RALEIGH, (SGRToday.com) - Following is the public schedule of hearings to be held by the U.S. Senate on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016.

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Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016
** 9:30 AM
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management
                
Hearings to examine agency discretion in setting and enforcing regulatory fines and penalties.
SD-342        
    


** 10:00 AM
Appropriations: Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies
Hearings to examine emerging health threats and the Zika supplemental request.
SD-138        
    

** 10:00 AM
Armed Services
Hearings to examine the National Commission on the Future of the United States Army in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2017 and the Future Years Defense Program.
SD-G50        
    
** 10:00 AM
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Hearings to examine the semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress.
SD-538        
    

** 10:00 AM
Finance
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2017.
SD-215        
    

** 10:00 AM
Judiciary
Business meeting to consider S.247, to amend section 349 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to deem specified activities in support of terrorism as renunciation of United States nationality, S.483, to improve enforcement efforts related to prescription drug diversion and abuse, S.524, to authorize the Attorney General to award grants to address the national epidemics of prescription opioid abuse and heroin use, and the nominations of Elizabeth J. Drake, of Maryland, Jennifer Choe Groves, of Virginia, and Gary Stephen Katzmann, of Massachusetts, each to be a Judge of the United States Court of International Trade.
SD-226        
    

** 10:15 AM
Foreign Relations
Hearings to examine the nominations of Karen Brevard Stewart, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Robert Annan Riley III, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia, and Matthew John Matthews, of Oregon, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as United States Senior Official for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum, all of the Department of State, and Swati A. Dandekar, of Iowa, to be United States Director of the Asian Development Bank.
SD-419        
    

** 1:00 PM
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Hearings to examine an update on the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, focusing on religious freedom, anti-Semitism, and rule of law.
HVC-210        
    
** 2:30 PM
Intelligence
Closed hearings to examine certain intelligence matters.
SH-219