[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 105 (Wednesday, August 2, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D890-D891]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                             AUGUST 3, 2006

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Armed Services: to hold hearings to examine Iraq, 
Afghanistan and the global war on terrorism; to be followed by a 
closed session in SR-222, 9:30 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee 
on National Ocean Policy Study, to hold hearings to examine state of 
the oceans in 2006, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: business meeting to 
consider the nominations of Drue Pearce, of Alaska, to be Federal 
Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects, and John 
Ray Correll, of Indiana, to be Director of the Office of Surface 
Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, and Mark Myers, of Alaska, to be 
Director of the United States Geological Survey, both of the 
Department of the Interior, and other pending calendar business; to 
be followed by a hearing to examine S. 2589, to enhance the 
management and disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level 
radioactive waste, to ensure protection of public health and safety, 
to ensure the territorial integrity and security of the repository 
at Yucca Mountain, 10 a.m., SD-628.
  Committee on Finance: to hold hearings to examine tax code reform 
issues, 10:30 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine the 
nomination of Mary Martin Ourisman, of Florida, to be Ambassador to 
Barbados, and to serve concurrently and without additional 
compensation as Ambassador to St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, 
Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, and 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, 11 a.m., SD-419.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the nominations of 
Cesar Benito Cabrera, of Puerto Rico, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Mauritius, and to serve concurrently and without 
additional compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of Seychelles, 
Cindy Lou Courville, of Virginia, to be U.S. Representative to the 
African Union, with the rank of Ambassador, and Donald C. Johnson, 
of Texas, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, 
2:30 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: 
Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government 
Information, and International Security, to hold hearings to examine 
financial management at the Department of Defense, focusing on the 
components of Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness Plan to 
improve the overall financial management health of the Department of 
Defense, including an understanding of other plans involved in 
improving the financial management infrastructure at the Department, 
2:30 p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider the 
nominations of Frances Marie Tydingco-Gatewood, to be Judge for the 
District Court of Guam, and Troy A. Eid, to be United States 
Attorney for the District of Colorado, 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

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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, H.R. 1442, to complete the 
codification of title 46, United States Code, ``Shipping'', as 
positive law, H.R. 866, to make technical corrections to the United 
States Code, and other committee matters, 9:30 a.m., SD-226.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: closed business meeting to 
consider pending calendar business, 10 a.m., SH-219.


                                 House

  No committee meetings are scheduled.