June 19, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 103 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session
SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS; Congressional Record Vol. 165, No. 103
(Extensions of Remarks - June 19, 2019)
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[Extensions of Remarks] [Pages E801-E802] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] 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 Thursday, June 20, 2019 may be found in the Daily Digest of today's Record. MEETINGS SCHEDULED JUNE 25 9:45 a.m. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry To hold hearings to examine the state of the derivatives market and perspectives for Commodity Futures Trading Commission reauthorization. SR-328A 10 a.m. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs To hold hearings to examine whether Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should be designated as systematically important financial institutions. SD-538 Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet To hold hearings to examine the use of persuasive technology on internet platforms, focusing on optimizing for engagement. SH-216 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources To hold hearings to examine the implementation of the Land and Water Conservation Fund program. SD-366 2:15 p.m. Committee on Foreign Relations Business meeting to consider S. 727, to combat international extremism by addressing global fragility and violence and stabilizing conflict-affected areas, S. 1102, to promote security and energy partnerships in the Eastern Mediterranean, S. 1309, to identify and combat corruption in countries, to establish a tiered system of countries with respect to levels of corruption by their governments and their efforts to combat such corruption, and to assess United States assistance to designated countries in order to advance anti-corruption efforts in those countries and better serve United States taxpayers, S. Res. 34, expressing the sense of the Senate that the Governments of Burma and Bangladesh ensure the safe, dignified, voluntary, and sustainable return of the Rohingya refugees who have been displaced by the campaign of ethnic cleansing conducted by the Burmese military and to immediately release unjustly imprisoned journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, S. Res. 198, condemning Brunei's dramatic human rights backsliding, S. Res. 206, marking the 70th anniversary of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, expressing concern about significant violations of international humanitarian law on contemporary battlefields, and encouraging United States leadership in ensuring greater respect for international humanitarian law in current conflicts, particularly with its security partners, S. Con. Res. 10, recognizing that Chinese telecommunications companies such as Huawei and ZTE pose serious threats to the national security of the United States and its allies, the Protocol Amending the Convention between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Spain for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income and its Protocol, signed at Madrid on February 22, 1990 (Treaty Doc.113-04), protocol Amending the Convention between the United States of America and the Swiss Confederation for the Avoidance of Double Taxation with Respect to Taxes on Income, signed at Washington on October 2, 1996, signed on September 23, 2009, at Washington, as corrected by an exchange of notes effected November 16, 2010 and a related agreement effected by an exchange of notes on September 23, 2009 (Treaty Doc.112-01), the Protocol Amending the Convention between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of Japan for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to Taxes on Income and a related agreement entered into by an exchange of notes (together the ``proposed Protocol''), both signed [[Page E802]] on January 24, 2013, at Washington, together with correcting notes exchanged March 9 and March 29, 2013 (Treaty Doc.114-01), protocol Amending the Convention between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income and Capital, signed on May 20, 2009, at Luxembourg (the ``proposed Protocol'') and a related agreement effected by the exchange of notes also signed on May 20, 2009 (Treaty Doc.111-08), the nomination of Eliot Pedrosa, of Florida, to be United States Executive Director of the Inter-American Development Bank, and other pending calendar business. S-116 2:30 p.m. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Transportation and Safety To hold hearings to examine technological innovations in transportation. SD-562 JUNE 26 9:30 a.m. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs To hold hearings to examine unprecedented migration at the United States southern border, focusing on the exploitation of migrants through smuggling, trafficking, and involuntary servitude. SD-342 10 a.m. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation To hold hearings to examine Amtrak, focusing on next steps for passenger rail. SH-216 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power To hold hearings to examine S. 325, to require the Secretary of the Interior to convey the Garrison Diversion Unit Project Oakes Test Area in Dickey County, North Dakota, to the Dickey-Sargent Irrigation District, S. 860, to amend the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to modify the terms of the Jackson Gulch rehabilitation project in Colorado, S. 990, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the implementation of the Platte River Recovery Implementation Program First Increment Extension for threatened and endangered species in the Central and Lower Platte River Basin, S. 1305, to establish a Federal cost share percentage for the Milk River Project in the State of Montana, S. 1758, to extend a repayment contract relating to the Purgatoire River Water Conservancy District and to authorize the District to develop an excess capacity contract to offset repayment costs, and S. 1882, to make available the continued use of Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program project use power by the Kinsey Irrigation Company and the Sidney Water Users Irrigation District. SD-366 Committee on the Judiciary To hold hearings to examine pending nominations. SD-226 10:15 a.m. Committee on Foreign Relations Business meeting to consider pending calendar business. S-116 2:30 p.m. Committee on the Budget To hold hearings to examine fixing a broken budget and spending process, focusing on securing the nation's fiscal future. SD-608 Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship To hold hearings to examine reauthorization of the Small Business Administration's Small Business Investment Company program. SR-428A JUNE 27 10 a.m. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs To hold an oversight hearing to examine reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank of the United States. SD-538 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources To hold hearings to examine options for the interim and long-term storage of nuclear waste, including S. 1234, to establish a new organization to manage nuclear waste, provide a consensual process for siting nuclear waste facilities, ensure adequate funding for managing nuclear waste. SD-366 JULY 23 2:30 p.m. Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights To hold an oversight hearing to examine enforcement of the antitrust laws. SD-226