[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 142 (Monday, October 5, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E2443-E2444]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS

  Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, agreed to by the Senate on February 
4, 1977, calls for establishment of a system for a computerized 
schedule of all meetings and hearings of Senate committees, 
subcommittees, joint committees, and committees of conference. This 
title requires all such committees to notify the Office of the Senate 
Daily Digest--designated by the Rules Committee--of the time, place, 
and purpose of the meetings, when scheduled, and any cancellations or 
changes in the meetings as they occur.
  As an additional procedure along with the computerization of this 
information, the Office of the Senate Daily Digest will prepare this 
information for printing in the Extensions of Remarks section of the 
Congressional Record on Monday and Wednesday of each week.
  Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, October 6, 2009 may be found in the 
Daily Digest of today's Record.

                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED

                               OCTOBER 7
     10 a.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
       Communications and Technology Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine reauthorization of the 
           Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act 
           of 2004.
                                                            SR-253
       Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
         Business meeting to consider the nominations of M. 
           Patricia Smith, of New York, to be Solicitor, Lorelei 
           Boylan, of New York, to be Administrator of the Wage 
           and Hour Division, Joseph A. Main, of Virginia, to be 
           Assistant Secretary for Mine Safety and Health, and 
           William E. Spriggs, of Virginia, to be Assistant 
           Secretary for Policy, all of the Department of Labor, 
           and Regina M. Benjamin, of Alabama, to be Surgeon 
           General of the Public Health Service, Department of 
           Health and Human Services, and any pending nominations.
                                                            SD-430
       Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine workplace fairness.
                                                            SD-226
       Foreign Relations
       Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs 
           Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the proposed agreement 
           between the United States and the United Arab Emirates 
           on civilian nuclear cooperation.
                                                            SD-419
     2:30 p.m.
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine Al-Qaeda, focusing on 
           Afghanistan.
                                                            SD-419
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
       Securities, Insurance and Investment Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine securitization of assets, 
           focusing on problems and solutions.
                                                            SD-538
     3 p.m.
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
       Federal Financial Management, Government Information, 
           Federal Services, and International Security 
           Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the 2010 census, focusing on 
           a status update of key decennial operations.
                                                            SD-342
     4 p.m.
       Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Barbara 
           Milano Keenan, of Virginia, to be United States Circuit 
           Judge for the Fourth Circuit, Laurie O. Robinson, of 
           the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Attorney 
           General, Department of Justice, and Ketanji Brown 
           Jackson, of Maryland, to be a Member of the United 
           States Sentencing Commission.
                                                            SD-226

                               OCTOBER 8
     9:30 a.m.
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine the future of the mortgage 
           market and the housing enterprises.
                                                            SD-538
       Judiciary
         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. 1692, to extend the sunset of 
           certain provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act and the 
           authority to issue national security letters, 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. 379, to provide fair 
           compensation to artists for use of their sound 
           recordings, and the nominations of Jacqueline H. Nguyen 
           and Dolly M. Gee, both to be a United States District 
           Judge for the Central District of California, and 
           Edward Milton Chen and Richard Seeborg, both to be a 
           United States District Judge for the Northern District 
           of California, and Brendan V. Johnson, to be United 
           States Attorney for the District of South Dakota, Karen 
           Louise Loeffler, to be United States Attorney for the 
           District of Alaska, and Steven Gerard O'Donnell, to be 
           United States Marshal for the District of Rhode Island, 
           all of the Department of Justice.
                                                            SD-226
       Veterans' Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine the Department of Defense and 
           Veterans' Affairs response to certain military 
           exposures.
                                                            SD-562
     10 a.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
         Business meeting to consider any pending nominations; to 
           be immediately followed by a hearing to examine the 
           nominations of Marcia K. McNutt, of California, to be 
           Director of the United States Geological Survey, 
           Department of the Interior, and Arun Majumdar, of 
           California, to be Director of the Advanced Research 
           Projects Agency-Energy, Department of Energy.
                                                            SD-366
       Finance
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Jim R. 
           Esquea, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary, and 
           Bryan Hayes Samuels, of Illinois, to be Commissioner on 
           Children, Youth, and Families, both of the Department 
           of Health and Human Services.
                                                            SD-215
       Small Business and Entrepreneurship
         To hold hearings to examine health care solutions for 
           America's small businesses.
                                              Room to be announced
     2:30 p.m.
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of William E. 
           Kennard, of the District of Columbia, to be 
           Representative to the European Union, with the rank and 
           status of Ambassador, and Cynthia Stroum, of 
           Washington, to be Ambassador to Luxembourg, both of the 
           Department of State, and James Legarde Hudson, of the 
           District of Columbia, to be United States Director of 
           the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
                                                            SD-419
       Energy and Natural Resources
       Public Lands and Forests Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine S. 522, to resolve the claims 
           of the Bering Straits Native Corporation and the State 
           of Alaska to land adjacent to Salmon Lake in the State 
           of Alaska and to provide for the conveyance to the 
           Bering Straits Native Corporation of certain other 
           public land in partial satisfaction of the land 
           entitlement of the Corporation under the Alaska Native 
           Claims Settlement Act, S. 865 and H.R. 1442, bills to 
           provide for the sale of the Federal Government's 
           reversionary interest in approximately 60 acres of land 
           in Salt Lake City, Utah, originally conveyed to the 
           Mount Olivet Cemetery Association under the Act of 
           January 23, 1909, S. 881, to provide for the settlement 
           of certain claims under the Alaska Native Claims 
           Settlement Act, S. 940, to direct the Secretary of the 
           Interior to convey to the Nevada System of Higher 
           Education certain Federal land located in Clark and Nye 
           counties, Nevada, S. 1272, to provide for the 
           designation of the Devil's Staircase Wilderness Area in 
           the State of Oregon, to designate segments of Wasson 
           and Franklin Creeks in the State of Oregon as wild or 
           recreation rivers, and S. 1689, to designate certain 
           land as components of the National Wilderness 
           Preservation System and the National

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           Landscape Conservation System in the State of New 
           Mexico.
                                                            SD-366
       Intelligence
         To hold closed hearings to consider certain intelligence 
           matters.
                                                    S-407, Capitol
     3 p.m.
       Judiciary
       Immigration, Refugees and Border Security Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine comprehensive immigration 
           reform, focusing on faith-based perspectives.
                                                            SD-226

                               OCTOBER 9
     9:30 a.m.
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
       Economic Policy Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine restoring credit to 
           manufacturers.
                                                            SD-538

                               OCTOBER 14
     10 a.m.
       Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine prohibiting price fixing and 
           other anticompetitive conduct in the health insurance 
           industry.
                                                            SD-226

                               OCTOBER 21
     9:30 a.m.
       Veterans' Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine pending legislation.
                                                            SR-418