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AP WASHINGTON DAYBOOK, Wednesday, April 2
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10 a.m. DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS — Time approximate. Democratic Caucus Chairman Xavier Becerra (CA-34) and Democratic Caucus Vice Chair Joe Crowley (NY-14) hold a press availability following the Democratic Caucus Meeting. Topic: "The Affordable Care Act 7MillionAndCounting"
Location: HVC-210 alcove stakeout location.
Contacts: James Gleeson, 202-225-7295
10 a.m. REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP STAKEOUT — Time approximate.Speaker John Boehner (R-OH); Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA); Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA); Conference Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA); Conference Vice Chair Lynn Jenkins (R-KS); Representative Todd Young (R-IN).
Location: HC-8.
Contacts: Conference Communications, conferencepress@mail.house.gov, 202-226-9000
11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. MINIMUM WAGE — The National Urban League holds a press conference to call on lawmakers to raise the minimum wage. Marc Morial, President and CEO, National Urban League; Sen. Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY); Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX); Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA); Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY); others.
Location: House Triangle press conference area
Contacts: Pamela Springs (pruckersprings@nul.org), 202-629-5757
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FLOOR SCHEDULE
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10 a.m. — The House will meet Morning Hour debate and 12:00 p.m. for legislative business. Begin Consideration of H.R. 2575 - Save American Workers Act of 2014 (Closed Rule, Three Hours of Debate)
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COMMITTEE MEETINGS
9:30 a.m. APPROPRIATIONS — Budget hearing - United States Forest Service. Witness: Tom Tidwell, Chief United States Forest Service. http://appropriations.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=373868
Location: B-308 Rayburn
Notes: Time changed from 1:30 p.m. to 9:30 a.m.
9:30 a.m. OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM — Full committee hearing on "Undercover Storefront Operations: Continued Oversight of ATFs Reckless Investigative Techniques. http://oversight.house.gov/hearing/undercover-storefront-operations-continued-oversight-atfs-reckless-investigative-techniques/
Location: 2154 Rayburn.
10 a.m. APPROPRIATIONS — Commerce, Justice, Science subcommittee hearing on Panel 1 DEA FY 2015 Budget Request, DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart. Panel 2: State of Research on Drug Abuse in American Nora D. Volkow, M.D., Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse. http://appropriations.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=373858
Location: H-309, The Capitol.
POSTPONED
10 a.m. APPROPRIATIONS — Budget Hearing - Department of Treasury. Witness: Jacob Lew, Secretary Department of the Treasury. http://appropriations.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=373860
Location: 2359 Rayburn
10 a.m. APPROPRIATIONS — Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies subcommittee Budget Hearing - Department of Energy. Witness: Ernest Moniz, Secretary Department of Energy. http://appropriations.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=373859
Location: 2362-B Rayburn
10 a.m. APPROPRIATIONS — Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies subcommittee Budget hearing - Department of Agriculture Marketing and Regulatory Programs. Witnesses: Ed Avalos, Under Secretary Marketing and Regulatory Programs; Kevin Shea, Administrator Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; Anne Alonzo, Administrator Agriculture Marketing Service; Larry Mitchell, Administrator Grain Inspection Packers and Stockyards Administration; Mr. Michael Young, Budget Officer. http://appropriations.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=373857
Location: 2362-A Rayburn
10 a.m. APPROPRIATIONS — Homeland Security subcommittee Budget hearing - United States Customs and Border Protection. Witness: R. Gil Kerlikowske, Commissioner United States Customs and Border Protection. http://appropriations.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=373861
Location: 2358-A Rayburn
10 a.m. ARMED SERVICES — Committee hearing: The Fiscal Year 2015 National Defense Authorization Budget Requests from U.S. Forces Korea, and U.S. Strategic Command. Witnesses: Admiral Cecil D. Haney, USN, Commander, U.S. Strategic Command; General Curtis M. Scaparrotti, USA, Commander, U.S. Forces Korea. http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings-display?ContentRecord\_id=A7F233BE-2B05-4EB6-B3E5-DE64FFEA81D4
Location: 2118 Rayburn
10 a.m. COMMITTEE ON INTELIGENCE — The Benghazi Talking Points and Michael J. Morells Role in Shaping the Administrations Narrative. http://intelligence.house.gov/hearing/benghazi-talking-points-and-michael-j-morell%E2%80%99s-role-shaping-administration%E2%80%99s-narrative
Location: TBA.
10 a.m. EDUCATION AND THE WORKFORCE — Full Committee, "Keeping College within Reach: Meeting the Needs of Contemporary Students." http://edworkforce.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=374147
Location: 2175 Rayburn.
10 a.m. ENERGY AND COMMERCE — Subcommittee on Energy and Power hearing: The Fiscal Year 2015 EPA Budget. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy and Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz will appear. http://energycommerce.house.gov/hearing/fiscal-year-2015-epa-budget
Location: 2123 Rayburn
10 a.m. FINANCIAL SERVICES — Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing "Allegations of Discrimination and Retaliation within the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau". http://financialservices.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=374299
Location: 2128 Rayburn
10 a.m. HOMELAND SECURITY — Committee hearing: "Taking Down the Cartels: Examining United States - Mexico Cooperation." Witnesses include: James Dinkins, Executive Associate Director, Homeland Security Investigations, U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; John Feeley, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Christopher Wilson, Associate, Mexico Institute, The Wilson Center. http://homeland.house.gov/hearing/hearing-taking-down-cartels-examining-united-states-mexico-cooperation
Location: 311 Canon
10 a.m. PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE — Full committee hearing on The Benghazi Talking Points and Michael J. Morell's Role in Shaping the Administrations Narrative. http://intelligence.house.gov/hearing/benghazi-talking-points-and-michael-j-morell%E2%80%99s-role-shaping-administration%E2%80%99s-narrative
Location: HVC210 The Capitol.
10 a.m. TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE — Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment hearing: The President's Fiscal Year 2015 Budget: Administration Priorities for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Witnesses: Jo-Ellen Darcy, Assistant Secretary of the ArmyCivil Works; Lieutenant General Thomas P. Bostick, Chief of Engineers, United States Army Corps of Engineers. http://transportation.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=374199
Location: 2167 Rayburn
10:15 a.m. JUDICIARY — Markup: H.R. 4292 the Foreign Cultural Exchange Jurisdictional Immunity Clarification Act; and H.R. 4323 To reauthorize programs authorized under the Debbie Smith Act of 2004 and for other purposes.
Location: 2141 Rayburn.
10:15 a.m. VETERANS AFFAIRS — Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigations, "VA & Human Tissue: Poor Practice and Lack of Tracking Endangers Veterans." Witnesses: Panel 1: Philip Matkovsky, Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Administrative Operations, Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs Accompanied by: Dr. William Gunnar, M.D., National Director of Surgery, Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs Dr. Michael Icardi, M.D., National Director of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Services, Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs. Panel 2: Marcia Crosse, Director, Health Care, U.S. Government Accountability Office. Panel 3: Frank Wilton, Chief Executive Officer, American Association of Tissue Banks.
Location: 334 Cannon.
Notes: Time changed from 10 a.m.
10:30 a.m. APPROPRIATIONS — Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies subcommittee Budget Hearing - Department of Labor. Witness: Thomas E. Perez, Secretary Department of Labor. http://appropriations.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=373862
Location: 2358-C Rayburn
10:30 a.m. APPROPRIATIONS — Budget hearing - Request for the United Nations and International Organizations. Witness: Samantha Power, United States Ambassador to the United Nations. http://appropriations.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=373863
Location: H-140 Capitol
10:30 a.m. COMMITTEE ON THE BUDGET — Markup: the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget For Fiscal Year 2015. http://docs.house.gov/Committee/Calendar/ByEvent.aspx?EventID=102092
Location: 210 Cannon.
Notes: Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus plan to gather outside to discuss their "Better Off Budget."
10:30 a.m. ENERGY AND COMMERCE — Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing: Ensuring the Security, Stability, Resilience, and Freedom of the Global Internet. Witnesses: Panel I: Larry Strickling, Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information Administration, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce; Fadi Chehade, President and CEO, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers; David A. Gross, Partner, Wiley Rein, LLP. Panel II: Steve DelBianco, Executive Director, NetChoice; Carolina Rossini, Project Director, Latin American Resource Center, Internet Governance and Human Rights Program, New American Foundation. http://energycommerce.house.gov/hearing/ensuring-security-stability-resilience-and-freedom-global-internetsthash.5DSiQ15G.dpuf
Location: 2322 Rayburn
10:30 a.m. HOUSE ADMINISTRATION — Markup: H.R. 863, "Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Women's History Museum Act of 2013." http://docs.house.gov/Committee/Calendar/ByEvent.aspx?EventID=102080
Location: 1310 Longworth.
10:30 a.m. HOUSE ADMINISTRATION — The National Zoo of Today and Tomorrow - an Innovative Center Focused on the Care and Conservation of the Worlds Species. Witnesses: Dennis Kelly, Director, Smithsonian Institution, National Zoological Park; Jim Maddy, President and CEO, Association of Zoos and Aquariums; Dr. Steven Monfort, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Smithsonian Institution. http://cha.house.gov/hearing/hearing-%E2%80%9C-national-zoo-today-and-tomorrow-innovative-center-focused-care-and-conservation
Location: 1310 Longworth.
1 p.m. SMALL BUSINESS — Full committee hearing - &8203;Bitcoin: Examining the Benefits and Risks for Small Business. Witnesses: Jerry Brito, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center, George Mason University; Adam White, Director of Business Development and Sales, Coinbase; Mark Williams, Executive-in-Residence, Master Lecturer, Boston University School of Management.; L. Michael Couvillion, Associate Professor of Economics, Plymouth State University, College of Business Administration, Plymouth, NH. http://smallbusiness.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=373094
Location: 2360 Rayburn
1:30 p.m. APPROPRIATIONS — Budget Hearing - Defense Health Program. Witnesses: Dr. Jonathan Woodson, Assistant Secretary of Defense Health Affairs; Lieutenant General Patricia D. Horoho, Surgeon General, United States Army; Vice Admiral Matthew L. Nathan, Surgeon General, United States Navy; Lieutenant General Dr. Thomas W. Travis, Surgeon General, United States Air Force. http://appropriations.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=373866
Location: 2359 Rayburn
2 p.m. APPROPRIATIONS — Committee hearing: Oversight Hearing - Public Housing. Witness: Shaun Donovan, Secretary Department of Housing and Urban Development. http://appropriations.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=374108
Location: 2358-A Rayburn
2 p.m. ARMED SERVICES — Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces hearing: Fiscal Year 2015 Ground Force Modernization Programs. Witnesses: Lieutenant General James O. Barclay III, USA Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army, G8, Department of the Army; Tom Dee Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Expeditionary Programs and Logistics Management, Department of the Navy; Lieutenant General Glenn M. Walters, USMC Deputy Commandant for Programs and Resources, Department of the Navy; Major General Michael E. Williamson, USA Military Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology), Department of the Army. http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings-display?ContentRecord\_id=E5229C6B-3D52-40C2-A485-3594119134C8
Location: 2212 Rayburn
2 p.m. FOREIGN AFFAIRS — Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade hearing: The Crude Truth: Evaluating U.S. Energy Trade Policy. Witnesses: Panel I: Lisa Murkowski, United States Senate. Panel II: Michael Jennings, Chief Executive Officer and President, HollyFrontier Corporation; Erik Milito, Director, Upstream and Industry Operations, American Petroleum Institute; Kenneth B. Medlock III, Ph.D., Senior Director, Center for Energy Studies, James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy; Deborah Gordon, Senior Associate, Energy and Climate Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing/subcommittee-hearing-crude-truth-evaluating-us-energy-trade-policy
Location: 2172 Rayburn
2 p.m. JUDICIARY — Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet hearing: Preservation and Reuse of Copyrighted Works. Witnesses: Gregory Lukow, Chief, Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation, The Library of Congress; Richard Rudick, Co-Chair, Section 108 Study Group; James Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian, Columbia University; Jan Constantine, General Counsel, The Authors Guild; Michael C. Donaldson, Partner, Donaldson Callif, LLP; Jeffrey Sedlik, President and Chief Executive Officer, PLUS Coalition. http://judiciary.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings?ID=ED90F495-04B3-4972-ABCB-01837D6ADEBA
Location: 2141 Rayburn
Notes: Time changed from 2:30 p.m.
2 p.m. TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE — Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials, entitled "Examining Issues for Hazardous Materials Reauthorization". Speakers: Cynthia Quarterman, Administrator, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration; William F. Downey, Executive Vice President and Chief Security Officer, Kenan Advantage Group, Inc.; on behalf of the American Trucking Association; Thomas E. Schick, Senior Director, Regulatory and Technical Affairs, American Chemistry Council; Stephen Pelkey, Chairman, Transportation Committee, American Pyrotechnics Association; Kevin O'Connor, Assistant to the General President, International Association of Fire Fighters. http://transport.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=374285
Location: 2167 Rayburn.
2 p.m. WAYS AND MEANS — Subcommittee on Human Resources hearing on the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program. http://waysandmeans.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=374274
Location: 1100 Longworth
3:30 p.m. ARMED SERVICES — Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces hearing: Air Force Projection Forces Aviation Programs and Capabilities related to the 2015 Presidents Budget Request. Witnesses: Major General James J. Jones, USAF Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Plans and Requirements; Dr. William A. LaPlante, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition; Major General John F. Thompson, USAF Air Force Program Executive Officer for Tankers, Tanker Directorate, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center. http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings-display?ContentRecord\_id=FE2CED09-940A-4DD9-9F00-BC3C1271B477
Location: 2118 Rayburn
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