[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 100 (Wednesday, July 26, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D849-D851]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                             JULY 27, 2006

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on 
Forestry, Conservation, and Rural Revitalization, to hold an oversight 
hearing to examine the Department of Agriculture's use of technical 
service providers, 10 a.m., SR-328A.
  Committee on Armed Services: to hold hearings to examine the nomination 
of Lieutenant General James T. Conway, USMC, for appointment to the grade 
of general and to be Commandant of the Marine Corps, 10 a.m., SR-222.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold a hearing 
to examine pending nominations, 11 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power, to hold hearings to examine S. 3638, to encourage the Secretary of 
the Interior to participate in projects to plan, design, and construct 
water supply projects and to amend the Reclamation Wastewater and 
Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to encourage the design, planning, 
and construction of projects to treat impaired surface water, reclaim and 
reuse impaired groundwater, and provide brine disposal in the State of 
California, S. 3639, to amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater 
Study and Facilities Act to provide standards and procedures for the 
review of water reclamation and reuse projects, H.R. 177, to amend the 
Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to 
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the Prado Basin 
Natural Treatment System Project, to authorize the Secretary to carry out 
a program to assist agencies in projects to construct regional brine 
lines in California, to authorize the Secretary to participate in the 
Lower Chino Dairy Area desalination demonstration and reclamation 
project, H.R. 2341, to amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater 
Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
participate in the design, planning, and construction of a project to 
reclaim and reuse wastewater within and outside of the service area of 
the City of Austin Water and Wastewater Utility, Austin, Texas, and H.R. 
3418, to amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and 
Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate 
in the Central Texas Water Recycling and Reuse Project, 2:30 p.m., SD-
366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: to hold hearings to examine 
a path forward for the nation's emergency preparedness and response 
system relating to the Stafford Act, 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: business meeting to consider proposed legislation 
implementing the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement, and S. 3495, to 
authorize the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade 
relations treatment) to the products of Vietnam, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of John Robert Bolton, of Maryland, to be the U.S. 
Representative to the United Nations, with the rank and status of 
Ambassador, and the U.S. Representative in the Security Council of the 
United Nations, to which position he was appointed during the recess of 
the Senate from July 29, 2005, to September 1, 2005, and to be U.S. 
Representative to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United 
Nations during his tenure of service as U.S. Representative to the United 
Nations, to which position he was appointed during the recess of the 
Senate from July 29, 2005, to September 1, 2005, 9:30 a.m., SH-216.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the nominations of Richard 
W. Graber, of Wisconsin, to be Ambassador to the Czech Republic, and 
Karen B. Stewart, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Belarus, 2:30 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: to hold hearings 
to examine S. 3128, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to 
provide for uniform food safety warning notification requirements, 10 
a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: business 
meeting to consider S. 1838, to provide for the sale, acquisition, 
conveyance, and exchange of certain real property in the District of 
Columbia to facilitate the utilization, development, and redevelopment of 
such property, S. 3721, to amend the Homeland Security Act of

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2002 to establish the United States Emergency Management Authority, S. 
2590, to require full disclosure of all entities and organizations 
receiving Federal funds, S. 3613, to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 2951 New York Highway 43 in Averill 
Park, New York, as the ``Major George Quamo Post Office Building'', H.R. 
4246, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 8135 Forest Lane in Dallas, Texas, as the ``Dr. Robert E. 
Price Post Office Building'', 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. 5104, 
to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 
1750 16th Street South in St. Petersburg, Florida, as the ``Morris W. 
Milton Post Office'', H.R. 5169, to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 1310 Highway 64 NW. in Ramsey, Indiana, 
as the ``Wilfred Edward `Cousin Willie' Sieg, Sr. Post Office'', H.R. 
5540, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 217 Southeast 2nd Street in Dimmitt, Texas, as the ``Sergeant 
Jacob Dan Dones Post Office'', H.R. 4646, to designate the facility of 
the United States Postal Service located at 7320 Reseda Boulevard in 
Reseda, California, as the ``Coach John Wooden Post Office Building'', S. 
2555, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 2633 11th Street in Rock Island, Illinois, as the ``Lane Evans 
Post Office Building'', S. 2719 and H.R. 5107, bills to designate the 
facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1400 West Jordan 
Street in Pensacola, Florida, as the ``Earl D. Hutto Post Office 
Building'', H.R. 4811, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 215 West Industrial Park Road in Harrison, 
Arkansas, as the ``John Paul Hammerschmidt Post Office Building'', and 
the nominations of Paul A. Denett, of Virginia, to be Administrator for 
Federal Procurement Policy, Anna Blackburne-Rigsby, to be Associate Judge 
of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, Phyllis D. Thompson, to be 
Associate Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, Jennifer M. 
Anderson, of the District of Columbia, to be an Associate Judge of the 
Superior Court of the District of Columbia, and 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.
  Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, 
and International Security, to hold hearings to examine the Health 
Resources and Services Administration financial management of its budget 
in carrying out its mission to increase access to and quality of health 
care, 2:30 p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider the 
nominations of Kimberly Ann Moore, of Virginia, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit, Frances Marie Tydingco-Gatewood, 
to be Judge for the District Court of Guam, and Steven G. Bradbury, of 
Maryland, to be Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal 
Counsel, and R. Alexander Acosta, to be United States Attorney for the 
Southern District of Florida, both of the Department of Justice, 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, 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. 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, 10:45 a.m., SD-226.
  Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security, to hold 
hearings to examine detecting smuggled nuclear weapons, 2:30 p.m., SD-
226.
  Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: business meeting to 
mark up an original bill to reauthorize the Small Business 
Administration, 10 a.m., SR-428A.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: business meeting to consider the 
nominations of Patrick W. Dunne, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary 
for Policy and Planning, and Thomas E. Harvey, of New York, to be 
Assistant Secretary for Congressional Affairs, both of the Department of 
Veterans Affairs, Time to be announced, Room to be announced.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the nominations of Patrick 
W. Dunne, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs for 
Policy and Planning, and Thomas E. Harvey, of New York, to be Assistant 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Congressional Affairs, 10 a.m., SR-418.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold closed hearings to examine 
the nomination of Randall M. Fort, of Virginia, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  Special Committee on Aging: to hold hearings to examine at home DNA 
tests, focusing on whether these should be considered a marketing scam or 
a medical breakthrough, 10 a.m., SD-106.


                                  House

  Committee on Agriculture, hearing and markup of H.R. 503, To amend the 
Horse Protection Act to prohibit the shipping, transporting, moving, 
delivering, receiving, possessing, purchasing, selling, or donation of 
horses and other equines to be slaughtered for human consumption; and to 
consider H.R. 3849, PIC and POPs Conventions and the LRTAP POPs Protocol 
Implementation Act.

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  Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development, and Research, 
hearing to review Conservation Issues, 1 p.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Homeland Security, hearing 
on Border Security and Immigration Enforcement, 10 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Science, the Departments of State, Justice, and 
Commerce, and Related Agencies, hearing on the Census, 9:30 a.m., H-309 
Capitol.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, hearing on No Child Left 
Behind: Can Growth Models Ensure Improved Education for All Students, 10 
a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health to continue 
hearings on How to Build a Payment System that Provides Quality, 
Efficient Care for Medicare Beneficiaries. Testimony was heard from
  Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, hearing on the following: 
Pipeline Safety Improvement Act Reauthorization; and H.R. 5872, Pipeline 
Safety Improvement Act of 2006, 11 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, to continue hearings 
entitled ``Questions Surrounding the `Hockey Stick' Temperature Studies: 
Implications for Climate Change Assessments,'' 2 p.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Domestic and 
International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology, hearing entitled 
``Review of the Repatriation of Holocaust Art Assets in the United 
States,'' 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, hearing entitled ``Code Yellow: Is The 
DHS Acquisition Bureaucracy a Formula for Disaster?'' 10 a.m., 2154 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Energy and Resources, hearing entitled ``Royalty Relief 
and Price Thresholds III,'' 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, to mark up H.R. 5695, Chemical Facility 
Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006, 10 a.m., 210 Cannon.
  Committee on House Administration, to mark up H.R. 2134, Commission to 
Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of the American Latino 
Community Act of 2005; followed by an oversight hearing on the Library of 
Congress.
  Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Africa, Human 
Rights and International Operations, hearing to Review the Progress and 
Charting the Path Ahead: the Microenterprise Results and Accountability 
Act of 2004, 2 p.m., 2200 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, hearing on the Report of the 
Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba, 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and 
Intellectual Property, hearing on H.R. 5055, To amend title 17, United 
States Code, to provide protection for fashion design, 9 a.m., and to 
mark up H.R. 5418, To establish a pilot program in certain United States 
district courts to encourage enhancement of expertise in patent cases 
among district judges, 10:30 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Claims, oversight 
hearing on Whether Attempted Implementation of the Senate Immigration 
Bill Will Result in an Administrative and National Security Nightmare, 
11:30 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans, oversight 
hearing to Examine Atlantic Striped Bass Conservation and Management, 10 
a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, hearing on the following 
bills: H.R. 5760, Giant Sequoia National Monument Transition Act of 2006; 
H.R. 5149, Eastern Sierra Rural Heritage and Economic Enhancement Act; 
H.R. 4784, Eugene Land Conveyance Act; H.R. 4235, Browns Canyon 
Wilderness Act; H.R. 2718, Idaho Land Enhancement Act; H.R. 2039, and S. 
225, Federal Land Recreational Visitor Protection Act of 2005, 1334 
Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Water and Power, hearing on the following bills: H.R. 
630, To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain Federal 
lands to the City of Yuma, Arizona, in exchange for certain lands owned 
by the City of Yuma, Arizona; H.R. 5666, Southern Idaho Bureau of 
Reclamation Act of 2006; H.R. 5796, To direct the Secretary of the 
Interior to exclude and defer from the pooled reimbursable costs of the 
Central Valley Project the reimbursable capital costs of the unused 
capacity of the Folsom South Canal, Auburn-Folsom South Unit, Central 
Valley Project, and S. 895, Rural Water Supply Act of 2005, 10 a.m., 1334 
Longworth.
  Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Environment, Technology and 
Standards, hearing on Undersea Research and Ocean Exploration: H.R. 3835, 
National Ocean Exploration Program Act, 2 p.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Health, hearing on 
Emergency Care, 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, executive, briefing on 
Global Updates/Hotspots, 9 a.m., H-405 Capitol.
  Hearing on FISA legislation, 1 p.m., 2212 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Intelligence Policy, executive, hearing on U.S.-Russian 
Strategic Considerations, 4 p.m., H-405 Capitol.


                             Joint Meetings

  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: to hold hearings to 
examine how the United States Government can live up to its commitment to 
promote human rights and democratic governance in Russia while preserving 
a relationship with Moscow, 1 p.m., SD-562.