[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 74 (Tuesday, May 6, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D556-D557]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                              MAY 7, 2008

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and 
Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, to hold hearings to 
examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2009 for the 
Department of Labor, 9:45 a.m., SD-124.
  Subcommittee on Defense, to hold closed hearings to examine 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2009 for the United States 
intelligence community, 10:30 a.m., S-407, Capitol.
  Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, to hold 
hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2009 
for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and 
Exchange Commission, 3 p.m., SD-192.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Securities, Insurance and Investment, to hold hearings to examine 
United States credit markets, focusing on the regulation of 
investment banks by the United States Securities and Exchange 
Commission, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee 
on Space, Aeronautics, and Related Agencies, to hold hearings to 
examine reauthorization of vision for space exploration, 9:30 a.m., 
SR-253.
  Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security, to hold 
hearings to examine the state of the airline industry, focusing on 
the impact of the Delta/Northwest airlines merger, 2:30 p.m., SR-
253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: business meeting to 
consider the nominations of Jeffrey F. Kupfer, of Maryland, to be 
Deputy Secretary of Energy, and Kameran L. Onley, of Washington, to 
be an Assistant Secretary of the Interior, and other pending 
legislation, 9:45 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Public 
Sector Solutions to Global Warming, Oversight, and Children's Health 
Protection, to hold an oversight hearing to examine science and 
environmental regulatory decisions, 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat, of New Jersey, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Senegal, and to serve concurrently and 
without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of 
Guinea-Bissau, Gillian Arlette Milovanovic, of Pennsylvania, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Mali, Donald Gene Teitelbaum, of 
Texas, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Ghana, Linda Thomas-
Greenfield, of Louisiana, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Liberia, Peter William Bodde, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Malawi, Donald E. Booth, of Virginia, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of Zambia, Marianne Matuzic Myles, of New York, to 
be Ambassador to the Republic of Cape Verde, and Stephen James 
Nolan, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Botswana, 
and Patricia McMahon Hawkins, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the 
Togolese Republic, all of the Department of State, 9:30 a.m., SD-
419.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine international 
Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (the 
``Convention''), adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 
April 13, 2005, and signed on behalf of the United States of America 
on September 14, 2005 (Treaty Doc.110-04), amendment to the 
Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (the 
``Amendment''). A conference of States Parties to the Convention on 
the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material, adopted on October 28, 
1979, adopted the Amendment on July 8, 2005, at the International 
Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna (Treaty Doc.110-06), and protocol of 
2005 to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against 
the Safety of Maritime Navigation (the ``2005 SUA Protocol'') and 
the Protocol of 2005 to the Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful 
Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the 
Continental Shelf (the ``2005 Fixed Platforms Protocol'') (together, 
``the Protocols''), adopted by the International Maritime

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Organization Diplomatic Conference in London on October 14, 2005, 
and signed by the United States of America on February 17, 2006 
(Treaty Doc.110-08), 2:30 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: to hold 
hearings to examine fuel subsidies relating to food supply and 
prices, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Helene N. White, and Raymond M. Kethledge, both of 
Michigan, both to be United States Circuit Judges for the Sixth 
Circuit, and Stephen Joseph Murphy III, to be United States District 
Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, 
to hold hearings to examine concentration in agriculture, focusing 
on an examination of the JBS Swift Group acquisitions, 2:30 p.m., 
SD-226.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: to hold hearings to examine 
pending benefits legislation, 9:30 a.m., SD-106.


                                 House

  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Legislative Branch, 
to continue appropriation hearings with public witnesses, 10 a.m., 
2359 Rayburn.
  Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Air and Land Forces, 
to mark up H.R. 5658, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2009, 10:30 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Military Personnel, to mark up H.R. 5658, National 
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009, 11:30 a.m., 2212 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, to mark up H.R. 5658, National 
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009, 1 p.m., 2118 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, to mark up the following bills: 
H.R. 1343. Health Centers Renewal Act of 2007; H.R. 5669, Poison 
Center Support, Enhancement, and Awareness Act of 2008; and H.R. 
1553, Conquer Childhood Cancer Act of 2007, 11 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, hearing on U.S. Foreign Policy in 
Pakistan: Implications for Regional Security, Stability and 
Development, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, 
and Global Counterterrorism, hearing entitled ``Assessing the 
Resiliency of the Nation's Supply Chain,'' 2 p.m., 311 Cannon.
  Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure Protection to 
continue mark up of the following measures: H.R. 4179, Fair, 
Accurate, Secure and Timely Redress Act of 2007; H.R. 4749, National 
Bombing Prevention Act of 2008; H.R. 5909, To amend the Aviation and 
Transportation Security Act to prohibit advance notice to certain 
individuals, including security screeners, of covert testing of 
security screening procedures for the purpose of enhancing 
transportation security at airports, and for other purposes; and H. 
Res. 1150, Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that 
the Transportation Security Administration should, in accordance 
with the congressional mandate provided for in the Implementing 
Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007, enhance security 
against terrorist attack and other security threats to our Nation's 
rail and mass transit lines, 10:15 a.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on House Administration, to mark up the following: H.R. 
5803, To direct the Federal Assistance Commission to establish a 
program to make grants to participating States and units of local 
government which will administer the regularly scheduled general 
election for Federal office held in November 2008 for carrying out a 
program to make backup paper ballots available in the case of the 
failure of a voting system or voting equipment in the election of 
some other emergency situation, and for other purposes; H.R. 5893, 
Library of Congress Sound Recording and Film Preservation Programs 
Reauthorization Act of 2008; and the United States Capitol Police 
Administrative Technical Corrections Act of 2008, 11 a.m., 1310 
Longworth.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Task Force on Competition Policy and 
Antitrust Laws, hearing on Retail Gas, Part 1 Prices: Consumer 
Effects, 11 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property, 
to mark up H.R. 5889, Orphan Works Act of 2008, 2 p.m., 2141 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, to markup H.R. 3094, National Park 
Centennial Fund Act, 11 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, to continue hearings 
on the Lack of Hospital Emergency Surge Capacity: Will the 
Administration's Medicaid Regulations Make It Worse? 9:30 a.m., 2154 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Science and Technology, to mark up H.R. 5940, 
National Nanotechnology Initiative Amendments Act of 2008, 11 a.m., 
2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Contracting and 
Technology, hearing on the role of small businesses in the upcoming 
digital television (DTV) conversion, 2 p.m., 1539 Longworth.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Water Resources and Environment, to mark up the following measures: 
H.R. 2452, Raw Sewage Overflow Community Right-to-Know Act; H.R. 
135, Twenty-First Century Water Commission Act of 2007; H.R. 5770. 
To provide for a study by the National Academy of Sciences of 
potential impacts of climate change on water resources and water 
quality; and H. Res. 1137, Supporting the goals and ideals of 
National Public Works Week, 2 p.m., 2167 Rayburn.