[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 74 (Tuesday, June 7, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D573]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2005

          (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Technology, Innovation, and Competitiveness, to hold hearings to examine 
manufacturing competitiveness in a high-tech era, focusing on current 
challenges that confront American manufacturers, how manufacturers have 
responded to these challenges, discuss how recent technological 
innovations have impacted the manufacturing industry, and explore what 
government should do to help American manufacturers remain competitive in 
today's global economy, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Subcommittee on Disaster Prevention and Prediction, to hold hearings to 
examine research and development to protect America's communities from 
disaster, focusing on National Institute of Standards and Technology 
recent World Trade Center report, as well as computer security, and 
chemical, biological, radiological detection standards, National Science 
Foundation scientific research in areas such as computer security and 
data mining, and NOAA's work developing atmospheric models to aid in 
prediction of the transport and dispersion of chemical and biological 
releases, including the hazards alert system, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: business meeting to consider 
H.R. 483, to designate a United States courthouse in Brownsville, Texas, 
as the ``Reynaldo G. Garza and Filemon B. Vela United States 
Courthouse'', S. 260, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
provide technical and financial assistance to private landowners to 
restore, enhance, and manage private land to improve fish and wildlife 
habitats through the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program, S. 864, to 
amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to modify provisions relating to 
nuclear safety and security, S. 865, to amend the Atomic Energy Act of 
1954 to reauthorize the Price-Anderson provisions, S. 858, to reauthorize 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission user fees, and or other purposes, S. 1017, 
to reauthorize grants from the water resources research and technology 
institutes established under the Water Resources Research Act of 1984, 
and S. 1140, to designate the State Route 1 Bridge in the State of 
Delaware as the ``Senator William V. Roth, Jr. Bridge'', 9:15 a.m., SD-
406.
  Committee on Finance: to hold hearings to examine proposals to reform 
the tax code relating to land conservation, 10 a.m., SD-628.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Pamela E. Bridgewater, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to 
Republic of Ghana, Donald E. Booth, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to 
Republic of Liberia, Terence Patrick McCulley, of Oregon, to be 
Ambassador to Republic of Mali, and Roger Dwayne Pierce, of Virginia, to 
be Ambassador to Republic of Cape Verde, 2:30 p.m., SD-419.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to receive a closed briefing 
regarding certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  Special Committee on Aging: to hold hearings to examine exploring the 
promise of embryonic stem cell research, 2 p.m., SD-G50.


                                  House

  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Environment and 
Hazardous Materials, to mark up H.R. 2491, International Solid Waste 
Importation and Management Act of 2005, 2 p.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Domestic and 
International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology, hearing entitled 
``Debt and Development: How to Provide Efficient, Effective Assistance to 
the World's Poorest Countries?'' 2 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on Energy and Resources, 
hearing entitled ``Ensuring the Reliability of the Nation's Electricity 
System,'' 1 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Government Management, Finance, and Accountability, 
hearing entitled ``Business Systems Modernization at the Department of 
Defense,'' 2 p.m., 2247 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Economic Security, 
Infrastructure Protection, and Cybersecurity, hearing entitled ``The 
Homeland Security Missions of the Post-9/11 Coast Guard,'' 2 p.m., 2212 
Rayburn.
  Committee on House Administration, to mark up H.R. 1316, 527 Fairness 
Act of 2005, 4 p.m., 1310 Longworth.
  Committee on International Relations, to mark up the following 
measures: H.R. 2745, United Nations Reform Act of 2005; H.R. 2601, 
Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2006 and 2007; and H. 
Res. 199, Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding 
the massacre at Srebrenica in July 1995, 10:30 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, oversight hearing on Reauthorization of the 
USA PATRIOT Act, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans, oversight 
hearing on the Scientific Review of Ocean Systems, 10 a.m., 1324 
Longworth.
  Committee on Science, hearing on Business Actions Reducing Greenhouse 
Gas Emissions, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Water 
Resources and Environment, oversight hearing on Financing Water 
Infrastructure Projects, Part 1, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, hearing on Tax Reform, 10 a.m., 1100 
Longworth.