[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E950-E953]
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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, September 24, 2024 may be found in
the Daily Digest of today's Record.

MEETINGS SCHEDULED

SEPTEMBER 25
9:30 a.m.
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Business meeting to consider S. 4667, to amend title 31,
United States Code, to establish the Life Sciences
Research Security Board, S. 5105, to require a report
by the Secretary of Homeland Security regarding the
failed assassination attempt on the life of Donald J.
Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024, S.
4900, to amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief
and Emergency Assistance Act to incentivize certain
preparedness measures, S. 131, to amend chapter 81 of
title 5, United States Code, to cover, for purposes of
workers' compensation under such chapter, services by
physician assistants and nurse practitioners provided
to injured Federal workers, S. 2924, to amend title 31,
United States Code, to improve the management of
improper payments, S. 5067, to improve individual
assistance provided by the Federal Emergency Management
Agency, S. 4898, to amend the Robert T. Stafford
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to include
extreme heat in the definition of a major disaster, S.
3926, to amend the Federal Funding Accountability and
Transparency Act of 2006 to ensure that other
transaction agreements are reported to USAspending.gov,
S. 4679, to amend title XLI of the FAST Act to improve
the Federal permitting process, S. 5098, to require
certain agencies to develop plans for internal control
in the event of an emergency or crisis, S. 5133, to
establish a tracker for Senate-confirmed executive
branch positions, S. 5109, to amend section 3520A of
title 44, United States Code, to extend the Chief Data
Officer Council's sunset and add new authorities for
improving Federal agency data governance, including to
enable reliable and secure adoption of emerging
technologies and artificial intelligence, S. 5093, to
sunset the Advisory Committee on the Records of
Congress, S. 5092, to amend the Northern Border
Security Review Act to require updates to the northern
border threat analysis and northern border strategy, S.
5099, to prescribe requirements relating to the
management of the Federal property commonly known as
Plum Island, New York, S. 5102, to require annual
reports on counter illicit cross-border tunnel
operations, S. 3181, to designate the Air and Marine
Operations Marine Unit of the U.S. Customs and Border
Protection located at 101 Km 18.5 in Cabo Rojo, Puerto
Rico, as the ``Michel O. Maceda Marine Unit'', S. 4404,
to designate the facility of the United States Postal
Service located at 840 Front Street in Casselton, North
Dakota, as the ``Commander Delbert Austin Olson Post
Office'', S. 4803, to designate the facility of the
United States Postal Service located at 31143 State
Highway 65 in Pengilly, Minnesota, as the ``First
Lieutenant Richard Arne Koski Post Office'', S. 4634,
to designate the facility of the United States Postal
Service located at 154 First Avenue East in Jerome,
Idaho, as the ``Representative Maxine Bell Post
Office'', H.R. 5799, to designate the checkpoint of the
United States Border Patrol located on United States
Highway 90 West in Uvalde County, Texas, as the ``James
R. Dominguez Border Patrol Checkpoint'', H.R. 1823, to
designate the facility of the United States Postal
Service located at 207 East Fort Dade Avenue in
Brooksville, Florida, as the ``Specialist Justin Dean
Coleman Memorial Post Office Building'', H.R. 3354, to
designate the facility of the United States Postal
Service located at 220 North Hatcher Avenue in
Purcellville, Virginia, as the ``Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright Post Office Building'', H.R. 6810,
to designate the facility of the United States Postal
Service located at 518 North Ridgewood Drive in
Sebring, Florida, as the ``U.S. Army Air Corps Major
Thomas B. McGuire Post Office Building'', H.R. 6983, to
designate the facility of the United States Postal
Service located at 15 South Valdosta Road in Lakeland,
Georgia, as the ``Nell Patten Roquemore Post Office'',
H.R. 7180, to designate the facility of the United
States Postal Service located at 80 1st Street in
Kingsland, Arkansas, as the ``Kingsland `Johnny Cash'
Post Office'', H.R. 7385, to designate the facility of
the United States Postal Service located at 29 Franklin
Street in Petersburg, Virginia, as the ``John Mercer
Langston Post Office Building'', H.R. 7417, to
designate the facility of the United States Postal
Service located at 135 West Spring Street in
Titusville, Pennsylvania, as the ``Edwin L. Drake Post
Office Building'', H.R. 7606, to designate the facility
of the United States Postal Service located at 1087
Route 47 South in Rio Grande, New Jersey, as the
``Carlton H. Hand Post Office Building'', H.R. 7607, to
designate the facility of the United States Postal
Service located at Block 1025, Lots 18 & 19, Northeast
Corner of US Route 9 South and Main Street in the
Township of Middle, County of Cape May, New Jersey, as
the ``George Henry White Post Office Building'', and
H.R. 7893, to designate the facility of the United
States Postal Service located at 306 Pickens Street in
Marion, Alabama, as the ``Albert Turner, Sr. Post
Office Building''.
SD-342
10 a.m.
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
To hold an oversight hearing to examine the Securities
and Exchange Commission.
SD-538
Committee on the Budget
To hold hearings to examine economic risks from housing
unaffordability, focusing on the costs of inaction.
SD-608

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Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Carl
Whitney Bentzel, of Maryland, to be a Federal Maritime
Commissioner, Thomas. B. Chapman, of Maryland, to be a
Member of the National Transportation Safety Board, and
Lanhee J. Chen, of California, to be a Director of the
Amtrak Board of Directors.
SR-253
Committee on Environment and Public Works
Business meeting to consider S. 4489, to designate the
Federal building located at 50 United Nations Plaza in
San Francisco, California, as the ``Senator Dianne
Feinstein Federal Building,'' and for other purposes,
H.R. 532, to designate the Federal building and United
States courthouse located at 600 East First Street in
Rome, Georgia, as the ``Harold L. Murphy Federal
Building and United States Courthouse'', the
nominations of Matthew James Marzano, of Illinois, to
be a Member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Matthew Kaplan, of Maryland, to be Federal
Cochairperson of the Great Lakes Authority, and 43
General Services Administration resolutions.
SD-406
Committee on Foreign Relations
Business meeting to consider S. 4425, to support
democracy and the rule of law in Georgia, H.R. 8282, to
impose sanctions with respect to the International
Criminal Court engaged in any effort to investigate,
arrest, detain, or prosecute any protected person of
the United States and its allies, and the nominations
of Vivek Hallegere Murthy, of Florida, to be
Representative of the United States on the Executive
Board of the World Health Organization, Kristen Sarri,
of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary for Oceans and
International Environmental and Scientific Affairs,
John N. Nkengasong, of Georgia, to be Ambassador-At-
Large for Global Health Security and Diplomacy,
Elizabeth K. Horst, of Minnesota, to be Ambassador to
the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Troy
Fitrell, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic
of Seychelles, Kelly Adams-Smith, of New Jersey, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Moldova, Juan Carlos
Iturregui, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the
Dominican Republic, Jennifer D. Gavito, of Colorado, to
be Ambassador to the State of Libya, Tracey Ann
Jacobson, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic
of Iraq, Joshua M. Harris, of Maryland, to be
Ambassador to the People's Democratic Republic of
Algeria, and Peter W. Lord, of Florida, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Senegal, and to serve
concurrently and without additional compensation as
Ambassador to the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, all of the
Department of State.
S-116
Committee on the Judiciary
To hold hearings to examine pending nominations.
SD-226
2 p.m.
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety
To hold hearings to examine preparing workers for AI.
SD-562
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
To hold hearings to examine FAA oversight of Boeing's
broken safety culture.
SD-342
Committee on the Judiciary
Subcommittee on Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism
To hold hearings to examine sexual assault in U.S.
prisons two decades after the Prison Rape Elimination
Act.
SD-226
2:30 p.m.
Committee on Indian Affairs
Business meeting to consider S. 465, to require Federal
law enforcement agencies to report on cases of missing
or murdered Indians, S. 2908, to assist Tribal
governments in the management of buffalo and buffalo
habitat and the reestablishment of buffalo on Indian
land, and S. 4370, to amend the Tribal Forest
Protection Act of 2004 to improve that Act; to be
immediately followed by a hearing to examine S. 4444,
to take certain mineral interests into trust for the
benefit of the Crow Tribe of Montana, S. 4633, to
provide for the settlement of the water rights claims
of the Navajo Nation, the Hopi Tribe, and the San Juan
Southern Paiute Tribe, S. 4643, to approve the
settlement of water rights claims of the Zuni Indian
Tribe in the Zuni River Stream System in the State of
New Mexico, to protect the Zuni Salt Lake, S. 4705, to
approve the settlement of water rights claims of the
Yavapai-Apache Nation in the State of Arizona, to
authorize construction of a water project relating to
those water rights claims, and S. 4998, to approve the
settlement of water rights claims of the Navajo Nation
in the Rio San Jose Stream System in the State of New
Mexico.
SD-628
Select Committee on Intelligence
To receive a closed briefing on certain intelligence
matters.
SH-219
3 p.m.
Committee on Finance
Subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth
To hold hearings to examine providing small business
relief from remote sales tax collection.
SD-215

SEPTEMBER 26
10 a.m.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Business meeting to consider S. 254, 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. 373, to modify the disposition of
certain outer Continental Shelf revenues and to open
Federal financial sharing to heighten opportunities for
renewable energy, S. 482, to amend the Klamath Basin
Water Supply Enhancement Act of 2000 to provide the
Secretary of the Interior with certain authorities with
respect to projects affecting the Klamath Basin
watershed, S. 620, to provide for the distribution of
certain outer Continental Shelf revenues to the State
of Alaska, S. 739, to clarify jurisdiction with respect
to certain Bureau of Reclamation pumped storage
development, S. 914, to establish an energy threat
analysis center in the Department of Energy, S. 1553,
to amend the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of
1976 to improve the management of grazing permits and
leases, S. 1764, to improve Federal activities relating
to wildfires, S. 2132, to require the Secretary of
Agriculture to establish a pilot program for the
establishment and use of a pre-fire-suppression stand
density index, S. 2151, to amend the Southwest Forest
Health and Wildlife Prevention Act of 2004 to require
the establishment of an additional Institute under that
Act, S. 2156, to amend the John D. Dingell, Jr.
Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act to
authorize additional entities to be eligible to
complete the maintenance work on Bolts Ditch and the
Bolts Ditch Headgate within the Holy Cross Wilderness,
Colorado, S. 2160, to amend the Omnibus Public Land
Management Act of 2009 to authorize certain
extraordinary operation and maintenance work for urban
canals of concern, S. 2169, to authorize the Secretary
of the Interior to carry out watershed pilots, S. 2506,
to amend the National Trails System Act to designate
the Route 66 National Historic Trail, S. 2620, to
establish the Chesapeake National Recreation Area as a
unit of the National Park System, S. 2742, to establish
the Fort Ontario National Monument in the State of New
York as a unit of the National Park System, S. 2743, to
amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation,
Management, and Recreation Act to designate as a
component of the National Heritage Area System the
Finger Lakes National Heritage Area in the State of New
York, S. 2784, to amend the Dayton Aviation Heritage
Preservation Act of 1992 to adjust the boundary of the
Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, S.
2867, to address the forest health crisis on the
National Forest System and public lands, S. 2927, to
amend the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to
increase Tribal access to water conservation and
efficiency grants, S. 2991, to improve revegetation and
carbon sequestration activities in the United States,
S. 3123, to provide for the standardization,
consolidation, and publication of data relating to
public outdoor recreational use of Federal waterways
among Federal land and water management agencies, S.
3195, to designate the General George C. Marshall
House, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, as an
affiliated area of the National Park System, S. 3241,
to establish the Grand Village of the Natchez Indians
and Jefferson College as affiliated areas of the
Natchez Historical Park, S. 3346, to amend the Wild and
Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain streams in the
greater Yellowstone ecosystem and Smith River system in
the State of Montana as components of the Wild and
Scenic Rivers System, S. 3474, to redesignate the Hulls
Cove Visitor Center at Acadia National Park as the
``George J. Mitchell, Jr., Visitor Center'', S. 3534,
to authorize the Pines Foundation to establish the Fire
Island AIDS Memorial, S. 3542, to amend the Atchafalaya
National Heritage Area Act to modify the boundary of
the Atchafalaya National Heritage Area, S. 3543, to
establish the Historic Greenwood District-Black Wall
Street National Monument in the State of Oklahoma, S.
3544, to designate the visitor and education center at
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Shrine as the ``Paul S. Sarbanes Visitor and Education
Center'', S. 3593, to provide for economic development
and conservation in Washoe County, Nevada, S. 3596, to
amend the Mineral Leasing Act to amend references of
gilsonite to asphaltite, S. 3617, to provide equitable
treatment for the people of the Village Corporation
established for the Native Village of Saxman, Alaska,
S. 3631, to require reports on critical mineral and
rare earth element resources around the world and a
strategy for the development of advanced mining,
refining, separation, and processing technologies, S.
3790, to make additional Federal public land available
for selection under the Alaska Native Vietnam era
veterans land allotment program, S. 3985, to amend the
Colorado Wilderness Act of 1993 to add certain land to
the Sarvis Creek Wilderness, S. 4016, to amend the
Boulder Canyon Project Act to authorize the Secretary
of the Interior to expend amounts in the Colorado River
Dam fund, S. 4129, to contribute funds and artifacts to
the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora,
North Dakota, S. 4164, to authorize the Secretary of
the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the
Cahokia Mounds and surrounding land in the States of
Illinois and Missouri, S. 4209, to provide greater
regional access to the Katahdin Woods and Waters
National Monument in the State of Maine, S. 4216, to
establish the Ocmulgee Mounds National Park and
Preserve in the State of Georgia, S. 4218, to designate
the visitor center for the First State National
Historical Park to be located at the Sheriff's House in
New Castle, Delaware, as the ``Thomas R. Carper Visitor
Center'', S. 4222, to adjust the boundary of the Mojave
National Preserve in the State of California to include
the land within the Castle Mountains National Monument,
S. 4227, to amend the California Desert Protection Act
of 1994 to expand the boundary of Joshua Tree National
Park, S. 4228, to redesignate the Cottonwood Visitor
Center at Joshua Tree National Park as the ``Senator
Dianne Feinstein Visitor Center'', S. 4242, to extend
the authorization of the Reclamation States Emergency
Drought Relief Act of 1991, S. 4245, to amend the
Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to
reauthorize certain United States Geological Survey
water data enhancement programs, S. 4259, to require
the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to
assess the suitability and feasibility of designating
certain land as the Lahaina National Heritage Area, S.
4310, to exchange non-Federal land held by the Chugach
Alaska Corporation for certain Federal Land in the
Chugach Region, S. 4347, to provide for the conveyance
of certain Federal land at Swanson Reservoir and Hugh
Butler Reservoir in the State of Nebraska, S. 4424, 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, to acknowledge and support the
longstanding use of cultural burning by Tribes and
Indigenous practitioners, S. 4431, to reinstate the
Bull Mountains Mining Plan Modification, S. 4432, to
allow certain Federal minerals to be mined consistent
with the Bull Mountains Mining Plan Modification, S.
4451, to require the Secretary of the Interior to enter
into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences
to carry out a study on reservation systems for Federal
land, S. 4454, to provide for the establishment of an
Operational Flexibility Grazing Management Program on
land managed by the Bureau of Land Management, S. 4457,
to provide for conservation and economic development in
the State of Nevada, S. 4576, to amend the Energy and
Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations
Act, 2015, to reauthorize the Colorado River System
conservation pilot program, S. 4607, to designate the
America's National Churchill Museum National Historic
Landmark, S. 4664, to require the Secretary of Energy
to establish a program to promote the use of artificial
intelligence to support the missions of the Department
of Energy, S. 4851, to adjust the boundaries of the
Golden Gate National Recreation Area to include the
Scarper Ridge property, S. 4932, to amend the National
Quantum Initiative Act to provide for a research,
development, and demonstration program, S. 4936, to
require a study relating to the Minidoka National
Historic Site, S. 4974, to amend the John D. Dingell,
Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act to
reauthorize the National Volcano Early Warning and
Monitoring System, S. 4994, to modify the boundary of
the Vicksburg National Military Park in the State of
Mississippi, S. 4996, to amend Public Law 89-108 to
modify the authorization of appropriations for State
and Tribal, municipal, rural, and industrial water
supplies, S. 4999, to amend the Aquifer Recharge
Flexibility Act to clarify a provision relating to
conveyances for aquifer recharge purposes, S. 5000, to
prohibit the use of amounts from the Upper Colorado
River Basin Fund to implement a certain record of
decision, S. 5005, to authorize additional funding for
the San Joaquin River Restoration Settlement Act, S.
5011, to establish the Integrated Water Management
Federal Leadership Committee, to provide for improved
drought resilience and dam safety, S. 5012, to
establish an interest-bearing account for the non-
Federal contributions to the Lower Colorado River
Multi-Species Conservation Program, S. 5013, to make
certain modifications to the repayment for the Arkansas
Valley Conduit in the State of Colorado, S. 5014, to
provide for the establishment of a Water Project
Navigators Program, S. 5125, to provide for certain
improvements to the housing and workforce programs of
Federal land management agencies, H.R. 359, to
establish Fort San Geronimo del Boqueron in Puerto Rico
as an affiliated area of the National Park System, H.R.
3448, to amend chapter 3081 of title 54, United States
Code, to enhance the protection and preservation of
America's battlefields, H.R. 4984, to amend the
District of Columbia Stadium Act of 1957 to provide for
the transfer of administrative jurisdiction over the
Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium Campus to the
Administrator of General Services and the leasing of
the Campus to the District of Columbia for purposes
which include commercial and residential development,
H.R. 5443, to establish a policy regarding appraisal
and valuation services for real property for a
transaction over which the Secretary of the Interior
has jurisdiction, H.R. 6062, to restore the ability of
the people of American Samoa to approve amendments to
the territorial constitution based on majority rule in
a democratic act of self-determination, as authorized
pursuant to an Act of Congress delegating
administration of Federal territorial law in the
territory to the President, and to the Secretary of the
Interior under Executive Order 10264, dated June 29,
1951, under which the Constitution of American Samoa
was approved and may be amended without requirement for
further congressional action, subject to the authority
of Congress under the Territorial Clause in article IV,
section 3, clause 2 of the United States Constitution,
and an original bill to require the Secretary of the
Interior to conduct a study of Plum Island, New York.
SD-366
Committee on Environment and Public Works
Subcommittee on Chemical Safety, Waste Management,
Environmental Justice, and Regulatory Oversight
To hold hearings to examine the public health impacts of
PFAS exposures.
SD-406
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Business meeting to consider S. 2305, to improve the
requirements for making a determination of
interchangeability of a biological product and its
reference product, S. 2780, to require sponsors of drug
applications and holders of approved applications to
provide certain submissions and communications to the
Food and Drug Administration and the United States
Patent and Trademark Office, S. 4436, to improve the
safety of infant formula through testing of infant
formula for microorganisms and toxic elements, S. 4583,
to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to
extend the authority of the Secretary of Health and
Human Services to issue priority review vouchers to
encourage treatments for rare pediatric diseases, S.
5103, to require the Secretary of Health and Human
Services to develop a strategic plan for the Human
Foods Program of the Food and Drug Administration and
the food functions of the Office of Inspections and
Investigations, an original bill entitled, ``Medical
Graduate Investment Act'', and other pending calendar
business.
SD-562
Committee on the Judiciary
Business meeting to consider S. 1306, to reauthorize the
COPS ON THE BEAT grant program, S. 2220, to amend title
35, United States Code, to invest in inventors in the
United States, maintain the United States as the
leading innovation economy in the world, and protect
the property rights of the inventors that grow the
economy of the United States, S. 2140, to amend title
35, United States Code, to address matters relating to
patent subject matter eligibility, S. 4713, to amend
chapter 11 of title 35, United States Code, to require
the voluntary collection of demographic information for
patent inventors, S. 2082, to make technical
corrections relating to the Justice Against Sponsors of
Terrorism Act, and the nominations of Ryan Young Park,
of North Carolina, to be United States Circuit Judge
for the Fourth Circuit, and Bobby Jack Woods, to be
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States Marshal for the Eastern District of Kentucky,
Department of Justice.
SD-G50

POSTPONEMENTS

SEPTEMBER 25
10 a.m.
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Marcus D.
Graham, of Tennessee, to be a Member of the Farm Credit
Administration Board, and Julie Brinn Siegel, of the
District of Columbia, to be a Commissioner of the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
SR-328A