[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 108 (Wednesday, September 6, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D918-D919]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                            SEPTEMBER 7, 2006

          (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Homeland Security, to hold 
hearings to examine preparedness 1 year after Hurricane Katrina, 10 a.m., 
SD-192.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: 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, John C. Rood, of Arizona, to be an 
Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Non-
Proliferation, 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 Representative of the United 
States of America to the African Union, with the rank of Ambassador, 
Donald C. Johnson, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Equatorial Guinea, 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, and Ronald Allen Tschetter, of Minnesota, to be Director of 
the Peace Corps, 9:30 a.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 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: business meeting to consider the 
nominations of Terrence W. Boyle, of North Carolina, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit, William James Haynes II, of 
Virginia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit, 
William Gerry Myers III, of Idaho, to be United States Circuit Judge for 
the Ninth Circuit, Norman Randy Smith, of Idaho, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Valerie L. Baker, to be United 
States District Judge for the Central District of California, Francisco 
Augusto Besosa, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Puerto Rico, Philip S. Gutierrez, to be United States District Judge for 
the Central District of California, George E.B. Holding, to be United 
States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, and Sharon 
Lynn Potter, to be United States Attorney for the Northern District of 
West Virginia, 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

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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, 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 S. 2046, to establish a 
National Methamphetamine Information Clearinghouse to promote sharing 
information regarding successful law enforcement, treatment, 
environmental, social services, and other programs related to the 
production, use, or effects of methamphetamine and grants available for 
such programs, and for the other purposes, 9:30 a.m., SD-226.
  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: 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: closed business meeting to consider 
pending calendar business, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  Special Committee on Aging: to hold hearings to examine America's 
ailing guardianship system relating to exploitation of seniors, 10 a.m., 
SD-562.


                                  House

  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Defense, hearing on 
Defense Contracting, 10 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Committee on Armed Services, hearing on standards of military 
commissions and tribunals, 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations, hearing on BP's Pipeline Spills at Prudhoe Bay: What Went 
Wrong? 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, 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 Homeland Security, 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., 334 Cannon.
  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, Subcommittee on International 
Terrorism and Nonproliferation, oversight hearing on 9/11: Five Years 
Later--Gauging Islamist Terrorism, 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, 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, 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.
  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 Transportation and Infrastructure, 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, executive, briefing on 
Global Updates/Hot Spots, 9 a.m., H-405 Capitol.
  Subcommittee on Terrorism, Human Intelligence, Analysis and 
Counterintelligence, executive, hearing on CIA Sensitive Programs, 10 
a.m., H-405 Capitol.