[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 117 (Wednesday, July 16, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D908-D909]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                             JULY 17, 2008

        Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: business meeting to markup proposed 
legislation making appropriations for the Departments of State, 
Foreign Operations and Related Programs, Agriculture, Rural 
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, and 
Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, 2 p.m., SR-325.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: business meeting 
to markup an original bill entitled, ``The Comprehensive Iran 
Sanctions, Accountability and Divestment Act of 2008.'', 10 a.m., 
SD-538.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: to hold hearings to 
examine ways to make the nation's highways safe for travelers, 10:30 
a.m., SD-408.
  Committee on Finance: To hold hearings to examine leveraging 
innovation to improve health care quality for all Americans, SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: To hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Mimi Alemayehou, of the District of Columbia, to be 
United States Director of the African Development Bank, Kenneth L. 
Peel, of Maryland, to be United States Director of the European Bank 
for Reconstruction and Development, Miguel R. San Juan, of Texas, to 
be United States Executive Director of the Inter-American 
Development Bank, and Patrick J. Durkin, of Connecticut, to be a 
Member of the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment 
Corporation, 2:30 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations, to hold hearings to examine 
financial institutions located in offshore tax havens, focusing on 
ways to strengthen United States domestic and international tax 
enforcement efforts, 9:30 a.m., SD-106.
  Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery, to hold hearings to 
examine major disaster recovery assessing the performance of the 
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) since October 7, 2:30 
p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: to hold an oversight hearing to 
examine tracking sex offenders in Indian country, focusing on tribal 
implementation of the Adam Walsh Act (Public Law 109-248), 10 a.m. 
SD-562.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider S. 3155, 
to reauthorize and improve the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 
Prevention Act of 1974, S. 2746, to amend section 552(b)(3) of title 
5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the Freedom of 
Information Act) to provide that statutory exemptions to the 
disclosure requirements of that Act shall specifically cite to the 
provision of that Act authorizing such exemptions, to ensure an open 
and deliberative process in Congress by providing for related 
legislative proposals to explicitly state such required citations, 
S. 3061, to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2008 through 
2011 for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, to enhance 
measures to combat trafficking in persons, S. 2838, to amend chapter 
1 of title 9 of United States Code with respect to arbitration, S. 
3136, to encourage the entry of felony warrants into the NCIC 
database by States and provide additional resources for extradition, 
S. 1276, to establish a grant program to facilitate the creation of 
methamphetamine precursor electronic logbook systems, and S. 3197, 
to amend title 11, United States Code, to exempt for a limited 
period, from the application of the means-test presumption of abuse 
under chapter 7, qualifying members of reserve components of the 
Armed Forces and members of the National Guard who, after September 
11, 2001, are called to active duty or to perform a homeland defense 
activity for not less than 90 days, 11:30 a.m., SD-226.


                                 House

  Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, 
hearing on nuclear weapons complex modernization, 10 a.m., 2212 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and Labor, hearing on Mayor and 
Superintendent Partnerships in Education: Closing the Achievement 
Gap, 10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and Air 
Quality, hearing entitled ``Climate Benefits of Improved Building 
Energy Efficiency,'' 10 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, hearing 
entitled ``What Your Broadband Provider Knows About Your Web Use: 
Deep Packet Inspection and Communications Laws and Policies,'' 9:30 
a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations, hearing entitled ``GAO Report on Regulation B: 
Should Lenders Be Required to Collect Race and Gender Data of 
Borrowers for All Loans,'' 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Terrorism, 
Nonproliferation and Trade, hearing on Aiding American Businesses 
Abroad: Government Action to Help Beleaguered American Firms and 
Investors, 10 a.m., 2200 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, hearing on Venezuela: 
Looking Ahead, 10:30 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, hearing entitled ``The Challenge 
of Aligning Programs, Personnel, and Resources to Achieve Border 
Security,'' 10 a.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on the Judiciary, to continue hearings on From the 
Department of Justice to Guantanamo Bay: Administration Lawyers and 
Administration Interrogation Rule, Part V, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.

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  Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, 
oversight hearing on Successes and Challenges of the Interagency 
Group on Insular Affairs, 2 p.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, hearing on Business 
Practices in the Individual Health Insurance Market: Terminations of 
Coverage, 10 a.m., and to mark up a report on the Committee's 
investigation of the information given to the Tillman family and the 
public following the death of CPL Patrick Tillman on April 22, 2004, 
and the information released about the capture and rescue of PVT 
Jessica Lynch in Iraq in March and April 2003, 3 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, hearing on Small Business 
Administration's Contracting Programs and Recent GAO Examination of 
Programs, 10 a.m., 1539 Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Income Security and 
Family Support, hearing on Establishing a Modern Poverty Measure, 10 
a.m., B-318 Rayburn.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Subcommittee on 
Terrorism, Human Intelligence, Analysis and Counterterrorism, 
executive, briefing on Hot Spots, 8:45 a.m., H-405 Capitol.


                             Joint Meetings

  Conference meeting of conferees on H.R. 4040, to establish 
consumer product safety standards and other safety requirements for 
children's products and to reauthorize and modernize the Consumer 
Product Safety Commission, 10:30 a.m., SR-325.