to the

African Union, with the rank and status of Ambassador, and Anne S. Casper, of Nevada, to be Ambassador to the

Republic of Burundi, all of the Department of State, and routine lists in the Foreign Service; to be immediately followed by a hearing to examine NATO, focusing on reviewing the agenda and assessing the potential outcomes of the Warsaw summit.

SD-419

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

Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship

To hold hearings to examine ramifications of the Supreme

Court Kingdomware decision.

SR-428A11 a.m.

Special Committee on Aging

To hold hearings to examine ensuring person-centered care for individuals with serious illness.

SD-5622 p.m.

Select Committee on Intelligence

To receive a closed briefing on certain intelligence matters.

SH-219

JUNE 282:30 p.m.

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining

To hold an oversight hearing to examine the status of the the Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service's efforts to implement amendments to land use plans and specific management plans regarding sage grouse conservation, and those agencies' coordination activities with affected states.

SD-366

JUNE 3010 a.m.

Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship

To hold hearings to examine small business survival amidst flood insurance rate increases.

SR-428A

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

JULY 1410 a.m.

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

To hold hearings to examine evaluating the financial risks of China.

SD-538

SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 162, No. 98