[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 122 (Tuesday, September 27, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D972-D973]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                           SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: business meeting to markup H.R. 2863, 
making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2006, 2 p.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold 
hearings to examine S. 1334, to provide for integrity and 
accountability in professional sports, and S. 1114, to establish 
minimum drug testing standards for major professional sports 
leagues, 10 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: business meeting to 
consider pending calendar business, 11:30 a.m., SD-366.

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  Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests, to hold oversight 
hearings to examine the grazing programs of the Bureau of Land 
Management and the Forest Service, including proposed changes to 
grazing regulations, and the status of grazing permit renewals, 
monitoring programs and allotment restocking plans, 2:30 p.m., SD-
366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: to hold hearings to 
examine the role of science in environmental policy making, 9:30 
a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: to hold hearings to examine community 
rebuilding needs and effectiveness of past proposals relating to 
Hurricane Katrina, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine the 
international response to Darfur, 9:30 a.m., SR-325.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: to resume 
hearings to examine responding to the immediate needs of victims 
relating to recovering from Hurricane Katrina, focusing on the needs 
of those displaced, today and tomorrow, 9:30 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to hold hearings to examine protecting 
copyright and innovation in a post-Grokster world, 9:30 a.m., SD-
226.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Livestock and 
Horticulture, hearing to review the development of a private sector-
based National Animal Identification System (NAIS), 1:30 p.m., 
Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Defense, hearing on 
Department of Defense (Hurricane Katrina), 3 p.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Related 
Agencies, hearing on Corps of Engineers (Hurricane Katrina), 2 p.m., 
2362-B Rayburn.
  Committee on Armed Services, Committee Defense Review Threat 
Panel, hearing on threats in Middle East and Africa, 10 a.m., 2118 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, to mark up H.R. 3893, Gasoline 
for America's Security Act of 2005, 8 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing entitled 
``Guarding Against Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Post-Katrina Relief 
and Recovery: The Plans of Inspectors General, 10 a.m., 2123 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Financial 
Institutions and Consumer Credit, hearing entitled ``Private Sector 
Priorities for Basel Reform,'' 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on Regulatory 
Affairs, hearing entitled ``The Impact of Regulation on U.S. 
Manufacturing: Spotlight on the Environmental Protection Agency,'' 
10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Economic Security, 
Infrastructure Protection, and Cybersecurity, hearing entitled 
``Solving the OTM Undocumented Alien Problem: Expedited Removal for 
Apprehensions along the U.S. Boarder,'' 2 p.m., 311 Cannon.
  Subcommittee on Management, Integration, and Oversight, hearing 
entitled ``Sniffing Out Terrorism: The Use of Dogs in Homeland 
Security,'' 11 a.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on International Relations, hearing and briefing on 
United Nations Rhetoric or Reform: Outcome of the High-Level Event, 
10:30 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, hearing on Keeping Democracy 
on Track: Hotspots in Latin America, and to mark up a resolution 
expressing the sense of Congress that the Government of the United 
States should actively support the aspirations of the democratic 
political and social forces in the Republic of Nicaragua toward an 
immediate and full restoration of functioning democracy in that 
county, 1:30 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution, to 
mark up H. Res. 97, Expressing the sense of the House of 
Representatives that judicial determinations regarding the meaning 
of the Constitution of the United States should not be based on 
judgments, laws, of pronouncements of foreign institutions unless 
such foreign judgments, laws or pronouncements inform an 
understanding of the original meaning of the Constitution of the 
United States, 3 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, to mark up the National Energy Supply 
Diversification and Disruption Prevention Act, 10 a.m., 1324 
Longworth.
  Committee on Rules, to consider H.R. 3824, Threatened and 
Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2005, 3 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Aviation, oversight hearing on Current Situation and Future Outlook 
of U.S. Commercial Airline Industry, 2 p.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, oversight hearing regarding the 
status of seamless transition between the Department of Defense and 
the Department of Veterans Affairs, 10:30 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, hearing on United States-Japan 
Economic and Trade Relations, 1 p.m., 1100 Longworth.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, executive, hearing on 
the Military Intelligence Program, 1 p.m., H-405 Capitol.