[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 184 (Tuesday, December 4, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1570-D1571]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





           COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2007

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Environment and Public Works: 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. 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 the Judiciary: to hold hearings to examine 
reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency

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Prevention Act (Public Law 93-415), focusing on protecting children 
and communities, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the foreclosure 
crisis, focusing on helping families save their homes, 2:30 p.m., 
SD-226.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: 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: 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: to hold hearings to examine the 
elderly who have been displaced by war, poverty, and persecution 
abroad, 10:30 a.m., SD-106.


                                 House

  Committee on Armed Services, 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, 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, to mark up a resolution to add a 
Rule 24 to the Rules of the Committee on Education and Labor to 
Provide a Process for Taking Depositions, 12 p.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on 
Telecommunications and the Internet, hearing entitled ``Oversight of 
the Federal Communications Commission: Media Ownership,'' 9:30 a.m., 
2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Housing and 
Community Opportunity, hearing entitled ``Affordable Housing Needs 
of America's Low Income Veterans,'' 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, hearing on After Annapolis: Next 
Steps in the Middle East Peace Process, 2:30 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, 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, hearing on Executive 
Pay and the Role of Compensation Consultants, 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, to consider H. Res. 836, Granting the 
authority provided under clause 4(c)(3) of rule X of the Rules of 
the House of Representatives to the Committee on Education and Labor 
for purposes of its investigation into the deaths of 9 individuals 
that occurred at the Crandall Canyon Mine near Huntington, Utah, 2 
p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, executive, briefing on 
Iran, 10 a.m., H-405 Capitol.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Hearing: 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.