[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 120 (Tuesday, July 22, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D928-D929]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                             JULY 23, 2008

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: to hold oversight hearing to examine 
the adequacy of defense contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, 10:30 
a.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: to hold hearings to 
examine the status of existing federal programs targeted at reducing 
gasoline demand, focusing on additional proposals for near-term 
gasoline demand reductions, 9:45 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: to hold hearings to 
examine the Midwest floods, focusing on ways to determine what 
happened and how to improve managing risk and responses in the 
future, 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: business meeting to consider S.J. Res. 44, 
providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, 
United States Code, of the rule set forth as requirements contained 
in the August 17, 2007, letter to State Health Officials from the 
Director of the Center for Medicaid and State Operations in the 
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the State Health 
Official Letter 08-003, dated May 7, 2008, from such Center, and 
S.J. Res. 41, approving the renewal of import restrictions contained 
in the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act of 2003, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of James Christopher Swan, of California, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Djibouti, Alan W. Eastham, Jr., of 
Arkansas, to be Ambassador to the Republic of the Congo, W. Stuart 
Symington, of Missouri, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Rwanda, 
and John A. Simon, of Maryland, to be Representative of the United 
States of America to the African Union, with the rank and status of 
Ambassador, all of the Department of State, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the nominations of 
Tatiana C. Gfoeller-Volkoff, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic, Richard G. Olson, Jr., of New 
Mexico, to be Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, David D. 
Pearce, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the People's Democratic 
Republic of Algeria, and Michele Jeanne Sison, of Maryland, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Lebanon, all of the Department of 
State, 1:30 p.m., SD-419.
  Subcommittee on International Operations and Organizations, 
Democracy and Human Rights, to hold hearings to examine United 
Nations peacekeeping, focusing on opportunities and challenges, 3 
p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee 
on Children and Families, to continue hearings to examine childhood 
obesity, focusing on declining health of America's next generation 
(Part II), 2:30 p.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: to hold 
hearings to examine information sharing, focusing on connecting the 
dots at the Federal, State, and Local levels, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the nominations of 
Carol A. Dalton, Anthony C. Epstein, and Heidi M. Pasichow, all of 
the District of Columbia, all to be an Associate Judge of the 
Superior Court of the District of Columbia, 2:30 p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to hold hearings to examine courting 
big business, focusing on the Supreme Court's recent decisions on 
corporate misconduct and laws regulating corporations, 10 a.m., SD-
226.

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  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the nominations of J. 
Patrick Rowan, of Maryland, and Jeffrey Leigh Sedgwick, of 
Massachusetts, both to be an Assistant Attorney General, Department 
of Justice, and William B. Carr, Jr., of Pennsylvania, to be a 
Member of the United States Sentencing Commission, 2 p.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: to hold an oversight hearing to 
examine the Department of Veterans Affairs, focusing on responding 
to the needs of returning United States National Guard and Reserve 
members, 9:30 a.m., SR-418.
  Special Committee on Aging: to hold hearings to examine person-
centered care, focusing on reforming services and bringing elderly 
citizens back to the heart of society, 11 a.m., SD-562.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Department Operations, 
Oversight, Nutrition, and Forestry, hearing to review the short- and 
long-term costs of hunger in America, 10 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign 
Agriculture, hearing to review the state of health care in rural 
areas and the role of federal programs in addressing rural health 
care needs, 2:30 p.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Armed Services, hearing on the Comptroller General's 
progress report on Iraq, 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Military Personnel, hearing on Don't Ask, Don't 
Tell Review, 2 p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, to mark up H.R. 6357, PRO(TECH)T 
Act of 2008, 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, hearing on China on the Eve of the 
Olympics, 9:30 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and 
Oversight, hearing and briefing on Possible Extension of the UN 
Mandate for Iraq: Options, 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, oversight hearing on the U.S. 
Department of Justice, 10:15 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, to mark up the following bills, 
H.R. 5853, Minute Man National Historical Park Boundary Revision 
Act; H.R. 6177, Rio Grande Wild and Scenic River Extension Act of 
2008; H.R. 6159, Deafy Glade Exchange Act; H.R. 1847, National 
Trails System Willing Seller Act; and H.R. 5335, To amend the 
National Trails System Act to provide for the inclusion of new trail 
segments, land components, and campgrounds associated with the Trail 
of Tears National Historic Trail, and for other purposes, 12:30 
p.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, To consider the 
following measures: the Over-Classification Reduction Act; and the 
Controlled Unclassified Information Act, 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, hearing 
entitled ``AFRICOM: Rationales, Roles, and Progress on the Eve of 
Operations--Part 2,'' 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Science and Technology, Subcommittee on Energy and 
Environment, hearing on A National Water Initiative: Coordinating 
and Improving Federal Research on Water, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Investigations and 
Oversight, hearing entitled ``The Impact of Predators in Long-Term 
Care on Small Business Operators,'' 10 a.m., 1539 Rayburn.
  Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, 
hearing entitled ``Immediate Relief from High Oil Prices: Deploying 
the Strategic Petroleum Reserve,'' 9:15 a.m., 210 Cannon.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Economic Committee: to hold hearings to examine skyrocketing 
household costs and falling home prices, focusing on ways to help 
American families out of this crisis, 10 a.m., SD-608.