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





            COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2007

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: 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 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: 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: Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations, to hold hearings to examine credit 
card practices, focusing on unfair interest rate increases, 9:30 
a.m., SD-106.
  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: to hold hearings to examine electronic 
prescribing of controlled substances, addressing health care and law 
enforcement priorities, 10 a.m., SD-226.