[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 103 (Monday, June 25, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D897-D899]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR TUESDAY,

                             JUNE 26, 2007

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, 
Science, and Related Agencies, business meeting to mark up proposed 
legislation making appropriations for Commerce, Justice, Science and 
Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, 2:30 
p.m., SD-124.
  Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, business meeting to 
mark up proposed legislation making appropriations for Energy and 
Water Development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, 3 
p.m., SD-192.
  Committee on Armed Services: to receive a closed briefing from the 
Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO), 9:30 
a.m., SR-222.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Housing, Transportation and Community Development, to hold hearings 
to examine ending mortgage abuse, focusing on safeguarding 
homebuyers, 2:30 p.m., SD-538.
  Committee on the Budget: to continue hearings to examine health 
care and the budget, focusing on the Healthy Americans Act and other 
options for reform, 9:30 a.m., SD-608.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold 
hearings to examine the impact of media violence on children, 10 
a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: to hold an oversight 
hearing to examine the preparedness of the federal land management 
agencies for the 2007 wildfire season and efforts to contain the 
costs of wildfire management activities, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Rules and Administration: to hold hearings to examine 
Smithsonian Institution governance reform, focusing on a report by 
the Smithsonian's Independent Review Committee, 10 a.m., SR-301.
  Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: business meeting 
to consider original bills entitled, ``Entrepreneurial Development 
Act of 2007'', ``Small Business Venture Capital Act of 2007'', and 
other pending calendar business, 10 a.m., SR-428A.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: closed business meeting to mark 
up S. 1547, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for 
military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of 
Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal 
year, and S. 1548, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 
for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe 
military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, 1:30 p.m., SH-
219.
  Full Committee, to hold closed hearings to examine certain 
intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.

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                                 House

  Committee on Armed Services, hearing on structure, process and 
tools for improving Department of Defense Management, 10 a.m., 2118 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Military Personnel, hearing on findings of the 
Independent Review Group and an in-progress review of actions at 
Walter Reed, 1 p.m., 2218 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Seapower and Expeditionary Forces, hearing on the 
Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle Program, 4 p.m., 2212 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Budget, hearing on Foreign Holdings of U.S. Debt: 
Is Our Economy Vulnerable? 2 p.m., 210 Cannon.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations, hearing entitled ``Predatory Sales Practices in 
Medicare Advantage,'' 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, to consider the following 
measures: H.R. 2547, FDIC Enforcement Enhancement Act; H. Con. Res. 
140, Recognizing the low presence of minorities in the Financial 
services industry and minorities and women in upper level positions 
of management, and expressing the sense of the Congress that active 
measures should be taken to increase the demographic diversity of 
the financial services industry; and H.R. 2786, Native American 
Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Reauthorization Act of 
2007, 10 a.m., and to hold a hearing entitled ``A Review of Investor 
Protection and Market Oversight With the Five Commissioners of the 
Securities and Exchange Commission,'' 2 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, to mark up the following measures: 
H.R. 176, Shirley A. Chisholm United States-Caribbean Educational 
Exchange Act of 2007; H.R. 1400, Iran Counter-Proliferation Act of 
2007; Food Security and Agricultural Development Act of 2007; H.R. 
2003, Ethiopia Democracy and Accountability Act of 2007; H. Res. 
121, Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the 
Government of Japan should formally acknowledge, apologize, and 
accept historical responsibility in a clear and unequivocal manner 
for its Imperial Armed Force's coercion of young women into sexual 
slavery, known to the world as ``comfort women,'' during its 
colonial and wartime occupation of Asia and the Pacific Islands from 
the 1930s through the duration of World War II; H.R. 2798, To 
reauthorize the programs of the Overseas Private Investment 
Corporation; H.R. 2293, To require the Secretary of State to submit 
to Congress a report on efforts to bring to justice the Palestinian 
terrorists who killed John Branchizio, Mark Parson, and John Marin 
Linde; the Library of Congress Public Diplomacy Collection Act of 
2007; S. 377, U.S.-Poland Parliamentary Youth Exchange Act of 2007; 
H. Res. 208, Honoring Operation Smile in the 25th anniversary year 
of its founding; H. Res. 287, To celebrate the 500th anniversary of 
the first use of the name ``America,'' H. Res. 294, Commending the 
Kingdom of Lesotho, on the occasion of International Women's Day, 
for the enactment of a law to improve the status of married women 
and ensure the access of married women to property rights; H. Res. 
378, Honoring World Red Cross Red Crescent Day; H. Res. 380, 
Resolution commending Idaho on winning the bid to host the 2009 
Special Olympics World Winter Games; H. Res. 426, Recognizing 2007 
as the Year of the Rights of Internally Displaced Persons in 
Colombia, and offering support for efforts to ensure that the 
internally displace people of Colombia receive the assistance and 
protection they need to rebuild their lives successfully; H. Res. 
427, Urging the Government of Canada to end the commercial seal 
hunt; H. Res. 457, Calling on the Russian Federation to withdraw its 
military forces, armaments, and ammunition stockpiles from the 
sovereign territory of the Republic of Moldova; H. Res. 467, 
Condemning the decision by the University and College Union of the 
United Kingdom to support a boycott of Israeli academia; H. Res. 
482, Expressing support for the new power-sharing government in 
Northern Ireland; H. Res. 497, Expressing the sense of the House of 
Representatives that the Government of the People's Republic of 
China should immediately release from custody the children of Rebiya 
Kadeer and Canadian citizen Huseyin Celil and should refrain from 
further engaging in acts of cultural, linguistic, and religious 
suppression directed against the Uyghur people; H. Res. 500, 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives in opposition 
to efforts by major natural gas exporting countries to establish a 
cartel or other mechanism to manipulate the supply of natural gas to 
the world market for the purpose of setting an arbitrary and 
nonmarket price or as an instrument of political pressure; and H. 
Con. Res. 136, Expressing the sense of Congress regarding high level 
visits to the United States by democratically-elected officials of 
Taiwan; and H. Con. Res. 139, Expressing the sense of the Congress 
that the United States should address the ongoing problem of 
untouchability in India, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, hearing on Violence in Central 
America, 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Commercial and 
Administrative Law, hearing on the National Football League's System 
for Compensating Retired Players: An Uneven Playing Field? 1 p.m., 
2141 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil 
Liberties, oversight hearing on Habeas Corpus and Detention at 
Guantanamo Bay, 2 p.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, hearing on 
Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Laws--the Issues, 9:30 a.m., 2141 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Fisheries, 
Wildlife and Oceans, hearing on The Bird and The Bees: How 
Pollinators Help Maintain Healthy Ecosystems, 1 p.m., 1324 
Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on 
Domestic Policy, hearing on Adequacy of Labor Law Enforcement in New 
Orleans, 2 p.m., 2247 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives, 
hearing on 2010 Census: Improving Local Government Participation in 
LUCA, 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, to consider H.R. 2829, making appropriations 
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for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, 2 p.m., H-313 
Capitol.
  Committee on Science and Technology, Subcommittee on Technology 
and Innovation, hearing on SBIR and STTR--How Are the Programs 
Managed Today? 2 p.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, to mark up the following 
bills: H.R. 2722, Integrated Deepwater Reform Act; and H.R. 2830, 
Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2007, 2 p.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials, 
hearing on Benefits of Intercity Passenger Rail, 10 a.m., 2167 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Health, hearing on 
Safe and Sensible: Ensuring Kidney Patients Receive Safe and 
Appropriate Anemia Management Care, 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, executive, to consider 
Member Requests, 5:30 p.m., H-405 Capitol.
  Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, executive, briefing 
on the Office of the Department of Defense Inspector General, 2:30 
p.m., H-405 Capitol.
  Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical, executive, hearing on 
Technical Programs, 4 p.m., H-405 Capitol.