[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 16 (Friday, January 26, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D96-D99]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

              Week of January 29 through February 3, 2007

                             Senate Chamber

  On Monday, at 3:30 p.m., Senate will resume consideration of H.R. 2, 
Fair Minimum Wage.
  On Tuesday, Senate will continue consideration of H.R. 2, Fair 
Minimum Wage, with a vote on the motion to invoke cloture on Reid (for 
Baucus) Amendment No. 100 and a vote on the motion to invoke cloture on 
the bill. Also, Senate will vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the 
motion to proceed to consideration of S. Con. Res. 2, Iraq Resolution.

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  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 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: January 31, to 
hold hearings to examine the roles of Federal food assistance 
programs in family economic security and nutrition, 9:45 a.m., SR-
328A.
  Committee on Armed Services: January 30, to hold hearings to 
examine the nomination of Admiral William J. Fallon, USN, for 
reappointment to the grade of admiral and to be Commander, United 
States Central Command, 9:30 a.m., SD-106.
  January 31, Full Committee, to receive a closed briefing regarding 
the Iraq ``surge'' plan, 10 a.m., SR-222.
  January 31, Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support, to 
resume hearings to examine abusive practices in Department of 
Defense contracting for services and inter-agency contracting, 2:30 
p.m., SR-222.
  February 1, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
nomination of Gen. George W. Casey Jr., USA, for reappointment to 
the grade of general and to be Chief of Staff, United States Army, 
9:30 a.m., SR-325.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: January 31, to 
hold hearings to examine the Department of the Treasury's report to 
Congress on International Economic and Exchange Rate Policy (IEERP) 
and the U.S.-China strategic economic dialogue, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on the Budget: January 30, to hold hearings to examine 
long-term fiscal challenges, 10 a.m., SD-608.
  January 31, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine solutions 
to long-term fiscal challenges, 10 a.m., SD-608.
  February 1, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
current account deficit and the foreign debt of the United States, 
10 a.m., SD-608.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: January 31, 
business meeting to consider pending calendar business; to be 
followed by a hearing to examine economic and security concerns 
relating to promoting travel to America, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  February 1, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine a view 
from the Federal Communications Commission relating to assessing the 
communications marketplace, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: January 30, to hold 
hearings to examine the status of Federal land management agencies' 
efforts to contain the costs of their wildlife suppression 
activities and to consider recent independent reviews of and 
recommendations for those efforts, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  January 30, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine 
transportation sector fuel efficiency, including challenges to and 
incentives for increased oil savings through technological 
innovation including plug-in hybrids, 2:30 p.m., SD-366.
  January 31, Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. 202, 
to provide for the conveyance of certain Forest Service land to the 
city of Coffman Cove, Alaska, S. 216, to provide for the exchange of 
certain Federal land in the Santa Fe National Forest and certain 
non-Federal land in the Pecos National Historical Park in the State 
of New Mexico, S. 220, to authorize early repayment of obligations 
to the Bureau of Reclamation within the A & B Irrigation District in 
the State of Idaho, S. 232, to make permanent the authorization for 
watershed restoration and enhancement agreements, S. 235, to 
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain buildings 
and lands of the Yakima Project, Washington, to the Yakima-Tieton 
Irrigation District, S. 240, to reauthorize and amend the National 
Geologic Mapping Act of 1992, S. 241, to authorize the Secretary of 
the Interior to enter into cooperative agreements to protect natural 
resources of units of the National Park System through collaborative 
efforts on land inside and outside of units of the National Park 
System, S. 245, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
designate the President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home in 
Hope, Arkansas, as a National Historic Site and unit of the National 
Park System, S. 255, to provide assistance to the State of New 
Mexico for the development of comprehensive State water plans, S. 
260, to establish the Fort Stanton-Snowy River Cave National 
Conservation Area, S. 262, to rename the Snake River Birds of Prey 
National Conservation Area in the State of Idaho as the Morley 
Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area in honor 
of the late Morley Nelson, an international authority on birds of 
prey, who was instrumental in the establishment of this National 
Conservation Area, S. 263, to amend the Oregon Resource Conservation 
Act of 1996 to reauthorize the participation of the Bureau of 
Reclamation in the Deschutes River Conservancy, S. 264, to authorize 
the Bureau of Reclamation to participate in the rehabilitation of 
the Wallowa Lake Dam in Oregon, S. 265, to authorize the Secretary 
of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Reclamation, to 
conduct a water resource feasibility study for the Little Butte/Bear 
Creek Subbasins in Oregon, S. 266, to provide for the modification 
of an amendatory repayment contract between the Secretary of the 
Interior and the North Unit Irrigation District, S. 268, to 
designate the Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail, S. 275, to 
establish the Prehistoric Trackways National Monument in the State 
of New Mexico, S. 277, to modify the boundaries of Grand Teton 
National Park to include certain land within the GT Park 
Subdivision, S. 278, to establish a program and criteria for 
National Heritage Areas in the United States, S. 283, to amend the 
Compact of Free Association Amendments Act of 2003, S. 320, to 
provide for the protection of paleontological resources on Federal 
lands, H.R. 57, to repeal certain sections of the Act of May 26, 
1936, pertaining to the Virgin Islands, and S. 200, to require the 
Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Reclamation 
and the United States Geological Survey, to conduct a study on 
groundwater resources in the State of Alaska, 11:30 a.m., SD-366.
  February 1, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine 
accelerated biofuels diversity, focusing on how home-grown, 
biologically derived fuels can blend into the nation's 
transportation fuel mix, 9:30 a.m., SDG-50.

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  Committee on Environment and Public Works: January 30, 
organizational business meeting to consider an original resolution 
authorizing expenditures for committee operations; to be followed by 
a hearing to examine Senators' perspectives on global warming, 
focusing on Senators' views on global warming and what each Senator 
believes the nation's response should be to the issue, 9 a.m., SD-
406.
  Committee on Finance: February 1, to hold hearings to examine 
improving the health of America's children relating to the future of 
Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: January 30, to hold hearings to 
examine the nomination of John D. Negroponte, of New York, to be 
Deputy Secretary of State, 9:30 a.m., SH-216.
  January 30, Full Committee, to resume hearings to examine securing 
America's interests in Iraq, focusing on the remaining options, 
alternative plans and the Iraq Study Group, 1 p.m., SH-216.
  January 31, Full Committee, to continue hearings to examine 
securing America's interests in Iraq, focusing on the remaining 
options in Iraq in the strategic context, 9:15 a.m., SH-216.
  February 1, Full Committee, to continue hearings to examine 
securing America's interests in Iraq, focusing on the remaining 
options in Iraq in the strategic context, 9:15 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: January 31, 
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: February 
1, Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal 
Workforce, and the District of Columbia, to hold hearings to examine 
privacy implications of the Federal government's health information 
technology initiative relating to private health records, focusing 
on the efforts of Department of Health and Human Services to 
integrate privacy into the Health Information Technology national 
infrastructure and Office of Personnel Management's efforts to 
expand the use of Health Information Technology through the Federal 
Employees Health Benefits Program and the impact such actions have 
on Federal employees' health information privacy, 2:30 p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: February 1, to hold hearings to 
examine the nomination of Carl Joseph Artman, of Colorado, to be an 
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs; to be 
followed by a business meeting to consider the nomination, 9:30 
a.m., SR-485.
  Committee on the Judiciary: January 30, to hold hearings to 
examine exercising Congress' constitutional power to end a war, 10 
a.m., SD-226.
  January 31, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the Iraq 
Study Group, focusing on recommendations for improvements to Iraq's 
police and criminal justice system, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  January 31, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland 
Security, to hold hearings to examine challenges and strategies for 
securing the U.S. border, 2:30 p.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Rules and Administration: January 31, 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, 9:30 
a.m., SR-301.
  Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: January 31, to 
hold hearings to examine Federal small business assistance programs 
for veterans and reservists, 10 a.m., SR-428A.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: January 30, closed business 
meeting and hearing regarding certain intelligence matters, 2:30 
p.m., SH-219.
  January 31, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
nomination of J. Michael McConnell, of Virginia, to be Director of 
National Intelligence, 2:30 p.m., SD-106.
  February 1, Full Committee, to hold closed hearings to examine 
certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  Special Committee on Aging: January 31, to hold hearings to 
examine if Medicare Part D is working for low-income seniors, 10:30 
a.m., SD-562.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Appropriations, January 30, Subcommittee on Homeland 
Security, on 5 and 10 year Homeland Security Goals: Where We Need to 
be as a Nation and How We Judge Progress, 10 a.m., and 2 p.m., 2359 
Rayburn.
  January 31, Subcommittee on Homeland Security, on Major Management 
Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security in 
Implementing Legislated and Other Security Improvements, 11 a.m., 
2358 Rayburn.
  January 31, Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related 
Programs, on Oversight of Assistance Programs in Iraq, 10 a.m., 2359 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Armed Services, January 30, hearing on Security and 
Stability in Afghanistan: Challenges and Opportunities, 10 a.m., 
2118 Rayburn.
  January 30, Subcommittee on Military Personnel, hearing on 
examination of the force requirements determination process, 2 p.m., 
2212 Rayburn.
  January 31, Subcommittee on Air and Land Forces and the 
Subcommittee on Readiness, joint hearing on Army equipment reset, 10 
a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  January 31, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, hearing on the 
Department of Energy's implementation of the National Nuclear 
Security Administration Act of 2000, 1 p.m., 2226 Rayburn.
  January 31, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and 
Capabilities, hearing on current manning, equipping and readiness 
challenges facing Special Operations Forces, 3 p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Budget, January 30, hearing on the Congressional 
Budget Office's Budget and Economic Outlook, 10 a.m., 210 Cannon.
  Committee on Education and Labor, January 30, Subcommittee on 
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hearing on Protecting Workers from Genetic Discrimination, 10:30 
a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  January 31, full Committee, hearing on Strengthening America's 
Middle Class: Evaluating the Economic Squeeze on America's Families, 
10:30 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, January 31, to meet for 
organizational purposes, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, January 31, hearing on Understanding 
the Iran Crisis, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, January 31, oversight hearing entitled 
``Presidential Signing Statements under the Bush Administration: A 
Threat to Checks and Balances and the Rule of Law?'' 10:15 a.m., 
2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, January 30, hearing 
on allegations of political interference with the work of government 
climate change scientists, 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, January 30, to consider a House Joint 
Resolution making Continuing Appropriations for the fiscal year 
2007, 3 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science and Technology, January 30, Subcommittee on 
Energy and Environment, hearing on H.R. 547, Advanced Fuels 
Infrastructure Research and Development Act, 2 p.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  January 31, full Committee, to mark up the following measures: 
H.R. 547, Advanced Fuels Infrastructure Research and Development 
Act; and H. Res. 72, Recognizing the work and accomplishments of Mr. 
Britt ``Max'' Mayfield, Director of the National Hurricane Center's 
Tropical Center's Tropical Prediction Center upon his retirement, 11 
a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, January 31, to meet for 
organizational purposes, 12 p.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, January 30, 
Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, oversight 
hearing of the Coast Guard Integrated Deepwater System, 11 a.m., 
2167 Rayburn.
  January 30 and 31, Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and 
Hazardous Materials, hearings on Reauthorization of the Federal Rail 
Safety Program, 2 p.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  January 31, Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, to 
mark up pending business, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, January 30, to meet for 
organizational purposes, 2 p.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, January 30, hearing on Trade and 
Globalization, 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  January 30, Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures, to meet for 
organizational purposes, 4 p.m., B-318 Rayburn.
  January 30, Subcommittee on Trade, to meet for organizational 
purposes, 3 p.m., 1105 Longworth.
  January 31, full Committee, hearing on the Economic Challenges 
Facing Middle Class Families, 2 p.m., 1100 Longworth.
  January 31, Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, to 
meet for organizational purposes, 10 a.m., B-318 Rayburn.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Economic Committee: January 31, to hold hearings to examine 
ensuring the economic future by promoting middle-class prosperity, 
9:30 a.m., SD-106.