[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 183 (Monday, December 3, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1560-D1562]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

              Week of December 3 through December 8, 2007

                             Senate Chamber

  On Tuesday, at 11:00 a.m., Senate will continue consideration of H.R. 
3688, United States-Peru Trade Promotion Act and vote on its passage at 
2:15 p.m.
  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: December 6, Subcommittee on Readiness 
and Management Support, to hold hearings to examine the report of 
the Commission on Army Acquisition and Program Management in 
Expeditionary Operations entitled ``Urgent Reform Required: Army 
Expeditionary Contracting'', 2:30 p.m., SR-222.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: December 4, 
business meeting to consider S. 1581, to establish an interagency 
committee to develop an ocean acidification research and monitoring 
plan and to establish an ocean acidification program within the 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, S. 2307, to amend 
the Global Change Research Act of 1990, S. 2355, to amend the 
National Climate Program Act to enhance the ability of the United 
States to develop and implement climate change adaptation programs 
and policies, and S. 2332, to promote transparency in the adoption 
of new media ownership rules by the Federal Communications 
Commission, and to establish an independent panel to make 
recommendations on how to increase the representation of women and 
minorities in broadcast media ownership, and promotion lists in the 
United States Coast Guard and National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration Commission Corps (NOAA), 2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: December 5, business 
meeting to consider S. 2191, to direct the Administrator of the 
Environmental Protection Agency to establish a program to decrease 
emissions of greenhouse gases, and the nominations of John S. 
Bresland, of New Jersey, to be Chairperson, and Charles Russell 
Horner Shearer, of Delaware, both to be Members of the Chemical 
Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, William H.

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Graves, of Tennessee, Susan Richardson Williams, of Tennessee, and 
Thomas C. Gilliland, of Georgia, all to be Members of the Board of 
Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority, 9 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: December 6, Subcommittee on 
International Development and Foreign Assistance, Economic Affairs 
and International Environmental Protection, to hold hearings to 
examine the United States foreign assistance to Pakistan, 2:30 p.m., 
SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: December 4, 
to hold hearings to examine developing a comprehensive response to 
food safety, 10:30 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: December 
4, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, to hold hearings to 
examine credit card practices, focusing on unfair interest rate 
increases, 9:30 a.m., SD-106.
  December 4, Ad Hoc Subcommittee on State, Local, and Private 
Sector Preparedness and Integration, to hold hearings to examine the 
earthquake zone within the central Mississippi Valley, extending 
from northeast Arkansas, through southeast Missouri, western 
Tennessee, western Kentucky to southern Illinois, known as the 
Madrid Seismic Zone, 2:30 p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: December 4, to hold hearings to 
examine electronic prescribing of controlled substances, addressing 
health care and law enforcement priorities, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  December 5, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine 
reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention 
Act (Public Law 93-415), focusing on protecting children and 
communities, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  December 5, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
foreclosure crisis, focusing on helping families save their homes, 
2:30 p.m., SD-226.
  December 6, Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. 344, 
to permit the televising of Supreme Court proceedings, S. 1638, to 
adjust the salaries of Federal justices and judges, S. 1829, to 
reauthorize programs under the Missing Children's Assistance Act, S. 
431, to require convicted sex offenders to register online 
identifiers, S. 352, to provide for media coverage of Federal court 
proceedings, S. 2344, to create a competitive grant program to 
provide for age-appropriate Internet education for children, and the 
nomination of Ronald Jay Tenpas, of Maryland, to be an Assistant 
Attorney General, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: December 5, to hold hearings to 
examine the nomination of James B. Peake, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs, 9:30 a.m., SD-G50.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: December 5, closed meeting of 
conferees on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 
2008 for the intelligence community, 3 p.m., S-407, Capitol.
  Special Committee on Aging: December 5, to hold hearings to 
examine the elderly who have been displaced by war, poverty, and 
persecution abroad, 10:30 a.m., SD-106.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Armed Services, December 5, Subcommittee on Oversight 
and Investigations, hearing on Provincial Reconstruction Teams--
Historical and Current Perspectives on Doctrine and Strategy, 2 
p.m., 2212 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Budget, December 5, hearing on the State of the 
U.S. Economy and Implications for the Federal Budget, 10 a.m., 210 
Cannon.
  Committee on Education and Labor, December 5, to mark up a 
resolution to add a Rules 24 to the Rules of the Committee to 
Provide a Process for Taking Depositions, 12 p.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, December 4, Subcommittee on 
Health, hearing on the following bills: H.R. 1343, Health Centers 
Renewal Act of 2007; H.R. 2915, National Health Service Corps 
Scholarship and Loan Replacement Programs Reauthorization Act of 
2007; and H.R. 4230, School-Based Health Clinic Act of 2007, 2 p.m., 
2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, December 5, Subcommittee on 
Housing and Community Opportunity, hearing entitled ``Affordable 
Housing Needs of America's Low Income Veterans,'' 10 a.m., 2128 
Rayburn.
  December 5, Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, 
hearing entitled ``Oversight of the Federal Communications 
Commission: Media Ownership,'' 9:30 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  December 6, full Committee, hearing entitled ``Accelerating Loan 
Modifications, Improving Foreclosure Prevention and Enhancing 
Enforcement,'' 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, December 5, hearing on After 
Annapolis: Next Steps in the Middle East Peace Process, 2:30 p.m., 
2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on House Administration, December 6, Subcommittee on 
Elections, oversight hearing on the Use of Robocalls in Federal 
Compaigns, 11 a.m., 1310 Longworth.
  Committee on the Judiciary, December 6, Subcommittee on Commercial 
and Administrative Law, hearing on H.R. 3396, Sales Tax Fairness and 
Simplification Act, 10 a.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  December 6, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland 
Security, hearing on Promoting Inmate Rehabilitation and Successful 
Release Planning, 11 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, December 5, Subcommittee on 
Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans, oversight hearing entitled 
``Rebuilding overfished fisheries under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 
Management Act,'' 11 a.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, December 5, hearing 
on Executive Pay and the Role of Compensation Consultants, 10 a.m., 
2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, December 6, hearing to review 
legislation to improve the Regulatory Flexibility Act, 10 a.m., 2360 
Rayburn.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, December 5, full 
Committee, executive, briefing on Iran, 10 a.m., H-405 Capitol.

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  December 6, Subcommittee on Intelligence Community Management, 
hearing on DNI's 500 Day Plan, 9:30 a.m., 2212 Rayburn.
  December 6, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Human Intelligence, 
Analysis and Counterintelligence, executive, briefing on Colombia, 2 
p.m., H-405 Capitol.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Hearing: December 5, Senate Select Committee on 
Intelligence, closed meeting of conferees on proposed legislation 
authorizing funds for fiscal year 2008 for the intelligence 
community, 3 p.m., S-407, Capitol.