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Official title: Daily Digest/COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR 2026-07-16
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Download official Daily Digest PDFReturn to issue contextCOMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,
JULY 16, 2026
(Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
Senate
Committee on Armed Services: to hold hearings to examine the nomination of Lieutenant General Douglas A. Schiess, USSF, to be general and Chief of Space Operations, 9:30 a.m., SD-G50.
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: to hold hearings to examine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Semi-Annual Report, focusing on a new day at the CFPB through reform, 10 a.m., SD-538.
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold hearings to examine the nomination of David Cummins, of Virginia, to be Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration, 10 a.m., SR-253.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: business meeting to consider S. 365 and H.R. 1729, bills to amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act to allow for 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. 764, to provide for the designation of certain wilderness areas, recreation management areas, and conservation areas in the State of Colorado, S. 791, to establish the Justice Thurgood Marshall National Historic Site in the State of Maryland as an affiliated area of the National Park System, S. 888, 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. 945, to amend the Smith River National Recreation Area Act to include certain additions to the Smith River National Recreation Area, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain wild rivers in the State of Oregon, S. 1088, to provide that the memorial to commemorate the sacrifice and service of the women who worked on the home front to support the efforts of the United States military during World War II may be located on the National Mall, S. 1175, to amend section 6903 of title 31, United States Code, to provide for additional population tiers, S. 1341, to amend the Colorado Wilderness Act of 1993 to add certain land to the Sarvis Creek Wilderness, S. 1349, 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. 1413, to authorize additional funding for the San Joaquin River Restoration Settlement Act, S. 1476, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain segments of the Gila River system in the State of New Mexico as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, to provide for the transfer of administrative jurisdiction over certain Federal land in the State of New Mexico, S. 1737, to designate and expand wilderness areas in Olympic National Forest in the State of Washington, and to designate certain rivers in Olympic National Forest and Olympic National Park as wild and scenic rivers, S. 1870, to adjust the boundary of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area to include the Rim of the Valley Corridor, S. 2554, to provide for the recognition of certain Alaska Native communities and the settlement of certain claims under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, S. 2754 and H.R. 5911, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey to the City of Ouray, Colorado, certain land managed by the Forest Service, together with a reservoir, S. 3526, to provide for the protection of and investment in certain Federal land in the State of California, S. 3725, to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of constructing a project to supply municipal, rural, and industrial water to expand the capacity and reach of the Lewis
and Clark Rural Water System, Inc. (doing business as “Lewis & Clark Regional Water System”), in the States of Iowa, Minnesota, and South Dakota, S. 3732, to amend the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act to authorize assistance under the storage program, H.R. 249, to redesignate certain facilities at Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park in honor of Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr, and the nominations of William Hague, of Washington, to be an Assistant Secretary, Kevin Lilly, of Texas, to be Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife, both of the Department of the Interior, and Kaveh Farzad, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy (International Affairs), 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
Committee on Finance: to hold hearings to examine the nominations of Francis Brooke, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary, Erin Browne, of New York, to be an Under Secretary, and Sriprakash Kothari, of Massachusetts, and George McMaster, of South Carolina, both to be an Assistant Secretary, all of the Department of the Treasury, 10 a.m., SD-215.
Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine the nominations of Donald Blome, of Illinois, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Near Eastern Affairs), Christopher Anderson, of Wisconsin, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia, Douglas Mastriano, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the Slovak Republic, Daniel Perez, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Federative Republic of Brazil, and Laurence Socha, of Illinois, to be Ambassador to the Republic of The Gambia, all of the Department of State, 11 a.m., SD-419.
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: to hold hearings to examine the nomination of Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to be Secretary of Labor, 10 a.m., SD-430.
Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider the nominations of Daniel Desmond Domenico, of Colorado, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit, Daniel Mack Traynor, of North Dakota, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, Matthew R. Byrne, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio, Angela Veronica Colmenero, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas, Kasdin Miller Mitchell, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas, Michael C. Martin, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, Antonio M. Pozos, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and Christopher Nassar, to be United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma, Department of Justice; to be immediately followed by a continuation of hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be Attorney General, 9 a.m., SH-216.
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the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2027, 9 a.m., 210 Cannon.