[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 190 (Tuesday, December 15, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1470-D1471]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                           DECEMBER 16, 2009

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: business 
meeting to consider H.R. 310, to provide for the conveyance of 
approximately 140 acres of land in the Ouachita National Forest in 
Oklahoma to the Indian Nations Council, Inc., of the Boy Scouts of 
America, H.R. 511, to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to 
terminate certain easements held by the Secretary on land owned by 
the Village of Caseyville, Illinois, and to terminate associated 
contractual arrangements with the Village, S. Res. 374, recognizing 
the cooperative efforts of hunters, sportsmen's associations, meat 
processors, hunger relief organizations, and State wildlife, health, 
and food safety agencies to establish programs that provide game 
meat to feed the hungry, an original bill pertaining to watershed 
projects in Massachusetts and West Virginia, and the nomination of 
Jill Long Thompson, of Indiana, to be a Member of the Farm Credit 
Administration Board, Farm Credit Administration, Time to be 
announced, Room to be announced.
  Committee on Armed Services: to receive a briefing on the 
assessment by the Joint Estimating Team of the F-35 Joint Strike 
Fighter Program, 1:30 p.m., SR-222.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: business meeting to 
consider pending calendar business, 11:30 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on 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

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Commission through fiscal year 2014, 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, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government 
Information, Federal Services, and International Security, to hold 
hearings to examine tools to combat deficits and waste, focusing on 
enhanced rescission authority, 2:30 p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Human Rights and the 
Law, to hold hearings to examine United States implementation of 
human rights treaties, 10:30 a.m., SD-226.
  Full Committee, 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, 3 p.m., SD-226.
  Committee on 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, Time to be announced, Room to be announced.


                                 House

  Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Terrorism, 
Unconventional Threats and Capabilities, hearing on understanding 
cyberspace as a medium for radicalization and counter-
radicalization, 1:30 p.m., 210 HVC.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health, hearing 
entitled ``Innovations in Addressing Childhood Obesity,'' 9:30 a.m., 
2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Transportation 
Security and Infrastructure Protection, hearing entitled ``Has the 
TSA Breach Jeopardized National Security? An Examination of What 
Happened and Why,'' 2 p.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on the Judiciary, hearing on Piracy of Live Sports 
Broadcasting over the Internet, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, hearing on 
Protecting Employees in Airline Bankruptcies, 2:30 p.m., 2141 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy, hearing on H.R. 
4115, Open Access to the Courts Act of 2009, 2 p.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, to mark up the following bills: 
H.R. 725, Indian Arts and Crafts Amendments Act of 2009; H.R. 2288, 
Endangered Fish Recovery Programs Improvement Act of 2009; H.R. 
2476, Ski Area Recreational Opportunity Enhancement Act of 2009; 
H.R. 3726, Castle Nugent Historic Site Establishment Act of 2009; 
H.R. 3538, Idaho Wilderness Water Resources Protection Act; and H.R. 
2314, Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2009, 10 
a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on 
Domestic Policy, hearing entitled ``The U.S. Government as Dominant 
Shareholder: How Should the Taxpayers' Ownership Rights be 
Exercised?'' 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives, 
hearing entitled ``History Museum or Records Access Agency? Defining 
and Fulfilling the Mission of the National Archives and Records 
Administration,'' 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations, hearing on Acquisition Deficiencies at the U.S. 
Department of Veterans Affairs, 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Subcommittee on 
Terrorism, Human Intelligence, Analysis and Counterterrorism, 
executive, briefing on Hot Spots, 4 p.m., HVC.