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Official title: Daily Digest/COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR 2026-07-15
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Download official Daily Digest PDFReturn to issue contextCOMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,
JULY 15, 2026
(Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
Senate
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: to hold hearings to examine the Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress, 10 a.m., SD-538.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining, to hold hearings to examine S. 1791, to designate certain special management areas, wildlife conservation areas, protection areas, recreation areas, wilderness areas, and a scientific research and education area in the State of Colorado, S. 4200, to promote conservation, improve public land, and provide for sensible development in Douglas County, Nevada, S. 4239, to require the Secretary of the Interior to annually submit to Congress, and make publicly available on a website, a report on decommissioning offshore oil and gas wells, platforms, and pipelines, S. 4383, to appoint a Geothermal Ombudsman and establish a Geothermal Permitting Task Force from within the Bureau of Land Management, S. 4410, to amend the Mineral Leasing Act to provide for the payment of bonus payments of certain coal leases issued under that Act, S. 4458, to establish the Caja del Rio Special Management Area and Caja del Rio National Conservation Area in the State of New Mexico, S. 4561, to modernize and streamline the permitting process for broadband infrastructure on Federal land, S. 4605, to amend the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 to provide cost-recovery authority for the Department of the Interior, S. 4715, to amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to establish fitness to operate standards and decommissioning escrow accounts for offshore oil and gas operators, H.R. 655, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain Federal land to the City of The Dalles, Oregon, S. 4960 and H.R. 1687, to amend the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 to increase the frequency of lease sales, to require replacement sales, H.R. 4090, to codify certain provisions of certain Executive Orders relating to domestic mining and hardrock mineral resources, S. 4975 and H.R. 5587, to amend the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 to waive the requirement for a Federal drilling permit for certain activities, to exempt certain activities from the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, H.R. 5631, to appoint a Geothermal Ombudsman and establish a Geothermal Permitting Task Force from within the Bureau of Land Management, and H.R. 7831, to amend the Mineral Leasing Act to extend the period of time during which the Secretary of the Interior is required to collect a fee for each new application for a permit to drill, 2:30 p.m., SD-366.
Committee on Environment and Public Works: business meeting to consider S. 4949, to provide for improvements to the rivers and harbors of the United States, to provide for the conservation and development of water and related resources, and the nomination of Kevin Lilly, of Texas, to be Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife, 10 a.m., SD-406.
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: business meeting to consider the nominations of Brett Matsumoto, of Maryland, to be Commissioner of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor, James Macy, of Wisconsin, and David M. Prouty, of Maryland, both to be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board, and Michael McDonald, of the District of Columbia, to be Chairperson of the National Endowment for the Humanities, 9:45 a.m., SD-430.
Sean Kaufman, of Georgia, to be Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, and Erica Schwartz, of Florida, to be Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, both of the Department of Health and Human Services, 10 a.m., SD-430.
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: to hold hearings to examine exposing fraud in America, 10 a.m., SD-342.
Committee on the Judiciary: to hold hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be Attorney General, 9 a.m., SH-216.
Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold hearings to examine the nomination of Walter Clayton, of New York, to be Director of National Intelligence, 9:30 a.m., SD-106.
Special Committee on Aging: to hold hearings to examine behind the label, focusing on foreign ownership and control in America's drug supply chain, 3:30 p.m., SD-G50.
House
H.R. 9607, the “Less Bureaucracy, Better Workforce Development Act”; H.R. 9609, the “Less Bureaucracy, Better Student Aid Act”; H.R. 9602, the “Less
Bureaucracy, Better International Foreign Gift Transparency Act”; H.R. 9603, the “Less Bureaucracy, Better International Education Oversight Act”; H.R. 9605, the “Less Bureaucracy, Better Foreign Medical Accreditation Act”; H.R. 9606, the “Less Bureaucracy, Better Child Care for Student Parents Act”; H.R. 9611, the “Less Bureaucracy, Better Higher Education Act”; H.R. 9610, the “Less Bureaucracy, Better K-12 Education Act”; H.R. 9608, the “Less Bureaucracy, Better Family Engagement Act”; and H.R. 9604, the “Less Bureaucracy, Better Tribal Education Act”, 10:15 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
on H.R. 7184, the “PRESS Act”; H.R. 8005, the “Stop Pills That Kill Act”; and H.R. 5880, the “Fight Illicit Pill Presses Act”, 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
Subcommittee on Health, hearing entitled “Maintaining America's Leadership in Biomedical Innovation: FDA's Role in Advancing U.S. Drug Development”, 10:15 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
“The Semi-Annual Report of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection”, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
Western Hemisphere Subcommittee, hearing entitled “A New Beginning for Colombia”, 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
hearing entitled “Election Observation: Best Practices and Congress's Role”, 2 p.m., 1310 Longworth.
Committee on the Judiciary, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 9098, the “Congressional Records Protection Act”; H. Res. 1394, condemning prosecution policies that give preferential treatment to foreign nationals over United States citizens; H.R. 3100, the “CHILD Act of 2026”; H.R. 7651, the “Chloe Cole Act of 2026”; H.R. 9191, the “National Fossil Act”; H.R. 625, the “Local Access to Courts Act”; and H.R. 7834, the “Safe Cloud Storage Act”, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
Committee on Natural Resources, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 726, the “Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendments Act of 2025”; H.R. 2317, the “Northern Nevada Economic Development and Conservation Act of 2025”; H.R. 2406, the “National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Sexual Harassment and Assault Prevention Improvements Act of 2025”; H.R. 2827, to provide for the equitable settlement of certain Indian land disputes regarding land in Illinois, and for other purposes; H.R. 6251, to amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to allow importation of polar bear trophies taken in sport hunts in Canada before the date the polar bear was determined to be a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973; H.R. 6893, the “Chesapeake Bay Watershed Advancement for Training, Education, Restoration, and Science (WATERS) Act”; H.R. 7889, the “Advancing Water Research and Collaboration Act of 2025”; H.R. 8658, the “Indian Health Service Emergency Claims Parity Act”; and H.R. 9436, to amend the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 to extend the time period for which certain regulations concerning the North Atlantic right whale are effective, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
Government Operations, hearing entitled “Emerging Fraud Threats and the Evolving Fraud Landscape”, 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
and Aeronautics, hearing entitled “A Review of the Office of Space Commerce's Mission Authorization Proposal”, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
Committee on Ways and Means, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 9641, the “Essential Caregivers Act of 2026”; H.R. 3108, the “Rural Patient Monitoring Access Act”; H.R. 9642, the “Medicare Access to Rural Anesthesiology Act”; H.R. 9468, the “Saving Today's Acute- Care Resources Act (STAR) Act”; H.R. 3514, the “Improving Seniors' Timely Access to Care Act of 2025”; H.R. 9644, the “Medicare Advantage MLR Transparency Act”; and H.R. 9645, the “Health Care Price Certainty for All Americans Act”, 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
Central Intelligence Agency, hearing entitled “States on the Frontlines”, 2 p.m., HVC-210.
States and the Chinese Communist Party, Full Committee, hearing entitled “Protecting American Innovation: The Federal Research Security Enterprise”, 10 a.m., 390 Cannon.