[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 125 (Tuesday, September 8, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1005-D1006]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

             Week of September 9 through September 12, 2009

                             Senate Chamber

  Senate will continue consideration of S. 1023, Travel Promotion Act.
  During the balance of the week, Senate may consider any cleared 
legislative and executive business.


                           Senate Committees

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
  Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: September 9, to 
hold hearings to examine global warming legislation, focusing on 
carbon markets and producer groups, 10 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Appropriations: September 9, Subcommittee on Defense, 
business meeting to mark up proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2010 for Defense, 10:30 a.m., SD-192.
  September 10, Full Committee, business meeting to mark up proposed 
budget estimates for fiscal year 2010 for Defense, 2:30 p.m., SD-
106.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: September 10, to 
hold an oversight hearing to examine the Securities and Exchange 
Commission (SEC), and how to improve Securities and Exchange 
Commission performance, 2:30 p.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Finance: September 10, Subcommittee on Energy, 
Natural Resources, and Infrastructure, to hold hearings to examine 
oil and gas tax provisions, focusing on the President's fiscal year 
2010 budget proposal, 2:15 p.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: September 9, to hold hearings to 
examine the nomination of Robert D. Hormats, of New York, to be 
Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Agricultural 
Affairs, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  September 10, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine Iraq, 
focusing on a report from the field, 2:30 p.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: September 
10, to hold hearings to examine an update on stimulus spending, 
transparency, and fraud prevention, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: September 10, business meeting to 
consider pending calendar business; to be immediately followed by a 
hearing to examine S. 1635, to establish an Indian youth telemental 
health demonstration project, to enhance the provision of mental 
health care services to Indian youth, to encourage Indian tribes, 
tribal organizations, and other mental health care providers serving 
residents of Indian country to obtain the services of predoctoral 
psychology and psychiatry interns, 2:15 p.m., SD-628.
  Committee on the Judiciary: September 9, to hold hearings to 
examine strengthening forensic science in the United States, 10 
a.m., SD-226.
  September 9, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Joseph A. Greenaway, Jr., of

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New Jersey, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, 
Roberto A. Lange, to be United States District Judge for the 
District of South Dakota, Irene Cornelia Berger, to be United States 
District Judge for the Southern District of West Virginia, Charlene 
Edwards Honeywell, to be United States District Judge for the Middle 
District of Florida, and Ignacia S. Moreno, of New York, to be 
Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, 2:30 p.m., SD-
226.
  September 10, Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. 448 
and H.R. 985, bills to maintain the free flow of information to the 
public by providing conditions for the federally compelled 
disclosure of information by certain persons connected with the news 
media, S. 369, to prohibit brand name drug companies from 
compensating generic drug companies to delay the entry of a generic 
drug into the market, S. 1599, to amend title 36, United States 
Code, to include in the Federal charter of the Reserve Officers 
Association leadership positions newly added in its constitution and 
bylaws, and the nominations of Jeffrey L. Viken, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of South Dakota, and Beverly Baldwin 
Martin, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit, 
and Peter F. Neronha, to be United States Attorney for the District 
of Rhode Island, Daniel G. Bogden, to be United States Attorney for 
the District of Nevada, Dennis K. Burke, to be United States 
Attorney for the District of Arizona, and Neil H. MacBride, to be 
United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, all of 
the Department of Justice, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: September 10, to hold joint 
hearings to examine the legislative presentation of the American 
Legion, 9:30 a.m., 345, Cannon Building.