[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 79 (Wednesday, June 15, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D614-D615]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                             JUNE 16, 2005

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: business meeting to mark up H.R. 
2360, making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, and H.R. 2419, making 
appropriations for energy and water development for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2006, 2 p.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: to hold hearings 
to examine S. 705, to establish the Interagency Council on Meeting 
the Housing and Service Needs of Seniors, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold 
hearings to examine Federal legislative solutions to data breach and 
identity theft, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the nominations of 
William Alan Jeffrey, of Virginia, to be Director of the National 
Institute of Standards and Technology, and Israel Hernandez, of 
Texas, to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Director General of 
the United States and Foreign Commercial Service, both of the 
Department of Commerce, Ashok G. Kaveeshwar, of Maryland, to be 
Administrator of the Research and Innovative Technology 
Administration, Department of Transportation, and Edmund S. Hawley, 
of California, to be Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for 
Transportation Security Administration, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Finance: business meeting to mark up an original bill 
entitled, ``Energy Policy Tax Incentives Act of 2005,'' 10:30 a.m., 
SD-628.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine 
stabilization and reconstruction regarding building peace in a 
hostile environment, 9:30 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations, to resume hearings to examine tax 
delinquency problems with Federal contractors, 9:30 a.m., SD-562.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: to hold an oversight hearing to 
examine Indian education, 9:30 a.m., SR-485.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider S. 491, 
to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
expand the definition of firefighter to include apprentices and 
trainees, regardless of age or duty limitations, and the nominations 
of Terrence W. Boyle, of North Carolina, to be United States Circuit 
Judge for the Fourth Circuit, Brett M. Kavanaugh, of Maryland, to be 
United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, 
and Rachel Brand, of Iowa, to be Assistant Attorney General for the 
Office of Legal Policy, and Alice S. Fisher, of Virginia, to be 
Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, both of the 
Department of Justice, and committee's rules of procedure for the 
109th Congress, 9:30 a.m., SD-226.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold hearings to examine the 
nomination of Janice B. Gardner, of Virginia, to be Assistant 
Secretary of the Treasury for Intelligence and Analysis, 3 p.m., 
SDG-50.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Specialty Crops and 
Foreign Agriculture Programs, hearing to Review Food Aid Programs, 
10 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, to mark up the following 
appropriations for Fiscal Year 2006: Legislative Branch; and the 
Department of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and 
Related Agencies. 1:30 p.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related 
Programs, to mark up Fiscal Year 2006 appropriations, 9 a.m., 2359 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on Select 
Education, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 509, International 
Studies in Higher Education Act of

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2005; and H.R. 510, Graduate Opportunities in Higher Education Act 
of 2005, 10:30 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Capital Markets, 
Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises, hearing entitled 
``SMART Insurance Reform,'' 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, 
and Technology, hearing entitled ``The US-EU Economic Relationship: 
What Comes Next?'' 2 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, to consider the following 
measures: H.R. 2829, Office of National Drug Control Policy 
Reauthorization Act of 2005; H.R. 994, To amend the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 to allow Federal civilian and military retirees to pay 
health insurance premiums on a pretax basis and to allow a deduction 
for TRICARE supplemental premiums; H.R. 1283, To provide that 
transit pass transportation fringe benefits be made available to all 
qualified Federal employees in the National Capital Region; to allow 
passenger carriers which are owned or leased by the Government to be 
used to transport Government employees between their place of 
employment and mass transit facilities; H.R. 1317, Federal; Employee 
Protection of Disclosures Act; H.R. 1765 , Generating Opportunity by 
Forgiving Educational Debt for Service Act of 2005; H.R. 2385, To 
make permanent the authority of the Secretary of Commerce to conduct 
the quarterly financial report program; a Committee report on 
National Drug Control Strategy; H. Con. Res 71, Expressing the sense 
of Congress that there should be established a Caribbean-American 
Heritage Month; H. Con. Res. 160, Recognizing the historical 
significance of Juneteenth Independence Day, and expressing the 
sense of Congress that history should be regarded as a means for 
understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future; 
H.R. 2113, To designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 2000 McDonough Street in Joliet, Illinois, as the 
``John F. Whiteside Joliet Post Office Building;'' H.R. 2183, To 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 567 Tompkins Avenue in Staten Island, New York, as the ``Vincent 
Palladino Post Office;'' H.R. 2346, To designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 105 NW Railroad Avenue in 
Hammond, Louisiana, as the ``John J. Hainkel Post Office Building;'' 
H.R. 2490, To designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 442 West Hamilton Street, Allentown, 
Pennsylvania, as the ``Mayor Joseph S. Daddona Memorial Post 
Office;'' and H.R. 2630, To redesignate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 1927 Sangamon Avenue in 
Springfield, Illinois, as the ``J.M. Dietrich Northeast Annex,'' 
10:30 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Economic Security, 
Infrastructure Protection, and Cybersecurity, hearing entitled ``The 
Promise of Registered Traveler, Part II,'' 1 p.m., 210 Cannon.
  Subcommittee on Management, Integration, and Oversight, hearing 
entitled ``Mismanagement of the Border Surveillance System and 
Lessons for the New America's Shield Initiative,'' 10 a.m., 2212 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral 
Resources, oversight hearing entitled ``Impacts of Environmental 
Regulations on Energy and Mineral Development: The Wildlands 
Project,'' 10 a.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Energy, hearing on Nuclear 
Fuel Reprocessing,10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Water Resources and Environment, to mark up H.R. 2864, Water 
Resources Development Act of 2005, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Disability 
Assistance and Memorial Affairs, hearing to consider the following: 
a measure to amend the Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance (SGLI) 
program; a measure regarding the Traumatic Injury Protection 
provisions of Public Law 109-13; and H.R. 1618, Wounded Warrior 
Servicemembers Group Disability Insurance Act of 2005, 1 p.m., 334 
Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, June 16, Subcommittee on Health, 
hearing on Post-Acute Care, 1 p.m., 1100 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Social Security, to continue hearings on 
Protecting and Strengthening Social Security, 10 a.m., B-318 
Rayburn.