[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 85 (Tuesday, June 27, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D712-D713]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





            COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 2006

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch, 
to resume hearings to examine the progress of the Capitol Visitor 
Center construction, 10:30 a.m., SD-138.
  Committee on Armed Services: to hold a closed meeting to discuss 
training and equipping Iraqi security forces, 3:15 p.m., SR-222.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: business meeting 
to consider the nomination of James S. Simpson, of New York, to be 
Federal Transit Administrator, Department of Transportation, Time to 
be announced, Room to be announced.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: business 
meeting to continue markup of H.R. 5252, to promote the deployment 
of broadband networks and services, 10 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: 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.
  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.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: to hold an oversight 
hearing on Environmental Protection Agency regional inconsistencies, 
9:30 a.m., SD-628.
  Committee on Finance: business meeting to mark up S. 1321, to 
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the excise tax on 
telephone and other communications, and proposed legislation to 
implement the United States-Oman Free Trade Agreement, 10 a.m., SD-
215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Richard E. Hoagland, of the District of Columbia, to 
be Ambassador to the Republic of Armenia, Peter R. Coneway, of 
Texas, to be Ambassador to Switzerland, and to serve concurrently 
and without additional compensation as Ambassador to the 
Principality of Liechtenstein, and Thomas C. Foley, of Connecticut, 
to be Ambassador to Ireland, 2:30 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: business 
meeting to consider S. 3570, to amend the Older Americans Act of 
1965 to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2007 through 2011, 
S. 3546, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with 
respect to serious adverse event reporting for dietary supplements 
and nonprescription drugs, 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 the nomination of Jonann E. 
Chiles, of Arkansas, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the 
Legal Services Corporation, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: to hold 
hearings to examine the nominations of Mickey

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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.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: to hold an oversight hearing to 
examine Native American Housing Programs, 9:30 a.m., SR-485.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to hold hearings to examine hedge 
funds and independent analysts, 9:30 a.m., SD-226.
  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.


                                 House

  Committee on Armed Services, hearing on the status of security and 
stability in Afghanistan, 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, hearing on The First Tee 
and Schools: Working to Build Character Education, 10:30 a.m, 2175 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health, hearing 
on Mental Illness and Brain Disease: Dispelling Myths and Promoting 
Recovery Through Awareness and Treatment, 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, to continue hearings 
entitled ``Making the Internet Safe for Kids: The Role of ISPs and 
Social Networking Sites,'' 2 p.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, 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.
  Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity, hearing 
entitled ``Is America's Housing Market Prepared for the Next Natural 
Catastrophe?'' 2 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, 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.
  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.
  Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Intelligence, 
Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment, hearing entitled 
``DHS Intelligence and Border Security: Delivering Operational 
Intelligence,'' 10 a.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Asia and the 
Pacific, hearing on East Timor: Instability and Future Prospects, 
1:30 p.m., 2200 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, hearing on Hurricane 
Reconstruction and Preparedness, 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 
2389, Pledge Protection Act of 2005; H.R. 1956, Business Activity 
Tax Simplification Act of 2005; and H.R. 5323, Proud to Be an 
American Citizen Act, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, 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, 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.
  Committee on Rules, to consider H.R. 4761, Domestic Energy 
Production through Offshore Exploration and Equitable Treatment of 
State Holdings Act of 2006, 4 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Small Business, 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.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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; H.R. 5681, Coast Guard 
Authorization Act of 2006, 11 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, hearing on What VA IT 
Organizational Structure would have best prevented VA's ``Meltdown'' 
in Information Management, 10:30 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, hearing on Health Savings Accounts, 
10:30 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, executive, to consider 
the following: ``Report: `al Qaeda: The Many Faces of an Islamic 
Extremist Threat,' '' 2:45 p.m., H-405 Capitol.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Committee on the Library: business meeting to consider 
pending committee business, 3 p.m., H-140, Capitol.
  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: 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.