[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 175 (Monday, November 30, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E2839-E2840]
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, December 1, 2009 may be found in the 
Daily Digest of today's Record.

                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED

                               DECEMBER 2
     9 a.m.
       Armed Services
         To hold hearings to examine Afghanistan.
                                                            SD-106
     9:30 a.m.
       Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
         To hold hearings to examine over-the-counter (OTC) 
           derivatives reform and addressing systemic risk.
                                                            SH-216
     10 a.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold hearings to examine transportation security 
           challenges post-9/11.
                                                            SR-253
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings to examine policy options for reducing 
           greenhouse gas emissions.
                                                            SD-366
       Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine the Supreme Court, focusing 
           on Americans' access to courts.
                                                            SD-226
       Joint Economic Committee
         To hold hearings to examine unregulated markets, focusing 
           on regulatory reform in the financial sector.
                                              210, Cannon Building
     2:30 p.m.
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
       Disaster Recovery Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine disaster case management, 
           focusing on developing a comprehensive national program 
           focused on outcomes.
                                                            SD-342
       Environment and Public Works
       Superfund, Toxics and Environmental Health Subcommittee
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine the Federal Toxic 
           and Substances Control Act.
                                                            SD-406

                               DECEMBER 3
     9 a.m.
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine Afghanistan, focusing on 
           assessing the road ahead.
                                                            SH-216
     10 a.m.
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine the nomination of Ben S. 
           Bernanke, of New Jersey, to be Chairman of the Board of 
           Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
                                                            SD-106
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings to examine H.R. 3276, to promote the 
           production of molybdenum-99 in the United States for 
           medical isotope production, and to condition and phase 
           out the export of highly enriched uranium for the 
           production of medical isotopes.
                                                            SD-366
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine the nomination of Caryn A. 
           Wagner, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Homeland 
           Security for Intelligence and Analysis.
                                                            SD-342
       Judiciary
         Business meeting to consider S. 448, 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. 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. 1765, to amend the Hate Crime Statistics 
           Act to include crimes against the homeless, S. 1353, to 
           amend title 1 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
           Streets Act of 1986 to include nonprofit and volunteer 
           ground and air ambulance crew members and first 
           responders for certain benefits, S. 678, to reauthorize 
           and improve the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 
           Prevention Act of 1974, and the nominations of Thomas 
           I. Vanaskie, of Pennsylvania, to be United States 
           Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, Louis B. Butler, 
           Jr., to be United States District Judge for the Western 
           District of Wisconsin, Denny Chin, of New York, to be 
           United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, 
           Rosanna Malouf Peterson, to be United States District 
           Judge for the Eastern District of Washington, and 
           William M. Conley, to be United States District Judge 
           for the Western District of Wisconsin, and Susan B. 
           Carbon, of New Hampshire, to be Director of the 
           Violence Against Women Office, John H. Laub, of the 
           District of Columbia, to be Director of the National 
           Institute of Justice, Sharon Jeanette Lubinski, to be 
           United States Marshal for the District of Minnesota, 
           Mary Elizabeth Phillips, to be United States Attorney 
           for the Western District of Missouri, Sanford C. Coats, 
           to be United States Attorney for the Western District 
           of Oklahoma, and Stephen James Smith, to be United 
           States Marshal for the Southern District of Georgia, 
           all of the Department of Justice.
                                                            SD-226
     2 p.m.
       Environment and Public Works
       Water and Wildlife Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine S. 373, to amend title 18, 
           United States Code, to include constrictor snakes of 
           the species Python genera as an injurious animal, S. 
           1519, to provide for the eradication and control of 
           nutria in Maryland, Louisiana, and other coastal 
           States, S. 1421, to amend section 42 of title 18, 
           United States Code, to prohibit the importation and 
           shipment of certain species of carp, S. 1965, to 
           authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide 
           financial assistance to the State of Louisiana for a 
           pilot program to develop measures to eradicate or 
           control feral swine and to assess and restore wetlands 
           damaged by feral swine, H.R. 2188, to authorize the 
           Secretary of the Interior, through the United States 
           Fish and Wildlife Service, to conduct a Joint Venture 
           Program to protect, restore, enhance, and manage 
           migratory bird populations, their habitats, and the 
           ecosystems they rely on, through voluntary actions on 
           public and private lands, S. 1214, to conserve fish and 
           aquatic communities in the United States through 
           partnerships that foster fish habitat conservation, to 
           improve the quality of life for the people of the 
           United States, H.R. 3537, to amend and reauthorize the 
           Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design Program Act 
           of 1994, H.R. 3433, to amend the North American 
           Wetlands Conservation Act to establish requirements 
           regarding payment of the non-Federal share of the costs 
           of wetlands conservation projects in Canada that are 
           funded under that Act, and H.R. 509, to reauthorize the 
           Marine Turtle Conservation Act of 2004.
                                                            SD-406
     2:15 p.m.
       Indian Affairs
         Business meeting to consider pending calendar business; 
           to be immediately followed by an oversight hearing to 
           examine expanding dental health care in Indian Country; 
           to be immediately followed by an oversight hearing to 
           examine Contract Health Services.
                                                            SD-628
     2:30 p.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
       National Parks Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine S. 760, to designate the 
           Liberty Memorial at the

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           National World War I Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, 
           as the ``National World War I Memorial'', S. 1838, to 
           establish a commission to commemorate the 
           sesquicentennial of the American Civil War, S. 2097, to 
           authorize the rededication of the District of Columbia 
           War Memorial as a National and District of Columbia 
           World War I Memorial to honor the sacrifices made by 
           American veterans of World War I, S. 2722, to authorize 
           the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special 
           resource study to determine the suitability and 
           feasibility of adding the Heart Mountain Relocation 
           Center, in the State of Wyoming, as a unit of the 
           National Park System, S. 2726, to modify the boundary 
           of the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site in the 
           State of South Dakota, S. 2738, to authorize National 
           Mall Liberty Fund D.C. to establish a memorial on 
           Federal land in the District of Columbia to honor free 
           persons and slaves who fought for independence, 
           liberty, and justice for all during the American 
           Revolution, H.R. 1849, to designate the Liberty 
           Memorial at the National World War I Museum in Kansas 
           City, Missouri, as the National World War I Memorial, 
           to establish the World War I centennial commission to 
           ensure a suitable observance of the centennial of World 
           War I, and H.R. 3689, to provide for an extension of 
           the legislative authority of the Vietnam Veterans 
           Memorial Fund, Inc. to establish a Vietnam Veterans 
           Memorial visitor center.
                                                            SD-366
       Intelligence
         To hold closed hearings to consider certain intelligence 
           matters.
                                                    S-407, Capitol

                               DECEMBER 4
     9:30 a.m.
       Joint Economic Committee
         To hold hearings to examine the employment situation for 
           November 2009.
                                                            SH-216

                               DECEMBER 9
     9:30 a.m.
       Veterans' Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Robert A. 
           Petzel, of Minnesota, to be Under Secretary for Health, 
           and Raul Perea-Henze, of New York, to be Assistant 
           Secretary for Policy and Planning, both of the 
           Department of Veterans Affairs.
                                                            SR-418
     10 a.m.
       Judiciary
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine the Department of 
           Homeland Security.
                                                            SD-216

                              DECEMBER 10
     10 a.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings to examine the role of grid-scale energy 
           storage in meeting our energy and climate goals.
                                                            SD-366
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine Treaty Between the Government 
           of the United States of America and the Government of 
           the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern 
           Ireland Concerning Defense Trade Cooperation, done at 
           Washington and London on June 21 and 26, 2007 (Treaty 
           Doc. 110-07), and Treaty Between the Government of the 
           United States of America and the Government of 
           Australia Concerning Defense Trade Cooperation, done at 
           Sydney, September 5, 2007 (Treaty Doc. 110-10).
                                                            SD-419

                              DECEMBER 15
     10 a.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings to examine S. 2052, to amend the Energy 
           Policy Act of 2005 to require the Secretary of Energy 
           to carry out a research and development and 
           demonstration program to reduce manufacturing and 
           construction costs relating to nuclear reactors, and S. 
           2812, to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require 
           the Secretary of Energy to carry out programs to 
           develop and demonstrate 2 small modular nuclear reactor 
           designs.
                                                            SD-366