[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1238-E1240]
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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, November 16, 2021 may be found in the
Daily Digest of today's Record.

MEETINGS SCHEDULED

NOVEMBER 17
Time to be announced
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Alanna
McCargo, of Virginia, to be President, Government
National Mortgage Association, and James Arthur Jemison
II, of Michigan, and Elizabeth de Leon Bhargava, of New
York, both to be an Assistant Secretary, all of the
Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Arun
Venkataraman, of the District of Columbia, to be
Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Director General of
the United States and Foreign Commercial Service.
S-207
9:30 a.m.
Committee on Finance
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Maria L.
Pagan, of Puerto Rico, to be a Deputy United States
Trade Representative (Geneva Office), with the rank of
Ambassador, Brent Neiman, of Illinois, to be a Deputy
Under Secretary, and Joshua Frost, of New York, to be
an Assistant Secretary, both of the Department of the
Treasury, Samuel R. Bagenstos, of Michigan, to be
General Counsel, and Christi A. Grimm, of Colorado, to
be Inspector General, both of the Department of Health
and Human Services, and Christopher S. Wilson, of the
District of Columbia, to be Chief Innovation and
Intellectual Property Negotiator, Office of the United
States Trade Representative, with the rank of
Ambassador.
SD-215
10 a.m.
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Business meeting to consider S. 594, to double the
existing penalties for the provision of misleading or
inaccurate caller identification information, S.

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1127, to require the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration to make certain operational models
available to the public, S. 46, to reauthorize the
Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000 and to establish
the United States Coral Reef Task Force, S. 2699, to
establish a cybersecurity literacy campaign, the
nominations of Laurie E. Locascio, of Maryland, to be
Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and
Technology, Max Vekich, of Washington, to be a Federal
Maritime Commissioner, Christopher A. Coes, of Georgia,
to be an Assistant Secretary of Transportation, and
routine lists in the Coast Guard; to be immediately
followed by a hearing to examine the nominations of
Jessica Rosenworcel, of Connecticut, to be a Member of
the Federal Communications Commission, Alvaro M.
Bedoya, of Maryland, to be a Federal Trade
Commissioner, and Jainey Kumar Bavishi, of New York, to
be Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, and
Arun Venkataraman, of the District of Columbia, to be
Assistant Secretary and Director General of the United
States and Foreign Commercial Service, both of the
Department of Commerce.
SR-253
Committee on Environment and Public Works
To hold hearings to examine the nomination of Martha
Williams, of Montana, to be Director of the United
States Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the
Interior.
SD-406
Committee on Foreign Relations
To hold hearings to examine Afghanistan, focusing on U.S.
policy lessons learned.
SD-G50/VTC
Committee on the Judiciary
To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Bridget
Meehan Brennan, Charles Esque Fleming, and David
Augustin Ruiz, each to be a United States District
Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, and John H.
Chun, to be United States District Judge for the
Western District of Washington.
SD-226
10:30 a.m.
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Chavonda
J. Jacobs-Young, of Georgia, to be Under Secretary for
Research, Education, and Economics, and Margo
Schlanger, of Michigan, to be an Assistant Secretary,
both of the Department of Agriculture.
SR-301
1 p.m.
United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics
Control
To hold hearings to examine the nexus between the illicit
drug trade and corruption.
SD-608
2 p.m.
Select Committee on Intelligence
To receive a closed briefing on certain intelligence
matters.
SH-219
2:30 p.m.
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Subcommittee on Government Operations and Border Management
To hold hearings to examine security, trade, and travel
flows at the Southwest border ports of entry, focusing
on the Federal government perspective.
SD-342/VTC
Committee on Indian Affairs
Business meeting to consider S. 648, to amend the Omnibus
Public Land Management Act of 2009 to make a technical
correction to the water rights settlement for Shoshone-
Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation; to be
immediately followed by a hearing to examine S. 1364,
to provide for the recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of
North Carolina, H.R. 1975, to take certain land located
in San Diego County, California, into trust for the
benefit of the Pala Band of Mission Indians, H.R. 2088,
to take certain Federal lands in Tennessee into trust
for the benefit of the Eastern Band of Cherokee
Indians, and H.R. 4881, to direct the Secretary of the
Interior to take into trust for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe
of Arizona certain land in Pima County, Arizona.
SD-628
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Business meeting to consider S. 1617, to modify the
requirements for the Administrator of the Small
Business Administration relating to declaring a
disaster in a rural area, S. 1621, to reauthorize and
limit the pre-disaster mitigation program of the Small
Business Administration, the nomination of Dilawar
Syed, of California, to be Deputy Administrator of the
Small Business Administration, and other pending
calendar business.
SR-428A
Joint Economic Committee
To hold hearings to examine cryptocurrency, focusing on
digital assets and the role of government.
CHOB-210
3 p.m.
Committee on Veterans' Affairs
To hold hearings to examine S. 1296, to require a pilot
program on activities under the Transition Assistance
Program for a reduction in suicide among veterans, S.
1564, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to
provide support to university law school programs that
are designed to provide legal assistance to veterans,
S. 1607, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs
to improve how the Department of Veterans Affairs
discloses to individuals entitled to educational
assistance from the Department risks associated with
using such assistance at particular educational
institutions and to restore entitlement of students to
such assistance who are pursuing programs of education
at educational institutions that are subject to Federal
or State civil enforcement action, S. 1664, to require
the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to take certain
actions to improve the processing by the Department of
Veterans Affairs of claims for disability compensation
for post-traumatic stress disorder, S. 1838, to require
the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a pilot
program on using alternative credit scoring information
for veterans and members of the Armed Forces, S. 1850,
to preserve the memorials to chaplains at Arlington
National Cemetery, S. 1881, to reauthorize and improve
a grant program to assist institutions of higher
education in establishing, maintaining, improving, and
operating Student Veteran Centers, S. 1936, to amend
title 38, United States Code, to provide for extensions
of the time limitations for use of entitlement under
Department of Veterans Affairs educational assistance
programs by reason of school closures due to emergency
and other situations, S. 2089, to amend title 38,
United States Code, to ensure that grants provided by
the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for State veterans'
cemeteries do not restrict States from authorizing the
interment of certain deceased members of the reserve
components of the Armed Forces in such cemeteries, S.
2329, to ensure that only licensed health care
professionals furnish disability examinations under a
certain Department of Veterans Affairs pilot program
for use of contract physicians for disability
examinations, S. 2405, to amend title 38, United States
Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to
award grants to States to improve outreach to veterans,
S. 2431, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs
to require the employees of the Department of Veterans
Affairs to receive training developed by the Inspector
General of the Department on reporting wrongdoing to,
responding to requests from, and cooperating with the
Office of Inspector General, S. 2513, to amend title
38, United States Code, to improve the application and
review process of the Department of Veterans Affairs
for clothing allowance claims submitted by veterans, S.
2644, to amend title 38, United States Code, to expand
eligibility for Post-9/11 Educational Assistance to
members of the National Guard who perform certain full-
time duty, S. 2687, to provide the Inspector General of
the Department of Veterans Affairs testimonial subpoena
authority, S. 2761, to amend title 38, United States
Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to
maintain demographic information regarding veterans and
publish such information on a website of the Department
of Veterans Affairs, S. 2794, to amend title 38, United
States Code, to increase automatic maximum coverage
under the Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance program
and the Veterans' Group Life Insurance program, S.
3047, to establish a pilot program to support medical
residency and fellowship programs that assist veterans,
S. 3094, to amend title 38, United States Code, to
improve homeless veterans reintegration programs, S.
3163, to improve access to medical examinations
required by veterans to obtain disability compensation
or pension under laws administered by the Secretary of
Veterans Affairs, and an original bill entitled,
``Veterans Benefits Improvement Act''.
SR-418
NOVEMBER 18
9 a.m.
Committee on the Judiciary
Business meeting to consider S. 2629, to establish
cybercrime reporting mechanisms, and 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, 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, and Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong,
both to be a United States District Judge for the
Central District of California.
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9:30 a.m.
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
To hold hearings to examine the nomination of Saule T.
Omarova, of New York, to be Comptroller of the
Currency.
SD-538/VTC
Special Committee on Aging
To hold hearings to examine inclusive disaster
management, focusing on improving preparedness,
response, and recovery.
SD-562
10 a.m.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Business meeting to consider S. 172 and H.R. 1664, bills
to authorize the National Medal of Honor Museum
Foundation to establish a commemorative work in the
District of Columbia and its environs, S. 180, to
withdraw certain Bureau of Land Management land from
mineral development, S. 270, to amend the Act entitled
``Act to provide for the establishment of the Brown v.
Board of Education National Historic Site in the State
of Kansas'' to provide for inclusion of additional
related sites in the National Park System, S. 491, to
amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate
certain river segments in the York River watershed in
the State of Maine as components of the National Wild
and Scenic Rivers System, S. 535, to authorize the
location of a memorial on the National Mall to
commemorate and honor the members of the Armed Forces
that served on active duty in support of the Global War
on Terrorism, S. 554 and H.R. 297, bills to require the
Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a study on the
establishment of, and the potential land that could be
included in, a unit of the National Forest System in
the State of Hawaii, S. 569, to direct the Secretary of
Agriculture to transfer certain National Forest System
land to the State of South Dakota, S. 609, to withdraw
the National Forest System land in the Ruby Mountains
subdistrict of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest and
the National Wildlife Refuge System land in Ruby Lake
National Wildlife Refuge, Elko and White Pine Counties,
Nevada, from operation under the mineral leasing laws,
S. 753, to reauthorize the Highlands Conservation Act,
to authorize States to use funds from that Act for
administrative purposes, S. 904, to require the
Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of
Agriculture, and the Assistant Secretary of the Army
for Civil Works to digitize and make publicly available
geographic information system mapping data relating to
public access to Federal land and waters for outdoor
recreation, S. 990, to reauthorize the Northern Rio
Grande National Heritage Area, S. 1317, to modify the
boundary of the Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument
in the State of Arizona, S. 1318, to reauthorize the
Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area, S. 1320, to
establish the Chiricahua National Park in the State of
Arizona as a unit of the National Park System, S. 1321,
to modify the boundary of the Casa Grande Ruins
National Monument, S. 1354, to amend the National
Trails System Act to designate the Chilkoot National
Historic Trail and to provide for a study of the Alaska
Long Trail, S. 1583, to reauthorize the Lake Tahoe
Restoration Act, S. 1589, 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, to withdraw certain land
located in Curry County and Josephine County, Oregon,
from all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal
under the public land laws, location, entry, and patent
under the mining laws, and operation under the mineral
leasing and geothermal leasing laws, S. 1620, to direct
the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the city of
Eunice, Louisiana, certain Federal land in the State of
Louisiana, S. 1631, to authorize the Secretary of
Agriculture to convey certain National Forest System
land in the State of Arizona to the Arizona Board of
Regents, S. 1771, to authorize reference to the museum
located at Blytheville/Eaker Air Force Base in
Blytheville, Arkansas, as the ``National Cold War
Center'', 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.
2158, to extend the authorization for the Cape Cod
National Seashore Advisory Commission, S. 2433, to
require the Secretary of the Interior to develop and
maintain a cadastre of Federal real property, S. 2490,
to establish the Blackwell School National Historic
Site in Marfa, Texas, S. 2524, to amend the Alaska
Native Claims Settlement Act to exclude certain
payments to aged, blind, or disabled Alaska Natives or
descendants of Alaska Natives from being used to
determine eligibility or certain programs, H.R. 1192,
to impose requirements on the payment of compensation
to professional persons employed in voluntary cases
commenced under title III of the Puerto Rico Oversight
Management and Economic Stability Act (commonly known
as ``PROMESA''), H.R. 2497, to establish the Amache
National Historic Site in the State of Colorado as a
Unit of the National Park System, H.R. 4300, to direct
the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of
Agriculture to make free National Parks and Federal
Recreational Lands Passes available to members of the
Armed Forces, and an original bill to reauthorize
funding for certain National Heritage Areas.
SD-366
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 vaccine diplomacy in Latin
America and the Caribbean, focusing on the importance
of U.S. engagement.
SD-419/VTC
10:15 a.m.
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Erik
Adrian Hooks, of North Carolina, to be Deputy
Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency,
Department of Homeland Security, Michael Kubayanda, of
Ohio, to be a Commissioner of the Postal Regulatory
Commission, Laurel A. Blatchford, of the District of
Columbia, to be Controller, Office of Federal Financial
Management, Office of Management and Budget, and Ebony
M. Scott, to be an Associate Judge of the Superior
Court of the District of Columbia.
SD-342/VTC
10:30 a.m.
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
To hold hearings to examine confronting the Kremlin and
Communist corruption.
SD-G50