[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 63 (Friday, April 30, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D468-D471]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
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Joint Meetings
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                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

                   Week of May 3 through May 8, 2010

                             Senate Chamber

  On Monday, at approximately 2 p.m., Senate will resume consideration 
of S. 3217, Restoring American Financial Stability Act.
  During the balance of the week, Senate may consider any cleared 
legislative and executive business.


                           Senate Committees

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
  Committee on Appropriations: May 5, Subcommittee on Labor, Health 
and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, to hold 
hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2011 
for the National Institutes of Health, 9:30 a.m., SD-124.
  May 6, Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban 
Development, and Related Agencies, to hold hearings to examine 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2011 for the Interagency 
Partnership for Sustainable Communities, 9:30 a.m., SD-138.
  May 6, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related 
Agencies, to hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for 
fiscal year 2011 for the Department of Justice, 10 a.m., SD-192.
  Committee on Armed Services: May 6, Subcommittee on SeaPower, to 
hold hearings to examine Navy shipbuilding programs in review of the 
Defense Authorization request for fiscal year 2011 and the Future 
Years Defense Program, 2:30 p.m., SR-222.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: May 6, to hold 
hearings to examine competition in America, focusing on building a 
high-tech workforce, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: May 5, Subcommittee on 
National Parks, to hold hearings to examine the National Park 
Service's implementations of the American Recovery and Reinvestment 
Act, 2:30 p.m., SD-366.
  May 6, Full Committee, business meeting to consider the 
nominations of Philip D. Moeller, of Washington, and Cheryl A. 
LaFleur, of Massachusetts, both to be a Member of the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission, and any pending calendar business; to be 
immediately followed by a hearing to examine current issues related 
to offshore oil and gas development including the Department of the 
Interior's recent five-year planning announcements and the accident 
in the Gulf of Mexico involving the offshore oil rig Deepwater 
Horizon, 9:30 a.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: May 5, Subcommittee on 
Clean Air and Nuclear Safety, to hold an oversight hearing to 
examine the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 10 a.m., SD-406.
  May 6, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the Water 
Resources Development Act of 2010, focusing on jobs and economic 
opportunities, 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: May 4, to resume hearings to examine the 
President's proposed fee on financial institutions regarding the 
Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: May 6, to hold hearings to examine 
the meaning of Marjah, 9:30 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: May 4, to 
resume hearings to examine Elementary and Secondary Education Act 
(ESEA) reauthorization, focusing on improving America's secondary 
schools, 2 p.m., SD-430.
  May 6, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine ensuring 
fairness for older workers, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: May 4, 
Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal 
Workforce, and the District of Columbia, to hold hearings to examine 
work-life programs, focusing on attracting, retaining and empowering 
the Federal workforce, 2:30 p.m., SD-342.
  May 5, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine terrorists and 
guns, focusing on the nature of the threat and proposed reforms, 10 
a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: May 4, Subcommittee on Crime and 
Drugs, to hold hearings to examine Wall Street fraud and fiduciary 
duties, focusing on if jail time can serve as an adequate deterrent 
for willful violations, 9:30 a.m., SD-226.
  May 5, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the increased 
importance of the Violence Against Women Act in a time of economic 
crisis, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  May 6, Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. 1346, to 
penalize crimes against humanity and for other purposes, H.R. 3237, 
to enact certain laws relating to national and commercial space 
programs as title 51, United States Code, ``National and Commercial 
Space Programs'', and the nominations of Kimberly J. Mueller, to be 
United States District Judge for the Eastern District of California, 
Richard Mark Gergel, and J. Michelle Childs, both to be United 
States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, Catherine 
C. Eagles, to be United States District Judge for the Middle 
District of North Carolina, and Parker Loren Carl, to be United 
States Marshal for the Eastern District of Kentucky, Gerald Sidney 
Holt, to be United States Marshal for the Western District of 
Virginia, and Robert R. Almonte, to be United States Marshal for the 
Western District of Texas, all of the Department of Justice, 10 
a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Rules and Administration: May 5, to hold hearings to 
examine voting by mail, focusing on state and local experiences, 10 
a.m., SR-301.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: May 5, to hold an oversight 
hearing to examine traumatic brain injury (TBI), focusing on 
progress in treating the signature wound of the current conflicts, 
9:30 a.m., SR-418.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: May 4, to hold closed hearings 
to consider certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  May 6, Full Committee, to hold closed hearings to consider certain 
intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control: 
May 5, to hold hearings to examine violence in Mexico and Ciudad 
Juarez and its implications for the United States, 10 a.m., SD-562.

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                            House Committees

  Committee on Appropriations, May 5, Subcommittee on Defense, 
executive, on Missile Defense Agency, 10 a.m., H-140 Capitol.
  Committee on Armed Services, May 5, hearing on developments in 
security and stability in Afghanistan, 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and Labor, May 4, hearing on ``Supporting 
America's Educators: The Importance of Quality Teachers and 
Leaders,'' 2 p.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  May 5, Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions, 
hearing on H.R. 3721, Protecting Older Workers Against 
Discrimination Act, 10:30 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, May 6, Subcommittee on Commerce, 
Trade, and Consumer Protection, hearing on the Motor Vehicle Safety 
Act, 11 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  May 6, Subcommittee on Health, hearing on the following bills: 
H.R. 4700, Transparency in All Health Care Pricing Act of 2010; H.R. 
2249, Health Care Price Transparency Promotion Act of 2009; and H.R. 
4803, ``Patients' Right to Know Act;'' 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  May 6, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing 
entitled ``The Role and Performance of FDA in Ensuring Food 
Safety,'' 2 p.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, May 6, Subcommittee on Oversight 
and Investigations, hearing entitled ``The End of Excess (Part One): 
Reversing Our Addiction to Debt and Leverage,'' 10 a.m., 2128 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, May 6, Subcommittee on International 
Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight, and the Subcommittee on 
Asia, the Pacific and the Global Environment, joint hearing on U.S. 
Leadership in the International Whaling Commission and H.R. 2455, 
International Whale Conservation and Protection Act of 2009, 10 
a.m., 2200 Rayburn.
  May 6, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade, 
hearing on the Future of U.S. International Nuclear Cooperation, 10 
a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on House Administration, May 6, hearing on H.R. 5175, To 
amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit foreign 
influence in Federal elections, to prohibit government contractors 
from making expenditures with respect to such elections, and to 
establish additional disclosure requirements with respect to 
spending in such elections, and for other purposes, 11 a.m., 1310 
Longworth.
  Committee on the Judiciary, May 5, hearing on the United States 
Patent and Trademark Office, 10:15 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  May 5, Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil 
Liberties, hearing on Electronic Communications Privacy Act Reform, 
2 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  May 6, Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, hearing 
on State Taxation: The Role of Congress in Developing Apportionment 
Standards, 11 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, May 5, to mark up the following 
bills: H.R. 4349, Hoover Power Allocation Act of 2009; H.R. 2889, 
Oregon Caves National Monument Boundary Adjustment Act of 2009; H.R. 
4438, San Antonio Missions National Historical Park Leasing and 
Boundary Expansion Act of 2010; H.R. 4491, Buffalo Soldiers in the 
National Parks Study Act; H.R. 4493, Marianas Trench Marine National 
Monument Management Enhancement Act of 2010; H.R. 3511, Marianas 
Trench Marine National Monument Visitor Facility Authorization Act 
of 2009; and H. Res. 1254, Directing the Secretary of the Interior 
to transmit to the House of Representatives certain information 
relating to the Secretary's Treasured Landscape Initiative, 
potential designation of National Monuments, and High Priority Land-
Rationalization Efforts, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  May 6, Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife, 
hearing on the following bills: H.R. 2864, To amend the Hydrographic 
Services Improvement Act of 1998 to authorize funds to acquire 
hydrographic data and provide hydrographic services specific to the 
Arctic for safe navigation, delineating the United States extended 
continental shelf, and the monitoring and description of coastal 
changes; H.R. 3805, Electronic Duck Stamp Extension Act of 2009; and 
H.R. 4973, National Wildlife Refuge Volunteer Improvement Act of 
2010, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, May 5, Subcommittee 
on Federal Workforce, Postal Service and the District of Columbia, 
hearing entitled ``Housing D.C. Code Felons Far Away From Home: 
Effects on Crime, Recidivism and Reentry,'' 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  May 5, Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and 
Procurement, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 4900, Federal 
Information Security Amendments Act of 2010; and H.R. 2142, 
Government Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Performance Improvement 
Act of 2009, 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  May 6, full Committee, to consider pending business, 10 a.m., 2154 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Science and Technology, May 5, Subcommittee on Space 
and Aeronautics, hearing on Mitigating the Impact of Volcanic Ash 
Clouds on Aviation--What Do We Need to Know,'' 10 a.m., 2318 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, May 5, hearing entitled ``Tax 
Initiatives That Promote Small Business Growth,'' 1 p.m., 2360 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, May 5, 
Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, hearing on Assessing the 
Implementation and Impacts of the Clean Truck Programs at the Port 
of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  May 6, Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and 
Emergency Management, hearing on Priorities for Disasters and 
Economic Disruption: The Proposed Fiscal Year 2011 Budgets for the 
Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Economic Development 
Administration, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, May 5, hearing on Health Effects 
of the Vietnam War--The Aftermath, 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  May 6, Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs, 
hearing on Quality vs. Quantity: Examining the Veterans Benefits 
Administration's Employee

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Work Credit and Management Systems, 2 p.m., 334 Cannon.
  May 6, Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity, hearing on Vocational 
Rehabilitation and Employment Program, 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, May 6, Subcommittee on Income 
Security and Family Support, hearing to assess the solvency of State 
unemployed insurance programs, 10 a.m., B-318 Rayburn.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, May 5, executive, 
briefing on IC Personnel Management, 3 p.m., 304 HVC.
  May 6, full Committee, and the Subcommittee on Terrorism, 
Unconventional Threats and Capabilities of the Committee on Armed 
Services, executive, joint briefing on Operations in Iraq, 11 a.m., 
304-HVC.
  Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, May 6, 
hearing entitled ``The Foundation for Climate Science,'' 10 a.m., 
2237 Rayburn.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Economic Committee: May 5, to hold hearings to examine how 
to promote job creation, 1 p.m., 210 Cannon Building.
  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: May 4, to hold 
hearings to examine mitigating inter-ethnic conflict in the 
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OCSE) region, 
focusing on persisting tensions, 10 a.m., SVC-208/209.
  Joint Economic Committee: May 7, to hold hearings to examine the 
employment situation for April 2010, 9:30 a.m., SD-106.