[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 99 (Wednesday, July 20, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D790-D791]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                             JULY 21, 2005

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: business 
meeting to mark up an original bill regarding the reauthorization of 
the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, 10:30 a.m., SR-328A.
  Committee on Appropriations: business meeting to consider H.R. 
3058, making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, 
Treasury, and Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, District 
of Columbia, and independent agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2006, H.R. 2863, making appropriations for the 
Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, 
H.R. 2528, making appropriations for military quality of life 
functions of the Department of Defense, military construction, the 
Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2006, and proposed legislation making 
appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and 
other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues 
of said District 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 the semiannual monetary policy report to the Congress, 10 
a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: business 
meeting to consider S. 1392, to reauthorize the Federal Trade 
Commission, proposed MarAd, S. 360, to amend the Coastal Zone 
Management Act, S. 1390, to reauthorize the Coral Reef Conservation 
Act of 2000, S. 363, to amend the Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance 
Prevention and Control Act of 1990 to establish vessel ballast water 
management requirements, S. 1110, to amend the Federal Hazardous 
Substances Act to require engine coolant and antifreeze to contain a 
bittering agent in order to render the coolant or antifreeze 
unpalatable, and the nominations of Rebecca F. Dye, of North 
Carolina, to be a Federal Maritime Commissioner, Coast Guard 
officer, and Coast Guard officer of the United States Coast Guard to 
be a member of the Permanent Commissioned Teaching Staff of the 
Coast Guard Academy, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: business meeting to 
consider pending nominations; to be followed by a hearing to examine 
the current state of climate change scientific research and the 
economics of strategies to manage climate change, focusing on the 
relationship between energy consumption and climate change, new 
developments in climate change research and the potential effects on 
the U.S. economy of climate change and strategies to control 
greenhouse gas emissions, 10 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Long-term Growth and Debt 
Reduction, to hold hearings to examine the Federal Tax Code's 
depreciation system focusing on how to amend the current 
depreciation system to provide simplification and updated guidance 
for areas such as emerging industries and technologies, and the role 
that depreciation should play in providing fiscal stimulus or 
encouraging economic growth for particular industries of the U.S. 
economy at large, 2:30 p.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine United 
Nations reform, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the nominations of 
Alan W. Eastham, Jr., of Arkansas, to be Ambassador to the Republic 
of Malawi, Katherine Hubay Peterson, of California, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of Botswana, and Michael Retzer, of Mississippi, to 
be Ambassador to the United Republic of Tanzania, 2:30 p.m., SD-419.

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  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee 
on Bioterrorism and Public Health Preparedness, to hold hearings to 
examine S. 975, to provide incentives to increase research by 
private sector entities to develop medical countermeasures to 
prevent, detect, identify, contain, and treat illnesses, including 
those associated with biological, chemical, nuclear, or radiological 
weapons attack or an infectious disease outbreak, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: business 
meeting to consider the nominations of Richard L. Skinner, of 
Virginia, to be Inspector General, and Edmund S. Hawley, of 
California, to be Assistant Secretary, both of the Department of 
Homeland Security, and Brian David Miller, of Virginia, to be 
Inspector General, General Services Administration, 10:45 a.m., S-
216, Capitol.
  Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government 
Information, and International Security, to hold hearings to examine 
U.S. financial involvement relative to the United Nations' Capital 
Master Plan to renovate the U.N. headquarters in New York City, 2:30 
p.m., SD-562.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: to hold hearings to examine S. 1003, 
to amend the Act of December 22, 1974, relating to Navajo-Hopi land 
settlement, 9:30 a.m., SR-485.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider S. 1389, 
to reauthorize and improve the USA PATRIOT Act, S. 1088, to 
establish streamlined procedures for collateral review of mixed 
petitions, amendments, and defaulted claims, S. 751, to require 
Federal agencies, and persons engaged in interstate commerce, in 
possession of data containing personal information, to disclose any 
unauthorized acquisition of such information, S. 1326, to require 
agencies and persons in possession of computerized data containing 
sensitive personal information, to disclose security breaches where 
such breach poses a significant risk of identity theft, S. 155, to 
increase and enhance law enforcement resources committed to 
investigation and prosecution of violent gangs, to deter and punish 
violent gang crime, to protect law-abiding citizens and communities 
from violent criminals, to revise and enhance criminal penalties for 
violent crimes, to reform and facilitate prosecution of juvenile 
gang members who commit violent crimes, to expand and improve gang 
prevention programs, S. 103, to respond to the illegal production, 
distribution, and use of methamphetamine in the United States, S. 
1086, to improve the national program to register and monitor 
individuals who commit crimes against children or sex offenses, S. 
956, to amend title 18, United States Code, to provide assured 
punishment for violent crimes against children, a bill entitled the 
Personal Data Privacy and Security Act and S. 1197, to reauthorize 
the Violence Against Women Act of 1994, 9:30 a.m., SD-226.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold hearings to examine the 
nomination of John S. Redd, of Georgia, to be Director of the 
National Counterterrorism Center, Office of the Director of National 
Intelligence, 2:30 p.m., SH-216.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, hearing to Review Agriculture's Role in 
a Renewable Fuels Standard, 10 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Homeland Security, 
hearing on U.S. Coast Guard Deepwater Program, 10 a.m., 2359 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Terrorism, 
Unconventional Threats and Capabilities and the Subcommittee on 
Emergency Preparedness, Science and Technology of the Committee on 
Homeland Security, joint hearing on counter terrorism technology 
sharing, 2:30 p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, to continue markup of 
H.R. 609, College Access and Opportunity Act, 9:30 a.m., 2175 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations, hearing entitled ``Credit Card Data Processing: How 
Secure Is It?'' 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, hearing entitled ``Controlling 
Restricted Airspace: An Examination of the Management and 
Coordination of Our National Air Defense,'' 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Africa, 
Global Human Rights and International Operations and the 
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing on Falun Gong 
and China's Continuing War on Human Rights, 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International 
Operations, to mark up H.R. 3127, Darfur Peace and Accountability 
Act of 2005, 5 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans, 
hearing on the following bills: H.R. 1494, Electronic Duck Stamp Act 
of 2005; and H.R. 3179, Junior Duck Stamp Reauthorization Amendments 
Act of 2005, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Science,, hearing on U.S. Competitiveness: The 
Innovation Challenge, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Railroads, oversight hearing on Railroad Grade Crossing Safety 
Issues, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, oversight hearing on the amendment 
the Administration submitted to Congress for the Department of 
Veterans Affairs (VA) Fiscal Year 2006 budget, requesting an 
additional $1.977 billion for higher-than-expected veterans' health 
care needs, 2 p.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Health, hearing on 
Value-Based Purchasing for Physicians under Medicare, 1 p.m., 1100 
Longworth.


                             Joint Meetings

  Conference: meeting of conferees on H.R. 6, to ensure jobs for our 
future with secure, affordable, and reliable energy, 1 p.m., 2123 
RHOB.