[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 157 (Tuesday, October 27, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1238-D1239]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                            OCTOBER 28, 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 
dark pools, flash orders, high frequency trading, and other market 
structure issues, 9:30 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold 
hearings to examine combating distracted driving, focusing on 
managing behavioral and technological risks, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: to hold hearings to 
examine the role of natural gas in mitigating climate change, 10 
a.m., SD-366.
  Subcommittee on National Parks, to hold hearings to examine 
current and expected impacts of climate change on units of the 
National Park System, 2 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: to continue hearings to 
examine S. 1733, to create clean energy jobs, promote energy 
independence, reduce global warming pollution, and transition to a 
clean energy economy, 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: business 
meeting to consider S. 1649, to prevent the proliferation of weapons 
of mass destruction, to prepare for attacks using weapons of mass 
destruction, S. 1862, to provide that certain Secret Service 
employees may elect to transition to coverage under the District of 
Columbia Police and Fire Fighter Retirement and Disability System, 
H.R. 553, to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop a 
strategy to prevent the over-classification of homeland security and 
other information and to promote the sharing of unclassified 
homeland security and other information, S. 1755, to direct the 
Department of Homeland Security to undertake a study on emergency 
communications, H.R. 730, to strengthen efforts in the Department of 
Homeland Security to develop nuclear forensics capabilities to 
permit attribution of the source of nuclear material, S. 1825, to 
extend the authority for relocation expenses test programs for 
Federal employees, S. 1860, to permit each current member of the 
Board of Directors of the Office of Compliance to serve for 3 terms, 
H.R. 955, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 10355 Northeast Valley Road in Rollingbay, 
Washington, as the ``John `Bud' Hawk Post Office'', H.R. 1516, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 37926 Church Street in Dade City, Florida, as the ``Sergeant 
Marcus Mathes Post Office'', H.R. 1713, to name the South Central 
Agricultural Research Laboratory of the Department of Agriculture in 
Lane, Oklahoma, and the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 310 North Perry Street in Bennington, Oklahoma, in honor 
of former Congressman Wesley ``Wes'' Watkins, H.R. 2004, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 4282 Beach Street in Akron, Michigan, as the ``Akron Veterans 
Memorial Post Office'', H.R. 2760, to designate the facility of the 
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located at 1615 North Wilcox Avenue in Los Angeles, California, as 
the ``Johnny Grant Hollywood Post Office Building'', H.R. 2972, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 115 West Edward Street in Erath, Louisiana, as the ``Conrad 
DeRouen, Jr. Post Office'', H.R. 3119, to designate the facility of 
the United States Postal Service located at 867 Stockton Street in 
San Francisco, California, as the ``Lim Poon Lee Post Office'', H.R. 
3386, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 1165 2nd Avenue in Des Moines, Iowa, as the ``Iraq and 
Afghanistan Veterans Memorial Post Office'', H.R. 3547, to designate 
the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 936 
South 250 East in Provo, Utah, as the ``Rex E. Lee Post Office 
Building'', H.R. 2215, to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 140 Merriman Road in Garden City, 
Michigan, as the ``John J. Shivnen Post Office Building'', and the 
nominations of Rafael Borras, of Maryland, to be Under Secretary of 
Management for Homeland Security, David S. Ferriero, of North 
Carolina, to be Archivist of the United States, National Archives 
and Records Administration, and Susan Tsui Grundmann, of Virginia, 
and Anne Marie Wagner, of Virginia, both to be a Member of the Merit 
Systems Protection Board, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight, to hold hearings to 
examine new Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidance to combat 
waste, inefficiency, and misuse in federal government contracting, 
2:30 p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to hold hearings to examine effective 
strategies for preventing health care fraud, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Special Committee on Aging: to hold hearings to examine 401(k) 
target date funds, 2 p.m., SD-562.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic 
Agriculture, hearing to review the implementation of the 
Horticulture and Organic Agriculture Title of the Food, Conservation 
and Energy Act of 2008, 10 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Financial Services, to consider the following 
measures: H.R. 3890, To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to 
enhance oversight of nationally recognized statistical rating 
organizations; and a Discussion Draft (revised) of October 16, 2009 
of the Accountability and Transparency in Rating Agencies Act, 10 
a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, to mark up H.R. 2194, Iran Refined 
Petroleum Sanctions Act of 2009, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia, hearing on A 
Regional Overview of the Middle East, 1 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, hearing on Legal Issues Relating to 
Football Head Injuries, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, to mark up the following bills: 
H.R. 2213, To reauthorize the Neotropical Migratory Bird 
Conservation Act; H.R. 2888, Devils' Staircase Wilderness Act of 
2009; H.R. 2781, To amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to 
designate segments of the Molalla River in Oregon, as components of 
the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System; H.R. 86, To eliminate an 
unused lighthouse reservation, provide management consistency by 
bringing the rocks and small islands along the coast of Orange 
County, California, and meet the original Congressional intent of 
preserving Orange County's rocks and small islands; and H.R. 118, To 
authorize the addition of 100 acres to Morristown National 
Historical Park, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, hearing entitled 
``Executive Compensation: How Much is Too Much?'' 11 a.m., 2154 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, to consider H.R. 3854, Small Business 
Financing and Investment Act of 2009, 3 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Small Business, hearing entitled ``The Recovery Act 
and Broad Evaluation of Broadband Investments on Small Businesses 
and Job Creation,'' 10 a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Aviation, hearing on NEXTGEN: A Review of the RTCA Mid-Term 
Implementation Task Force Report, 2 p.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, to mark up the following: H.R. 
1168, Veterans Retraining Act of 2009, and a draft bill the 
Veterans' Small Business Assistance and Servicemembers Protection 
Act of 2009, 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Subcommittee on 
Technical and Tactical Intelligence, executive, briefing on Overhead 
Architecture, 4 p.m., 304 HVC.


                             Joint Meetings

  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: to hold hearings 
to examine advancing United States interests in the Organization for 
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) region, 2 p.m., SVC-212/
210.