[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 128 (Wednesday, July 30, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D991-D993]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                             JULY 31, 2008

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Armed Services: to hold hearings to examine the North 
Korean Six-Party Talks and implementation activities; to be 
immediately followed by closed session to examine certain 
intelligence matters in S-407, 9:30 a.m., SR-325.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: to hold hearings to 
examine the state of the nation's transmission grid, focusing on the 
implementation of the transmission provisions of the Energy Policy 
Act (Public Law 109-58), including reliability, siting, and 
infrastructure investment, 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: business meeting to 
consider S. 906, to prohibit the sale, distribution, transfer, and 
export of elemental mercury, S. 3109, to amend the Solid Waste 
Disposal Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency to establish a hazardous waste electronic manifest 
system, S. 24, to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to require a 
health advisory and monitoring of drinking water for perchlorate, S. 
150, to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to protect the health of 
pregnant women, fetuses, infants, and children by requiring a health 
advisory and drinking water standard for perchlorate, S. 1911, to 
amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to protect the health of 
susceptible populations, including pregnant women, infants, and 
children, by requiring a health advisory, drinking water standard, 
and reference concentration for trichloroethylene vapor intrusion, 
S. 1933, to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to provide grants to 
small public drinking water systems, S. 2549, to require the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish an 
Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice to provide 
guidance to Federal agencies on the development of criteria for 
identifying disproportionately high and adverse human health or 
environmental effects on minority populations and low-income 
populations, S. 642, to codify Executive Order 12898, relating to 
environmental justice, to require the Administrator of the 
Environmental Protection Agency to fully implement the 
recommendations of the Inspector General of the Agency and the 
Comptroller General of the United States, S. 199, to amend the Safe 
Drinking Water Amendments of 1996 to modify the grant program to 
improve sanitation in

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rural and Native villages in the State of Alaska, S. 2994, to amend 
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide for the 
remediation of sediment contamination in areas of concern; and 
certain pending General Services Administration resolutions, 9:30 
a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: to hold hearings to examine health benefits 
in the tax code, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine ways 
to define the military's role towards foreign policy, 2 p.m., SD-
419.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: 
Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government 
Information, Federal Services, and International Security, to hold 
hearings to examine the state of information technology planning in 
the federal government, 9:30 a.m., SD-342.
  Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery, to hold joint hearings 
with the House Committee on Homeland Security Subcommittee on 
Emergency Communications, Preparedness to examine ways to ensure the 
delivery of donated goods to survivors of catastrophes, 1 p.m., 311 
Cannon Building.
  Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal 
Workforce, and the District of Columbia, to hold hearings to examine 
reliance on smart power, focusing on reforming the foreign 
assistance bureaucracy, 2 p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: business meeting to consider pending 
calendar business; to be immediately followed by an oversight 
hearing to examine Indian health service management, focusing on 
lost property, wasteful spending and document fabrication, 9:30 
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, 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, S. 3325, to enhance remedies for 
violations of intellectual property laws, S. 3296, to extend the 
authority of the United States Supreme Court Police to protect court 
officials off the Supreme Court Grounds and change the title of the 
Administrative Assistant to the Chief Justice, S. 2052, to allow for 
certiorari review of certain cases denied relief or review by the 
United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, H.R. 5235, to 
establish the Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission, S. 3166, to amend 
the Immigration and Nationality Act to impose criminal penalties on 
individuals who assist aliens who have engaged in genocide, torture, 
or extrajudicial killings to enter the United States, S. Res. 620, 
designating the week of September 14-20, 2008, as National 
Polycystic Kidney Disease Awareness Week, to raise public awareness 
and understanding of polycystic kidney disease, and to foster 
understanding of the impact polycystic kidney disease has on 
patients and future generations of their families, S. Res. 622, 
designating the week beginning September 7, 2008, as ``National 
Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week'', and S. Res. 
624, designating August 2008 as ``National Truancy Prevention 
Month'', 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, 
to hold hearings to examine consolidation in the Pennsylvania health 
insurance industry, 2:15 p.m., SD-226.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold closed hearings to 
examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  Special Committee on Aging: to hold hearings to examine aging in 
rural America, focusing on preserving elderly citizens access to 
health care, 10:30 a.m., SD-106.


                                 House

  Committee on Armed Services, to continue hearings on Implications 
of the Supreme Court's Boumediene Decision for Detainees at 
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba: Administration Perspectives, 2 p.m., 2118 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, to continue hearings 
on A New U.S. Grand Strategy (Part 2), 10 a.m., 2212 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Seapower and Expeditionary Forces, hearing on Navy 
Destroyer Acquisition Programs, 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and Labor, Subcommittee on Workforce 
Projects, hearing on The Growing Income Gap in the American Middle 
Class, 10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health, hearing 
on H.R. 6594, James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 
2008, 10 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing entitled 
``The Recent Salmonella Outbreak: Lessons Learned and Consequences 
to Industry and Public Health,'' 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, to continue markup of H.R. 6078, 
Green Resources for Energy Efficient Neighborhoods Act of 2008; and 
to mark up the following bills: H.R. 5244, Credit Cardholders' Bill 
of Rights Act of 2008; and H.R. 840, Homeless Emergency Assistance 
and Rapid Transition to Housing Act of 2007, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.

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  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Terrorism, 
Nonproliferation and Trade, hearing on Foreign Aid and the Fight 
Against Terrorism and Proliferation: Leveraging Foreign Aid to 
Achieve U.S. Policy Goals, 10:30 a.m., 2200 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, hearing on Energy in the 
Americas, 10:30 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Commercial and 
Administrative Law, hearing on H.R. 5884, Sunshine in Litigation Act 
of 2008, 10:30 a.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil 
Liberties, to consider a resolution authorizing the Chairman to 
issue a subpoena to compel the testimony of Christopher Coates, 12 
p.m., followed by a hearing on H.R. 5607, State Secret Protection 
Act of 2008, 12:30 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, hearing 
on the following bills: H.R. 6598, Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act 
of 2008; and H.R. 6597, Animal Cruelty Statistics Act of 2008, 9:30 
a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border 
Security, and International Law, to mark up the following bills: 
H.R. 6020, To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to protect 
the well-being of soldiers and their families, and for other 
purposes; H.R. 5882, To recapture employment-based immigrant visas 
lost to bureaucratic delays and to prevent losses of family- and 
employment-based immigrant visas in the future; and H.R. 5924, 
Emergency Nursing Supply Relief Act; and to request information on a 
private relief measure, 2:30 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on 
National Security and Foreign Affairs, oversight hearing on Sexual 
Assault in the Military, 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Science and Technology, hearing on Oversight of the 
Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and 
Development (NITRD) Program, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, hearing entitled ``Cost and 
Confidentiality: The Unforeseen Challenges of Electronic Health 
Records in Small Specialty Practices, 10 a.m., 1539 Longworth.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, to mark up the 
following; the Disaster Response, Recovery, and Mitigation 
Enhancement Act of 2008; H.R. 6460, Great Lakes Legacy 
Reauthorization Act of 2008; H.R. 6364, Puget Sound Recovery Act of 
2008; a measure to prohibit the Secretary of Transportation from 
granting authority to a motor carrier domiciled in Mexico to operate 
beyond United States municipalities and commercial zones on the 
United States-Mexico border unless expressly authorized by Congress; 
H.R. 5788, Halting Airplane Noise to Give Us Peace Act of 2008; H.R. 
6627, Smithsonian Institution Facilities Authorization Act of 2008; 
S.J. Res 35, a Joint resolution to amend Public Law 108-331 to 
provide for the construction and related activities in support of 
the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System 
(VERITAS) project in Arizona; H.R. 6524, to authorize the 
Administrator of General Services to take certain actions with 
respect to parcels of real property located in Eastlake, Ohio, and 
Koochiching County, Minnesota, and for other purposes; H.R. 6370, 
Oregon Surplus Federal Land Act of 2008; S. 2837, to designate the 
United States courthouse located at 225 Cadman Plaza East, Brooklyn, 
New York, as the ``Theodore Roosevelt United Sates Courthouse;'' S. 
3009. To designate the Federal Bureau of Investigation building 
under construction in Omaha, Nebraska, as the `` J. James Exon 
Federal Bureau of Investigation Building;'' S. 2403, to designate 
the new Federal Courthouse, located in the 700 block of East Broad 
Street, Richmond, Virginia, as the ``Spottswood W. Robinson III and 
Robert R. Merhige, Jr., Federal Courthouse;'' H.R. 4131, To 
designate a portion of California State Route 91 located in Los 
Angeles County, California, as the ``Juanita Millender-McDonald 
Highway;'' a resolution honoring the heritage of the United States 
Coast Guard; H. Res. 1224, Commending the Tennessee Valley Authority 
on its 75th anniversary; H. Res. 1376, Commemorating the 80th 
anniversary of the Okeechobee Hurricane of September 1928 and its 
associated tragic loss of life; and other pending business, 11 a.m., 
2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans Affairs, Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations, hearing on Billions Spent on ``Miscellaneous'' 
Expenditures: Inadequate Controls at the VA, 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Income Security and 
Family Support, hearing on Racial Disproportionality in Foster Care, 
10 a.m., B-318 Rayburn.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, executive, briefing on 
Revisions to Executive Order 12333, 10 a.m., H-405 Capitol.
  Subcommittee on Terrorism, Human Intelligence, Analysis and 
Counterintelligence, executive, briefing on Hot Spots, 8:45 a.m., H-
405 Capitol.
  Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, 
hearing entitled ``Renewing America's Future: Energy Visions of 
Tomorrow, Today,'' 1:30 a.m., 2325 Rayburn.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs, Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery, to 
hold joint hearings with the House Committee on Homeland Security: 
Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness to examine 
ways to ensure the delivery of donated goods to survivors of 
catastrophes, 1 p.m., 311, Cannon Building.