[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 88 (Tuesday, June 28, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D691-D693]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                             JUNE 29, 2005

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on State, Foreign 
Operations, and Related Programs, business meeting to mark up 
proposed legislation making appropriations for fiscal year 2006 for 
the Department of State and foreign operations, 10:30 a.m., SD-116.
  Committee on Armed Services: to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of General Peter Pace, USMC, for reappointment to the 
grade of general and to be Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral 
Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr., USN, for reappointment to the grade of 
admiral and to be Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, General T. 
Michael Moseley, USAF, for reappointment to the grade of general and 
to be Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Eric S. Edelman, of Virginia, 
to be Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Daniel R. Stanley, of 
Kansas, to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative 
Affairs, and James A. Rispoli, of Virginia, to be Assistant 
Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management, 9:30 a.m., SD-106.
  Full Committee, to hold a closed briefing regarding detention 
operations and interrogation procedures at Guantanamo Bay, 3:30 
p.m., SR-222.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee 
on Disaster Prevention and Prediction, to hold hearings to examine 
national weather service-severe weather, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Finance: business meeting to continue markup of S. 
1307, to implement the Dominican Republic-Central America-United 
States Free Trade Agreement, and S.J. Res. 18, approving the renewal 
of import restrictions contained in the Burmese Freedom and 
Democracy Act of 2003, 9 a.m., SH-216.
  Full Committee, to continue hearings to examine threatening the 
health care safety net regarding Medicaid waste, fraud and abuse, 10 
a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of John Ross Beyrle, of Michigan, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Bulgaria, Marie L. Yovanovitch, of Connecticut, to 
be Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic, Robert H. Tuttle, of 
California, to be Ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain 
and Northern Ireland, and Ronald Spogli, of California, to be 
Ambassador to the Italian Republic, 2:30 p.m., SD-419.

[[Page D692]]


  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: business 
meeting to consider S. 1317, to provide for the collection and 
maintenance of cord blood units for the treatment of patients and 
research, and to amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize 
the Bone Marrow and Cord Blood Cell Transplantation Program to 
increase the number of transplants for recipients suitable matched 
to donors of bone marrow and cord blood, and the nomination of Tom 
Luce, of Texas, to be Assistant Secretary of Education for Planning, 
Evaluation, and Policy Development, 9:50 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: to hold 
hearings to examine vulnerabilities in the United States passport 
system, 9:30 a.m., SD-562.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: business meeting to consider S. 374, 
to provide compensation to the Lower Brule and Crow Creek Sioux 
Tribes of South Dakota for damage to tribal land caused by Pick-
Sloan projects along the Missouri River, S.J. Res. 15, to 
acknowledge a long history of official depredations and ill-
conceived policies by the United States Government regarding Indian 
tribes and offer an apology to all Native Peoples on behalf of the 
United States, S. 113, to modify the date as of which certain tribal 
land of the Lytton Rancheria of California is deemed to be held in 
trust, S. 881, to provide for equitable compensation to the Spokane 
Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation for the use of tribal 
land for the production of hydropower by the Grand Coulee Dam, S. 
449, to facilitate shareholder consideration of proposals to make 
Settlement Common Stock under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement 
Act available to missed enrollees, eligible elders, and eligible 
persons born after December 18, 1971, H.R. 797, to amend the Native 
American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 and 
other Acts to improve housing programs for Indians, S. 623, to 
direct the Secretary of Interior to convey certain land held in 
trust for the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah to the City of Richfield, 
Utah, S. 598, to reauthorize provisions in the Native American 
Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 relating to 
Native Hawaiian low-income housing and Federal loan guarantees for 
Native Hawaiian housing, S. 1239, to amend the Indian Health Care 
Improvement Act to permit the Indian Health Service, an Indian 
tribe, a tribal organization, or an urban Indian organization to pay 
the monthly part D premium of eligible Medicare beneficiaries, S. 
1231, to amend the Indian Self-Determination and Education 
Assistance Act to modify provisions relating to the National Fund 
for Excellence in American Indian Education, an S. 1312, to amend a 
provision relating to employees of the United States assigned to, or 
employed by, an Indian tribe, 9:30 a.m., SR-485.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold a closed briefing 
regarding certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                                 House

  Committee on Armed Services, hearing on detainee operations at 
Guantanamo Bay, 9 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces and the Subcommittee 
on Projection Forces, joint hearing on Small Business Technologies, 
2 p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, to mark up H.R. 2830, 
Pension Protection Act of 2005, 10:30 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, to mark up the following: H.R. 
2491, International Solid Waste Importation and Management Act of 
2005; H.R. 1065, United States Boxing Commission Act; and the Drug 
Free Sports Act, 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Capital Markets, 
Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises, hearing entitled 
``Legislative Solutions for the Rating Agency Duopoly,'' 10 a.m., 
2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, hearing entitled ``To Lead or To 
Follow: The Next Generation Internet and the Transition to IPv6,'' 2 
p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources, 
hearing entitled ``Interrupting Narco-terrorist Threats on the High 
Seas: Do We Have Enough Wind in Our Sails?'' 2 p.m., 2247 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Energy and Resources, hearing entitled ``The Next 
Generation of Nuclear Power,'' 2 p.m., 2203 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Federal Workforce and Agency Organization, hearing 
entitled ``Yucca Mountain Project: Digging for the Truth,'' 10 a.m., 
2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Economic Security, 
Infrastructure Protection, and Cybersecurity, hearing entitled `` 
Improving Pre-Screening of Aviation Passengers against Terrorist and 
Other Watch Lists,'' 10 a.m., 210 Cannon.
  Subcommittee on Management, Integration, and Oversight, hearing 
entitled ``Transforming the Department of Homeland Security Through 
Mission-based Budgeting,'' 3 p.m., 210 Cannon.
  Committee on House Administration, to mark up H.R. 513, 527 Reform 
Act of 2005, 1 p.m., 1310 Longworth.
  Committee on International Relations, briefing and hearing on The 
Global Water Crisis: Evaluating U.S. Strategies to Enhance Access to 
Safe Water and Sanitation, 10:30 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia, hearing on 
Iraq's Transition to Democracy, 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, to mark up the following 
measures: H.R. 611, Haiti Economic and Infrastructure Reconstruction 
Act; H.R. 953, Social Investment and Economic Development Fund for 
the Americas Act of 2005; H.R. 1213, Caribbean Basin Trade 
Enhancement Act of 2005; and H. Con. Res. 175, Acknowledging African 
descendants of the transatlantic slave trade in all of the Americas 
with an emphasis on descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean, 
recognizing the injustices suffered by these African descendants, 
and recommending that the United States and the international 
community work to improve the situation of Afro-descendant 
communities in Latin American and the Caribbean, 2 p.m., 2200 
Rayburn.

[[Page D693]]


  Committee on the Judiciary, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 
184, Controlled Substances Export Reform Act of 2005; H.R. 869, to 
amend the Controlled Substances Act to lift the patient limitation 
on prescribing drug addiction treatments by medical practitioners in 
group practices; H.R. 3020, United States Parole Commission 
Extension and Sentencing Commission Authority Act of 2005; and H.R. 
1442, To complete the codification of title 46, United States Code 
``Shipping,'' as positive law, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, to consider H.R. 2864, Water Resources and 
Development Act of 2005, 2:30 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Research, hearing on 
Nanotechnology: Where Does the U.S. Stand? 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Space, to mark up H.R. 3070, National Aeronautics 
and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2005, 2 p.m., 2318 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Rural Enterprises, 
Agriculture and Technology, hearing entitled ``Different 
Applications for Genetically Modified Crops,'' 2 p.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, oversight hearing on the 
Implementation of the Maritime Transportation Security Act, 10 a.m., 
2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Economic 
Opportunity, oversight hearing on the Transition Assistance and 
Disabled Transition Assistance Programs (TAP/DTAP), 2 p.m., 334 
Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Oversight, hearing to 
Examine Tax Fraud Committed by Prison Inmates, 2 p.m., 1100 
Longworth.


                             Joint Meetings

  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: to hold hearings 
to examine the ongoing crisis in Uzbekistan and its implications for 
the United States, 2 p.m., SD-124.