[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 60 (Tuesday, April 27, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D445-D447]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                             APRIL 28, 2010

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development, to hold hearings to examine a national assessment of 
energy policies, focusing on significant achievements since the 
1970s and an examination of U.S. energy policies and goals in the 
coming decades, 10 a.m., SD-124.
  Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, to hold 
hearings to examine the President's proposed budget estimates for 
fiscal year 2011 for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and 
for the Securities and Exchange Commission, 2:30 p.m., SD-138.
  Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel, to hold 
hearings to examine military compensation and benefits, including 
special and incentive pays, in review of the Defense Authorization 
request for fiscal year 2011 and the Future Years Defense Program, 
10 a.m., SR-222.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee 
on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine, to hold an oversight 
hearing to examine motor carrier safety efforts, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public 
Lands and Forests, to hold hearings to examine S. 1241, to amend 
Public Law 106-206 to direct the Secretary of the Interior and the 
Secretary of Agriculture to require annual permits and assess annual 
fees for commercial filming activities on Federal land for film 
crews of 5 persons or fewer, S. 1571 and H.R. 1043, bills to provide 
for a land exchange involving certain National Forest System lands 
in the Mendocino National Forest in the State of California, S. 
2762, to designate certain lands in San Miguel, Ouray, and San Juan 
Counties, Colorado, as wilderness, S. 3075, to withdraw certain 
Federal land and interests in that land from location, entry, and 
patent under the mining laws and disposition under the mineral

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and geothermal leasing laws, S. 3185, to require the Secretary of 
the Interior to convey certain Federal land to Elko County, Nevada, 
and to take land into trust for the Te-moak Tribe of Western 
Shoshone Indians of Nevada, and H.R. 86, to eliminate an unused 
lighthouse reservation, provide management consistency by 
incorporating the rocks and small islands along the coast of Orange 
County, California, into the California Coastal National Monument 
managed by the Bureau of Land Management, and meet the original 
Congressional intent of preserving Orange County's rocks and small 
islands, 2:30 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: to resume 
hearings to examine Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) 
reauthorization, focusing on standards and assessments, 2 p.m., SD-
430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: business 
meeting to consider an original bill entitled, ``Fire Grants 
Reauthorization Act of 2010'', S. 2782, to provide personal 
jurisdiction in causes of action against contractors of the United 
States performing contracts abroad with respect to members of the 
Armed Forces, civilian employees of the United States, and United 
States citizen employees of companies performing work for the United 
States in connection with contractor activities, S. 3167, to amend 
title 13 of the United States Code to provide for a 5-year term of 
office for the Director of the Census and to provide for authority 
and duties of the Director and Deputy Director of the Census, S. 
3249, to amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act to reauthorize the predisaster hazard mitigation 
program and for other purposes, S. 3196, to amend the Presidential 
Transition Act of 1963 to provide that certain transition services 
shall be available to eligible candidates before the general 
election, H.R. 1454, to provide for the issuance of a Multinational 
Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp, 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. 2092, to amend the 
National Children's Island Act of 1995 to expand allowable uses for 
Kingman and Heritage Islands by the District of Columbia, S. 3066, 
to correct the application of the Non-Foreign Area Retirement Equity 
Assurance Act of 2009 (5 U.S.C. 5304 note) to employees paid saved 
or retained rates, H.R. 3978, to amend the Implementing 
Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 to authorize the 
Secretary of Homeland Security to accept and use gifts for otherwise 
authorized activities of the Center for Domestic Preparedness that 
are related to preparedness for and response to terrorism, S. Res. 
481, expressing the sense of the Senate that public servants should 
be commended for their dedication and continued public service to 
the Nation during Public Service Recognition Week, May 3 through 9, 
2010, S. 3200, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 23 Genesee Street in Hornell, New York, as the 
``Zachary Smith Post Office Building'', S. 3012 and H.R. 4425, bills 
to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 2-116th Street in North Troy, New York, as the ``Martin 
G. `Marty' Mahar Post Office'', H.R. 4214, to designate the facility 
of the United States Postal Service located at 45300 Portola Avenue 
in Palm Desert, California, as the ``Roy Wilson Post Office'', S. 
2945 and H.R. 3250, bills to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 1210 West Main Street in Riverhead, 
New York, as the ``Private First Class Garfield M. Langhorn Post 
Office Building'', H.R. 3634, to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 109 Main Street in Swifton, 
Arkansas, as the ``George Kell Post Office'', H.R. 4624, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 125 Kerr Avenue in Rome City, Indiana, as the ``SPC Nicholas 
Scott Hartge Post Office'', S. 3013 and H.R. 4628, bills to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 216 Westwood Avenue in Westwood, New Jersey, as the ``Sergeant 
Christopher R. Hrbek Post Office Building'', and the nominations of 
Todd E. Edelman, Milton C. Lee, Jr., and Judith Anne Smith, all to 
be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of 
Columbia, Dana Katherine Bilyeu, of Nevada, and Michael D. Kennedy, 
of Georgia, both to be a Member of the Federal Retirement Thrift 
Investment Board, and Dennis P. Walsh, of Maryland, to be Chairman 
of the Special Panel on Appeals, and any pending calendar business, 
10 a.m., SD-342.
  Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight, to hold an oversight 
hearing to examine contract management at the Centers for Medicare 
and Medicaid Services, 2:30 p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Robert Neil Chatigny, of Connecticut, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, and John A. Gibney, 
Jr., to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of 
Virginia, 2:30 p.m., SD-226.


                                 House

  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural 
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, on 
Drug Safety, 10:30 a.m., 2362A Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, on FY 
2011 Budget Request for the GSA, 10:30 a.m., 2362-B Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and 
Related Agencies, on FY 2011 Budget Overview: National Institutes of 
Health, 10 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Air and Land Forces, 
hearing on Air Mobility Programs, 2 p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and Labor, Subcommittee on Workforce 
Protections, hearing on Whistleblower and Victims' Rights Provision 
of H.R. 2067, Protecting America's Workers Act, 10 a.m., 2175 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade 
and Consumer Protection, hearing entitled ``Public Sales of 
Hurricane Katrina/Rita FEMA Trailers: Are They Safe or Environmental 
Time Bombs?'' 10 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.

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  Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, hearing on Clean Energy 
Policies That Reduce Our Dependence on Oil, 9:30 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Health, hearing entitled ``Antibiotic Resistance 
and the Threat to Public Health'', 2 p.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Housing and 
Community Opportunity, hearing entitled ``Legislative Proposals to 
Preserve Public Housing,'' 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on International Monetary Policy and Trade, hearing 
entitled `` Promoting Small and Micro Enterprise in Haiti,'' 2 p.m., 
2128 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing entitled `` 
Reviewing FinCEN Oversight Reports,'' 2 p.m., 2220 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 
4128, Conflict Minerals Trade Act; H.R. 5138, International Megan's 
Law of 2010; H.R. 4801, Global Science Program for Security, 
Competitiveness, and Diplomacy Act of 2010; H.R. 5139, Extending 
Immunities to the Office of the High Representative and the 
International Civilian Office in Kosovo Act of 2010; and S. 1067, 
Lord's Resistance Army Disarmament and North Uganda Recovery Act of 
2009, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on House Administration, to consider a Committee 
resolution relating to energy demonstration projects; followed by a 
hearing on Oversight of the Clerk, Sergeant at Arms, Chief 
Administrative Officer and Inspector General of the House of 
Representatives, 11 a.m., 1310 Longworth.
  Committee on the Judiciary, hearing on H.R. 2695, Credit Card Fair 
Fee Act of 2009, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on 
National Security and Foreign Affairs, hearing entitled ``The Rise 
of the Drones II: Examining the Legality of Unmanned Targeting,'' 10 
a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, to consider H.R. 2499, Puerto Rico Democracy 
Act of 2009, 3 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science and Technology, to consider the America 
COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, hearing entitled ``Evaluating the 
Impact of Small Business Trade Policy on Job Creation and Economic 
Growth,'' 1 p.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Water Resources and Environment, to continue hearings on Protecting 
and Restoring America's Great Waters, Part II: The Columbia River 
and San Francisco Bay, 2 p.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Subcommittee on 
Terrorism, Human Intelligence, Analysis and Counterintelligence, 
executive, briefing on Hot Spots, 1 p.m., 304 HVC.


                             Joint Meetings

  Conference: meeting of conferees on H.R. 2194, to amend the Iran 
Sanctions Act of 1996 to enhance United States diplomatic efforts 
with respect to Iran by expanding economic sanctions against Iran, 1 
p.m., SVC-210/212.