[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 99 (Monday, June 16, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D750-D751]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR TUESDAY,

                             JUNE 17, 2008

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: with the 
Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Financial Services and 
General Government, to hold joint hearings to examine the role, 
responsibilities, and resource needs of the Commodity Futures 
Trading Commission on oversight of futures and derivatives markets 
in energy and agriculture, 10:30 a.m., SD-192.
  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Financial Services 
and General Government, with the Committee on Agriculture, 
Nutrition, and Forestry, to hold joint hearings to examine the role, 
responsibilities, and resource needs of the Commodity Futures 
Trading Commission on oversight of futures and derivatives markets 
in energy and agriculture, 10:30 a.m., SD-192.
  Committee on Armed Services: to hold hearings to examine the 
origins of aggressive interrogation techniques, focusing on Part I 
of the Committee's inquiry into the treatment of detainees in U.S. 
custody, 9:30 a.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: to hold hearings to 
examine the challenges and regional solutions to developing 
transmission for renewable electricity resources, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  Subcommittee on National Parks, to hold hearings to examine S. 
1774, to designate the John Krebs Wilderness in the State of 
California, to add certain land to the Sequoia-Kings Canyon National 
Park Wilderness, S. 2255, to amend the National Trails System Act to 
provide for studies of the Chisholm Trail and Great Western Trail to 
determine whether to add the trails to the National Trails System, 
S. 2359, to establish the St. Augustine 450th Commemoration 
Commission, S. 2943, to amend the National Trails System Act to 
designate the Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail, S. 3017, to 
designate the Beaver Basin Wilderness at Pictured Rocks National 
Lakeshore in the State of Michigan, S. 3010, to reauthorize the 
Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program, S. 3045, to establish the 
Kenai Mountains-Turnagain Arm National Forest Heritage Area in the 
State of Alaska, H.R. 1143, to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to lease certain lands in Virgin Islands National Park, and 
S. 3096, to amend the National Cave and Karst Research Institute Act 
of 1998 to authorize appropriations for the National Cave and Karst 
Research Institute, 2:30 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Finance: to hold hearings to examine the future of 
the United States economy, focusing on long run deficits and debt, 
10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International 
Development and Foreign Assistance, Economic Affairs and 
International Environmental Protection, to hold hearings to examine 
international disaster assistance, focusing on policy options, 2:15 
p.m., SD-419.
  Full Committee, to receive a closed briefing on Russia, Iran, and 
U.S.-Russian nuclear cooperation, 4:30 p.m., S-407, Capitol.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to hold hearings to examine protecting 
consumers by protecting intellectual property, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine ways to respond to the 
growing need for federal judgeships, focusing on ``The Federal 
Judgeship Act of 2008'', 2:30 p.m., SD-226.


                                 House

  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development, and Related Agencies, to mark up Energy and Water 
Development and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 
2009, 5:30 p.m., 2362B Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Financial Services, and General Government, to 
mark up Financial Services and General Government Appropriations for 
Fiscal Year 2009, 4 p.m., 2358A Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, hearing on Ensuring Legal Redress for 
American Victims of State-Sponsored Terrorism, 2 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, to consider the following: H.R. 5781, Federal 
Employees Paid Parental Leave Act of

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2008; and H.R. 5876, Stop Child Abuse in Residential Programs for 
Teens Act of 2008, 5 p.m., H-313 Capitol.


                             Joint Meetings

  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: to hold hearings 
to examine combating sexual exploitation of children, focusing on 
strengthening international law enforcement cooperation, 3 p.m., 
B318, Rayburn Building.