[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 17 (Wednesday, February 16, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D134-D135]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                           FEBRUARY 17, 2005

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and 
Independent Agencies, to hold hearings to examine the President's 
proposed budget request for fiscal year 2006 for the National 
Science Foundation, 9 a.m., SD-138.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the President's 
proposed budget for fiscal year 2006 for the Emergency Supplemental, 
10 a.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Armed Services: to resume hearings to examine the 
proposed Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2006 and the 
Future Years Defense Program, 9:30 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on the Budget: to hold hearings to examine rising health 
care costs and the impact on future generations relating to Medicare 
and Medicaid, 10 a.m., SD-608.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on 
National Parks, to hold hearings to examine National Park Service's 
implementation of the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act, 2:30 
p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Finance: to hold hearings to examine the nominations 
of Daniel R. Levinson, of Maryland, to be Inspector General, 
Department of Health and Human Services, Harold Damelin, of 
Virginia, to be Inspector General, Department of the Treasury, and 
Raymond Thomas Wagner, Jr., of Missouri, to be a Member of the 
Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine 
democracy in retreat in Russia, 9:30 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: to hold 
hearings to examine the price of drug reimportation, 10 a.m., SD-
430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Oversight 
of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of 
Columbia, to hold hearings to examine an overview of the Government 
Accountability Office high-risk list, focusing on ensuring 
Congressional oversight by bringing attention to government-wide 
management challenges and high-risk program areas, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider S.256, to 
amend title 11 of the United States Code, 9:30 a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: to hold hearings 
to examine the President's budget request for fiscal year 2006 for 
the Small Business Administration, 10 a.m., SR-428A.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold closed hearings to 
examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                                 House

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural 
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, on 
Office of the Inspector General, Agriculture, 9:30 a.m., 2362-A 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense, on the 
Secretary of Defense, 2 p.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on The Department of 
Homeland Security, hearing on Department of Homeland Security 
Management and Operations, 10 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Committee on Appropriations:, Subcommittee on Labor, Health and 
Human Services, Education and Related Agencies, on Corporation for 
Public Broadcasting.
  Committee on Armed Services, to continue hearings on the Fiscal 
Year 2006 National Defense budget request, 9 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Budget, hearing on Domestic Entitlements: Meeting 
the Needs, 10 a.m., 210 Cannon.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, to continue mark up of 
H.R. 27, Job Training Improvement Act of 2005, 9:30 a.m., 2175 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, hearing entitled: ``A Review of 
the Administration's FY2006 Health Care Priorities,'' 2 p.m., 2123 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, hearing 
entitled ``The Role of Technology in Achieving a Hard Deadline for 
the DTV Transition,'' 9:30 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, to consider pending Committee 
business, and to hold a hearing on Monetary Policy and the State of 
the Economy, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, to consider the following: Budget 
Views and Estimates for Fiscal Year 2006 for submission to the 
Committee on the Budget; and H. Res. 41, Expressing the sense of the 
House of Representatives that a day should be established as 
``National Tartan Day'' to recognize the outstanding achievements 
and contributions made by Scottish-Americans to the United States; 
followed by a hearing entitled ``Wounded Army Guard Reserve Forces: 
Increasing the Capacity to Care,'' 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations,, hearing on the 
International Relations Budget for Fiscal Year 2006, 2 p.m., 2172 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific and the Subcommittee on 
International Terrorism and Nonproliferation, joint hearing on the 
North Koran Nuclear Challenge: Is There a Way Forward? 10 a.m., 2172 
Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, 
and Intellectual Property, hearing on H.R. 683, Trademark Dilution 
Revision Act of 2005, 9:30 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.

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  Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, 
oversight hearing on GAO Five Year Update on Wildland Fire and 
Forest Service/Bureau of Land Management Accomplishments in 
Implementing the Healthy Forests Restoration Act, 11 a.m., 1324 
Longworth.
  Committee on Science, hearing on NASA's Fiscal Year 2006 Budget 
Proposal, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, to hold a hearing entitled ``Medical 
Liability Reform: Stopping the Skyrocketing Price of Health Care,'' 
10 a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, to consider Budget Views and 
Estimates for Fiscal Year 2006 for submission to the Committee on 
the Budget, 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, to consider Budget Views and 
Estimates for Fiscal Year 2006 for submission to the Committee on 
the Budget; and to hold a hearing on the President's Fiscal Year 
2006 Budget for the Department of Health and Human Services, 11 
a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Trade, to meet for organizational purposes, 1:30 
p.m., 1129 Rayburn.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, executive, Briefing on 
Global Updates, 9 a.m., H-405 Capitol.