[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 32 (Monday, March 8, 2010)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E323-E324]
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, March 9, 2010 may be found in the 
Daily Digest of today's Record.

                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED

                                MARCH 10
     Time to be announced
       Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
         Business meeting to consider the nominations of Patrick 
           K. Nakamura, of Alabama, to be a Member of the Federal 
           Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, Gwendolyn E. 
           Boyd, of Maryland, and Peggy Goldwater-Clay, of 
           California, both to be a Member of the Board of 
           Trustees of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and 
           Excellence in Education Foundation, and Sharon L. 
           Browne, of California, Charles Norman Wiltse Keckler, 
           of Virginia, and Victor B. Maddox, of Kentucky, all to 
           be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Legal 
           Services Corporation, and Gary Blumenthal, of 
           Massachusetts, Chester Alonzo Finn, of New York, Sara 
           A. Gelser, of Oregon, Ari Ne'eman, of Maryland, Dongwoo 
           Joseph Pak, of California, Carol Jean Reynolds, of 
           Colorado, Fernando Torres-Gill, of California, and 
           Jonathan M. Young, of Maryland, all to be a Member of 
           the National Council on Disability.
                                              Room to be announced
     9:30 a.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings to examine S. 1696, to require the 
           Secretary of Energy to conduct a study of video game 
           console energy efficiency, and S. 2908, to amend the 
           Energy Policy and Conservation Act to require the 
           Secretary of Energy to publish a final rule that 
           establishes a uniform efficiency descriptor and 
           accompanying test methods for covered water heaters.
                                                            SD-366
     10 a.m.
       Appropriations
       Defense Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine Department of Defense health 
           programs.
                                                            SD-192
       Armed Services
       Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine U.S. government efforts to 
           counter violent extremism and the role of the U.S. 
           military in those efforts.
                                                            SR-222
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine new directions in global 
           health.
                                                            SD-419
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine the lessons and implications 
           of the Christmas day attack, focusing on watchlisting 
           and pre-screening.
                                                            SD-342
       Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine corporate spending in 
           American elections after Citizens United.
                                                            SD-226
     10:15 a.m.
       Appropriations
       Energy and Water Development Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for 
           fiscal year 2011 for the National Nuclear Security 
           Administration.
                                                            SD-116
     10:30 a.m.
       Armed Services
       Personnel Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the Active, Guard, Reserve, 
           and civilian personnel programs in review of the 
           Defense Authorization request for fiscal year 2011 and 
           the Future Years Defense Program.
                                                           SR-232A
     2 p.m.
       Appropriations
       Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related 
           Agencies Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for 
           fiscal year 2011 for the Department of Health and Human 
           Services.
                                                            SD-124
     2:30 p.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold hearings to examine advancing American innovation 
           and competitiveness.
                                                            SR-253
       Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Robert 
           Neil Chatigny, of Connecticut, to be United States 
           Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, Gary Scott 
           Feinerman, and Sharon Johnson Coleman, both to be 
           United States District Judge for the Northern District 
           of Illinois, and William Joseph Martinez, to be United 
           States District Judge for the District of Colorado.
                                                            SD-226
       Energy and Natural Resources
       Public Lands and Forests Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine S. 2895, to restore forest 
           landscapes, protect old growth forests, and manage 
           national forests in the eastside forests of the State 
           of Oregon, S. 2907, to establish a coordinated 
           avalanche protection program, S. 2966 and H.R. 4474, 
           bills to authorize the continued use of certain water 
           diversions located on National Forest System land in 
           the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness and the 
           Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness in the State of Idaho, and 
           S. 2791 and H.R. 3759, bills to authorize the Secretary 
           of the Interior to grant market-related contract 
           extensions of certain timber contracts between the 
           Secretary of the Interior and timber purchasers.
                                                            SD-366
       Armed Services
       Strategic Forces Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the military space programs 
           in review of the Defense Authorization request for 
           fiscal year 2011 and the Future Years Defense Program.
                                                           SR-232A
     3 p.m.
       Foreign Relations
       International Operations and Organizations, Human Rights, 
           Democracy and Global Women's Issues Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the future of U.S. public 
           diplomacy.
                                                            SD-419

                                MARCH 11
     9 a.m.
       Armed Services
         To hold hearings to examine U.S. Northern Command and 
           U.S. Southern Command in review of the Defense 
           Authorization request for fiscal year 2011 and the 
           Future Years Defense Program; to be immediately 
           followed by a hearing to examine the Joint Strike 
           Fighter.
                                                            SD-G50
       Appropriations
       Energy and Water Development Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for 
           fiscal year 2011 for the Army Corps of Engineers and 
           the Bureau of Reclamation.
                                                            SD-192
     9:30 a.m.
       Appropriations
       Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related 
           Agencies Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for 
           fiscal year 2011 for the Department of Housing and 
           Urban Development.
                                                            SD-138
     10 a.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold hearings to examine consumers, competition, and 
           consolidation in the video and broadband market.
                                                            SR-253
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings to examine legislative proposals 
           designed to create jobs related to energy efficiency, 
           including

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           proposed legislation on energy efficient building 
           retrofits.
                                                            SD-366
       Environment and Public Works
         To hold hearings to examine Federal, state and local 
           partnerships to accelerate transportation benefits.
                                                            SD-406
       Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
         To hold hearings to examine pay equity in the new 
           American workplace.
                                                            SD-430
       Judiciary
         Business meeting to consider S. 1789, to restore fairness 
           to Federal cocaine sentencing, S. 2772, to establish a 
           criminal justice reinvestment grant program to help 
           States and local jurisdictions reduce spending on 
           corrections, control growth in the prison and jail 
           populations, and increase public safety, 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. 148, to restore the rule that agreements 
           between manufacturers and retailers, distributors, or 
           wholesalers to set the minimum price below which the 
           manufacturer's product or service cannot be sold 
           violates the Sherman Act, and the nominations of Jane 
           E. Magnus-Stinson, to be United States District Judge 
           for the Southern District of Indiana, Josephine Staton 
           Tucker, to be United States District Judge for the 
           Central District of California, Mark A. Goldsmith, to 
           be United States District Judge for the Eastern 
           District of Michigan, Brian Anthony Jackson, to be 
           United States District Judge for the Middle District of 
           Louisiana, Elizabeth Erny Foote, to be United States 
           District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana, 
           Marc T. Treadwell, to be United States District Judge 
           for the Middle District of Georgia, and Kelvin 
           Corneilius Washington, to be United States Marshal for 
           the District of South Carolina, and Christopher Tobias 
           Hoye, to be United States Marshal for the District of 
           Nevada, both of the Department of Justice.
                                                            SD-226
     11 a.m.
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
       State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness and 
           Integration Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine U.S. officials involved in 
           drug cartels.
                                                            SD-342
     2 p.m.
       Appropriations
       Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related 
           Agencies Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for 
           fiscal year 2011 for military construction for the 
           Department of Defense.
                                                            SD-124
     2:30 p.m.
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Elizabeth 
           L. Littlefield, of the District of Columbia, to be 
           President of the Overseas Private Investment 
           Corporation, and Carolyn Hessler Radelet, of the 
           District of Columbia, to be Deputy Director of the 
           Peace Corps.
                                                            SD-419
       Intelligence
         To hold closed hearings to consider certain intelligence 
           matters.
                                                            SH-219

                                MARCH 16
     9:30 a.m.
       Armed Services
         To hold hearings to examine U.S. Special Operations 
           Command and U.S. Central Command in review of the 
           Defense Authorization request for fiscal year 2011 and 
           the Future Years Defense Program; with the possibility 
           of a closed session in SVC-217 following the open 
           session.
                                                            SH-216
     10 a.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
       Water and Power Subcommittee
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine the Bureau of 
           Reclamation's implementation of the SECURE Water Act, 
           (Title 9501 of Public Law 111-11) and the Bureau of 
           Reclamation's WaterSMART program which includes the 
           WaterSMART Grant Program, the Basin Study Program and 
           the Title XVI Program.
                                                            SD-366
     2 p.m.
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
       Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, 
           and the District of Columbia Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine assessing foster care and 
           family services in the District of Columbia, focusing 
           on challenges and solutions.
                                                            SD-342

                                MARCH 17
     2:30 p.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
       National Parks Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine S. 553, to revise the 
           authorized route of the North Country National Scenic 
           Trail in northeastern Minnesota to include existing 
           hiking trails along Lake Superior's north shore and in 
           Superior National Forest and Chippewa National Forest, 
           S. 1017, to reauthorize the Cane River National 
           Heritage Area Commission and expand the boundaries of 
           the Cane River National Heritage Area in the State of 
           Louisiana, S. 1018, to authorize the Secretary of the 
           Interior to enter into an agreement with Northwestern 
           State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana, to 
           construct a curatorial center for the use of Cane River 
           Creole National Historical Park, the National Center 
           for Preservation Technology and Training, and the 
           University, S. 1537, to authorize the Secretary of the 
           Interior, acting through the Director of the National 
           Park Service, to designate the Dr. Norman E. Borlaug 
           Birthplace and Childhood Home in Cresco, Iowa, as a 
           National Historic Site and as a unit of the National 
           Park System, S. 1629, to authorize the Secretary of the 
           Interior to conduct a special resource study of the 
           archeological site and surrounding land of the New 
           Philadelphia town site in the state of Illinois, S. 
           2892, to establish the Alabama Black Belt National 
           Heritage Area, S. 2933, to authorize the Secretary of 
           the Interior to conduct a special resource study to 
           determine the suitability and feasibility of 
           designating the Colonel Charles Young Home in Xenia, 
           Ohio, as a unit of the National Park System, S. 2951, 
           to authorize funding to protect and conserve lands 
           contiguous with the Blue Ridge Parkway to serve the 
           public, and H.R. 3804, to make technical corrections to 
           various Acts affecting the National Park Service, to 
           extend, amend, or establish certain National Park 
           Service authorities.
                                                            SD-366

                                MARCH 18
     9:30 a.m.
       Veterans' Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine legislative presentations 
           from AMVETS, National Association of State Directors of 
           Veterans Affairs, Non Commissioned Officers 
           Association, Gold Star Wives, The Retired Enlisted 
           Association, Fleet Reserve Association, Vietnam 
           Veterans of America, and Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans 
           of America.
                                                            SDG-50

                                MARCH 23
     9:30 a.m.
       Armed Services
         To hold hearings to examine U.S. Pacific Command, U.S. 
           Strategic Command, and U.S. Forces Korea in review of 
           the Defense Authorization request for fiscal year 2011 
           and the Future Years Defense Program; with the 
           possibility of a closed session in SVC-217 following 
           the open session.
                                                            SH-216

                                MARCH 24
     9:30 a.m.
       Veterans' Affairs
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine Veterans' Affairs 
           plan for ending homelessness among veterans.
                                                            SR-418