[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 128 (Wednesday, October 5, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1015-D1017]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                            OCTOBER 6, 2005

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on District of Columbia, 
to hold hearings to examine the potential for Marriage Development 
Accounts in the District of Columbia, 10:30 a.m., SD-138.
  Committee on Armed Services: to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Michael W. Wynne, of Florida, to be Secretary of the 
Air Force, and Donald C. Winter, of Virginia, to be Secretary of the 
Navy, 10 a.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: to hold hearings 
to examine the implementation of the Exon-Florio provision by the 
Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), 
Department of the Treasury, which seeks to serve U.S. investment 
policy through reviews that protect national security while

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maintaining the credibility of open investment policy, 10 a.m., SD-
538.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: to hold hearings to 
examine Hurricanes Katrina and Rita's effects on energy 
infrastructure and that status of recovery efforts in the Gulf Coast 
region, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  Subcommittee on Water and Power, to hold hearings to examine S. 
1025, to amend the Act entitled ``An Act to provide for the 
construction of the Cheney division, Wichita Federal reclamation 
project, Kansas'' to authorize the Equus Beds Division of the 
Wichita Project, S. 1498, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to 
convey certain water distribution facilities to the Northern 
Colorado Water Conservancy District, S. 1529, to provide for the 
conveyance of certain Federal land in the city of Yuma, Arizona, S. 
1578, to reauthorize the Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basin 
endangered fish recovery implementation programs, and S. 1760, to 
authorize early repayment of obligations to the Bureau of 
Reclamation within Rogue River Valley Irrigation District or within 
Medford Irrigation District, 3 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: business meeting to 
consider the nominations of Santanu K. Baruah, of Oregon, to be 
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development, George M. 
Gray, of Massachusetts, to be an Assistant Administrator of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, Lyons Gray, of North Carolina, to 
be Chief Financial Officer, Environmental Protection Agency, H. Dale 
Hall, of New Mexico, to be Director of the United States Fish and 
Wildlife Service, and Edward McGaffigan, Jr., of Virginia, to be a 
Member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine actions of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, the Army Corps of Engineers and the 
Federal Highway Administration relating to Hurricane Katrina, 9:35 
a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: to hold hearings to examine the future of 
the Gulf Coast, focusing on the use of tax policy to help rebuild 
businesses and communities and support families after disasters, 10 
a.m., SD-215.
  Subcommittee on International Trade, to hold hearings to examine 
the U.S.-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement, 2:30 p.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Jennifer L. Dorn, of Nebraska, to be United States 
Alternate Executive Director of the International Bank for 
Reconstruction and Development, and Donald A. Gambatesa, of 
Virginia, to be Inspector General, United States Agency for 
International Development, 11 a.m., SD-419.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the nominations of 
David B. Dunn, of California, to be Ambassador to the Togolese 
Republic, and Carmen Maria Martinez, of Florida, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Zambia, and Michael R. Arietti, of Connecticut, to 
be Ambassador to the Republic of Rwanda, 2:30 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: to hold 
hearings to examine Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) 
status report on recovery efforts in the Gulf States, 9 a.m., SD-
342.
  Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal 
Workforce, and the District of Columbia, to hold hearings to examine 
improving Department of Defense logistics, focusing on a piece of 
the Department's business transformation efforts, supply chain 
management, 2:30 p.m., SD-342.
  Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government 
Information, and International Security, to hold hearings to examine 
how the Federal government lease needed space, 2:30 p.m., SD-562.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider pending 
calendar business, 9:30 a.m., SD-226.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the nominations of Wan 
J. Kim, of Maryland, to be Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights 
Division, Steven G. Bradbury, of Maryland, to be Assistant Attorney 
General, Office of Legal Counsel, Sue Ellen Wooldridge, of Virginia, 
to be Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources 
Division, and Thomas O. Barnett, of Virginia, to be Assistant 
Attorney General, Antitrust Division, all of the Department of 
Justice, 2:30 p.m., SD-226.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to receive a closed briefing 
regarding certain intelligence matters, 3 p.m., SH-219.


                                 House

  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Homeland Security, 
hearing on Financial Oversight of Supplemental Appropriations for 
Hurricane Katrina, 2 p.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on the Departments of Transportation, Treasury, and 
Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, District of Columbia, 
and Independent Agencies, hearing on Department of Transportation 
(Hurricane Katrina), 10 a.m., 2358 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Budget, hearing on After the Hurricanes: Impact 
on the Fiscal Year 2007 Budget, 2 p.m., 210 Cannon.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations, hearing entitled ``FCC's E-rate Plans to Assist Gulf 
Coast Recovery,'' 1 p.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, oversight hearing entitled 
``The Six-Party Talks and the North Korean Nuclear Issues: Old Wine 
in New Bottles?'' 10:30 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International 
Operations, oversight hearing entitled ``India's Unfinished Agenda: 
Equality and Justice for 200 Million Victims of the Caste System,'' 
2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Commercial and 
Administrative Law, hearing on H.R. 1369, To prevent certain 
discriminatory taxation of natural gas pipeline property, 2 p.m., 
2141 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property, 
oversight hearing on Improving Federal Court Adjudication of Patent 
Cases, 4:30 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Water and Power, hearing 
on the following bills: H.R. 122, Eastern

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Municipal Water District Recycled Water System Pressurization and 
Expansion Project; H.R. 2341, To amend the Reclamation Wastewater 
and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary 
of the Interior to participate in the design, planning, and 
construction of a project to reclaim and reuse wastewater within and 
outside of the service area of the City of Austin Water and 
Wastewater Utility, Texas; H.R. 3418, Central Texas Water Recycling 
Act of 2005; and H.R. 3929, To amend the Water Desalination Act of 
1996 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to assist in 
research and development, environmental and feasibility studies, and 
preliminary engineering for the Municipal Water District of Orange 
County, California, Dana Point Desalination Project located at Dana 
Point, California, 2 p.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Rules, to consider H.R. 3893, Gasoline for America's 
Security Act of 2005, 4 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management, 
oversight hearing entitled ``Recovering after Katrina: Ensuring that 
FEMA is up to the task,'' 11 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.