[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 107 (Tuesday, September 5, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D909-D910]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

             Week of September 6 through September 9, 2006

                             Senate Chamber

  On Wednesday, at approximately 10:15 a.m., Senate will continue 
consideration of H.R. 5631, Department of Defense Appropriations Act.
  During the balance of the week, Senate will continue consideration of 
H.R. 5631, Department of Defense Appropriations Act, and 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: September 6, Subcommittee on Labor, 
Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, to hold 
hearings to examine recent controversies in stem cell research, 9 
a.m., SD-124.
  September 7, Subcommittee on Homeland Security, to hold hearings 
to examine preparedness one year after Hurricane Katrina, 10 a.m., 
SD-192.
  Committee on Armed Services: September 6, to receive a closed 
briefing regarding the Army Field Manual on Interrogation, 10 a.m., 
SR-222.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: September 6, to 
hold hearings to examine stock options backdating, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: September 6, to hold 
oversight hearings to examine the federal renewable fuels programs, 
9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: September 6, to hold hearings to examine 
backdating to the future/oversight of current issues regarding 
executive compensation including backdating of stock options, and 
tax treatment of executive compensation, retirement and benefits, 10 
a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: September 7, business meeting to 
consider Extradition Treaty Between the United States of America and 
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and 
related exchanges of letters, signed at Washington on March 31, 2003 
(Treaty Doc. 108-23), and the nominations of Richard E. Hoagland, of 
the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Armenia, John Robert Bolton, of Maryland, to be the Representative 
of the United States of America to the United Nations, with the rank 
and status of Ambassador, and the Representative of the United 
States of America 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 Representative of the 
United States of America to the Sessions of the General Assembly of 
the United Nations during his tenure of service as Representative of 
the United States of America to the United Nations, to which 
position he was appointed during the recess of the Senate from July 
29, 2005, to September 1, 2005, and John C. Rood, of Arizona, to be 
an Assistant Secretary of State (International Security and Non-
Proliferation), 9:30 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: September 
7, Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government 
Information, and International Security, to hold hearings to examine 
Information Technology projects at risk, focusing on why $12 billion 
in projects is being funded and what OMB is doing to ensure success, 
as well as GAO's recommendations in these areas, 9:30 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: September 6, to hold hearings to 
examine competition in group health care, 11 a.m., SD-226.
  September 6, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine judicial 
nominations, 2 p.m., SD-226.
  September 7, Full Committee, business meeting to consider 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, and 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, 
9:30 a.m., SD-226.
  September 7, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland 
Security, to hold hearings to examine strategies for pre-screening 
international airline passengers before takeoff, 2 p.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: September 7, to hold hearings 
entitled ``Wounded Warrior'' Insurance: A First Look at a New 
Benefit for Traumatically Injured Servicemembers, 10 a.m., SR-418.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: September 6, to receive a closed 
briefing regarding intelligence matters, 10:30 a.m., SH-219.
  September 7, Full Committee, closed business meeting to consider 
pending calendar business, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  Special Committee on Aging: September 7, to hold hearings to 
examine America's ailing guardianship system relating to 
exploitation of seniors, 10 a.m., SD-562.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Appropriations, September 7, Subcommittee on Defense, 
hearing on Defense Contracting, 10 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Committee on Armed Services, September 7, hearing on standards of 
military commissions and tribunals, 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, September 7, Subcommittee on 
Oversight and Investigations, hearing on BP's Pipeline Spills at 
Prudhoe Bay: What Went Wrong? 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.

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  Committee on Financial Services, September 7, Subcommittee on 
Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises, 
hearing entitled ``A Review of the Federal Home Loan Bank System,'' 
10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, September 6, Subcommittee on 
Federalism and the Census, hearing entitled ``2 + 2 Should Never 
Equal 3: Getting Intercensal Population Estimates Right the First 
Time,'' 2 p.m., 2247 Rayburn.
  September 6, Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats 
and International Relations, hearing entitled ``HIV Prevention: How 
Effective Is The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief 
(PEPFAR)?'' 1 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, September 7, Subcommittee on 
Emergency Preparedness, Science, and Technology, hearing entitled 
``The Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology 
Directorate: Is It Structured for Success?'' 10 a.m., room to be 
announced.
  September 7, Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, 
and Terrorism Risk Assessment, hearing entitled ``State and Local 
Fusion Centers and the Role of DHS,'' 1 p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, September 6, Subcommittee on 
Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations, oversight 
hearing on the United Nations Human Rights Council: Reform or 
Regression? 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  September 7, Subcommittee on International Terrorism and 
Nonproliferation, oversight hearing on 9/11: Five Years Later--
Gauging Islaminst Terrorism, 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, September 6, Subcommittee on Crime, 
Terrorism, and Homeland Security, hearing on proposals to Update the 
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), including the 
following bills: H.R. 4976, NSA Oversight Act; H.R. 5223, 
Surveillance Activities Commission Act of 2006; H.R. 5371, Lawful 
Intelligence and Surveillance of Terrorists in an Emergency by NSA 
Act; H.R. 5825, Electronic Surveillance Modernization Act; S. 2453, 
National Security Surveillance Act of 2006; and S. 2455, Terrorist 
Surveillance Act of 2006, 1 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  September 7, full Committee, to continue mark up of H.R. 2679, 
Public Expression of Religion Act of 2005; and to mark up the 
following bills: H.R. 5092, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, 
and Explosives (BATFE) Modernization and Reform Act of 2006; H.R. 
5005, Firearms Corrections and Improvements Act; H.R. 1384, Firearm 
Commerce Modernization Act; H.R. 1415, NICS Improvement Act of 2005; 
and H.R. 5830, Wright Amendment Reform Act; and to consider a motion 
to authorize the issuance of a subpoena to Elaine L. Chao, Secretary 
of Labor, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, September 7, Subcommittee on National 
Parks, hearing on the following bills: H.R. 3532, Michigan 
Lighthouse and Maritime Heritage Act; H.R. 5452, Veterans Eagle 
Parks Pass Act; H.R. 5485, Columbia-Pacific National Heritage Area 
Study Act; and H.R. 5978, To authorize the Secretary of the Interior 
to conduct a special resource study to determine the suitability and 
feasibility of including the battlefields and related sites of the 
First and Second Battles of Newtonia, Missouri, during the Civil War 
as part of a Wilson's Creek National Battlefield or designating the 
battlefields and related sites as a separate unit of the National 
Park System, 10 a.m., 1334 Longworth.
  September 7, Subcommittee on Water and Power, hearing on the 
following bills: H.R. 5566, To facilitate the transfer of Spearfish 
Hydroelectric Plant Number 1 to the city of Spearfish, South Dakota; 
and H.R. 6014, To authorize the Secretary of the Interior, acting 
through the Bureau of Reclamation, to improve California's 
Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta and water supply; and to hold an 
oversight hearing on a measure regarding the repayment of site 
security costs at Bureau of Reclamation facilities, 10 a.m., 1324 
Longworth.
  Committee on Rules, September 6, to consider H.R. 503, to amend 
the Horse Protection Act to prohibit the shipping, transporting, 
moving, delivering, receiving, possessing, purchasing, selling or 
donation of horse and other equines to be slaughtered for human 
consumption, 5 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, September 7, 
Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines, oversight hearing 
on Freight Logistics: The Road Ahead as Seen by the Users of the 
Highway System, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, September 7, 
executive, briefing on Global Updates/Hot Spots, 9 a.m., H-405 
Capitol.
  September 7, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Human Intelligence, 
Analysis and Counterintelligence, executive, hearing on CIA 
Sensitive Programs, 10 a.m., H-405 Capitol.