[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 11 (Friday, January 19, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D68-D69]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

              Week of January 22 through January 26, 2007

                             Senate Chamber

  On Monday, at 2:00 p.m., Senate will begin consideration of H.R. 2, 
Fair Minimum Wage.
  During the balance of the week, Senate may consider any cleared 
legislative and executive business.


                           Senate Committees

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
  Committee on Armed Services: January 23, to hold hearings to 
examine the nomination of Lieutenant General David H. Petraeus, USA, 
to be General and Commander, Multi-National Forces-Iraq, 9:30 a.m., 
SR-325.
  January 25, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
current situation in Iraq and on the Administration's recently 
announced strategy for continued United States assistance to the 
Iraqi government and for an increased United States military 
presence in Iraq, 9:30 a.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: January 25, to 
hold hearings to examine the billing, marketing, and disclosure 
practices of the credit card industry, and their impact on 
consumers, 9:30 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on the Budget: January 23, to hold hearings to examine 
the growing tax gap and strategies for reducing it, 10 a.m., SD-608.
  January 25, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
Congressional Budget Office budget and economic outlook, 10 a.m., 
SD-608.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: January 24, 
organizational business meeting to consider an original resolution 
authorizing expenditures for committee operations, committee's rules 
of procedure for the 110th Congress, and subcommittee assignments; 
to be followed by a hearing to examine the potential impact of 
airline mergers and industry consolidation relating to the state of 
the airline industry, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: January 24, 
organizational business meeting to consider an original resolution 
authorizing expenditures for committee operations, committee's rules 
of procedure for the 110th Congress, and subcommittee assignments; 
to be followed by a hearing to examine an analysis completed by the 
Energy Information Administration entitled ``Energy Market and 
Economic Impacts of a Proposal To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Intensity 
With a Cap and Trade System'', 9:45 a.m., SD-366.
  January 25, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine oil and 
gas resources on the Outer Continental Shelf and areas available for 
leasing in the Gulf of Mexico, 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Finance: January 24, to hold hearings to examine the 
nomination of Michael J. Astrue, of Massachusetts, to be 
Commissioner of Social Security, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: January 24, business meeting to 
consider S. Con. Res. 2, expressing the bipartisan resolution on 
Iraq, 9 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: January 24, 
organizational business meeting to consider an original resolution 
authorizing expenditures for committee operations, committee's rules 
of procedure for the 110th Congress, and subcommittee assignments; 
committee will also consider the Genetic Information 
Nondiscrimination Act, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: January 
24, organizational business meeting to consider an original 
resolution authorizing expenditures for committee operations, 
committee's rules of procedure for the 110th Congress, and 
subcommittee assignments, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  January 25, Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, 
the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia, to hold 
hearings to examine the Federal government's efforts to develop a 
foreign language strategy, focusing on the government's efforts to 
increase foreign language education to meet the Federal workforce, 
national security, and economic competitiveness needs, 2:30 p.m., 
SD-342.

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  Committee on Indian Affairs: January 25, business meeting to 
consider an original resolution authorizing expenditures for 
committee operations, and committee's rules of procedure for the 
110th Congress, 9:30 a.m., SR-485.
  Committee on the Judiciary: January 23, to hold hearings to 
examine challenges and strategies for securing the U.S. border, 9:30 
a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: January 23, to hold oversight 
hearings to examine Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs 
collaboration and cooperation to meet the needs of returning 
military service members, 9:30 a.m., SR-418.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: January 23, to hold hearings to 
examine intelligence reform, 2:30 p.m., SH-216.
  January 25, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine 
intelligence reform, 2:30 p.m., SH-216.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Agriculture, January 23, to meet for organizational 
purposes, 1 p.m., 1302 Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, January 22, Subcommittee on Defense, 
executive, on Intelligence Readiness, 1:30 p.m., H-140 Capitol.
  Committee on Armed Services, January 23, hearing on implications 
of Iraq policy on total force readiness, 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Budget, January 23, hearing on Why Deficits 
Matter, 10 a.m., 210 Cannon.
  Committee on Education and Labor, January 24, to meet for 
organizational purposes, 10:30 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, January 23, to meet for 
organizational purposes; followed by a mark up of H. Res. 24, 
Establishing the House Democracy Assistance Commission for the One 
Hundred Tenth Congress, 2:30 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  January 24, hearing on The Escalating Crisis in Darfur, 10:30 
a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, January 23, to meet for 
organizational purposes, 11 a.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on the Judiciary, January 23, to meet for organizational 
purposes, 1 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, January 23, to consider a resolution amending 
the Rules of the House of Representatives to permit Delegates and 
the Resident Commissioner to the Congress to cast votes in the 
committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 11:30 a.m, 
H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science and Technology, January 24, to meet for 
organizational purposes; followed by a mark up of the following: 
H.R. 365, Methamphetamine Remediation Research Act of 2007; H. Res. 
59, Supporting the goals and ideals of National Engineers Week; and 
H. Con. Res. 34, Honoring the life of Percy Lavon Julian, a pioneer 
in the field of organic chemistry research and development and the 
first and only African American chemist to be inducted into the 
National Academy of Sciences, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, January 23, 
Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and 
Emergency Management, on the State of Economic Development, 10 a.m., 
2167 Rayburn.
  January 24, Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, hearing on 
Surface Transportation System: Challenges for the Future, 10 a.m., 
2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, January 22, Subcommittee on Health, 
to meet for organizational purposes, 6 p.m., 1100 Longworth.
  January 23, full Committee, hearing on the State of the U.S. 
Economy, 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  January 23, Subcommittee on Oversight, to meet for organizational 
purposes, 2 p.m., 1105 Longworth.
  January 24, full Committee, hearing on Economic and Societal Costs 
of Poverty, 10 a.m. 1100 Longworth.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, January 24, executive, 
hearing on Intelligence Support to the Policy Maker, 10 a.m., H-405 
Capitol.