[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 184 (Wednesday, December 9, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1436-D1437]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                           DECEMBER 10, 2009

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Housing, Transportation and Community Development, to hold hearings 
to examine the Federal role in overseeing the safety of public 
transportation systems, 9:30 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on the Budget: to hold hearings to examine data-driven 
performance, focusing on using technology to deliver results, 10 
a.m., SD-608.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee 
on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security, to hold an oversight 
hearing to examine aviation safety, focusing on Federal Aviation 
Administration (FAA) safety initiatives, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: to hold hearings to 
examine the role of grid-scale energy storage in meeting our energy 
and climate goals, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: business meeting to 
consider S. 373, to amend title 18, United States Code, to include 
constrictor snakes of the species Python genera as an injurious 
animal, 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, S. 1421, to amend section 42 of title 18, United 
States Code, to prohibit the importation and shipment of certain 
species of carp, S. 1519, to provide for the eradication and control 
of nutria in Maryland, Louisiana, and other coastal States, 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. 509, to reauthorize 
the Marine Turtle Conservation Act of 2004, 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, 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, H.R. 
3537, to amend and reauthorize the Junior Duck Stamp Conservation 
and Design Program Act of 1994, S. 1397, to authorize the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to award grants 
for electronic device recycling research, development, and 
demonstration projects, S. 1660, to amend the Toxic Substances 
Control Act to reduce the emissions of formaldehyde from composite 
wood products, a proposed resolution relating to Army Corps study 
for Espanola Valley, and a proposed resolution relating to the 
General Services Administration, 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on 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), 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: business 
meeting to consider the nominations of Jacqueline A. Berrien, of New 
York, Victoria A. Lipnic, of Virginia, Chai Rachel Feldblum, of 
Maryland, all to be a Member of the Equal Employment Opportunity 
Commission, P. David Lopez, of Arizona, to be General Counsel of the 
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Patrick Alfred Corvington, 
of Maryland, to be Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation for 
National and Community Service, Adele Logan Alexander, of the 
District of Columbia, to be a Member of the National Council on the 
Humanities, Lynnae M. Ruttledge, of Washington, to be Commissioner 
of the Rehabilitation Services Administration, Department of 
Education, and Sara Manzano-Diaz, of Pennsylvania, to be Director of 
the Women's Bureau, Department of Labor, Time to be announced, Room 
to be announced.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: to hold 
hearings to examine the nominations of Grayling Grant Williams, of 
Maryland, to be Director of the Office of Counternarcotics 
Enforcement, and Elizabeth M. Harman, of Maryland, to be an 
Assistant Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, 
both of the Department of Homeland Security, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery, to hold hearings to 
examine children and disasters, focusing on a progress report on 
addressing needs, 2:30 p.m., SD-342.

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  Committee on the 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. 678, to reauthorize and improve the 
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, S. 1554, to 
amend the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to 
prevent later delinquency and improve the health and well-being of 
maltreated infants and toddlers through the development of local 
Court Teams for Maltreated Infants and Toddlers and the creation of 
a National Court Teams Resource Center to assist such Court Teams, 
S. 1789, to restore fairness to Federal cocaine sentencing, and the 
nominations of Rosanna Malouf Peterson, to be United States District 
Judge for the Eastern District of Washington, William M. Conley, 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, Paul R. Verkuil, of Florida, to be 
Chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States, and 
John Gibbons, to be United States Marshal for the District of 
Massachusetts, Richard G. Callahan, to be United States Attorney for 
the Eastern District of Missouri, and John Leroy Kammerzell, to be 
United States Marshal for the District of Colorado, all of the 
Department of Justice, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold closed hearings to 
consider certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., S-407, Capitol.


                                 House

  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Interior, 
Environment, and Related Agencies, oversight hearing on the 
Smithsonian Institution, 10 a.m., B-308 Rayburn.
  Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Readiness, Air and 
Land Forces, and the Subcommittee on Seapower and Expeditionary 
Forces, joint hearing on Status of Army and Marine Corps Reset 
Requirements, Part II, 10 a.m., 210 HVC.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and 
Environment, hearing entitled ``Drinking Water and Public Health 
Impacts of Coal Combustion Waste Disposal,'' 9:30 a.m., 2322 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, to continue hearings on U.S. 
Strategy in Afghanistan, Part II, 9:30 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, 
and Global Counterterrorism, hearing entitled ``Moving More 
Effective Immigration Detention Management,'' 10 a.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts and Competition 
Policy, hearing on Examining the State of Judicial Recusals after 
Caperton v. A.T. Massey, 1 p.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, hearing 
on H.R. 1924, Tribal Law and Order Act of 2009, 10 a.m., 2237 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, to mark up the 
following measures: S. 303, Federal Financial Management Improvement 
Act of 2009; H. Res. 708, Congratulating Nancy Goodman Brinker for 
receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom; H. Res. 779, 
Recognizing and supporting the goals and ideals of National Runaway 
Prevention Month; H. Res. 942, Commending the Real Salt Lake soccer 
club for winning the 2009 Major League Soccer Cup; H. Con. Res. 158, 
Expressing support for the designation of an Early Detection Month 
for breast cancer and all forms of cancer; H. Con. Res. 160, 
Honoring the American Kennel Club on its 125th Anniversary; H.R. 
4095, To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 9727 Antioch Road in Overland Park, Kansas, as the 
``Congresswoman Jan Meyers Post Office Building''; H.R. 4139, To 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 7464 Highway 503 in Hickory, Mississippi, as the ``Sergeant 
Matthew L. Ingram Post Office''; and H.R. 4214, To designate the 
facility of the United States Postal Service located at 45300 
Portola Avenue in Palm Desert, California, as the ``Roy Wilson Post 
Office,'' 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Science and Technology, hearing on Decisions on the 
Future Direction and Funding for NASA: What Will They Mean for the 
U.S. Aerospace Workforce and Industrial Base? 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, hearing on 
Recovery Act: Progress Report for Transportation Infrastructure 
Investment, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Economic Committee: to hold hearings to examine the 
challenge of creating jobs in the aftermath of the recession, 10 
a.m., 210 Cannon Building.