[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 129 (Thursday, July 31, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1007]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                     COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR FRIDAY,

                             AUGUST 1, 2008

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Finance: business meeting to consider S. 3038, to 
amend part E of title IV of the Social Security Act to extend the 
adoption incentives program, to authorize States to establish a 
relative guardianship program, to promote the adoption of children 
with special needs, S. 1070, to amend the Social Security Act to 
enhance the social security of the Nation by ensuring adequate 
public-private infrastructure and to resolve to prevent, detect, 
treat, intervene in, and prosecute elder abuse, neglect, and 
exploitation, and S. 1577, to amend titles XVIII and XIX of the 
Social Security Act to require screening, including national 
criminal history background checks, of direct patient access 
employees of skilled nursing facilities, nursing facilities, and 
other long-term care facilities and providers, and to provide for 
nationwide expansion of the pilot program for national and State 
background checks on direct patient access employees of long-term 
care facilities or providers, 9 a.m., SD-215.


                                 House

  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, executive, briefing on 
Notification Update, 11 a.m., H-405 Capitol.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Economic Committee: to hold hearings to examine the 
employment-unemployment situation for July 2008, 9:30 a.m., SD-562.