[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 77 (Tuesday, May 19, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D583-D585]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                              MAY 20, 2009

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on State, Foreign 
Operations, and Related Programs, to hold hearings to examine 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2010 for the Department of 
State, 9:30 a.m., SD-192.
  Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, to 
hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 
2010 for the Forest Service, 10 a.m., SD-124.
  Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, to 
hold hearings to examine the Defense Authorization request for 
fiscal year 2010 and Future Years Defense Program for military space 
programs; to be possibly followed by a closed session in SVC-217, 2 
p.m., SR-232A.
  Subcommittee on Personnel, to hold hearings to examine the Defense 
Authorization request for fiscal year 2010 and Future Years Defense 
Program for active component, reserve component, and civilian 
personnel programs, 2:30 p.m., SR-222.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: to hold an 
oversight hearing to examine the Troubled Asset Relief Program 
(TARP), 9:30 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: business 
meeting to consider pending calendar business, 2 p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Finance: to hold a closed meeting to examine 
financing comprehensive health reform, 10 a.m., SD-215.

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  Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs, 
to hold hearings to examine developing a coordinated and sustainable 
strategy for Somalia, 9 a.m., SD-419.
  Full Committee, to hold closed hearings to examine developments on 
the ground in Pakistan and Afghanistan, 11 a.m., SVC-217.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine foreign policy 
priorities in the President's proposed budget request for fiscal 
year 2010 for international affairs; to be followed by a business 
meeting to consider the nominations of Robert Orris Blake, Jr., of 
Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary for South Asian Affairs, and 
Judith A. McHale, of Maryland, to be Under Secretary for Public 
Diplomacy, both of the Department of State, 1:30 p.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: business 
meeting to continue consideration of S. 982, to protect the public 
health by providing the Food and Drug Administration with certain 
authority to regulate tobacco products, and the nominations of Linda 
A. Puchala, of Maryland, to be a Member of the National Mediation 
Board, John Q. Easton, of Illinois, to be Director of the Institute 
of Education Science, Department of Education, and Seth David 
Harris, of New Jersey, to be Deputy Secretary of Labor, 2:30 p.m., 
SD-430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: business 
meeting to consider S. 599, to amend chapter 81 of title 5, United 
States Code, to create a presumption that a disability or death of a 
Federal employee in fire protection activities caused by any certain 
diseases is the result of the performance of such employee's duty, 
S. 629, to facilitate the part-time reemployment of annuitants, S. 
707, to enhance the Federal Telework Program, proposed Enhanced 
Oversight of State and Local Economic Recovery Act, S. 920, to amend 
section 11317 of title 40, United States Code, to improve the 
transparency of the status of information technology investments, to 
require greater accountability for cost overruns on Federal 
information technology investment projects, to improve the processes 
agencies implement to manage information technology investments, to 
reward excellence in information technology acquisition, S. 942, to 
prevent the abuse of Government charge cards, S. 469, to amend 
chapter 83 of title 5, United States Code, to modify the computation 
for part-time service under the Civil Service Retirement System, S. 
692, 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, H.R. 918, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 300 East 3rd Street in Jamestown, New York, as the ``Stan Lundine 
Post Office Building'', H.R. 1595, to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 3245 Latta Road in 
Rochester, New York, as the ``Brian K. Schramm Post Office 
Building'', H.R. 663, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 12877 Broad Street in Sparta, Georgia, as 
the ``Yvonne Ingram-Ephraim Post Office Building'', H.R. 987, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 601 8th Street in Freedom, Pennsylvania, as the ``John Scott 
Challis, Jr. Post Office'', H.R. 1284, to designate the facility of 
the United States Postal Service located at 103 West Main Street in 
McLain, Mississippi, as the ``Major Ed W. Freeman Post Office'', and 
the nominations of David Heyman, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, Cass R. Sunstein, of 
Massachusetts, to be Administrator of the Office of Information and 
Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, Robert M. 
Groves, of Michigan, to be Director of the Census, Department of 
Commerce, Marisa J. Demeo, of the District of Columbia, and Florence 
Y. Pan, of the District of Columbia, each to be an Associate Judge 
of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, 9:30 a.m., SD-
342.
  Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery, to hold hearings to 
examine the role of Community Development Block Grant Program in 
disaster recovery, 2:30 p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees 
and Border Security, to hold hearings to examine securing the border 
and America's points of entry, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs, to hold hearings to examine 
criminal prosecution as a deterrent to health care fraud, 2:30 p.m., 
SD-226.
  Special Committee on Aging: to hold hearings to examine pension 
plans, 2 p.m., SR-432.


                                 House

  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Defense, on 
Department of Defense, 12:30 p.m., 210 HVC.
  Subcommittee on Financial Services, General Government, and 
Related Agencies, on OMB, 2 p.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and 
Related Agencies, on Air Force Budget, 10 a.m., H-143 Capitol.
  Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs, on 
U.S. Agency for International Development, 9:30 a.m.; on Millennium 
Challenge Corporation, 10:30 a.m.; and on Office of Global AIDS 
Coordinator, 11:30 a.m., B308 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and 
Related Agencies, on Member Requests, 10 a.m., 2358-A Rayburn.
  Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Air and Land Forces, 
hearing on Fiscal Year 2010 National Defense Authorization Budget 
Request for Air Force Modernization Programs, 2:30 p.m., 2118 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing on Another 
Crossroads? Professional Military Education Twenty Years after the 
Goldwater-Nichols Act and the Skelton Panel, 1 p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Readiness, hearing on Fiscal Year 2010 National 
Defense Authorization Budget Request for the Military Services' 
Operations and Maintenance Funding, 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and 
Capabilities, hearing on Fiscal Year 2010 National Defense 
Authorization Budget Request for Department of

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Defense Science and Technology Programs, 10:30 a.m., 2212 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and Labor, hearing on the Obama 
Administration's Education Agenda, 10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, to continue markup of H.R. 2454 
American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, 10 a.m., 2123 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Financial 
Institutions and Consumer Credit, hearing entitled ``H.R. 2351, 
Credit Union Share Insurance Stabilization Act,'' 2 p.m., 2128 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 
1886, Pakistan Enduring Assistance and Cooperation Enhancement Act 
of 2009; and H.R. 2410, Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal 
Years 2010 and 2011, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, oversight hearing on the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation; and to complete action on the following 
bills: H.R. 1741, Witness Security and Protection Grant Program Act 
of 2009; and H.R. 2247, Congressional Review Act, 10 a.m., 2141 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, 
Oceans and Wildlife, oversight hearing on advance of the 61st 
meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to be held in 
Madeira, Portugal June 22-26, 1 p.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, hearing entitled 
``State and Local Pandemic Preparedness,'' 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service and the District 
of Columbia, hearing on ``Nip and Tuck: The Impact of Current Cost 
Cutting Efforts on Postal Service Operations and Network,'' 10 a.m., 
2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, to consider H.R. 915, FAA Reauthorization Act 
of 2009, 3 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Small Business, hearing entitled ``Heroes of Small 
Business,'' 10 a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Aviation, hearing on Aviation Consumer Issues: Emergency Contingency 
Planning and Outlook for Summer Travel, 2 p.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, hearing 
on Piracy Against U.S.-Flagged Vessels: Lessons Learned, 10 a.m., 
2167 Rayburn.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, executive, hearing on 
Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Overview, 4 p.m., 304 HVC.
  Subcommittee on Intelligence Management, executive, briefing on 
Information Sharing, 2:30 p.m., 304-HVC.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Economic Committee: to hold hearings to examine oil and the 
economy, focusing on the impact of rising global demand on the 
United States recovery, 10 a.m., 210 Cannon Building.