[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 83 (Friday, June 23, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D694-D697]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

                  Week of June 26 through July 1, 2006


                             Senate Chamber

  On Monday, at 4 p.m., Senate will begin consideration of S.J. Res. 
12, Flag Desecration Constitutional Amendment.
  During the balance of the week, Senate will continue consideration of 
S.J. Res. 12, (listed above), and may consider any other cleared 
legislative and executive business, including appropriation bills and 
conference reports, when available.


                           Senate Committees

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
  Committee on Appropriations: June 27, Subcommittee on Labor, 
Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, to hold 
hearings to examine the potential impact of S. 2754, to derive human 
pluripotent stem cell lines using techniques that do not knowingly 
harm embryos (referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, 
and Pensions), 9 a.m., SD-192.
  June 27, Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies, business 
meeting to mark up H.R. 5386, making appropriations for the 
Department of the Interior, environment, and related agencies for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, 10 a.m., SD-124.
  June 27, Subcommittee on Homeland Security, business meeting to 
mark up H.R. 5441, making appropriations for the Department of 
Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, 12 
noon, S-128, Capitol.
  June 27, Subcommittee on Energy and Water, business meeting to 
mark up H.R. 5427, making appropriations for energy and water 
development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, 2:30 
p.m., SD-138.
  June 28, Subcommittee on Legislative Branch, to resume hearings to 
examine the progress of the Capitol Visitor Center construction, 
10:30 a.m., SD-138.
  June 29, Full Committee, business meeting to mark up H.R. 5427, 
making appropriations for energy and water development for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, H.R. 5441, making 
appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, H.R. 5522, making 
appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related 
programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and H.R. 
5386, making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, 
environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2007, 2 p.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Armed Services: June 27, to receive a closed briefing 
from representatives of the Office of the Secretary of Defense and 
Missile Defense Agency on recent North Korean ballistic missile 
developments, 10:30 a.m., SR-222.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: June 27, 
Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation, to hold an oversight 
hearing to examine the current state of progress and future outlook 
relating to SAFETEA-LU implementation, 2:30 p.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: June 27, 
business meeting to resume mark up of H.R. 5252, to promote the 
deployment of broadband networks and services, 10 a.m., SH-216.
  June 28, Full Committee, business meeting to continue mark up of 
H.R. 5252, to promote the deployment of broadband networks and 
services, 10 a.m., SH-216.
  June 29, Full Committee, business meeting to continue mark up of 
H.R. 5252, to promote the deployment of broadband networks and 
services, 10 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: June 27, to hold 
hearings to examine implementation of the Energy Policy Act 
provisions on enhancing oil and gas production on Federal lands in 
the Rocky Mountain Region, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  June 28, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
nomination of Marc Spitzer, of Arizona, to be a Member of the 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 10:30 a.m., SD-366.
  June 28, Subcommittee on Water and Power, to hold hearings to 
examine S. 1812, to amend the Reclamation Projects Authorization and 
Adjustment Act of 1992 to provide for the conjunctive use of surface 
and ground water in Juab County, Utah, S. 1965, to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to convey certain buildings and lands of 
the Yakima Project, Washington, to the Yakima-Tieton Irrigation 
District, S. 2129, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
convey certain land and improvements of the Gooding Division of the 
Minidoka Project, Idaho, S. 2470, to authorize early repayment of 
obligations to the Bureau of Reclamation within the A & B Irrigation 
District in the State of Idaho, S. 2502, to provide for the 
modification of an amendatory repayment contract between the 
Secretary of the Interior and the North Unit Irrigation District, S. 
3404, to reauthorize the Mni Wiconi Rural Water Supply Project, H.R. 
2383, to redesignate the facility of the Bureau of Reclamation 
located at 19550 Kelso Road in Byron, California, as the ``C.W. 
`Bill' Jones Pumping Plant'', and H.R. 4204, to direct the Secretary 
of the Interior to transfer ownership of the American River Pump 
Station Project, 2:30 p.m., SD-366.
  June 29, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine H.R. 5254, to 
set schedules for the consideration of permits for refineries, 10 
a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: June 28, to hold an 
oversight hearing on Environmental Protection Agency regional 
inconsistencies, 9:30 a.m., SD-628.

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  Committee on Finance: June 27, to hold hearings to examine the 
nomination of Eric Solomon, of New Jersey, to be Assistant Secretary 
of the Treasury for Tax Policy, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  June 29, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the U.S.-Peru 
Trade Promotion Agreement, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  June 29, Subcommittee on Long-term Growth and Debt Reduction, to 
hold hearings to examine how to increase worker coverage relating to 
small business pension plans, 2:30 p.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: June 28, business meeting to 
consider an original bill, to exempt from certain requirements of 
the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 U.S. exports to India of nuclear 
materials, equipment and technology, the nominations of Earl Anthony 
Wayne, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to Argentina, Gaddi H. Vasquez, 
of California, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of 
service as U.S. Representative to the United Nations Agencies for 
Food and Agriculture, John Clint Williamson, of Louisiana, to be 
Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues, Michael E. Ranneberger, 
of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Kenya, Eric M. 
Bost, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the Republic of South Africa, W. 
Stuart Symington IV, of Missouri, to be Ambassador to the Republic 
of Djibouti, Gayleatha Beatrice Brown, of New Jersey, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Benin, Robert O. Blake, Jr., of 
Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Democratic Socialist Republic of 
Sri Lanka, and to serve concurrently and without additional 
compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of Maldives, Robert D. 
McCallum, Jr., of Georgia, to be Ambassador to Australia, and Leslie 
V. Rowe, of Washington, to be Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, and to 
serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador 
to the Solomon Islands and Ambassador to the Republic of Vanuatu, 10 
a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: June 28, 
business meeting to consider proposed Older Americans Act Amendments 
of 2006, S. 3546, Dietary Supplement and Nonprescription Drug 
Consumer Protection Act, S. 707, to reduce preterm labor and 
delivery and the risk of pregnancy-related deaths and complications 
due to pregnancy, and to reduce infant mortality caused by 
prematurity, S. 757, to amend the Public Health Service Act to 
authorize the Director of the National Institute of Environmental 
Health Sciences to make grants for the development and operation of 
research centers regarding environmental factors that may be related 
to the etiology of breast cancer, and any pending nominations; to be 
followed by a hearing on biodefense, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: June 27, 
Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal 
Workforce, and the District of Columbia, to hold an oversight 
hearing to examine the Office of Personnel Management, focusing on 
whether the Office of Personnel Management is positioned to be the 
Federal government's leader in personnel policy today and in the 
future, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  June 28, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Mickey D. Barnett, of New Mexico, Katherine C. Tobin, 
of New York, and Ellen C. Williams, of Kentucky, each to be a 
Governor of the United States Postal Service, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  June 29, Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the 
Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia, to hold hearings to 
examine proposed legislation relating to enhancing employee 
performance, 9:30 a.m., SD-342.
  June 29, Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government 
Information, and International Security, to hold hearings to examine 
the case for reform regarding community development block grants, 
focusing on issues surrounding program formulas, recipient communities, 
and management of grants within the Community Development Block 
program, including aspects of the reform package, the ``CDBG Reform Act 
of 2006'', 2:30 p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: June 28, to hold an oversight hearing 
to examine Native American Housing Programs, 9:30 a.m., SR-485.
  Committee on the Judiciary: June 27, to hold hearings to examine 
the use of presidential signing statements, which are issued when a 
president signs new laws, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  June 28, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine hedge funds 
and independent analysts, 9:30 a.m., SD-226.
  June 28, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Kimberly Ann Moore, of Virginia, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit, and Bobby E. Shepherd, of 
Arkansas, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, 
2 p.m., SD-226.
  June 29, Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts, 
to hold hearings to examine H.R. 1038, to amend title 28, United 
States Code, to allow a judge to whom a case is transferred to 
retain jurisdiction over certain multidistrict litigation cases for 
trial, 2 p.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: June 28, to hold 
hearings to examine strengthening participation of small businesses 
in Federal contracting and innovation research programs, 2 p.m., SR-
428A.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: June 27, to receive a closed 
briefing regarding intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  June 28, Full Committee, closed business meeting to consider 
intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  June 29, Full Committee, to receive a closed briefing regarding 
intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  Special Committee on Aging: June 27, to hold hearings to examine 
if medical tourism can reduce health care costs relating to the 
globalization of health care, 10 a.m., SD-106.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Agriculture, June 29, hearing to review Agriculture's 
Role in the Renewable Fuels Market, 10 a.m., 1300 Longworth.

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  Committee on Appropriations, June 27, Subcommittee on Military 
Quality of Life, and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies, hearing 
on Veterans Affairs Data Security, 9:30 a.m., H-140 Capitol.
  Committee on Armed Services, June 27, hearing on Army and Marine 
Corps reset strategies for ground equipment and rotorcraft, 2 p.m., 
2118 Rayburn.
  June 28, hearing on the status of security and stability in 
Afghanistan, 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  June 29, hearing on reports of weapons of mass destruction 
findings in Iraq, 9 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  June 29, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and 
Capabilities, hearing on assessing United States Special Operations 
Command's missions and roles, 10 a.m., 2212 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, June 28, hearing on The 
First Tee and Schools: Working to Build Character Education, 10:30 
a.m, 2175 Rayburn.
  June 29, Subcommittee on Workforce Protection, to mark up H.R. 
2561, Improving Access to Workers' Compensation for Injured Federal 
Workers Act, 10:30 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, June 27 and 28, Subcommittee on 
Oversight and Investigations, hearings entitled ``Making the 
Internet Safe for Kids: The Role of ISP's and Social Networking 
Sites,'' 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn on June 27 and 2 p.m., 2322 Rayburn 
on June 28.
  June 27, Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, 
hearing entitled ``The Audio and Video Flags: Can Content Protection 
and Technological Innovation Coexist?'', 2 p.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, June 28, Subcommittee on Capital 
Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises, hearing 
entitled ``Investor Protection: A Review of Plaintiffs' Attorney 
Abuses in Securities Litigation and Legislative Remedies,'' 10 a.m., 
2128 Rayburn.
  June 28, Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity, 
hearing entitled ``Is America's Housing Market Prepared for the Next 
Natural Catastrophe?'', 2 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  June 29, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing 
entitled ``Pandemic Influenza Preparedness in the Financial Services 
Sector,'' 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, June 27, Subcommittee on Criminal 
Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources, hearing entitled 
``Clinical Lab Quality: Oversight Weaknesses Undermine Federal 
Standards, 2 p.m., 2247 Rayburn.
  June 27, Subcommittee on Federalism and the Census, hearing 
entitled ``Moving the CDBG Program Forward: A Look at the 
Administration's Reform Proposal: Where Do We Go From Here?'', 10 
a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  June 27, Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and 
International Relations, hearing entitled ``Sexual Assault and 
Violence Against Women in the Military and at the Academies,'' 2 
p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  June 28, Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human 
Resources, hearing entitled ``Availability and Effectiveness of 
Programs To Treat Victims of the Methamphetamine Epidemic,'' 2 p.m., 
2154 Rayburn.
  June 28, Subcommittee on Government Management, Finance and 
Accountability, hearing entitled ``OMB's Financial Management Line 
of Business Initiative: Do Recent Changes to the Implementation 
Guidance Clarify the Rules?'', 2 p.m., 2247 Rayburn.
  June 29, Full Committee, to consider pending business; followed by 
a hearing entitled ``What Price Free Speech?: Whistleblowers and the 
Ceballos Decision,'' 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, June 28, Subcommittee on 
Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment, 
hearing entitled ``DHS Intelligence and Border Security: Delivering 
Operational Intelligence,'' 10 a.m., 311 Cannon.
  June 29, Subcommittee on Economic Security, Infrastructure 
Protection and Cybersecurity, hearing on the Chemical Facility Anti-
terrorism Act of 2006, 10 a.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on International Relations, June 27, to mark up the 
following bills: H.R. 4974, To authorize the President to waive the 
application of certain requirements under the Atomic Energy Act of 
1954 with respect to India; and H.R. 4014, Millennium Challenge 
Reauthorization Act of 2005, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  June 27, Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and 
International Operations, hearing and briefing on Making Safe Blood 
Available in Africa, 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  June 28, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, hearing on East 
Timor: Instability and Future Prospects, 1:30 p.m., 2200 Rayburn.
  June 28, Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, hearing on Hurricane 
Reconstruction and Preparedness, 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  June 29, Full Committee, hearing on United States Security Policy 
in Afghanistan, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  June 29, Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and 
International Operations and the Subcommittee on International 
Terrorism and Nonproliferation, joint hearing on Somalia: Expanding 
Crisis in the Horn of Africa, 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  June 30, Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and 
International Operations, hearing Can Religious Pluralism Survive? 
Minority Religions Under Threat, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary: June 29, Subcommittee on Crime, 
Terrorism, and Homeland Security, hearing on H.R. 5219, Judiciary 
Transparency and Ethics Enhancement Act of 2006, 11:30 a.m., 2141 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, June 27, Subcommittee on Water and Power, 
oversight hearing on Meeting Electricity Demand in the West through 
Responsible Development of Energy Rights-of-Way on Federal lands, 10 
a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  June 28, Subcommittee on National Parks, hearing on the following 
bills: H.R. 2692, Acadia National Park Improvement Act of 2005; H.R. 
3871, To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the 
Missouri River Basin Lewis and Clark Interpretive Trail and Visitor 
Center Foundation, Inc. certain Federal land associated with the 
Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail in Nebraska,

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to be used as an historical interpretive site along the trail; and 
H.R. 5145, to authorize the National War Dogs Monument, Inc. to 
establish a national monument in honor of military working dog 
teams, 10 a.m., 1334 Longworth.
  June 29, Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans, hearing on H.R. 
5539, North American Wetlands Conservation Reauthorization Act of 
2006, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  June 29, Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, oversight 
hearing on Healthy Forests: Targets and Accomplishments, 10 a.m., 
1334 Longworth.
  Committee on Rules, June 26, to consider the following: H.R. 4973, 
Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 2006; and H.R. 5672, 
making appropriations for Science, the Departments of State, 
Justice, and Commerce, and related agencies for fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2007, 5 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science, June 27, to mark up H.R. 5656, Energy 
Research, Development, Demonstration, and Commercial Application Act 
of 2006, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, June 27, Subcommittee on Regulatory 
Reform and Oversight, hearing entitled ``S Corporations--Their 
History and Challenges,'' 10 a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  June 27, Subcommittee on Workforce, Empowerment, and Government 
Programs, hearing entitled ``Immigrant Employment Verification and 
Small Business,'' 2:30 p.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  June 28, Subcommittee on Tax, Finance and Exports, hearing 
entitled ``The Effects of the High Cost of Natural Gas on Small 
Businesses and Future Energy Technologies,'' 2 p.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  June 29, Subcommittee on Rural Enterprises, Agriculture and 
Technology and the Subcommittee on Tax, Finance, and Exports, joint 
hearing entitled ``Chinese Barriers to Trade: Does China Play 
Fair?'' 10 a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, June 27, 
Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines, hearing Celebrating 
59 Years: The Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, 2 p.m., 2167 
Rayburn.
  June 27, Subcommittee on Railroads, hearing on current FRA Rail 
Safety Initiatives, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  June 28, full Committee, to mark up the following: U.S. Army Corps 
of Engineers Survey Resolutions; GSA Capital Investment and Leasing 
Program Resolutions; S. 362, Marine Debris Research, Prevention, and 
Reduction Act; H.R. 4650, National Levee Safety Program Act of 2005; 
and the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2006, 11 a.m., 2167 
Rayburn.
  June 29, Subcommittee on Aviation, oversight hearing on Airline 
Passenger Baggage Screening: Technology and Airport Deployment 
Update, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, June 27, Subcommittee on Health, 
oversight hearing to examine the Department of Veterans Affairs 
efforts to provide high quality health care to veterans in rural 
communities, 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  June 28, full Committee, hearing on What VA IT Organizational 
Structure would have best prevented VA's ``Meltdown'' in Information 
Management, 10:30 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  June 29, oversight hearing on VA's current status of mitigating 
the nation's second largest data breach, 10:30 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, June 28, hearing on Health Savings 
Accounts, 10:30 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, June 29, executive, 
hearing on Integrated Collection Architecture, 10 a.m., H-405 
Capitol.


                             Joint Meetings

  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: June 28, to hold 
hearings to examine Belgium's Chairmanship of the OSCE, focusing on 
developments in Central Asia and neighboring Afghanistan, the 
emergence of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the political 
situation in the Caucasus, and human rights trends in the Russian 
Federation, 11 a.m., 2359 RHOB.
  Joint Economic Committee: June 27, to hold hearings to examine 
prospects for U.S. economic expansion, 10 a.m., 2118 RHOB.