[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 73 (Friday, May 14, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D540-D543]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

                  Week of May 17 through May 22, 2010

                             Senate Chamber

  On Monday, at approximately 3 p.m., Senate will resume consideration 
of S. 3217, Restoring American Financial Stability Act, and vote on a 
series of amendments at 5:30 p.m.
  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 18, Subcommittee on Defense, to 
hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 
2011 for the Pacific Command and European Command programs, 10 a.m., 
SVC-217.
  May 19, Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban 
Development, and Related Agencies, to hold hearings to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2011 for the 
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro), 3:30 p.m., 
SD-138.
  May 20, Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban 
Development, and Related Agencies, to hold hearings to examine the 
progress in ending veterans' homelessness, 10 a.m., SD-124.
  May 20, Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, 
Education, and Related Agencies, to hold hearings to examine 
investing in mine safety, focusing on preventing another disaster, 2 
p.m., SD-106.
  May 20, Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, 
to hold hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request 
for fiscal year 2011 for the Federal Trade Commission, 2:30 p.m., 
SD-192.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: May 20, 
Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance and Investment, to hold 
hearings to examine the causes and lessons of the May 6th market 
plunge, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: May 18, to 
hold hearings to examine response efforts to the Gulf Coast oil 
spill, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  May 19, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine S. 3302, to 
amend title 49, United States Code, to establish new automobile 
safety standards, make better motor vehicle safety information 
available to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and 
the public, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  May 20, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the nomination 
of Carl Wieman, of Colorado, to be an Associate Director of the 
Office of Science and Technology Policy, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: May 18, to resume 
hearings to examine issues related to offshore oil and gas 
exploration including the accident involving the Deepwater Horizon 
in the Gulf of Mexico, 11 a.m., SR-325.
  May 19, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the proposed 
Constitution of the U.S. Virgin Islands, S. 2941, to provide 
supplemental ex gratia compensation to the Republic of the Marshall 
Islands for impacts of the nuclear testing program of the United 
States, H.R. 3940, to amend Public Law 96-597 to clarify the 
authority of the Secretary of the Interior to extend grants and 
other assistance to facilitate political status public education 
programs for the peoples of the non-self-governing territories of 
the United States, and H.R. 2499, to provide for a federally 
sanctioned self-determination process for the people of Puerto Rico, 
9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  May 19, Subcommittee on National Parks, to hold hearings to 
examine S. 349, to establish the Susquehanna Gateway National 
Heritage Area in the State of Pennsylvania, S. 1596, to authorize 
the Secretary of the Interior to acquire the Gold Hill Ranch in 
Coloma, California, S. 1651, to modify a land grant patent issued by 
the Secretary of the Interior, S. 1750, to authorize the Secretary 
of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the General 
of the Army George Catlett Marshall National Historic Site at Dodona 
Manor in Leesburg, Virginia, S. 1801, to establish the First State 
National Historical Park in the State of Delaware, S. 1802 and H.R. 
685, bills to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a 
special resource study regarding the proposed United States Civil 
Rights Trail, S. 2953 and H.R. 3388, bills to modify the boundary of 
Petersburg National Battlefield in the Commonwealth of Virginia, S. 
2976, to designate as wilderness certain land and inland water 
within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in the State of 
Michigan, S. 3159 and H.R. 4395, bills to revise the boundaries of 
the Gettysburg National Military Park to include the Gettysburg 
Train Station, S. 3168, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior 
to acquire certain non-Federal land in the State of Pennsylvania for 
inclusion in the Fort Necessity National Battlefield, and S. 3303, 
to establish the Chimney Rock National Monument in the State of 
Colorado, 2:30 p.m., SD-366.
  May 20, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine S. 2921, to 
provide for the conservation, enhanced recreation opportunities, and 
development of renewable energy in the California Desert 
Conservation Area, to require the Secretary of the Interior to 
designate certain offices to serve as Renewable Energy Coordination 
Offices for coordination of Federal permits for renewable energy 
projects and transmission lines to integrate renewable energy 
development, 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: May 18, to hold 
hearings to examine Federal response to the recent oil spill in the 
Gulf of Mexico, 2:30 p.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: May 20, Subcommittee on Energy, Natural 
Resources, and Infrastructure, to hold hearings to examine clean 
technology manufacturing competitiveness, focusing on the role of 
tax incentives, 2:30 p.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: May 18, to hold hearings to 
examine the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), 10 a.m., 
SD-106.
  May 19, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine empowering 
Haiti to rebuild better, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  May 19, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the history 
and lessons of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), 2:30 
p.m., SD-419.

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  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: May 18, to 
resume hearings to examine Elementary and Secondary Education Act 
(ESEA) reform, focusing on supporting student health, physical 
education, and well-being, 2:30 p.m., SD-430.
  May 19, Subcommittee on Children and Families, to hold hearings to 
examine the state of American children, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: May 17, 
to hold hearings to examine the Gulf Coast disaster, focusing on 
assessing the nation's response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, 
2:30 p.m., SD-342.
  May 17, Full Committee, business meeting to resume consideration 
of 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. 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'', H.R. 4017, to designate 
the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 43 Maple 
Avenue in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, as the ``Ann Marie Blute Post 
Office'', H.R. 3892, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 101 West Highway 64 Bypass in Roper, North 
Carolina, as the ``E.V. Wilkins Post Office'', H.R. 4547, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 119 Station Road in Cheyney, Pennsylvania, as the ``Captain 
Luther H. Smith, U.S. Army Air Forces Post Office'', S. 2874 and 
H.R. 3951, bills to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 2000 Louisiana Avenue in New Orleans, 
Louisiana, as the ``Roy Rondeno, Sr. Post Office Building'', H.R. 
4095, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 9727 Antioch Road in Overland Park, Kansas, as the 
``Congresswoman Jan Meyers Post Office Building'', H.R. 4139, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 7464 Highway 503 in Hickory, Mississippi, as the ``Sergeant 
Matthew L. Ingram Post Office'', H.R. 4238, to designate the 
facility of the United States Postal Service located at 930 39th 
Avenue in Greeley, Colorado, as the ``W.D. Farr Post Office 
Building'', and H.R. 4840, to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 1979 Cleveland Avenue in Columbus, 
Ohio, as the ``Clarence D. Lumpkin Post Office'', 5:30 p.m., S-216, 
Capitol.
  May 20, Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight, to hold 
hearings to examine counternarcotics contracts in Latin America, 
10:30 a.m., SD-342.
  May 20, Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the 
Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia, to hold hearings to 
examine efforts to right-size the Federal employee-to-contractor 
mix, 2:30 p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: May 18, Subcommittee on Human Rights 
and the Law, to hold hearings to examine drug enforcement and rule 
of law, focusing on Mexico and Colombia, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  May 19, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine renewing 
America's commitment to the refugee convention, focusing on the 
Refugee Protection Act of 2010, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  May 20, Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. 193, to 
create and extend certain temporary district court judgeships, H.R. 
4506, to authorize the appointment of additional bankruptcy judges, 
H.R. 1933, to direct the Attorney General to make an annual grant to 
the A Child Is Missing Alert and Recovery Center to assist law 
enforcement agencies in the rapid recovery of missing children, and 
the nomination of John A. Gibney, Jr., to be United States District 
Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Rules and Administration: May 19, to resume hearings 
to examine the filibuster, focusing on the filibuster today and its 
consequences, 10 a.m., SR-301.
  Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: May 19, to hold 
hearings to examine the nomination of Marie Collins Johns, of the 
District of Columbia, to be Deputy Administrator of the Small 
Business Administration, 10 a.m., SR-428A.
  May 19, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the Small 
Business Administration (SBA) Disaster Assistance Program and the 
impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on small businesses, 11 
a.m., SR-428A.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: May 19, to hold hearings to 
examine S. 1780, to amend title 38, United States

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Code, to deem certain service in the reserve components as active 
service for purposes of laws administered by the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs, S. 1866, to amend title 38, United States Code, to 
provide for the eligibility of parents of certain deceased veterans 
for interment in national cemeteries, S. 1939, to amend title 38, 
United States Code, to clarify presumptions relating to the exposure 
of certain veterans who served in the vicinity of the Republic of 
Vietnam, S. 1940, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to 
carry out a study on the effects on children of exposure of their 
parents to herbicides used in support of the United States and 
allied military operations in the Republic of Vietnam during the 
Vietnam era, S. 2751, to designate the Department of Veterans 
Affairs medical center in Big Spring, Texas, as the George H. 
O'Brien, Jr., Department of Veterans Medical Center, S. 3035, to 
require a report on the establishment of a Polytrauma Rehabilitation 
Center or Polytrauma Network Site of the Department of Veterans 
Affairs in the northern Rockies or Dakotas, S. 3107, to amend title 
38, United States Code, to provide for an increase, effective 
December 1, 2010, in the rates of compensation for veterans with 
service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and 
indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled 
veterans, S. 3192, to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide 
for the tolling of the timing of review for appeals of final 
decisions of the Board of Veterans' Appeals, S. 3234, to improve 
employment, training, and placement services furnished to veterans, 
especially those serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation 
Enduring Freedom, S. 3286, to require the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs to carry out a pilot program on the award of grants to State 
and local government agencies and nonprofit organizations to provide 
assistance to veterans with their submittal of claims to the 
Veterans Benefits Administration, S. 3314, to require the Secretary 
of Veterans Affairs and the Appalachian Regional Commission to carry 
out a program of outreach for veterans who reside in Appalachia, S. 
3325, to amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the waiver 
of the collection of copayments for telehealth and telemedicine 
visits of veterans, S. 3330, to amend title 38, United States Code, 
to make certain improvements in the administration of medical 
facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs, S. 3348, to amend 
title 38, United States Code, to provide for the treatment of 
documents that express disagreement with decisions of the Board of 
Veterans' Appeals and that are misfiled with the Board within 120 
days of such decisions as motions for reconsideration of such 
decisions, S. 3352, to amend title 38, United States Code, to exempt 
reimbursements of expenses related to accident, theft, loss, or 
casualty loss from determinations of annual income with respect to 
pensions for veterans and surviving spouses and children of 
veterans, S. 3355, to provide for an Internet website for 
information on benefits, resource, services, and opportunities for 
veterans and their families and caregivers, S. 3367, to amend title 
38, United States Code, to increase the rate of pension for disabled 
veterans who are married to one another and both of whom require 
regular aid and attendance, S. 3368, to amend title 38, United 
States Code, to authorize certain individuals to sign claims filed 
with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs on behalf of claimants, and 
S. 3370, to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the 
process by which an individual files jointly for social security and 
dependency and indemnity compensation, 9:30 a.m., SR-418.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: May 18, to hold closed hearings 
to consider certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  May 20, Full Committee, to hold closed hearings to consider 
certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Appropriations, May 20, Subcommittee on Defense, on 
Public Witnesses, 10 a.m., H-140 Capitol.
  Committee on Armed Services, May 19, to mark up H.R. 5136, 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011, 10 a.m., 
2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and Labor, May 18, hearing to examine GAO's 
Review of Selected Head Start Grantees, 1:30 p.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  May 19, hearing on Research and Best Practices on Successful 
School Turnaround, 10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  May 20, hearing on the Impact of Concussions on High School 
Athletes, 9 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, May 20, Subcommittee on 
Oversight and Investigations, hearing entitled ``Update on Toyota 
and NHTSA's Response to the Problem of Sudden Unintended 
Acceleration,'' 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, May 18, hearing entitled 
``Initiatives to Promote Small Business Lending, Jobs and Economic 
Growth,'' 1 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  May 19, to consider H.R. 5297, Small Business Lending Fund Act of 
2010, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  May 20, Subcommittee on International Monetary Policy and Trade 
and the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology, 
joint hearing entitled ``The Role of the International Monetary Fund 
and Federal Reserve in Stabilizing Europe,'' 2 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  May 21, Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government 
Sponsored Enterprises, hearing entitled ``Accounting and Auditing 
Standards: Pending Proposals and Emerging Issues,'' 10 a.m., 2128 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, May 20, Subcommittee on Asia, the 
Pacific and the Global Environment, oversight hearing on the Compact 
of Free Association with the Republic of the Marshall Islands: 
Medical Treatment of the Marshallese People, U.S. Nuclear Tests, 
Nuclear Claims Tribunal, Forced Resettlement, Use of Kwajalein Atoll 
for Missile Programs and Land Use Development, 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  May 20, Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights 
and Oversight, hearing on Afghanistan Reconstruction Oversight, 9:30 
a..m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, May 19, hearing entitled 
``Viewpoints on Homeland Security: A Discussion with the 9/11 
Commissioners,'' 10 a.m., 311 Cannon.

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  Committee on the Judiciary, May 19, Subcommittee on the 
Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, hearing on Racial 
Profiling and the Use of Suspect Classifications in Law Enforcement 
Policy, 2 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  May 20, Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, hearing 
on the Administrative Conference of the United States, 2 p.m., 2141 
Rayburn.
  May 20, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, 
hearing on Rape Kit Backlogs: Failing the Test of Providing Justice 
to Sexual Assault Survivors, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  May 21, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, 
hearing on United States v. Stevens: The Supreme Court's Decision 
Invalidating the Crush Video Statute, 9:30 a.m., Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, May 18, Subcommittee on Insular 
Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife, hearing on the implementation of 
Public Law 110-229 to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands and Guam, 3 p.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, May 19, Subcommittee 
on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia, 
hearing entitled ``Jobs, Jobs, Jobs: Transforming Federal Hiring,'' 
2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  May 19, Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, 
hearing entitled ``Defense Acquisitions: One Year After Reform,'' 10 
a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  May 20, full Committee, hearing entitled ``Running out of Time: 
Telecommunications Transition Delays Wasting Millions of Federal 
Dollars,'' 9 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, May 19, hearing and markup on a resolution 
granting the authority provided under clause 4(c)(3) of rule X of 
the Rules of the House of Representatives to the Committee on 
Education and Labor for purposes of its investigations into 
underground coal mining safety, 2 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science and Technology, May 19, hearing on Charting 
the Course for American Nuclear Technology: Evaluating the 
Department of Energy's Nuclear Energy Research and Development 
Roadmap, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  May 20, Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight, hearing on 
Preventing Harm--Protecting Health: Reforming CDC's Environmental 
Public Health Practices, 9 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, May 19, hearing on 
Deepwater Horizon: Oil Spill Prevention and Response Measures and 
Natural Resources Impacts, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  May 20, Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, 
and Emergency Management, hearing on Too Much For Too Little: 
Finding the Cost-Risk Balance for Protecting Federal Employees in 
Leased Facilities, 2 p.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  May 20, Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous 
Materials, hearing on the Implementation of the Pipeline Inspection, 
Protection, Enforcement and Safety Act of 2006 and Reauthorization 
of the Pipeline Safety Program, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, May 19, Subcommittee on Oversight 
and Investigations, hearing on Assessing Information Security at the 
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  May 20, Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs 
and the Subcommittee on Health, joint hearing on Healing the Wounds: 
Evaluating Military Sexual Trauma Issues, 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  May 20, Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity, hearing on the Loan 
Guaranty Program, 1 p.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, May 19, hearing on tax proposals 
related to legislation to legalize Internet gambling, 9:30 a.m., 
1100 Longworth.
  May 20, Subcommittee on Trade, hearing to review customs 
operations administrated by U.S. Custom and Border Protection and 
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 1 p.m., 1100 Longworth.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, May 19, Subcommittee 
on Terrorism, Human Intelligence, Analysis, and Counterintelligence, 
executive hearing on Financial Intelligence, 1 p.m., 304-HVC.
  May 20, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Human Intelligence, Analysis, 
and Counterintelligence, executive briefing on Hot Spots, 10:30 
a.m., 304-HVC.
  Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, May 
20, hearing entitled ``Climate Science in the Political Arena,'' 9 
a.m., 1334 Longworth.