[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 190 (Wednesday, December 12, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1618-D1619]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2007

          (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: to hold hearings to 
examine shopping smart and avoiding scams, focusing on financial literacy 
during the holiday season, 10:30 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold an 
oversight hearing to examine the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 
10 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands 
and Forests, to hold hearings to examine forest restoration and hazardous 
fuels reduction efforts in the forests of Oregon and Washington, 2:30 
p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: to hold hearings to examine 
the Clean Water Act (Public Law 92-500), focusing on the Supreme Court 
decisions in Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County and Rapanos-
Carabell, 9 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: to hold hearings to examine the housing decline, 
focusing on the extent of the problem and potential remedies, 10 a.m., 
SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine 
perspectives on the next phase of the global fight against HIV/AIDS, 
tuberculosis, and malaria, 2:30 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Employment and Workplace Safety, to hold joint hearings with the House 
Committee on Education and Labor Subcommittee on Health, Employment, 
Labor and Pensions to examine the National Labor Relations Board, 
focusing on decisions and their impact on worker's rights, 10 a.m., 2175-
RHOB.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the 
District of Columbia, to hold hearings to examine prioritizing 
management, focusing on implementing chief management officers at federal 
agencies, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to hold hearings to examine S. 344, to 
permit the televising of Supreme Court proceedings, S. 2402, to provide 
for the substitution of the United States in certain civil actions, 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. 
2344, to create a competitive grant program to provide for age-
appropriate Internet education for children, S. 352, to provide for media 
coverage of Federal court proceedings, S. Res. 388, designating the week 
of February 4 through February 8, 2008, as ``National Teen Dating 
Violence Awareness and Prevention Week'', and S. Res. 396, expressing the 
sense of the Senate that the hanging of nooses for the purpose of 
intimidation should be thoroughly investigated by Federal, State, and 
local law enforcement authorities and that any criminal violations should 
be vigorously prosecuted, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: business meeting to consider the 
nomination of James B. Peake, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Time to be announced, Room to be 
announced.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold closed hearings to examine 
certain intelligence matters, 3 p.m., SH-219.


                                  House

  Committee on Appropriations, Select Intelligence Oversight Panel, 
executive, hearing on CIA Interrogation Program, 1 p.m., H-140 Capitol.
  Committee on Armed Services, hearing on global maritime strategy 
initiatives, 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Budget, hearing on CBO's Long-Term Budget Outlook, 10 
a.m., 210 Cannon.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 
4040, Consumer Product Safety Modernization Act; and H.R. 1216, Cameron 
Gulbransen Kids and Cars Safety Act; and to consider pending Committee 
business, 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts, The Internet, and 
Intellectual Property, hearing on H.R.

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4279, Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property 
Act of 2007, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, hearing on 
oversight of State-Run Juvenile Correctional Facilities known as ``Boot 
Camps,'' 1 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, hearing on Assessing 
Veterans' Charities, 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, to mark up H.R. 4458, Small Business 
Regulatory Improvement Act, 10 a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, executive, hearing on Latin 
America: Destabilizing Effects of the Drug Trade, 9 a.m., H-405 Capitol.
  Subcommittee on Intelligence Community Management, hearing on Security 
Clearance Reform, 1 p.m., 311 Cannon.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and 
Pensions, Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety, to hold joint 
hearings with the House Committee on Education and Labor Subcommittee on 
Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions to examine the National Labor 
Relations Board, focusing on decisions and their impact on worker's 
rights, 10 a.m., 2175-RHOB.
  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: to hold hearings to 
examine freedom of the media in the Organization for Security and Co-
operation in Europe (OSCE) region, 10 a.m., B318-RHOB.