[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 191 (Wednesday, December 16, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1482-D1483]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                           DECEMBER 17, 2009

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)

                                 Senate

  Committee on 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, 9:30 
a.m., SD-G50.
  Committee on 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, 9:30 a.m., SD-
538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: business 
meeting to consider S. 1562, to provide for a study and report on 
research on the United States Arctic Ocean and for other purposes, 
S. 1609, to authorize a single fisheries cooperative for the Bering 
Sea Aleutian Islands longline catcher processor subsector, S. 2852, 
to establish, within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration, an integrated and comprehensive ocean, coastal, 
Great Lakes, and atmospheric research, prediction, and environmental 
information program to support renewable energy, S. 2856, to allow 
the United States-Canada Transboundary Resource Sharing 
Understanding to be considered an international agreement for the 
purposes of section 304(e)(4) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 
Conservation and Management Act, S. 2859, to reauthorize the Coral 
Reef Conservation Act of 2000, S. 583, to provide grants and loan 
guarantees for the development and construction of science parks to 
promote the clustering of innovation through high technology 
activities, H.R. 3819, to extend the commercial space transportation 
liability regime, an original bill entitled ``Surface Transportation 
Board Reauthorization Act of 2009'', and the nominations of Julie 
Simone Brill, of Vermont, and Edith

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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, 
Nicole Yvette Lamb-Hale, of Michigan, to be Assistant Secretary of 
Commerce, and Michael A. Khouri, of Kentucky, to be a Federal 
Maritime Commissioner, and routine lists in the National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Corps and Coast Guard, 10 
a.m., SR-253.
  Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and 
Insurance, to hold hearings to examine carbon monoxide poisoning, 
2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public 
Lands and Forests, 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, 2:30 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: to hold 
hearings to examine prospects for our economic future and proposals 
to secure it, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight, to hold hearings to 
examine an overview of Afghanistan contracts, 2 p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on 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, 2:15 
p.m., SD-628.
  Committee on the 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 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, 10 
a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on 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, Time to be announced, SR-485.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold closed hearings to 
consider certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                                 House

  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa and Global 
Health, hearing on Elections in Africa: Progress Made, Challenges 
Remaining, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and 
Homeland Security, oversight hearing on Recent Inspector General 
Reports Concerning the FBI, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on 
Domestic Policy, to continue hearings entitled ``The U.S. Government 
as Dominant Shareholder: How Should the Taxpayers' Ownership Rights 
be Exercised?'' 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.


                             Joint Meetings

  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: to receive a 
briefing on Russia's Muslims, 2 p.m., 1539, Longworth Building.