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    In the Committees - Wednesday, July 13, 2016

    House Hearings:
    • VETERANS AFFAIRS - Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Subc. On the VA’s Failure to provide adequate examinations. 334 CHOB. (10:00-Open)
    • Agriculture - Full Committee. On examining the CFTC’s proposed rule. Public witnesses. 1300 LHOB. (10:00-Open)
    • Appropriations - Full Committee. Markup of H.R. ___ - Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Bill for FY 2017. 2359 RHOB. (10:00-Open)
    • Armed Services - Tactical Air and Land Forces Subc. On air dominance and the critical role of fifth generation fighters. Dept. witnesses. 2212 Rayburn. (2:00-Open); Oversight and Investigations Subc. On oversight of the European Reassurance Initiative. Dept. witnesses. 2118 RHOB. (3:30-Open)
    • Budget - Full Committee. On restoring the trust for Americans at or near retirement. Public witnesses. 210 CHOB. (9:30-Open)
    • Energy - Environment and the Economy Subc. On oversight of CERCLA implementation. Dept. and public witnesses. 2123 RHOB. (10:00-Open); Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subc. On health care apps. Public witnesses. 2322 RHOB. (10:15-Open); Full Committee. Markup of H.R. 5510 - FTC Process and Transparency Reform Act of 2016, H.R. 5111 - Consumer Review Fairness Act, H.R. 5092 - Reinforcing American Made Products Act, H.R. 5104 - Better Online Ticket Sales (BOTS) Act, H.R. 1301 - Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2015, H.R. 3299 - Strengthening Public Health Emergency Response Act of 2015, H.R. 921 - Sports Medicine Licensure Clarity Act of 2015, and H.R. 670 - Special Needs Trust Fairness Act of 2015. 2123 RHOB. (2:00-Open)
    • Financial Services - Full Committee. On HUD accountability. Julian Castro, Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. 2128 RHOB. (10:00-Open); Full Committee. Markup of H.R. 5716 – To  prohibit the Secretary of the Treasury from issuing certain licenses in connection with the export or re-export of a commercial passenger aircraft to the Islamic Republic of Iran, to require annual reports by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Export-Import Bank on financing issues related to the sale or lease of such a commercial passenger aircraft or spare parts for such an aircraft, and for other purposes, H.R. 5711 - To prohibit the Secretary of the Treasury from authorizing certain transactions by a U.S. financial institution in connection with the export or re-export of a commercial passenger aircraft to the Islamic Republic of Iran; and H.R. 5715 - No Ex-Im Assistance for Terrorism Act. 2128 RHOB. (2:00-Open)
    • Foreign Affairs - Full Committee. On the State Department’s performance in countering online terrorism. Dept. witnesses. 2172 RHOB. (10:00-Open); Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations Subc.  On the Castro Regime’s ongoing violations of civil and political rights. Public witnesses.  2172 RHOB. (2:00-Open); Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats Subc. On Turkey’s democratic decline. Public witnesses. 2200 RHOB. (2:00-Open)
    • Homeland Security - Counterterrorism and Intelligence Subc. On the preparedness of the Department of Homeland Security regarding counterintelligence and insider threats. Dept. witnesses.  311 CHOB. (10:00-Open)
    • Judiciary - Full Committee. Markup of H.R. 68 - Juvenile Accountability Block Grant Reauthorization and the Bullying Prevention and Intervention Act of 2015, and H.R. 4602 - Justice for All Reauthorization Act of 2016. 2237 RHOB. (11:00-Open)
    • Natural Resources - Full Committee. Markup of H.R. 1157 - Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians Land Transfer Act of 2015, H.R. 2333 - To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire certain property related to the Fort Scott National Historic Site in Fort Scott, Kansas, H.R. 2817 - National Historic Preservation Amendments Act of 2015,  H.R. 4576 - Ensuring Access to Pacific Fisheries Act, H.R. 5468 - To direct the Secretary of the Interior to allow for prepayment of repayment obligations under Repayment Contracts between the United States and the Weber Basin Water Conservancy District; H.R. 5577 - Innovation in Offshore Leasing Act,  S. 246 - Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children Act,  and S. 1579 - Native American Tourism and Improving Visitor Experience Act. 1324 LHOB. (10:00-Open); Energy and Mineral Resources Subc. On H.R. 2663 - Public Land Renewable Energy Development Act of 2015. Public witnesses. 1324 LHOB. (2:00-Open)
    • Oversight & Govt Reform - Full Committee. On oversight of the FDIC application process. Dept. and public witnesses. 2154 Rayburn. (10:00-Open); Information Technology Subc. and National Security Subc. Joint hrng. on digital acts of war. Dept. and public witnesses. 2154 RHOB. (1:00-Open); Health Care, Benefits and Administrative Rules Subc. On examining premium and co-ops after Obamacare. Dept. witnesses. 2247 RHOB. (2:00-Open)
    • Ways and Means - Trade Subc. On expanding U.S. digital trade and eliminating barriers to U.S. digital exports. Public witnesses. 1100 LHOB. (10:00-Open); Full Committee. Markup of H.R. 5659 - Expanding Seniors Receiving Dialysis Choice Act of 2016, H.R. 5713 - Sustaining Healthcare Integrity and Fair Treatment Act of 2016, H.R. 3608 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt amounts paid for aircraft management services from the excise taxes imposed on transportation by air, H.R. 5320 - Social Security Must Avert Identity Loss (MAIL) Act of 2016, and H.R. 711 - Equal Treatment of Public Servants Act of 2015. 1100 LHOB. (2:00-Open)
    Senate Hearings:
    • Appropriations - 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 (10:30 AM)
    • Appropriations - Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for the nuclear cruise missile. SD-138 (10:30 AM); Closed hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for the nuclear cruise missile. SVC-217 (02:30 PM)
    • Commerce - Hearings to examine NASA at a crossroads, focusing on reasserting American leadership in space exploration. SR-253 (02:30 PM)
    • Energy - Business meeting to consider S.718, to modify the boundary of Petersburg National Battlefield in the Commonwealth of Virginia, S.814, to provide for the conveyance of certain Federal land in the State of Oregon to the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians, S.815, to provide for the conveyance of certain Federal land in the State of Oregon to the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, 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.1167, to modify the boundaries of the Pole Creek Wilderness, the Owyhee River Wilderness, and the North Fork Owyhee Wilderness and to authorize the continued use of motorized vehicles for livestock monitoring, herding, and grazing in certain wilderness areas in the State of Idaho, S.1448, to designate the Frank Moore Wild Steelhead Sanctuary in the State of Oregon, S.1577, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain segments of East Rosebud Creek in Carbon County, Montana, as components of the Wild and Scenic Rivers System, 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, to redesignate the Ocmulgee National Monument in the State of Georgia, to revise the boundary of that monument, S.1699, 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, S.1777, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to maintain or replace certain facilities and structures for commercial recreation services at Smith Gulch in Idaho, S.1930, to adjust the boundary of the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park to include the Wallis House and Harriston Hill, S.1943, to modify the boundary of the Shiloh National Military Park located in the State of Tennessee and Mississippi, to establish Parker's Crossroads Battlefield as an affiliated area of the National Park System, S.1993, to establish the 21st Century Conservation Service Corps to place youth and veterans in the United States in national service positions to protect, restore, and enhance the great outdoors of the United States, S.2018, to convey, without consideration, the reversionary interests of the United States in and to certain non-Federal land in Glennallen, Alaska, S.2087, to modify the boundary of the Fort Scott National Historic Site in the State of Kansas, S.2177 and H.R. 959, bills to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the Medgar Evers House, located in Jackson, Mississippi, S.2223, to transfer administrative jurisdiction over certain Bureau of Land Management land from the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for inclusion in the Black Hills National Cemetery, S.2309, to amend title 54, United States Code, to establish within the National Park Service the U.S. Civil Rights Network, S.2360, to improve the administration of certain programs in the insular areas, S.2379, to provide for the unencumbering of title to non-Federal land owned by the city of Tucson, Arizona, for purposes of economic development by conveyance of the Federal reversionary interest to the City, S.2383, to withdraw certain Bureau of Land Management land in the State of Utah from all forms of public appropriation, to provide for the shared management of the withdrawn land by the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of the Air Force to facilitate enhanced weapons testing and pilot training, enhance public safety, and provide for continued public access to the withdrawn land, to provide for the exchange of certain Federal land and State land, S.2412, to establish the Tule Lake National Historic Site in the State of California, S.2524, to insure adequate use and access to the existing Bolts Ditch headgate and ditch segment within the Holy Cross Wilderness in Eagle County, Colorado, S.2548, to establish the 400 Years of African-American History Commission, S.2608, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to place signage on Federal land along the trail known as the "American Discovery Trail", S.2616, to modify certain cost-sharing and revenue provisions relating to the Arkansas Valley Conduit, Colorado, S.2620, to facilitate the addition of park administration at the Coltsville National Historical Park, S.2805, to modify the boundary of Voyageurs National Park in the State of Minnesota, S.2839 and H.R. 3004, bills to amend the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Act to ex SD-366 (09:30 AM)
    • Finance - Hearings to examine the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, focusing on ensuring successful implementation of physician payment reforms. SD-215 (10:00 AM)
    • Finance - Hearings to examine Alzheimer's disease, focusing on the struggle for families and a looming crisis for Medicare. SD-215 (02:30 PM)
    • Foreign Relations - Hearings to examine United States policy options in the South China Sea; to be immediately followed by a Full Committee hearing to examine the nominations of Sung Y. Kim, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of the Philippines, Rena Bitter, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the Lao People's Democratic Republic, and Kamala Shirin Lakhdhir, of Connecticut, to be Ambassador to Malaysia, all of the Department of State. SD-419 (10:30 AM)
    • Foreign Relations - Hearings to examine Zika in the Western Hemisphere, focusing on risks and response. SD-419 (02:30 PM)
    • Health and Education - Hearings to examine campus safety, focusing on improving prevention and response efforts. SD-106 (02:45 PM)
    • Judiciary - Hearings to examine the nominations of Lucy Haeran Koh, of California, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Florence Y. Pan, to be United States District Judge for the District of Columbia, and Danny C. Reeves, of Kentucky, to be a Member of the United States Sentencing Commission. SD-226 (10:00 AM)
    • Judiciary - Hearings to examine researching the potential medical benefits and risks of marijuana. SD-226 (02:30 PM)
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