[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 21 (Monday, February 5, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D138-D139]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                         COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR

                       TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2007

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Armed Services: to hold hearings to examine the 
President's budget request for fiscal year 2008 and the fiscal years 
2007 and 2008 war supplemental requests in review of the Defense 
Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2008 and the Future Years 
Defense Program, 9:30 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on the Budget: to hold hearings to examine war costs, 10 
a.m., SD-608.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: to hold an oversight 
hearing to examine recent Environmental Protection Agency decisions, 
focusing on EPA actions and documents, including monitoring 
regulations related to perchlorate, the process for setting National 
Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), the lead NAAQS process, air 
toxics control (the ``once in always in'' policy), the Toxic Release 
Inventory, and EPA library closures, 10 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: to hold hearings to examine the President's 
Fiscal Year 2008 budget proposal, 2:45 p.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs, 
to hold hearings to examine a comprehensive stabilization, 
reconstruction and counter-terrorism strategy for Somalia, 10 a.m., 
SD-628.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to hold hearings to examine if the 
Department of Justice is politicizing the hiring and firing of U.S. 
attorneys relating to preserving prosecutorial independence, 9:30 
a.m., SD-226.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the nominations of 
John Preston Bailey, to be United States District Judge for the 
Northern District of West Virginia, and Otis D. Wright II, and 
George H. Wu, each to be United States District Judge for the 
Central District of California, 2:30 p.m., SD-226.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold closed hearings to 
examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                                 House

  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Homeland Security, on 
Major Management Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland 
Security in Implementing Legislated and Other Security Improvements, 
10 a.m., 2362A Rayburn.
  Committee on the Budget, hearing on the President's Fiscal Year 
2008 Budget, 10 a.m., 210 Cannon.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, hearing entitled ``A Review of 
the Department of Health and Human Services' Fiscal Year 2008 
Budget,'' 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, to consider 
authorizing the issuance of subpoenas in connection with a planned 
hearing on adequacy of the Food and Drug Administration to assure 
the safety of the drug supply, 9:30 a.m., 2218 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, hearing entitled ``Federal 
Housing Response to Hurricane Katrina,'' 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Transportation and 
Infrastructure, hearing entitled ``Update on Federal Rail and Public 
Transportation Security Efforts,'' 10 a.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and 
Homeland Security, hearing and mark up of the following bills: H.R. 
545, Native American Methamphetamine Enforcement and Treatment Act 
of 2007; H.R. 137, Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act of 
2007; and H.R. 740, To amend title 18, United States Code, to 
prevent caller ID spoofing, 1 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, hearing entitled 
``The Lasting Impact of CPA Decision-Making on Iraq 
Reconstruction,'' 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management, to 
mark up the following: a measure to direct the Administrator of 
General Services to install a photovoltaic system for the 
headquarters building of the Department of Energy; the Appalachian 
Regional Development Act Amendments of 2007; H.R. 187, To designate 
the Federal building and United States courthouse and customhouse 
located at 515 West First Street in Duluth, Minnesota, as the 
``Gerald W. Heaney Federal Building and United States Courthouse and 
Customhouse;'' H.R. 342, To designate the United States courthouse 
located at 555 Independent Street, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, as the 
``Rush Hudson Limbaugh, Sr., United States Courthouse;'' H.R. 399, 
To designate the United States Courthouse to be constructed in 
Jackson, Mississippi, as the ``R. Jess Brown United States 
Courthouse;'' H.R. 429, To designate the United States courthouse 
located at 225 Cadman Plaza East, Brooklyn, New York, as the ``Hugh 
L. Carey United States Courthouse;'' H.R. 430, To designate the 
United States bankruptcy courthouse located at 271 Cadman Plaza 
East, Brooklyn,

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New York as the ``Conrad Duberstein United States Bankruptcy 
Courthouse;'' H.R. 478, To designate the Federal building and United 
States courthouse located at 101 Barr Street in Lexington, Kentucky, 
as the ``Scott Reed Federal Building and United States Courthouse;'' 
H.R. 544, To designate the United States courthouse at South Federal 
Place in Sante Fe, New Mexico, as the ``Santiago E. Campos United 
States Courthouse;'' and H.R. 584, To designate the headquarters 
building of the Department of Education in Washington, D.C., as the 
Lyndon Baines Johnson Federal Building, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, hearing on the President's FY 2008 
budget proposals, 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.