[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 89 (Tuesday, June 15, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D674-D675]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





            COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 2010

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: business 
meeting to consider 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, 10:30 a.m., S-216, Capitol.
  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense, to hold 
hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2011 
for the Department of Defense, 10:30 a.m., SD-192.
  Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, to hold 
an oversight hearing to examine Federal payment of interchange fees, 
focusing on how to save taxpayer dollars, 2:30 p.m., SD-192.
  Committee on Armed Services: to continue hearings to examine the 
situation in Afghanistan; with the possibility of a closed session 
in SVC-217 following the open session, 9 a.m., SD-G50.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: business meeting to 
consider pending calendar business, 11 a.m., SD-366.
  Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests, to hold hearings to 
examine S. 3294, to establish certain wilderness areas in central 
Idaho and to authorize various land conveyances involving National 
Forest System land and Bureau of Land Management land in central 
Idaho, S. 3310, to designate certain wilderness areas in the 
National Forest System in the State of South Dakota, and S. 3313, to 
withdraw certain land located in Clark County, Nevada from location, 
entry, and patent under the mining laws and disposition under all 
laws pertaining to mineral and geothermal leasing or mineral 
materials, 2:30 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to continue hearings to examine 
Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian 
Federation on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of 
Strategic Offensive Arms, signed in Prague on April 8, 2010, with 
Protocol (Treaty Doc. 111-05), focusing on views from the Pentagon, 
9:30 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: 
Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government 
Information, Federal Services, and International Security, to hold 
hearings to examine the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, focusing on 
ensuring a financially responsible recovery, 3 p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: to hold hearings to examine 
Veterans' Affairs health care in rural areas, 9:30 a.m., SR-418.
  Special Committee on Aging: to hold hearings to examine the 
retirement challenge, focusing on making savings last a lifetime, 2 
p.m., SD-562.


                                 House

  Committee on Armed Services, hearing on developments in 
Afghanistan, 1 p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, 
and Consumer Protection, hearing on the following bills: H.R. 4678, 
Foreign Manufacturers Legal Accountability Act; and H.R. 5156, Clean 
Energy Technology Manufacturing and Export Assistance Act, 10 a.m., 
2322 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Health, hearing entitled `` HHS Actions to 
Identify and Address Health Effects of the BP Oil Spill,'' 2 p.m., 
2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, 
hearing on Press Freedom in the Americas, 2:45 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, hearing entitled `` Cybersecurity: 
DHS' Role, Federal Efforts and National Policy,'' 10 a.m., 311 
Cannon.
  Committee on the Judiciary, hearing on Competition in the Airline 
Industry, 2 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, to mark up the following measures: 
H. Res. 1406, Directing the Secretary of the Interior to transmit to 
the House of Representatives certain information relating to the 
potential designation of National Monuments; H.R. 1554, Fountainhead 
Property Land Transfer Act; H.R. 4445, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center 
Clarification Act; H.R. 2340, Salmon Lake Land Selection Resolution 
Act; H.R. 3914, San Juan Mountains Wilderness Act of 2009; H.R. 
3923, Sugar Loaf Fire Protection District Land Exchange Act of 2009; 
H.R. 3967, To amend the National Great Black Americans Commemoration 
Act of 2004 to authorize appropriations through fiscal year 2015; 
H.R. 4514, Colonel Charles Young Home Study Act; H.R. 4686, Rota 
Cultural and Natural Resources Study Act; H.R. 3989, Heart Mountain 
Relocation Center Study Act of 2009; H.R. 4773, Fort Pulaski 
National Monument Lease Authorization Act; H.R. 4973, National 
Wildlife Refuge Volunteer Improvement Act of 2010; and 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, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Science and Technology, Subcommittee on Energy and 
Environment, hearing on Real-Time Forecasting for Renewable Energy 
Development, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.

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  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Aviation, hearing on The Proposed United-Continental Merger: 
Possible Effects for Consumers and the Industry, 9:30 a.m., 2167 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, hearing on China's Trade and 
Industrial Policies, 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.


                             Joint Meetings

  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: to hold hearings 
to examine global threats, European security and parliamentary 
cooperation, focusing on what parliamentarians can do to work 
together on some of the most significant challenges facing the 
world, 10 a.m., SVC-202/203.
  Conference: meeting of conferees on H.R. 4173, to promote the 
financial stability of the United States by improving accountability 
and transparency in the financial system, to end ``too big to 
fail'', to protect the American taxpayer by ending bailouts, to 
protect consumers from abusive financial services practices, 11 
a.m., 2128-RHOB.