[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 143 (Tuesday, October 6, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1140-D1141]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                            OCTOBER 7, 2009

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Securities, Insurance and Investment, to hold hearings to examine 
securitization of assets, focusing on problems and solutions, 2:30 
p.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee 
on Communications and Technology, to hold hearings to examine 
reauthorization of the Satellite Home Viewer Extension and 
Reauthorization Act of 2004, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and 
South and Central Asian Affairs, to hold hearings to examine the 
proposed agreement between the United States and the United Arab 
Emirates on civilian nuclear cooperation, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine Al-Qaeda, focusing on 
Afghanistan, 2:30 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: business 
meeting to consider the nominations of M. Patricia Smith, of New 
York, to be Solicitor, 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, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: 
Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government 
Information, Federal Services, and International Security, to hold 
hearings to examine the 2010 census, focusing on a status update of 
key decennial operations, 3 p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to hold hearings to examine workplace 
fairness, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Full Committee, 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, 4 p.m., SD-226.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, 
Energy and Research, hearing to review implementation of the 
conservation title of the 2008 Farm Bill, 10 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade 
and Consumer Protection, hearing entitled ``Growing U.S. Trade in 
Green Technology,'' 10 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Health, hearing on the following bills: H.R. 1740, 
Breast Cancer Education and Awareness Requires Learning Young Act of 
2009; H.R. 1691, Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2009; H.R. 
2279, Eliminating Disparities in Breast Cancer Treatment Act of 
2009; H.R. 995, Mammogram and MRI Availability Act of 2009; and H.R. 
2042, Better Screening Test for Women Act, 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, hearing entitled `` Reform of the 
Over-the-Counter Derivative Market: Limiting Risk and Ensuring 
Fairness,'' 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.

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  Committee on the Judiciary, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 
1478, Carmelo Rodriguez Military Medical Accountability Act of 2009; 
H.R. 42, Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Latin 
Americans of Japanese Descent Act; H.R. 1425, Wartime Treatment 
Study Act; H.R. 1110, PHONE Act of 2009; and H.R. 3237, To enact 
certain laws relating to national and commercial space programs as 
title 51, United States Code, ``National and Commercial Space 
Programs,'' 1:30 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, oversight hearing entitled 
``Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA),'' 
10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on 
Domestic Policy, hearing entitled ``Medicaid's Efforts to Reform 
Since the Preventable Death of Deamonte Driver: A Progress Report,'' 
2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Science and Technology, to mark up the following 
bills: H.R. 3650, Harmful Algal Blooms and Hypoxia Research and 
Control Amendments Act of 2009; H.R. 3585. Solar Technology Roadmap 
Act; and H.R. 3598, Energy and Water Research Integration Act, 10 
a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, hearing entitled ``The State of the 
Nation's Housing Sector: An Examination of the First Time Buyer's 
Credit and Future Policies to Sustain a Recovery.'' 1 p.m., 2360 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, hearing on Qualifications 
and Credentialing of Mariners: A Continuing Examination, 1 p.m., 
2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Select Revenue 
Measurers, hearing on tax incentives for distressed communities, 10 
a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Subcommittee on 
Oversight and Investigations, executive, briefing on Peru Update, 10 
a.m., 334 HVC.


                             Joint Meetings

  Conference: meeting of conferees on H.R. 2892, making 
appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, 1 p.m., S-127, Capitol.