[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 189 (Monday, December 14, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E2999-E3000]
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 15, 2009 may be found in the 
Daily Digest of today's Record.

                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED

                              DECEMBER 16
     Time to be announced
       Veterans' Affairs
         Business meeting to consider 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.
                                              Room to be announced
     10 a.m.
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         Business meeting to consider S. 1102, to provide benefits 
           to domestic partners of Federal employees, S. 1830, to 
           establish the Chief Conservation Officers Council to 
           improve the energy efficiencies of Federal agencies, S. 
           2868, to provide increased access to the General 
           Services Administration's Schedules Program by the 
           American Red Cross and State and local governments, 
           H.R. 2711, to amend title 5, United States Code, to 
           provide for the transportation of the dependents, 
           remains, and effects of certain Federal employees who 
           die while performing official duties or as a result of 
           the performance of official duties, S. 2865, to 
           reauthorize the Congressional Award Act (2 U.S.C. 801 
           et seq.), S. 2872, to reauthorize appropriations for 
           the National Historical Publications and Records 
           Commission through fiscal year 2014, H.R. 1345, to 
           amend title 5, United States Code, to eliminate the 
           discriminatory treatment of the District of Columbia 
           under the provisions of law commonly referred to as the 
           ``Hatch Act'', H.R. 2877, to designate the facility of 
           the United States Postal Service located at 76 
           Brookside Avenue in Chester, New York, as the ``1st 
           Lieutenant Louis Allen Post Office'', H.R. 3667, to 
           designate the facility of the United States Postal 
           Service located at 16555 Springs Street in White 
           Springs, Florida, as the ``Clyde L. Hillhouse Post 
           Office Building'', H.R. 3788, to designate the facility 
           of the United States Postal Service located at 3900 
           Darrow Road in Stow, Ohio, as the ``Corporal Joseph A. 
           Tomci Post Office Building'', H.R. 1817, to designate 
           the facility of the United States Postal Service 
           located at 116 North West Street in Somerville, 
           Tennessee, as the ``John S. Wilder Post Office 
           Building'', H.R. 3072, to designate the facility of the 
           United States Postal Service located at 9810 Halls 
           Ferry Road in St. Louis, Missouri, as the ``Coach Jodie 
           Bailey Post Office Building'', H.R. 3319, to designate 
           the facility of the United States Postal Service 
           located at 440 South Gulling Street in Portola, 
           California, as the ``Army Specialist Jeremiah Paul 
           McCleery Post Office Building'', H.R. 3539, to 
           designate the facility of the United States Postal 
           Service located at 427 Harrison Avenue in Harrison, New 
           Jersey, as the ``Patricia D. McGinty-Juhl Post Office 
           Building'', H.R. 3767, to designate the facility of the 
           United States Postal Service located at 170 North Main 
           Street in Smithfield, Utah, as the ``W. Hazen Hillyard 
           Post Office Building'', and 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.
                                                            SD-342
     10:30 a.m.
       Judiciary
       Human Rights and the Law Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine United States implementation 
           of human rights treaties.
                                                            SD-226
     11:30 a.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
         Business meeting to consider pending calendar business.
                                                            SD-366
     1:30 p.m.
       Armed Services
         To hold hearings to examine the assessment by the Joint 
           Estimating Team of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter 
           Program.
                                                            SDG-50
     2:30 p.m.
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
       Federal Financial Management, Government Information, 
           Federal Services, and International Security 
           Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine tools to combat deficits and 
           waste, focusing on enhanced rescission authority.
                                                            SD-342
     3 p.m.
       Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of James A. 
           Wynn, Jr., of North Carolina, and Albert Diaz, of North 
           Carolina, both to be United States Circuit Judge for 
           the Fourth Circuit.
                                                            SD-226

                              DECEMBER 17
     Time to be announced
       Small Business and Entrepreneurship
         Business meeting to consider S. 2826, to amend the 
           Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the renewable 
           production credit for wind and open-loop biomass 
           facilities, and S. 2869, Small Business Job Creation 
           and Access to Capital Act of 2009.
                                                            SR-485
     9:30 a.m.
       Armed Services
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Douglas B. 
           Wilson, of Arizona, to be Assistant Secretary for 
           Public Affairs, Malcolm Ross O'Neill, of Virginia, to 
           be Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, 
           Logistics and Technology, Mary Sally Matiella, of 
           Arizona, to be Assistant Secretary of the Army for 
           Financial Management and Comptroller, Paul Luis 
           Oostburg Sanz, of Maryland, to be General Counsel of 
           the Department of the Navy, and Jackalyne Pfannenstiel, 
           of California, to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy 
           for Installations and Environment, all of the 
           Department of Defense, and Donald L. Cook, of 
           Washington, to be Deputy Administrator for Defense 
           Programs, National Nuclear Security Administration, 
           Department of Energy.
                                                            SD-G50
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
         Business meeting to consider the nominations of Ben S. 
           Bernanke, of New Jersey, to be Chairman of the Board of 
           Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Eric L. 
           Hirschhorn, of Maryland, to be Under Secretary of 
           Commerce for Export Administration, Marisa Lago, of New 
           York, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and 
           Steven L. Jacques, of Kansas, to be Assistant Secretary 
           of Housing and Urban Development.
                                                            SD-538
     10 a.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         Business meeting to consider pending calendar business.
                                                            SR-253
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine prospects for our economic 
           future and proposals to secure it.
                                                            SD-342
       Judiciary
         Business meeting to consider 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, S. 
           1376, to restore immunization and sibling age 
           exemptions for children adopted by United States 
           citizens under the Hague Convention on Intercountry 
           Adoption to allow their admission to the United States, 
           H.R. 1741, to require the Attorney General to make 
           competitive grants to eligible State, tribal, and local 
           governments to establish and maintain certain 
           protection and witness assistance programs, and the 
           nominations Barbara L. McQuade, to be United States 
           Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, 
           Christopher A. Crofts, to be United States Attorney for 
           the District of Wyoming, Michael W. Cotter, to be 
           United States Attorney for the District of

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           Montana, Mark Anthony Martinez, to be United States 
           Marshal for the District of Nebraska, and James L. 
           Santelle, to be United States Attorney for the Eastern 
           District of Wisconsin, all of the Department of 
           Justice, and O. Rogeriee Thompson, of Rhode Island, to 
           be United States Circuit Judge for the First Circuit.
                                                            SD-226
     2 p.m.
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
       Contracting Oversight Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine an overview of Afghanistan 
           contracts.
                                                            SD-342
       Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
         To receive a briefing on Russia's Muslims.
                                          1539, Longworth Building
     2:15 p.m.
       Indian Affairs
         Business meeting to consider pending calendar business; 
           to be immediately followed by an oversight hearing to 
           examine the Cobell v. Salazar settlement agreement.
                                                            SD-628
     2:30 p.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
       Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance 
           Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine carbon monoxide poisoning.
                                                            SR-253
       Energy and Natural Resources
       Public Lands and Forests Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine S. 1470, to sustain the 
           economic development and recreational use of National 
           Forest System land and other public land in the State 
           of Montana, to add certain land to the National 
           Wilderness Preservation System, to release certain 
           wilderness study areas, to designate new areas for 
           recreation, S. 1719, to provide for the conveyance of 
           certain parcels of land to the town of Alta, Utah, S. 
           1787, to reauthorize the Federal Land Transaction 
           Facilitation Act, H.R. 762, to validate final patent 
           number 27-2005-0081, and H.R. 934, to convey certain 
           submerged lands to the Commonwealth of the Northern 
           Mariana Islands in order to give that territory the 
           same benefits in its submerged lands as Guam, the 
           Virgin Islands, and American Samoa have in their 
           submerged lands.
                                                            SD-366
       Intelligence
         To hold closed hearings to consider certain intelligence 
           matters.
                                                            SH-219