[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 81 (Wednesday, May 26, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D608-D609]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                              MAY 27, 2010

          (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: to hold hearings to 
examine the nominations of Elisabeth Ann Hagen, of Virginia, to be Under 
Secretary for Food Safety, and Catherine E. Woteki, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics, 
both of the Department of Agriculture, and Sara Louise Faivre-Davis, of 
Texas, Lowell Lee Junkins, of Iowa, and Myles J. Watts, of Montana, all 
to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Agricultural 
Mortgage Corporation, Farm Credit Administration, 9:30 a.m., SR-328A.
  Committee on Armed Services: closed business meeting to continue markup 
of the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2011, 
9:30 a.m., SR-222.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold hearings to 
examine the financial state of the airline industry and the implications 
of consolidation, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: to hold hearings to examine 
an original bill entitled, ``Water Resources Development Act of 2010'', 
focusing on legislative issues, 10 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: business meeting to consider the nomination of 
Sherry Glied, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary of Health and Human 
Services, Time to be announced, Room to be announced.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: to hold hearings 
to examine building a secure future for multiemployer pension plans, 10 
a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on the Judiciary: 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, H.R. 908, to amend the Violent 
Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to reauthorize the Missing 
Alzheimer's Disease Patient Alert Program, S. 258, to amend the 
Controlled Substances Act to provide enhanced penalties for marketing 
controlled substances to minors, and the nominations of Robert Neil 
Chatigny, of Connecticut, to be United States Circuit Judge for the 
Second Circuit, Scott M. Matheson, Jr., of Utah, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit, John A. Gibney, Jr., to be United 
States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, John J. 
McConnell, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Rhode Island, James Kelleher Bredar, and Ellen Lipton Hollander, both to 
be a United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, Susan 
Richard Nelson, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Minnesota, and Stephanie A. Finley, to be United States Attorney for the 
Western District of Louisiana, Laura E. Duffy, to be United States 
Attorney for the Southern District of California, Scott Jerome Parker, to 
be United States Marshal for the Eastern District of North Carolina, 
Darryl Keith McPherson, to be United States Marshal for the Northern 
District of Illinois, and Gervin Kazumi Miyamoto, to be United States 
Marshal for the District of Hawaii, all of the Department of Justice, and 
Daniel J. Becker, of Utah,

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James R. Hannah, of Arkansas, Gayle A. Nachtigal, of Oregon, John B. 
Nalbandian, of Kentucky, Marsha J. Rabiteau, of Connecticut, and Herman 
D. Vera, of California, all to be a Member of the Board of Directors of 
the State Justice Institute, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, to 
hold hearings to examine the United/Continental Airlines merger, focusing 
on how consumers will fare, 2:15 p.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: to resume hearings to 
examine the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on small 
businesses, Time to be announced, SR-428A.
  Full Committee, business meeting to consider the nomination of Marie 
Collins Johns, of the District of Columbia, to be Deputy Administrator of 
the Small Business Administration, Time to be announced, Room to be 
announced.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold closed hearings to consider 
certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                                  House

  Committee on Appropriations, to mark up the Fiscal Year Supplemental 
Appropriations, 5 p.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, hearing on 
BP-Transocean Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster: Ongoing Response and 
Environmental Impacts, 10 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and Labor, Subcommittee on Higher Education, 
Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness, hearing on Examining GAO's 
Findings on Efforts to Improve Oversight of Low-Income and Minority 
Serving Institutions, 10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, hearing on Developments in Synthetic 
Genomics and Implications for Health and Energy, 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, hearing entitled ``Combating 
the BP Oil Spill,'' 2 p.m., or immediately following full Committee, 2123 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Housing and Community 
Opportunity, to consider H.R. 476, Housing Fairness Act of 2009, 10 a.m., 
2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and 
Global Counterterrorism, and the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere of 
the Committee on Foreign Affairs, joint hearing entitled ``U.S.-Mexico 
Security Cooperation: Next Steps for the Merida Initiative,'' 10 a.m., 
311 Cannon.
  Committee on the Judiciary, hearing on the Legal Liability Issues 
Surrounding the Gulf Coast Oil Disaster, 9:30 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, to continue oversight hearings entitled 
``Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Strategy and Implications of the 
Deepwater Horizon Rig Explosion,'' 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, hearing regarding the 
circumstances surrounding the recall of popular children's medicines 
produced by Johnson & Johnson/McNeil Consumer Healthcare, 10 a.m., 2154 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of 
Columbia, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 3243, to amend section 
5542 of title 5, United States Code, to provide that any hours worked by 
Federal firefighters under a qualified trade-of-time arrangement shall be 
excluded for purposes of determination relating to overtime pay; H.R. 
3264, Federal Internship Improvement Act; H.R. 5367, D.C. Courts and 
Public Defender Service Act of 2010; and H.R. 5368, United States Postal 
Service Postal Inspectors Equity Act, 3 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, to consider H.R. 5175, Democracy Is Strengthened by 
Casting Light on Spending in Elections, 3 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science and Technology, Subcommittee on Technology and 
Innovation, hearing on Interoperability in Public Safety Communications 
Equipment, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Health, hearing on the 
following measures: H.R. 4062, Veterans' Health and Radiation Safety Act; 
H.R. 4505, To enable State homes to furnish nursing home care to parents 
any of whose children died while serving in the Armed Forces; H.R. 4465, 
To amend title 38, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to take 
into account each child a veteran has when determining the veteran's 
financial status when receiving hospital care or medical services; Draft 
legislation on Outreach; Draft legislation ``World War II Hearing Aid 
Treatment Act,'' and pending business, 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Oversight, hearing on 
tobacco smuggling in the United States and other excise tax compliance 
issues, 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.