[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 136 (Monday, October 24, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1080-D1081]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR TUESDAY,

                            OCTOBER 25, 2005

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related 
Agencies, to hold hearings to examine oil and gas activities by the 
Bureau of Land Management including impact of recently passed energy 
legislation, 10 a.m., SD-124.
  Committee on Armed Services: to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of John J. Young, Jr., of Virginia, to be Director of 
Defense Research and Engineering, Department of Defense, Dorrance 
Smith, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public 
Affairs, Delores M. Etter, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of 
the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition, General Burwell 
B. Bell, III, USA, for reappointment to the grade of general and to 
be Commander, United Nations Command/Combined Forces Command, and 
Commander, United States Forces Korea, and Lieutenant General Lance 
L. Smith, USAF, for appointment to the grade of general and to be 
Commander, United States Joint Forces Command and Supreme Allied 
Commander Transformation, 9:30 a.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: to hold hearings 
to examine the nominations of Matthew Slaughter, of New Hampshire, 
and Katherine Baicker, of New Hampshire, each to be a Member of the 
Council of Economic Advisers, Orlando J. Cabrera, of Florida, to be 
an Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and Gigi 
Hyland, of Virginia, and Rodney E. Hood, of North Carolina, each to 
be a Member of the National Credit Union Administration Board, 10 
a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: to hold hearings to 
examine S. 1829, to repeal certain sections of the Act of May 26, 
1936, pertaining to the Virgin Islands, S. 1830, to amend the 
Compact of Free Association Amendments Act of 2003, and S. 1831, to 
convey certain submerged land to the Commonwealth of the Northern 
Mariana Islands, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Finance: business meeting to consider recommendations 
which it will make to the Committee on the Budget with respect to 
spending reductions and revenue increases to meet reconciliation 
expenditures as imposed by H. Con. Res.95, establishing the 
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal 
year 2006, revising appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 
2005, and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal 
years 2007 through 2010, 9:30 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Ellen R. Sauerbrey, of Maryland, to be Assistant 
Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration, Jeffrey 
Thomas Bergner, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of State for 
Legislative Affairs, and Anne W. Patterson, of Virginia, to be 
Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law 
Enforcement Affairs, 9:30 a.m., SD-419.
  Full Committee, business meeting to consider the Agreement between 
the United States of America and the Government of Canada on Pacific 
Hake/Whiting (Treaty Doc. 108-24), the Convention on the 
Conservation and Management of the Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in 
the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (Treaty Doc. 109-1), and the 
nominations of C. Boyden Gray, of the District of Columbia, to be 
United States Representative to the European Union, with the rank 
and status of Ambassador, Jennifer L. Dorn, of Nebraska, to be 
United States Alternate Executive Director of the International Bank 
for Reconstruction and Development, Donald A. Gambatesa, of 
Virginia, to be Inspector General, United States Agency for 
International Development, David B. Dunn, of California, to be 
Ambassador to the Togolese Republic, Carmen Maria Martinez, of 
Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Zambia, Michael R. 
Arietti, of Connecticut, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Rwanda, 
David M. Hale, of New Jersey, to be Ambassador to the Hashemite 
Kingdom of Jordan, Roland Arnall, of California, to be Ambassador to 
the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Benson K. Whitney, of Minnesota, to 
be Ambassador to Norway, Susan Rasinski McCaw, of Washington, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Austria, Nicholas F. Taubman, of 
Virginia, to be Ambassador to Romania, and a Foreign Service Officer 
promotion list received in the Senate on July 14, 2005, 2:15 p.m., 
S-116, Capitol.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: 
Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government 
Information, and International Security, to hold hearings to examine 
setting priorities in Federal spending

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in the context of natural disaster, deficits and war, focusing on 
funding wasteful and ineffective programs, 2:30 p.m., SD-342.


                                 House

  Committee on Energy and Commerce, to begin mark up of Titles I and 
II of reconciliation measures, 3 p.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Prevention of 
Nuclear and Biological Attack, executive, briefing on assessing the 
threat of agro-terrorism, 5:30 p.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution, 
oversight hearing entitled ``The Voting Rights Act: Section 5 of the 
Act: History, Scope, and Purpose,'' 11 a.m., and an oversight 
hearing entitled ``The Voting Rights Act: The Continuing Need for 
Section 5,'' 2 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, to consider the following bills: H.R. 420, 
Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act of 2005; and H.R. 1461, Federal Housing 
Finance Reform Act of 2005, 4 p.m., H-313 Capitol.


                             Joint Meetings

  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: to hold hearings 
to examine how the U.S. can best utilize the Organization for 
Security and Cooperation in Europe in advancing the interests of the 
United States, 3 p.m., SD-124.