[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 189 (Monday, December 14, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1463]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





           COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2009

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold 
hearings to examine the nominations of Julie Simone Brill, of 
Vermont, and Edith Ramirez, of California, both to be a Federal 
Trade Commissioner, David L. Strickland, of Georgia, to be 
Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 
Department of Transportation, Michael A. Khouri, of Kentucky, to be 
a Federal Maritime Commissioner, and Nicole Yvette Lamb-Hale, of 
Michigan, to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce, 3:30 p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on 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, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and 
Pacific Affairs, to hold hearings to examine reevaluating United 
States policy in Central Asia, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: 
Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal 
Workforce, and the District of Columbia, to hold hearings to examine 
efforts to improve management integration at the Department of 
Homeland Security, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to hold hearings to examine ensuring 
the effective use of DNA evidence to solve rape cases nationwide, 10 
a.m., SD-226.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold closed hearings to 
consider certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                                 House

  Committee on Armed Services, to mark up H. Res. 924, Directing the 
Secretary of Defense to transmit to the House of Representatives 
copies of any document, record, memo, correspondence, or other 
communication of the Department of Defense, or any portion of such 
communication, that refers or relates to the trial or detention of 
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid Muhammad Salih Murarek Bin `Attash, 
Ramzi Binalshibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, or Mustafa Ahmed Adam al 
Hawsawi, 2 p.m., 210 HVC.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Communications, 
Technology, and the Internet, hearing on the following bills: H.R. 
3125, Radio Spectrum Inventory Act; and H.R. 3019, Spectrum 
Relocation Improvement Act of 2009, 9:30 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, hearing entitled ``Covered Bonds: 
Prospects for a U.S. Market Going Forward,'' 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Europe, hearing on 
the Lisbon Treaty: Implications for Future Relations Between the 
European Union and the United States, 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Intelligence, 
Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment, hearing entitled 
``Violent Extremism: How Are People Moved from Constitutionally-
Protected Thought to Acts of Terrorism?'' 10 a.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Task Force on Judicial Impeachment, to 
continue consideration of Possible Impeachment of United States 
District Judge G. Thomas Porteous, Jr., Part IV, 10:30 a.m., 2141 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on 
National Security and Foreign Affairs, hearing entitled `` Iran 
Sanctions: Options, Opportunities, and Consequences,'' 10 a.m., 2154 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Social Security and 
the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and 
Emergency Management of the Committee on Transportation and 
Infrastructure, joint hearing on Recovery Act Project to Replace the 
Social Security Administration's National Computer Center, 9:30 
a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to mark up H. Res. 
923, Requesting the President to transmit to the House of 
Representatives all documents in the possession of the President 
related to the effects on foreign intelligence collection of the 
transfer of detainees held at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 
into the United States, 10 a.m., 304 HVC.