[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 110 (Wednesday, September 7, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D885]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                           SEPTEMBER 8, 2005

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: to hold hearings 
to examine the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 and 
recent market developments, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Robert A. Mosbacher, of Texas, to be President of the 
Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Robert B. Holland III, of 
Texas, to be United States Executive Director of the International 
Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and Jan E. Boyer, of Texas, 
to be United States Alternate Executive Director of the Inter-
American Development Bank, 2 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: committee 
will meet to discuss rebuilding lives and communities regarding 
Hurricane Katrina, 10 a.m., SD-106.
  Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. 1614, to extend 
the authorization of programs under the Higher Education Act of 
1965, and proposed Defined Benefit Security Act of 2005, 3 p.m., SD-
106.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider pending 
calendar business, 9:30 a.m., SD-226.


                                 House

  Committee on Energy and Commerce, hearing on Medicaid: Empowering 
Beneficiaries on the Road to Reform, 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials, hearing 
entitled ``Electronic Waste: An Examination of Current Activity, 
Implications for Environmental Stewardship, and the Proper Federal 
Role,'' 1 p.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Prevention of 
Nuclear and Biological Attack, hearing entitled ``WMD Terrorism and 
Proliferant States,'' 11 a.m., 2261 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, hearing entitled ``The U.S. 
and India: An Emerging Entente?'' 10:30 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, 
and Intellectual Property, oversight hearing entitled ``Review of 
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office operations, including analysis of 
Government Accountability Office, Inspector General, and National 
Academy of Public Administration Reports,'' 1 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Workforce, 
Empowerment, and Government Programs, hearing entitled ``Freedom in 
the Workplace-An Examination of a National Right to Work Law,'' 10 
a.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Economic 
Opportunity, to mark up H.R. 3665, Veterans Housing Improvement Act 
of 2005, 3:30 p.m., 334 Cannon.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, executive, Briefing on 
Global Updates/Hotspots, 9 a.m., H-405 Capitol.