[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 95 (Wednesday, June 13, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D820-D821]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





             COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 2007

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: business meeting to mark up proposed 
legislation making appropriations for Military Construction, 
Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies, and Homeland Security for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, and to consider 302(b) 
subcommittee allocations of budget outlays and new budget authority 
for fiscal year 2008, 2 p.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Armed Services: business meeting to mark up an 
original bill entitled ``Dignified Treatment of Wounded Warriors 
Act,'' 9:30 a.m., SR-325.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold 
hearings to examine public safety and competition issues, focusing 
on the 700MHz auction, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider S. 535, 
to establish an Unsolved Crimes Section in the Civil Rights Division 
of the Department of Justice, and an Unsolved Civil Rights Crime 
Investigative Office in the Civil Rights Unit of the Federal Bureau 
of Investigation, S. 456, 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 expand and 
improve gang prevention programs, S. 1145, to amend title 35, United 
States Code, to provide for patent reform, S. Res. 105, designating 
September 2007 as ``Campus Fire Safety Month,'' S. Res. 215, 
designating September 25, 2007, as ``National First Responder 
Appreciation Day,'' the nomination of Leslie Southwick, of 
Mississippi, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth 
Circuit, and possible authorization of subpoenas in connection with 
the investigation of the legal basis for the warrantless wiretap 
program, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: to hold hearings 
to examine the impact of rising gas prices on America's small 
businesses, 9:30 a.m., SR-428A.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold closed hearings to 
examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Department Operations, 
Oversight, Nutrition, and Forestry, to consider H.R. 2419, Farm Bill 
Extension Act of 2007, 10 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, hearing on Deal or No Deal: The 
State of the Trans-Atlantic Relationship, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on International Operations, Human Rights, and 
Oversight, hearing on Is There a Human Rights Double Standard? U.S. 
Policy Toward Saudi Arabia, Iran and Uzbekistan, 2 p.m., 2172 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Intelligence, 
Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment, hearing entitled 
``Assessing and Addressing the Threat: Defining the Role of a 
National Commission on the Prevention of Violent Radicalization and 
Homegrown Terrorism,'' 10 a.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on House Administration,, Election Task Force, to 
consider GAO Work Plan, 3 p.m., 1310 Longworth.
  Committee on the Judiciary, hearing on H.R. 2102, Free Flow of 
Information Act of 2007, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on National Parks, 
Forests and Public Lands, hearing on the following bills: H.R. 442, 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability 
and feasibility of designating the Wolf House, located in Norfolk, 
Arkansas, as a unit of the National Park System; H.R. 761, To 
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the Missouri 
River Basin Lewis and Clark Interpretative Trail and Visitor Center 
Foundation, Inc. certain Federal land associated with the Lewis and 
Clark National Historic Trail in Nebraska, to be used as a 
historical interpretive site along the trail; H.R. 1625, Abraham 
Lincoln National Heritage Area Act; H.R. 1835, Rim of the Valley 
Corridor Study Act; and H.R. 2197, Hopewell Culture National 
Historical Park Boundary Adjustment Act, 10 a.m., 1334 Longworth.

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  Committee on Science and Technology, Subcommittee on Energy and 
Environment, hearing on A Path Toward the Broader Use of Biofuels: 
Enhancing the Federal Commitment to Research and Development to Meet 
Growing Needs, 2:30 p.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, to mark up the FAA Research 
and Development Reauthorization Act of 2007, 10:30 a.m., 2318 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, hearing on the SBA's Microloan 
Program, 10 a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, to consider the 
following: H.R. 2095, Federal Railroad Safety Improvement Act; and 
the Transportation Energy Security and Climate Change Mitigation Act 
of 207, 3 p.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee Health, hearing on 
the following bills: H.R. 1448, VA Hospital Quality Report Card Act 
of 2007; H.R. 1853, Jose Medina Veterans' Affairs Police Training 
Act of 2007; H.R. 1925, To direct the Secretary of Veterans' Affairs 
to establish a separate Veterans' Integrated Service Network for the 
Gulf Coast region of the United States; H.R. 2005, Rural Veterans 
Health Care Improvement Act of 2007; H.R. 2172, Amputee Veterans 
Assistance Act; H.R. 2173, To amend title 38, United States Code, to 
authorize additional funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs 
to increase the capacity for provision of mental health service 
through contracts with community Mental health centers; H.R. 2219, 
Veterans Suicide Prevention Hotline Act of 2007; H.R. 2192, To amend 
title 38, United States Code, to establish an Ombudsman within the 
Department of Veterans' Affairs; and draft and discussion on Mental 
Health and Homelessness, 10 a.m., 340 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, hearing on Promoting U.S. Worker 
Competitiveness in a Globalized Economy, 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence executive, hearing on 
FISA, 9:30 a.m., H-405 Capitol.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Economic Committee: to hold hearings to examine importing 
success, focusing on work-family policies from aboard make economic 
sense for the United States, 10 a.m., SH-216.