[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 142 (Tuesday, September 9, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1056-D1057]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                           SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense, business 
meeting to mark up Department of Defense appropriations for fiscal 
year 2009, 10 a.m., SD-192.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold 
hearings to examine ways to improve consumer protection in the 
prepaid calling card market, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: to hold hearings to 
examine improving the Federal Bridge Program, focusing on an 
assessment of S. 3338, to amend title 23, United States Code, to 
improve the safety of Federal-aid highway bridges, to strengthen 
bridge inspection standards and processes, to increase investment in 
the reconstruction of structurally deficient bridges on the National 
Highway System, and H.R. 3999, to amend title 23, United States 
Code, to improve the safety of Federal-aid highway bridges, to 
strengthen bridge inspection standards and processes, to increase 
investment in the reconstruction of structurally deficient bridges 
on the National Highway System, 10 a.m., SD-406.
  Subcommittee on Transportation Safety, Infrastructure Security, 
and Water Quality, to hold hearings to examine the quality and 
environmental impacts of bottled water, 3 p.m., SD-406.
  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, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine 
protocols to the North Atlantic Treaty of 1949 on the Accession of 
the Republic of Albania and the Republic of Croatia adopted at 
Brussels on July 9, 2008, and signed that day on behalf of the 
United States and the other Parties to the North Atlantic Treaty 
(Treaty Doc.110-20), 10:30 a.m., SD-419.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the nominations of 
Sung Y. Kim, of California, for the rank of Ambassador during his 
tenure of service as Special Envoy for the Six Party Talks, C. 
Steven McGann, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of the 
Fiji Islands, and to serve concurrently and without additional

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compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of Nauru, the Kingdom of 
Tonga, Tuvalu, and the Republic of Kiribati, and Carol Ann Rodley, 
of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia, 2 p.m., 
SD-419.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: to hold 
hearings to examine audits at the Defense Contract Audit Agency, 10 
a.m., SD-342.
  Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal 
Workforce, and the District of Columbia, to hold hearings to examine 
managing the challenges of the Federal Government transition, 
focusing on assessing the readiness and planning for the transition 
and identifying critical needs for the new Administration to 
address, 2:30 p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to hold hearings to examine new 
strategies for combating violent crime, focusing on drawing lessons 
from recent experience, 10 a.m., SD-562.


                                 House

  Committee on Armed Services, hearing on Security and Stability in 
Afghanistan and Iraq: Developments in U.S. Strategy and Operations and 
the Way Ahead, 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing on transforming 
the U.S. military's foreign language, cultural awareness, and regional 
expertise capabilities, 2:30 p.m., 2212 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Domestic and 
International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology, hearing entitled 
``Sovereign Wealth Funds: New Challenges From a Changing Landscape,'' 2 
p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, hearing entitled ``Mismanagement, 
Missteps and Missed Benchmarks: Why the Virtual Fence Has Not Become a 
Reality,'' 10 a.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on the Judiciary, to mark up the following: Reauthorizing 
Antitrust Task Force; H.R. 6598, Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act of 
2008; H.R. 4780, To enact title 51, United States Code, ``National and 
Commercial Space Programs,'' as positive law; 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; H.R. 5924, Emergency Nursing Supply Relief Act; H.R. 5950, 
Detainee Basic Medical Care Act of 2008; and to consider a resolution and 
report recommending to the House of Representatives that Attorney General 
Michael B. Mukasey be cited for contempt of Congress, 10:15 a.m., 2141 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and 
Oceans, hearing and oversight hearing on H.R. 6479, San Francisco Bay 
National Wildlife Refuge Complex Establishment Act, 10 a.m., 1324 
Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, to consider the 
following: the National Capital Security and Safety Act; H. Con. Res. 
223, Honoring professional surveyors and recognize their contributions to 
society; H. Con. Res. 351, Honoring the 225th Anniversary of the 
Continental Congress meeting in Nassau Hall, Princeton, New Jersey in 
1783; H. Con. Res. 376, Congratulating the 2007-2008 National Basketball 
Association World Champions, the Boston Celtics, on an outstanding and 
historic season; H. Con. Res. 378, Expressing support for the designation 
of September 6, 2008, as Louisa Swain Day; H. Con. Res. 386, Recognizing 
and celebrating the 232nd Anniversary of the signing of the Declaration 
of Independence; H. Res. 1000, To commemorate the 250th Anniversary of 
the naming of Pittsburgh as the culmination of the Forbes Campaign across 
Pennsylvania and the significance this event played in the making of 
America, in the settlement of the Continent, and in spreading the ideals 
of freedom and democracy throughout the world; H.R. 1356, Celebrating the 
221st anniversary of the signing of the Constitution of the United States 
of America, and for other purposes; a resolution to congratulate Michael 
Phelps, 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic champion swimmer, on winning eight 
gold medals in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and becoming one of the most 
decorated athletes in Olympic history; H.R. 6199, To designate the 
facility of the United States Postal Service located at 245 North Main 
Street in New City, New York as the ``Kenneth Peter Zebrowski Post Office 
Building;'' H.R. 6489, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 501 4th Street in Lake Oswego, Oregon, as the 
``Judie Hammerstad Post Office Building;'' H.R. 6681, To designate the 
facility of the United States Postal Service located at 300 Vine Street 
in New Lenox, Illinois, as the ``Jacob M. Lowell Post Office Building;'' 
and H.R. 6772, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 1717 Orange Avenue in Fort Pierce, Florida, as the 
``CeeCee Ross Lyles Post Office Building,'' 1 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, an Oversight 
hearing on Sexual Assault in the Military--Part 2, 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Science and Technology, Subcommittee on Energy and 
Environment, hearing on the Foundation for Developing New Energy 
Technologies: Basic Energy Research in the DOE Office of Science, 2 p.m., 
2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Coast 
Guard, including Recruitment, Promotion, and Retention of Minority 
Personnel, hearing on Diversity in the Coast Guard, including 
Recruitment, Promotion, and Retention of Minority Personnel, 2 p.m., 2167 
Rayburn.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Subcommittee on 
Intelligence Community Management, executive, briefing on DOD: Personnel 
Security and Research Center, 2 p.m., H-405 Capitol.
  Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, hearing 
entitled ``Investing in the Future: R & D Needs To Meet America's Energy 
and Climate Challenges,'' 10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.


                             Joint Meetings

  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: to hold hearings to 
examine Russia, Georgia, and the return of power politics, 1:30 p.m., 
HROB-2325.