[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 35 (Monday, March 27, 2006)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E407-E409]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS

  Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, agreed to by the Senate on February 
4, 1977, calls for establishment of a system for a computerized 
schedule of all meetings and hearings of Senate committees, 
subcommittees, joint committees, and committees of conference. This 
title requires all such committees to notify the Office of the Senate 
Daily Digest--designated by the Rules Committee--of the time, place, 
and purpose of the meetings, when scheduled, and any cancellations or 
changes in the meetings as they occur.
  As an additional procedure along with the computerization of this 
information, the Office of the Senate Daily Digest will prepare this 
information for printing in the Extensions of Remarks section of the 
Congressional Record on Monday and Wednesday of each week.
  Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, March 28, 2006 may be found in the 
Daily Digest of today's Record.

                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED

                                MARCH 29
     9:30 a.m.
       Armed Services
       Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine U.S. nonproliferation 
           strategy and the roles and missions of the Department 
           of Defense and the Department of Energy in 
           nonproliferation in review of the defense authorization 
           request for fiscal year 2007 and the future years 
           defense program.
                                                            SR-222
       Environment and Public Works
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine the impact of the 
           elimination of MTBE.
                                                            SD-628
       Foreign Relations
         To receive a closed briefing regarding U.S.-India atomic 
           energy cooperation, focusing on the Indian separation 
           plan and the Administration's related legislative 
           proposal.
                                                    S-407, Capitol
       Indian Affairs
         Business meeting to consider pending calendar business.
                                                            SR-485
       Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine judicial nominations.
                                                            SD-226
     10 a.m.
       Appropriations
       Defense Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimate for 
           fiscal year 2007 for the Air Force.
                                                            SD-192
       Finance
         To hold hearings to examine U.S.-China economic relations 
           revisited.
                                                            SD-215
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
       International Trade and Finance Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine economic impact issues in 
           export-import bank reauthorization.
                                                            SD-538
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
       Technology, Innovation, and Competitiveness Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the importance of basic 
           research to United States' competitiveness.
                                                            SD-562
       Aging
         To hold hearings to examine how seniors can stop 
           investment fraud.
                                                            SD-106
     2 p.m.
       Judiciary
       Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine state regulation of violent 
           video games and the first amendment.
                                                            SD-226
     2:30 p.m.
       Foreign Relations
       East Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine U.S.-Burma relations.
                                                            SD-419
       Appropriations
       Military Construction and Veterans' Affairs and Related 
           Agencies Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for 
           fiscal year 2007 for the Department of Veterans 
           Affairs.
                                                            SD-124
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
       Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, 
           and the District of Columbia Subcommittee
         To resume hearings to examine how prepared is the 
           nation's capital for terrorism, focusing on efforts to 
           improve and refine coordination efforts and the NCR 
           strategic plan and implementation.
                                                            SD-342
       Energy and Natural Resources
       Public Lands and Forests Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine S. 2150, to direct the 
           Secretary of the Interior to convey certain Bureau of 
           Land Management Land to the City of Eugene, Oregon, 
           H.R. 3507, to transfer certain land in Riverside 
           County, California, and San Diego County, California, 
           from the Bureau of Land Management to the United States 
           to be held in trust for the Pechanga Band of Luiseno 
           Mission Indians, S. 1832, to authorize the Secretary of 
           the Interior to lease oil and gas resources underlying 
           Fort Reno, Oklahoma, to establish the Fort Reno 
           Management Fund, S. 1056, to direct the Secretary of 
           the Interior to convey to the City of Henderson, 
           Nevada, certain Federal land located in the City, and 
           S. 2373, to provide for the sale of approximately 132 
           acres of public land to the City of Green River, 
           Wyoming, at fair market value.
                                                            SD-366
       Armed Services
       Strategic Forces Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine Global Strike Plans and 
           programs in review of the defense authorization request 
           for fiscal year 2007.
                                                            SR-222
       Intelligence
       To receive a closed briefing regarding certain intelligence 
           matters.
                                                            SH-219
     3:30 p.m.
       Armed Services
       SeaPower Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine Navy/Marine Corps force 
           structure and future capabilities in review of the 
           defense authorization request for fiscal year 2007 and 
           the future years defense program.
                                                           SR-232A

                                MARCH 30
     9:30 a.m.
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine the hidden cost of oil.
                                                            SD-419
       Appropriations
       Interior and Related Agencies Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for 
           fiscal year 2007 for the Department of the Interior.
                                                            SD-124
       Judiciary
         Business meeting to consider S. 829, to allow media 
           coverage of court proceedings, and other pending 
           calendar business.
                                                            SD-226
     10 a.m.
       Appropriations
       Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies 
           Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for 
           fiscal year 2007 for programs under its jurisdiction.
                                                            SD-192
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
         Business meeting to consider Foreign Investment and 
           National Security Act of 2006.
                                                            SD-538
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         Business meeting to consider pending calendar business.
                                                            SD-562
       Appropriations
       Energy and Water Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for 
           fiscal year 2007 for the Department of Energy's Supply 
           and Conservation account, Electricity Delivery and 
           Energy Reliability account, Office of Nuclear Energy, 
           Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Office 
           of Environmental Management, Office of Fossil Energy 
           Research and Development, and Office of Science.
                                                            SD-138
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
       Investigations Subcommittee
         To resume hearings to examine securing the global supply 
           chain relating to neutralizing the nuclear and 
           radiological threat, focusing on programs that form the 
           defense against nuclear terrorism

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           including the Container Security Initiative, the 
           Megaports Initiative, the Customs-Trade Partnership 
           Against Terrorism, and the role of the Domestic Nuclear 
           Detection Office, a new office created within DHS to 
           coordinate global nuclear detection architecture.
                                                            SD-342
       Veterans' Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine the legislative presentations 
           of the National Association of State Directors of 
           Veterans Affairs, the AMVETS, the American Ex-Prisoners 
           of War, and the Vietnam Veterans of America.
                                                            SD-106
     11 a.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
       Disaster Prevention and Prediction Subcommittee
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine National Polar-
           Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System.
                                                            SD-562
     1:30 p.m.
       Appropriations
       District of Columbia Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the potential effects of a 
           flat Federal income tax in the District of Columbia.
                                                            SD-138
     2 p.m.
       Armed Services
       Personnel Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine reserve component personnel 
           policies in review of the defense authorization request 
           for fiscal year 2007.
                                                            SD-106
     2:30 p.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold hearings to examine competition and convergence.
                                                            SD-562
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
       Housing and Transportation Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine McKinney-Vento Act 
           reauthorization and consolidation of HUD's homeless 
           programs.
                                                            SD-538
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
       Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, 
           and the District of Columbia Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the Federal government's 
           implementation of veterans' preference in the hiring of 
           employees, including an evaluation of the laws designed 
           to protect and promote the employment of veterans, the 
           impact of workforce flexibilities had on veterans, and 
           how are veterans' redress mechanisms are working.
                                                            SD-342
       Energy and Natural Resources
       Water and Power Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine S. 1577, to facilitate the 
           transfer of Spearfish Hydroelectric Plant Number 1 to 
           the city of Spearfish, South Dakota, S. 1962 and H.R. 
           4000, bills to authorize the Secretary of the Interior 
           to revise certain repayment contracts with the Bostwick 
           Irrigation District in Nebraska, the Kansas Bostwick 
           Irrigation District No. 2, the Frenchman-Cambridge 
           Irrigation District, and the Webster Irrigation 
           District No. 4, all a part of the Pick-Sloan Missouri 
           Basin Program, S. 2028, to provide for the 
           reinstatement of a license for a certain Federal Energy 
           Regulatory Commission project, S. 2035, to extend the 
           time required for construction of a hydroelectric 
           project in the State of Idaho, S. 2054, to direct the 
           Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of water 
           resources in the State of Vermont, S. 2205, to direct 
           the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain parcels 
           of land acquired for the Blunt Reservoir and Pierre 
           Canal features of the initial stage of the Oahe Unit, 
           James Division, South Dakota, to the Commission of 
           Schools and Public Lands and the Department of Game, 
           Fish, and Parks of the State of South Dakota for the 
           purpose of mitigating lost wildlife habitat, on the 
           condition that the current preferential leaseholders 
           shall have an option to purchase the parcels from the 
           Commission, and H.R. 3812, to authorize the Secretary 
           of the Interior to prepare a feasibility study with 
           respect to the Mokelumne River.
                                                            SD-366
       Intelligence
         To hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence 
           matters.
                                                            SH-219

                                MARCH 31
     9:30 a.m.
       Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine the call to censure the 
           President.
                                                            SD-226
     10 a.m.
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Uttam 
           Dhillon, of California, to be Director of the Office of 
           Counternarcotics Enforcement, Department of Homeland 
           Security, and Mark D. Acton, of Kentucky, to be a 
           Commissioner of the Postal Rate Commission.
                                                            SD-342

                                APRIL 3
     9:30 a.m.
       Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine immigration.
                                                            SD-226

                                APRIL 4
     9:30 a.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings to examine how Congress might go about 
           creating a program to control U.S. greenhouse gas 
           emissions.
                                                            SH-216
     10 a.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
       Aviation Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine Federal Aviation 
           Administration funding options.
                                                            SD-562
       Armed Services
       Strategic Forces Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine missile defense programs in 
           review of the defense authorization request for fiscal 
           year 2007.
                                                            SD-138
     2:30 p.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To continue hearings to examine how Congress might go 
           about creating a program to control U.S. greenhouse gas 
           emissions.
                                                            SH-216
       Armed Services
       Personnel Subcommittee
         To resume hearings to examine health benefits and 
           programs in review of the defense authorization request 
           for fiscal year 2007.
                                                           SR-232A
     3:30 p.m.
       Armed Services
       SeaPower Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the posture of the U.S. 
           Transportation Command in review of the defense 
           authorization request for fiscal year 2007 and the 
           future years defense program.
                                                            SR-222

                                APRIL 5
     9:30 a.m.
       Armed Services
       Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine Department of Defense's role 
           in combating terrorism in review of the defense 
           authorization request for fiscal year 2007 and the 
           future years defense program; to be followed by a 
           closed session.
                                                            SR-222
       Indian Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine the problem of 
           methamphetamine in Indian country.
                                                            SR-485
     10:30 a.m.
       Appropriations
       Legislative Branch Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for 
           fiscal year 2007 for the Sergeant at Arms and U.S. 
           Capitol Police Board.
                                                            SD-138
     2:30 p.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
       Public Lands and Forests Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the 2005 wildfire season and 
           the Federal land management agencies' preparations for 
           the 2006 wildfire season.
                                                            SD-366
     3 p.m.
       Armed Services
       Readiness and Management Support Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine improving contractor 
           incentives in review of the defense authorization 
           request for fiscal year 2007.
                                                            SR-222

                                APRIL 6
     10 a.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
       National Ocean Policy Study Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine offshore aquaculture, 
           focusing on current proposals to regulate offshore 
           aquaculture operations, discuss research in this field 
           being conducted off the coasts of New England and 
           Hawaii, and the impacts that expanded aquaculture 
           operations would have on fishermen, seafood processors, 
           and consumers.
                                                            SD-562
     3:30 p.m.
       Armed Services
       Strategic Forces Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine military space programs in 
           review of the defense authorization request for fiscal 
           year 2007.
                                                            SR-222

                                APRIL 26
     10 a.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
       Technology, Innovation, and Competitiveness Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine fostering innovation in math 
           and science education.
                                              Room to be announced

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     10:30 a.m.
       Appropriations
       Legislative Branch Subcommittee
         To resume hearings to examine the progress of 
           construction on the Capitol Visitor Center.
                                                            SD-138

                                 MAY 3
     10:30 a.m.
       Appropriations
       Legislative Branch Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for 
           fiscal year 2007 for the Government Printing Office, 
           Congressional Budget Office, and Office of Compliance.
                                                            SD-138

                                 MAY 17
     10 a.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
       Technology, Innovation, and Competitiveness Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine accelerating the adoption of 
           health information technology.
                                              Room to be announced

                                 MAY 24
     10:30 a.m.
       Appropriations
       Legislative Branch Subcommittee
         To resume hearings to examine the progress of 
           construction on the Capitol Visitor Center.
                                                            SD-138

                                JUNE 14
     10 a.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
       Technology, Innovation, and Competitiveness Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine alternative energy 
           technologies.
                                              Room to be announced

                             POSTPONEMENTS

                                MARCH 29
     2:30 p.m.
       Armed Services
       Strategic Forces Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine missile defense programs in 
           review of the defense authorization request for fiscal 
           year 2007.
                                                            SR-222