[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 147 (Tuesday, September 16, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1102-D1103]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                           SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold 
hearings to examine pending Corporation for Public Broadcasting 
nominations, 10:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: to hold hearings to 
examine S. 1387, to amend the Emergency Planning and Community 
Right-to-Know Act of 1986 to provide for greenhouse gases, S. 2080, 
to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to ensure that 
sewage treatment plants monitor for and report discharges of raw 
sewage, H.R. 1464, to assist in the conservation of rare felids and 
rare canids by supporting and providing financial resources for the 
conservation programs of nations within the range of rare felid and 
rare canid populations and projects of persons with demonstrated 
expertise in the conservation of rare felid and rare canid 
populations, H.R. 1771, to assist in the conservation of cranes by 
supporting and providing, through projects of persons and 
organizations with expertise in crane conservation, financial 
resources for the conservation programs of countries the activities 
of which directly or indirectly affect cranes and the ecosystems of 
cranes, H.R. 3224, to amend the National Dam Safety Program Act to 
establish a program to provide grant assistance to States for the 
rehabilitation and repair of deficient dams, H.R. 3999 and S. 3338, 
bills 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, H.R. 5001, to authorize the Administrator of General 
Services to provide for the redevelopment of the Old Post Office 
Building located in the District of Columbia, S. 2970, to enhance 
the ability of drinking water utilities in the United States to 
develop and implement climate change adaptation programs and 
policies, S. 1828, to require the Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency to conduct a study of the feasibility of 
increasing the consumption in the United States of certain ethanol-
blended gasoline, and other pending legislation, 10 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine 
Russia's aggression against Georgia, focusing on the consequences 
and responses, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: to hold 
hearings to examine 401(k) plan fee disclosure, focusing on helping 
workers save for retirement, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: business 
meeting to consider S. 3474, to amend title 44, United States Code, 
to enhance information security of the Federal Government, S. 3384, 
to amend section 11317 of title 40, United States Code, to require 
greater accountability for cost overruns on Federal IT investment 
projects, H.R. 2631, to strengthen efforts in the Department of 
Homeland Security to develop nuclear forensics capabilities to 
permit attribution of the source of nuclear material, H.R. 6098, to 
amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to improve the financial 
assistance provided to State, local, and tribal governments for 
information sharing activities, H.R. 3815, to amend the Homeland 
Security Act of 2002 to require the Secretary of Homeland Security 
to make full and efficient use of open source information to develop 
and disseminate open source homeland security information products, 
S. 3176, to amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act to authorize the President to provide 
mental health and substance abuse services, an original bill to 
establish a controlled unclassified information framework, H.R. 
6073, to provide that Federal employees receiving their pay by 
electronic funds transfer shall be given the option of receiving 
their pay stubs electronically, to amend title 5, United States 
Code, to provide for 8 weeks of paid leave for Federal employees 
giving birth, S. 3350, to provide that claims of the United States 
to certain documents relating to Franklin Delano Roosevelt shall be 
treated as waived and relinquished in certain circumstances, S. 
3477, to amend title 44, United States Code, to authorize grants for 
Presidential Centers of Historical Excellence, H.R. 5975 and S. 
3317, bills to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 101 West Main Street in Waterville, New York, as 
the ``Cpl. John P. Sigsbee Post Office'', H.R. 6092, to designate 
the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 101 
Tallapoosa Street in Bremen, Georgia, as the ``Sergeant Paul Saylor 
Post Office Building'', S. 3309, to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 2523 7th Avenue East in 
North Saint Paul, Minnesota, as the Mayor William ``Bill'' Sandberg 
Post Office Building, H.R. 6437, to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 200 North Texas Avenue in 
Odessa, Texas, as the ``Corporal Alfred Mac Wilson Post Office'', 
and the nominations of Ruth Y. Goldway, of California, to be a 
Commissioner of the Postal Regulatory Commission, and Carol Waller 
Pope, of the District of Columbia, and Thomas M. Beck, of Virginia, 
both to be a Member of the Federal Labor Relations Authority, 10 
a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to hold oversight hearings to examine 
the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 9:30 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: to hold hearings to examine the 
nomination of Patrick W. Dunne, of New York, to be Under Secretary 
for Benefits of the Department of Veterans Affairs, 9:30 a.m., SR-
418.
  Special Committee on Aging: to hold hearings to examine direct-to-
consumer medical device advertising, focusing on marketing and 
medicine, 10:30 a.m., SD-562.


                                 House

  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural 
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, on 
Food Safety--FDA, 2 p.m., 2362A Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, on 
Public, Educational, and Governmental (PEG) Access to Cable 
Television, 10 a.m., 2220 Rayburn.

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  Committee on Education and Labor, Subcommittee on Workforce 
Protections, hearing on the Secret Rule of the Department of Labor's 
Worker Health Risk Assessment Proposal, 10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, to consider the following bills: 
H.R. 6469, Organ Transplant Authorization; S. 1760 Healthy Start 
Reauthorization Act of 2007; H.R. 1532, Comprehensive Tuberculosis 
Elimination Act of 2007; H.R. 2994, National Pain Care Policy Act of 
2007; H.R. 5265, Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Community 
Assistance, Research, and Education Amendments of 2008; the Meth 
Free Families and Communities Act; H.R. 1014, Heart Disease 
Education, Analysis Research, and Treatment for Women Act; H.R. 
6353, To amend, title VII of the Public Health Service Act to 
establish a loan program for eligible hospitals to establish 
residency training programs; H. R. 1076, HIPPA Recreational Injury 
Technical Correction Act; and H.R. 758, Breast Cancer Patient 
Protection Act, 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, hearing entitled ``Implementation 
of the Hope for Homeowners Program and a Review of Foreclosure 
Mitigation Efforts,'' 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific 
and the Global Environment, hearing on Exporting Toxic Trash: Are We 
Dumping Our Electronic Waste on Poorer Countries?, 2 p.m., 2172 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Border Maritime 
and Global Counterterrorism, hearing entitled ``Transportation 
Worker Identification Credential: A Status Update,'' 10 a.m., 311 
Cannon.
  Subcommittee on Management, Investigations and Oversight, hearing 
entitled ``Waste, Abuse and Mismanagement: Calculating the Cost of 
DHS Failed Contracts,'' 2 p.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on the Judiciary, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 
6598, Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act of 2008; 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 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; and H.R. 
5950, Detainee Basic Medical Care Act of 2008, and a resolution and 
report recommending to the House of Representatives that the 
Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey be cited for contempt of 
Congress, 10:15, a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on 
Information Policy, Census and National Archives, hearing on 
Implementation of the Office of Government Information Services, 2 
p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Finance and Tax, 
hearing entitled ``Disaster Savings Accounts: Protections for Small 
Businesses During a Disaster,'' 2 p.m., 1539 Longworth.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Aviation, hearing on FAA Aircraft Certification: Alleged Regulatory 
Lapses in the Certification and Manufacture of the Eclipse EA-500, 
10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Subcommittee on 
Intelligence Community Management, executive, on Security Clearance 
proceedings, 10 a.m., H-405 Capitol, and a hearing on the 
Administration progress toward reform of the security clearance 
process, as set forth by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism 
Prevention Act of 2004, 2 p.m., 2253 Rayburn.


                             Joint Meetings

  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: to hold hearings 
to examine the role of Organization for Security and Cooperation in 
Europe (OSCE) institutions in advancing human rights and democracy, 
3 p.m., 2325 Rayburn Building.