[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 160 (Friday, October 30, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1262-D1265]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

              Week of November 2 through November 7, 2009

                             Senate Chamber

  On Monday, at approximately 4 p.m., Senate will resume consideration 
of H.R. 3548, Unemployment Compensation Extension Act, and vote on the 
motion to invoke cloture on Reid (for Baucus/Reid) Amendment No. 2712, 
in the nature of a substitute, at 5 p.m.
  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 Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: November 5, to 
hold hearings to examine the nominations of Steven L. Jacques, of 
Kansas, to be Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
for Public Affairs, and Eric L. Hirschhorn, of Maryland, to be Under 
Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration, 10 a.m., SD-538.
   Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: November 4, 
Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard, to 
hold hearings to examine the future of ocean governance, focusing on 
building national ocean policy, 10 a.m., SR-253.
   Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: November 4, 
Subcommittee on National Parks, to hold hearings to examine S. 1369, 
to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of the 
Molalla River in the State of Oregon, as components of the National 
Wild and Scenic Rivers System, S. 1405, to redesignate the 
Longfellow National Historic Site, Massachusetts, as the 
``Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic 
Site'', S. 1413, to amend the Adams National Historical Park Act of 
1998 to include the Quincy Homestead within the boundary of the 
Adams National Historical Park, S. 1767, to authorize a land 
exchange to acquire land for the Blue Ridge Parkway from the Town of 
Blowing Rock, North Carolina, S. Res. 275, honoring the Minute Man 
National Historical Park on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, 
H.R. 2802, to provide for an extension of the legislative authority 
of the Adams Memorial Foundation to establish a commemorative work 
in honor of former President John Adams and his legacy, H.R. 3113, 
to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a segment of 
the Elk River in the State of West Virginia for study for potential 
addition to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and H.R. 
1287, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter into a 
partnership with the Porter County Convention, Recreation and 
Visitor Commission regarding the use of the Dorothy Buell Memorial 
Visitor Center as a visitor center for the Indiana Dunes National 
Lakeshore, 2:30 p.m., SD-366.
  November 5, Subcommittee on Water and Power, to hold hearings to 
examine S. 1757, to provide for the prepayment of a repayment 
contract between the United States and the Uintah Water Conservancy 
District, S. 1758, to provide for the allocation of costs to project 
power with respect to power development within the Diamond Fork 
System, and S. 1759, to authorize certain transfers of water in the 
Central Valley Project, 2:30 p.m., SD-366.
   Committee on Finance: November 4, to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Michael W. Punke, of Montana, to be a Deputy United 
States Trade Representative, with the rank of Ambassador, Department 
of State, Islam A. Siddiqui, of Virginia, to be Chief Agricultural 
Negotiator, Office of the United States Trade Representative, with 
the rank of Ambassador, and Michael F. Mundaca, of New York, to be 
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, 10 a.m., SD-215.
   Committee on Foreign Relations: November 4, to hold hearings to 
examine the nominations of Jide J. Zeitlin, of New York, to be 
Alternate Representative to the Sessions of the General Assembly of 
the United Nations during his tenure of service as Representative to 
the United Nations for U.N. Management and Reform, and to be 
Representative to the United Nations for U.N. Management and Reform, 
with the rank of Ambassador, Frederick D. Barton, of Maine, to be 
Representative of the United States of America on the Economic and 
Social Council of the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, 
and Carmen Lomellin, of Virginia, to be Permanent Representative to 
the Organization of American States, with the rank of Ambassador, 
all of the Department of State, Gustavo Arnavat, of New York, to be 
United States Executive Director of the Inter-American Development 
Bank, and Daniel W. Yohannes, of Colorado, to be Chief Executive 
Officer, Millennium Challenge Corporation, 2:30 p.m., SD-419.
   November 5, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Jeffrey L. Bleich, of California, to be Ambassador to 
Australia, David Huebner, of California, to be Ambassador to New 
Zealand, and to serve concurrently and without additional 
compensation as Ambassador to Samoa, and Robert R. King, of 
Virginia, to be Special Envoy on North Korean Human Rights Issues, 
with the rank of Ambassador, all of the Department of State, 2:30 
p.m., SD-419.
   Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: November 3, 
to hold hearings to examine increasing health costs facing small 
businesses, 2:30 p.m., SD-106.
   November 5, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
Employment Non-Discrimination Act, 10 a.m., SD-430.
   Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: November 
4, business meeting to resume consideration of 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

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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 United States Postal Service 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'', and 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'', 10 a.m., 
SD-342.
   November 5, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine business 
formation and financial crime, focusing on finding a legislative 
solution, 10 a.m., SD-342.
   Committee on Indian Affairs: November 4, to hold an oversight 
hearing to examine the Federal acknowledgment process, 2:15 p.m., 
SD-628.
   Committee on the Judiciary: November 4, to hold hearings to 
examine the nominations of Thomas I. Vanaskie, of Pennsylvania, to 
be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, Christina 
Reiss, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Vermont, Louis B. Butler, Jr., to be United States District Judge 
for the Western District of Wisconsin, Abdul K. Kallon, to be United 
States District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama, and 
Victoria Angelica Espinel, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, Executive Office of 
the President, 2 p.m., SD-226.
   November 5, 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. 714, to establish the National Criminal Justice 
Commission, S. 1490, to prevent and mitigate identity theft, to 
ensure privacy, to provide notice of security breaches, and to 
enhance criminal penalties, law enforcement assistance, and other 
protections against security breaches, fraudulent access, and misuse 
of personally identifiable information, S. 139, to require Federal 
agencies, and persons engaged in interstate commerce, in possession 
of data containing sensitive personally identifiable information, to 
disclose any breach of such information, S. 1624, to amend title 11 
of the United States Code, to provide protection for medical debt 
homeowners, to restore bankruptcy protections for individuals 
experiencing economic distress as caregivers to ill, injured, or 
disabled family members, and to exempt from means testing debtors 
whose financial problems were caused by serious medical problems, S. 
1472, to establish a section within the Criminal Division of the 
Department of Justice to enforce human rights laws, to make 
technical and conforming amendments to criminal and immigration laws 
pertaining to human rights violations, S. 1147, to prevent tobacco 
smuggling, to ensure the collection of all tobacco taxes, and the 
nominations of Ketanji Brown Jackson, of Maryland, to be a Member of 
the United States Sentencing Commission, and Kenyen Ray Brown, to be 
United States Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, 
Department of Justice, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  November 5, Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs, to hold hearings to 
examine reducing recidivism at the local level, 2 p.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: November 5, to hold hearings to 
examine Veterans' Affairs and Indian Health Service cooperation, 10 
a.m., SR-418.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: November 3, to receive a closed 
briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of the 
intelligence community, 2:30 p.m., S-407, Capitol.
  November 5, Full Committee, to hold closed hearings to consider 
certain intelligence matters, 3 p.m., S-407, Capitol.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Armed Services, November 5, Subcommittee on Oversight 
and Investigations, hearing on Iraq and Afghanistan: Perspectives on 
U.S. Strategy, Part II, 10:30 a.m., 2226 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and Labor, November 5, Subcommittee on 
Healthy Families and Communities, hearing on Preventing Child Abuse 
and Improving Responses to Families in Crisis, 10 a.m., 2175 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, November 3, Subcommittee on 
Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection, hearing entitled ``The NFL 
StarCaps Case: Are Sports' Anti-Doping Programs At A Legal 
Crossroads?'' 11:30 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.

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  November 3, Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, to mark up 
H.R. 515, Radioactive Import Deterrence Act, 9:30 a.m., 2123 
Rayburn.
  November 4, Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer 
Protection and the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and 
the Internet, joint hearing on Driven To Distraction: Technological 
Devices and Vehicles Safety, 9:30 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  November 4, Subcommittee on Health and the Subcommittee on 
Oversight and Investigations, joint hearing entitled ``H1N1 
Preparedness: An Overview of Vaccine Production and Distribution,'' 
2 p.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, November 3, to continue 
consideration of the October 1, Discussion Draft of the Investor 
Protection Act of 2009 (to be reported as H.R. 3817, To provide the 
Securities and Exchange Commission with additional authorities to 
protect investors from violations of the securities laws); and to 
consider the following: an Amendment in the nature of a substitute 
October 16, 2009, to H.R. 2609, Federal Insurance Office Act of 
2009; a Committee Print (October 29, 2009) of the Financial 
Stability Improvement Act of 2009; and H.R. 3904, Overdraft 
Protection Act, 9:30 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, November 4, hearing on Copenhagen 
and Beyond: Is There a Successor to the Kyoto Protocol? 10 a.m., 
2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, November 3, Subcommittee on 
Emergency Communications, Preparedness and Response, to mark up the 
following measures: H.R. 3837, Strengthening and Updating Resources 
and Equipment Act or SURE Act; the Identifying Redundancies and 
Developing Performance Metrics Act; and the First Responder Anti-
Terrorism Resources Act, 1 p.m., 331 Cannon.
  Committee on the Judiciary, November 4, to mark up the following 
measures: H.R. 3845, USA PATRIOT Amendments Act of 2009; H.R. 984, 
State Secret Protection Act of 2009; and H. Res. 871, Directing the 
Attorney General to transmit to the House of Representatives certain 
documents, records, memos, correspondence, and other communications 
regarding medical malpractice reform, 12:30 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  November 5, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland 
Security, hearing on Combating Organized Retail Crime--The Role of 
Federal Law Enforcement, 10 a.m., followed by a hearing on H.R. 
2811, To amend title 18, United States Code, to include constrictor 
snakes of the species Python genera as an injurious animal, 12 p.m., 
2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, November 4, hearing on the 
following bills: H.R. 3742, To amend the Act of June 18, 1934, to 
reaffirm the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to take land 
into trust for Indian tribes; and H.R. 3697, To amend the Act of 
June 18, 1934, to reaffirm the authority of the Secretary of the 
Interior to take land into trust for Indian tribes, 10 a.m., 1324 
Longworth.
  November 5, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources and the 
Subcommittee on Water and Power, joint oversight hearing entitled 
``Getting Past Gridlock: Models for Renewable Energy Siting and 
Transmission,'' 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  November 5, Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife, 
hearing on H.R. 3940, To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
extend grants and other assistance to facilitate a political status 
public education program for the people of Guam, 2 p.m., 1324 
Longworth.
  November 5, Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public 
Lands, hearing on the following bills: H.R. 765, Nellis Dunes 
National Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Area Act of 2009; H.R. 1769, 
Alpine Lakes Wilderness Additions and Pratt and Middle Fork 
Snoqualmie Rivers Protection Act; H.R. 2476, Ski Area Recreational 
Opportunity Enhancement Act of 2009; H.R. 3388, Petersburg National 
Battlefield Boundary Modification Act; H.R. 3603, To rename the 
Ocmulgee National Monument; H.R. 3759, BLM Contract Extension Act; 
and H.R. 3804, National Park Service Authorities and Corrections Act 
of 2009, 10 a.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, November 3, 
Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service and the District 
of Columbia, hearing entitled ``Managing the Thrift Savings Plan to 
Thrive,'' 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  November 4, Subcommittee on Government Management, Organizations, 
and Procurement, oversight hearing entitled ``Protecting 
Intellectual Property Rights in a Global Economy: Current Trends and 
Future Challenges,'' 9:30 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  November 5, Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service and 
the District of Columbia, hearing entitled ``More than Stamps: 
Adapting the Postal Service to a Changing World,'' 10 a.m., 2154 
Rayburn.
  November 5, Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census and the 
National Archives, hearing entitled ``The National Archives' Ability 
to Safeguard the Nation's Electronic Records,'' 2 p.m., 2154 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, November 3, to consider the following bills: 
H.R. 2868, Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Act of 2009; and H.R. 
3639, Expedited CARD Reform for Consumers Act of 2009, 3 p.m., H-313 
Capitol.
  Committee on Science and Technology, November 4, Subcommittee on 
Technology and Innovation, to mark up Cybersecurity Coordination and 
Awareness Act, 10:30 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  November 5, full Committee, hearing on Geoengineering: Assessing 
the Implications of Large-Scale Climate Intervention, 10 a.m., 2318 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, November 4, hearing entitled ``Small 
Businesses and the Estate Tax: Identifying Reforms to Meet the Needs 
of Small Firms and Family Farmers,'' 1 p.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, November 4, 
Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, hearing on Recovery 
Act: Progress Report on Water Resources Infrastructure Investment, 
10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, November 5, Subcommittee on 
Economic Opportunity, hearing on Adaptive Housing Grants, 1 p.m., 
334 Cannon.

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  Committee on Ways and Means, November 5, Subcommittee on Select 
Revenue Measures, hearing on Foreign Bank Account Reporting and Tax 
Compliance, 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, November 4, executive, 
briefing on Department of Defense Quarterly Update, 3 p.m., 304 HVC.
  November 5, full Committee, business meeting to consider non-
committee member requests for access to classified information, 2 
p.m., 304 HVC.
  November 5, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, 
executive, briefing on Peru, 10:30 a.m., 304 HVC.


                             Joint Meetings

  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: November 3, to 
hold hearings to examine life in a Russian newsroom, 11 a.m., 1539 
Longworth Building.
  Joint Economic Committee: November 6, to hold hearings to examine 
the employment situation for October 2009, 9:30 a.m., SD-106.