[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 110 (Monday, July 7, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D842-D844]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

                  Week of July 7 through July 12, 2008

                             Senate Chamber

  On Tuesday, Senate will begin consideration of H.R. 6304, FISA 
Amendments Act, and consider certain amendments.
  On Wednesday, Senate will resume consideration of House message to 
accompany H.R. 3221, Foreclosure Prevention Act.
  During the balance of the week, Senate may consider any cleared 
legislative and executive business.


                           Senate Committees

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
  Committee on Appropriations: July 8, Subcommittee on Energy and 
Water Development, business meeting to mark up proposed legislation 
making appropriations for fiscal year 2009 for Energy and Water 
Development, 9:45 a.m., SD-192.
  July 9, Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban 
Development, and Related Agencies, business meeting to consider 
proposed legislation making appropriations for the Department of 
Transportation, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and 
related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, 
10:30 a.m., SD-116.
  July 10, Full Committee, business meeting to mark up proposed 
legislation making appropriations for fiscal year 2009 for the 
Department of Transportation, Department of Housing and Urban 
Development, and related agencies, Energy and Water Development, and 
Financial Services and General Government, 2 p.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: July 9, to hold 
hearings to examine reducing risks and improving oversight in the 
OTC credit derivatives market, 2 p.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: July 9, to 
hold hearings to examine privacy implications of online advertising, 
10 a.m., SR-253.
  July 9, Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast 
Guard, to hold hearings to examine fishing safety, focusing on 
policy implications of cooperatives and vessel improvements, 2:30 
p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: July 8, Subcommittee on 
Water and Power, to hold hearings to examine S. 2842, to require the 
Secretary of the Interior to carry out annual inspections of canals, 
levees, tunnels, dikes, pumping plants, dams, and reservoirs under 
the jurisdiction of the Secretary, S. 2974, to provide for the 
construction of the Arkansas Valley Conduit in the State of 
Colorado, H.R. 3323, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
convey a water distribution system to the Goleta Water District, and 
S. 3189, to amend Public Law 106-392 to require the Administrator of 
the Western Area Power Administration and the Commissioner of 
Reclamation to maintain sufficient revenues in the Upper Colorado 
River Basin Fund, 2:30 p.m., SD-366.
  July 9, Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests, to hold hearings 
to examine S. 2443 and H.R. 2246, bills to provide for the release 
of any revisionary interest of the United States in and to certain 
lands in Reno, Nevada, S. 2779, to amend the Surface Mining Control 
and Reclamation Act of 1977 to clarify that uncertified States and 
Indian tribes have the authority to use certain payments for certain 
noncoal reclamation projects, S. 2875, to authorize the Secretary of 
the Interior to provide grants to designated States and tribes to 
carry out programs to reduce the risk of livestock loss due to 
predation by gray wolves and other predator species or to compensate 
landowners for livestock loss due to predation, S. 2898 H.R. 816, 
bills to provide for the release of certain land from the Sunrise 
Mountain Instant Study Area in the State of Nevada, S. 3088, to 
designate certain land in the State of Oregon as wilderness, S. 
3157, to provide for the exchange and conveyance of certain National 
Forest System land and other land in southeast Arizona, and S. 3179, 
to authorize the conveyance of certain public land in the State of 
New Mexico owned or leased by the Department of Energy, 2:30 p.m., 
SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: July 10, Subcommittee 
on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety, to hold

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oversight hearings to examine the Environmental Protection Agency 
(EPA), focusing on implementing the renewable fuel standard, 10 
a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: July 10, to hold hearings to examine issues 
and options for the transportation infrastructure, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: July 9, to hold hearings to 
examine the challenges from Iran, 2:30 p.m., SD-419.
  July 10, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine protocol 
Amending the Convention Between the United States of America and 
Canada with Respect to Taxes on Income and on Capital done at 
Washington on September 26, 1980, as Amended by the Protocols done 
on June 14, 1983, March 28, 1984, March 17, 1995, and July 29, 1997, 
signed on September 21, 2007, at Chelsea (the ``proposed Protocol'') 
(Treaty Doc. 110-15), Convention Between the Government of the 
United States of America and the Government of Iceland for the 
Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion 
with Respect to Taxes on Income, and accompanying Protocol, signed 
on October 23, 2007, at Washington, DC (Treaty Doc. 110-17), 
Convention Between the Government of the United States of America 
and the Government of the Republic of Bulgaria for the Avoidance of 
Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion With Respect to 
Taxes on Income, with accompanying Protocol, signed at Washington on 
February 23, 2007 (the ``Proposed Treaty''), as well as the Protocol 
Amending the Convention Between the Government of the United States 
of America and the Government of the Republic of Bulgaria for the 
Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion 
With Respect to Taxes on Income, signed at Sofia on February 26, 
2008 (Treaty Doc. 110-18), and certain other pending treaties, 2:30 
p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: July 9, 
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, to hold hearings to 
examine Medicare vulnerabilities, focusing on payments for claims 
tied to deceased doctors, 10:30 a.m., SD-342.
  July 10, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the roots of 
violent Islamist extremism and efforts to counter it, 9:30 a.m., SD-
342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: July 9, to continue oversight hearings 
to examine the Department of Justice, 9:30 a.m., SD-106.
  July 10, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine passport 
files, focusing on privacy protection for all Americans, 10 a.m., 
SD-226.
  Committee on Rules and Administration: July 9, to hold hearings to 
examine administrative and management operations of the United 
States Capitol Police, 10 a.m., SR-301.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: July 9, business meeting to 
consider the nomination of Christine O. Hill, of Georgia, to be an 
Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Congressional Affairs, 
Time to be announced, Room to be announced.
  July 9, Full Committee, to hold an oversight hearing to examine 
veterans disability compensation, focusing on undue delay in claims 
processing, 9:30 a.m., SR-418.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: July 10, to hold closed hearings 
to examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Agriculture, July 9, 10 and 11, hearings to review 
legislation amending the Commodity Exchange Act, 2:30 p.m., on July 
9, and 10 a.m., on July 10 and 11, 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, July 8, Subcommittee on Legislative 
Branch, hearing on the Capitol Visitor Center, 7 p.m., H-140 
Capitol.
  July 10, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and 
Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, on CFTC, 11 a.m., 2362A 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Armed Services, July 9, hearing on an update on 
efforts to develop and support the Iraqi Security Forces, 10 a.m., 
2118 Rayburn.
  July 9, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing on 
Defense Language and Cultural Awareness Transformation: To What End? 
At What Cost? 2:30 p.m., 2212 Rayburn.
  July 10, full Committee, hearing on threat posed by 
Electromagnetic Pulse Attack, 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  July 10, Subcommittee on Air and Land Forces, hearing on the 
source selection and path forward regarding the Air Force KC-(X) 
Program, 2 p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  July 10, Subcommittee on Military Personnel, hearing on oversight 
and status of POW-MIA activities, 2 p.m., 2212 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and Labor, July 9, hearing on the Rising 
Cost of Food and Its Impact on Federal Child Nutrition Programs, 10 
a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, July 10, Subcommittee on Energy 
and Air Quality, hearing on H.R. 6258, Carbon Capture and Storage 
Early Deployment Act, 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, July 9, Subcommittee on Housing 
and Community Opportunity, hearing entitled ``Federal Spending 
Requirements in Housing and Community Development Programs: 
Challenges in 2008 and Beyond,'' 9:30 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  July 10, full Committee, hearing entitled ``Systemic Risk and the 
Financial Markets,'' 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, July 9, hearing on U.S. Policy 
Toward Iran, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  July 9, Subcommittee on Europe and the Subcommittee on the Middle 
East and South Asia, joint hearing on Europe and Israel: 
Strengthening the Partnership, 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, July 9, hearing entitled ``The 
Challenge of Protecting Mass Gatherings in a Post-9/11,'' 10 a.m., 
311 Cannon.
  Committee on the Judiciary, July 10, Subcommittee on Commercial 
and Administrative Law, hearing on the Politicization of the Justice 
Department and Allegations of Selective Prosecution, 10 a.m., 2141 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, July 10, Subcommittee on 
Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans, oversight hearing entitled ``Going, 
Going, Gone? An Assessment of the Global Decline in Bird 
Populations,'' 10 a.m., 1334 Longworth.

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  July 10, Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands, 
hearing on the following bills: H.R. 160, Revolutionary War and War 
of 1812 Battlefield Protection Act; H.R. 1847, National Trails 
System Willing Seller Act; H.R. 2933, Civil War Battlefield 
Preservation Act of 2007; H.R. 3299, To provide for a boundary 
adjustment and land conveyance involving Roosevelt National Forest, 
Colorado, to correct the effects of an erroneous land survey that 
resulted in approximately 7 acres of the Crystal Lakes Subdivision, 
Ninth Filing, encroaching on National Forest System land; H.R. 3336, 
Camp Hale Historic District Study Act; H.R. 3849, Box Elder Utah 
Land Conveyance Act; H.R. 5263, Forest Landscape Restoration Act; 
H.R. 5751, Walnut Canyon Study Act of 2008; and H.R. 6177, Rio 
Grande Wild and Scenic River Extension Act of 2008, 10 a.m., 1324 
Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, July 8, Subcommittee 
on Domestic Policy, hearing on Assessing State and Local Regulations 
to Reduce Dental Mercury Emissions, 2:30 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  July 9, full Committee, hearing on Manufacturers of FEMA Trailers 
and Elevated Formaldehyde Levels, 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  July 10, Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and 
the District of Columbia, hearing on Investing in the Future: 
Minority Opportunities and the TSP, 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  July 10, Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National 
Archives, hearing on 2010 Census: Using the Communication Campaign to 
Effectively Reduce the Undercount, 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, July 8, to consider the following: H.R. 5811, 
Electronic Message Preservation Act; and H.R. 1286, Washington-
Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Trail Designation Act, 5 
p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science and Technology, July 10, Subcommittee on 
Energy and Environment, hearing on Harmful Algal Blooms: The 
Challenges on the Nation's Coastlines, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, July 9, 
Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, hearing on Truck Weights and 
Lengths: Assessing the Impacts of Existing Laws and Regulations, 10 
a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  July 11, Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, 
and Emergency Management hearing, on GSA's Capital Investment 
Program: Fiscal Year 2009, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, July 9, hearing on Why Does the VA 
Continue to Give a Suicide-Inducing Drug to Veterans with PTSD?, 10 
a.m., 334 Cannon.
  July 10, Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity, hearing on 
Independent Living, 1 p.m., 334 Cannon.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, July 9, executive, 
briefing on Colombia Hostage Situation, 12 p.m., H-405 Capitol.
  July 10, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Human Intelligence, Analysis 
and Counterintelligence, executive, briefing on IC HUMINT, 2 p.m., 
H-405 Capitol.
  Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, July 
10, hearing entitled ``Global Warming Effects on Extreme Weather,'' 
1:30 p.m., room to be announced.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Economic Committee: July 10, to hold hearings to examine 
public pension plans, focusing on the need to strengthen retirement 
security and economic growth, 10 a.m., SD-106.