[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 86 (Wednesday, June 28, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D725-D727]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                             JUNE 29, 2006

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: 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, 10 a.m., SD-106.
  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 Finance: to hold hearings to examine the U.S.-Peru 
Trade Promotion Agreement, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  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: to hold hearings to examine 
Russia, 9 a.m., SD-419.
  Full Committee, business meeting to consider Protocol between the 
Government of the United States of America and the Government of the 
State of Israel, signed at Jerusalem on July 6, 2005 (Treaty Doc. 
109-3), 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 to India, and to implement the 
U.S. Additional Protocol, S. Res. 460, expressing the sense of the 
Senate that the United States should

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increase its support to the people of Somalia in their efforts to 
end decades of violence, establish lasting peace, form a 
democratically elected and stable central government, and become an 
effective partner in eradicating radicalism and terrorism from their 
country and the region, S. Con. Res. 105, commending the Government 
of Canada for its renewed commitment to the Global War on Terror in 
Afghanistan, and 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, 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, Clifford M. Sobel, of New 
Jersey, to be Ambassador to the Federative Republic of Brazil, 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, 11 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: 
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.
  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 the Judiciary: business meeting to consider the 
nominations of Neil M. Gorsuch, of Colorado, and Jerome A. Holmes, 
of Oklahoma, each to be a United States Circuit Judge for the Tenth 
Circuit, Gustavo Antonio Gelpi, to be United States District Judge 
for the District of Puerto Rico, Daniel Porter Jordan III, to be 
United States District Judge for the Southern District of 
Mississippi, R. Alexander Acosta, to be United States Attorney for 
the Southern District of Florida, Martin J. Jackley, to be United 
States Attorney for the District of South Dakota, and Brett L. 
Tolman, to be United States Attorney for the District of Utah, S. 
2453, to establish procedures for the review of electronic 
surveillance programs, S. 2455, to provide in statute for the 
conduct of electronic surveillance of suspected terrorists for the 
purposes of protecting the American people, the Nation, and its 
interests from terrorist attack while ensuring that the civil 
liberties of United States citizens are safeguarded, S. 2468, to 
provide standing for civil actions for declaratory and injunctive 
relief to persons who refrain from electronic communications through 
fear of being subject to warrantless electronic surveillance for 
foreign intelligence purposes, S. 3001, to ensure that all 
electronic surveillance of United States persons for foreign 
intelligence purposes is conducted pursuant to individualized court-
issued orders, to streamline the procedures of the Foreign 
Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, S. 2831, to guarantee the 
free flow of information to the public through a free and active 
press while protecting the right of the public to effective law 
enforcement and the fair administration of justice, H.R. 1036, to 
amend title 17, United States Code, to make technical corrections 
relating to Copyright Royalty Judges, S. 155, to increase and 
enhance law enforcement resources committed to investigation and 
prosecution of violent gangs, to deter and punish violent gang 
crime, to protect law-abiding citizens and communities from violent 
criminals, to revise and enhance criminal penalties for violent 
crimes, to reform and facilitate prosecution of juvenile gang 
members who commit violent crimes, to expand and improve gang 
prevention programs, S. 2703, to amend the Voting Rights Act of 
1965, S. 1845, to amend title 28, United States Code, to provide for 
the appointment of additional Federal circuit judges, to divide the 
Ninth Judicial Circuit of the United States into 2 circuits, S. 
2679, to establish an Unsolved Crimes Section in the Civil Rights 
Division of the Department of Justice, and an Unsolved Civil Rights 
Crime Investigative Office in the Civil Rights Unit of the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation, and other committee matters, 9:30 a.m., SD-
226.
  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, 
2:30 p.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: business meeting 
to consider the nomination of Steven C. Preston, of Illinois, to be 
Administrator of the Small Business Administration, Time to be 
announced, Room to be announced.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to receive a closed briefing 
regarding intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, hearing to review Agriculture's Role in 
the Renewable Fuels Market, 10 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Armed Services, hearing on reports of weapons of mass 
destruction findings in Iraq, 9 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.

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  Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and 
Capabilities, hearing on assessing United States Special Operations 
Command's missions and roles, 10:30 a.m., 2212 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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, hearing on Growth, Opportunity, 
Competition--America Goes to Work, 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations, hearing entitled ``Pandemic Influenza Preparedness 
in the Financial Services Sector,'' 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, to consider the following: H.R. 
3329, Civilian Prisoner-of-War Medal Act of 2005; the Federal 
Wildland Firefighter Classification Act; H.R. 4962, To designate the 
facility of the United States Postal Service located at 100 Pitcher 
Street in Utica, New York, as the ``Captain George A. Wood Post 
Office Building; H.R. 5626, To designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 802 South Carrier Parkway in Rand 
Prairie, Texas, as the ``Alexander McRae Dechman Post Office 
Building;'' H. Res. 189, Expressing the sense of the House of 
Representatives that a day ought to be established to bring 
awareness to the issue of missing persons; H. Res. 533, Supporting 
the goals and ideals of Cambodian-American Freedom day; H.R. 721, 
Supporting the goals and ideals of a Salvadoran-American Day (El Dia 
del Salvadoreno) in recognition of all Salvadoran-Americans for 
their hard work, dedication, and contribution to the stability and 
well-being of the United States; and H. Res. 823, Commending the 
outstanding efforts by members of faith-based and community 
organizations in response to Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita; 
and to hold a hearing entitled ``What Price Free Speech?: 
Whistleblowers and the Ceballos Decision,'' 11 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Economic Security, 
Infrastructure Protection and Cybersecurity, hearing on H.R. 5695, 
Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006, 10 a.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on International Relations, 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.
  Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, hearing on North Korean 
Brinkmanship: Is U.S. Policy Up to the Challenge? 2 p.m., 2200 
Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to mark up the following bills: H.R. 
2389, Pledge Protection Act of 2005; and H.R. 5323, Proud to Be an 
American Citizen Act, 2:30 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  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, Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans, 
hearing on H.R. 5539, North American Wetlands Conservation 
Reauthorization Act of 2006, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, oversight hearing on 
Healthy Forests: Targets and Accomplishments, 10 a.m., 1334 
Longworth.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Aviation, oversight hearing on Airline Passenger Baggage Screening: 
Technology and Airport Deployment Update, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs,, 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, to consider the following: H.R. 5640, 
Child and Family Services Improvement Act of 2006; and H.R. 5684, 
United States-Oman Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, 10:30 
a.m., 1100 Longworth
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, executive, hearing on 
Integrated Collection Architecture, 10 a.m., and executive, briefing 
on Global Updates/Hotspots, 3:30 p.m., H-405 Capitol.