[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 111 (Tuesday, July 27, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D858-D859]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                             JULY 28, 2010

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Business meeting 
to consider the nominations of Janet L. Yellen, of California, to be 
Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 
System, Peter A. Diamond, of Massachusetts, Sarah Bloom Raskin, of 
Maryland, all to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the 
Federal Reserve System, Osvaldo Luis Gratacos Munet, of Puerto Rico, 
to be Inspector General, Export-Import Bank, and Steve A. Linick, of 
Virginia, to be Inspector General of the Federal Housing Finance 
Agency, 2:30 p.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: To hold hearings to 
examine protecting America's water treatment facilities, 2:30 p.m., 
SD-406.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: To hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Terence Patrick McCulley, of Oregon, to be Ambassador 
to the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Michele Thoren Bond, of the 
District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Lesotho, 
and Robert Porter Jackson, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Cameroon, all of the Department of State, 10 a.m., SD-
419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Business 
meeting to consider the nominations of Subra Suresh, of 
Massachusetts, to be Director of the National Science Foundation, 
and Mary Minow, of California, to be a Member of the National Museum 
and Library Services Board, Time to be announced, Room to be 
announced.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Business 
meeting to consider H.R. 2868, to amend the Homeland Security Act of 
2002 to enhance security and protect against acts of terrorism 
against chemical facilities, to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to 
enhance the security of public water systems, and to amend the 
Federal Water Pollution Control Act to enhance the security of 
wastewater treatment works, S. 3335, to require Congress to 
establish a unified and searchable database on a public Web site for 
congressional earmarks as called for by the President in his 2010 
State of the Union Address to Congress, S. 2991, to amend title 31, 
United States Code, to enhance the oversight authorities of the 
Comptroller General, S. 3243, to require U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection to administer polygraph examinations to all applicants 
for law enforcement positions with U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection, to require U.S. Customs and Border Protection to 
complete all periodic background reinvestigations of certain law 
enforcement personnel, S. 2902, to improve the Federal Acquisition 
Institute, H.R. 3980, to provide for identifying and eliminating 
redundant reporting requirements and developing meaningful 
performance metrics for homeland security preparedness grants, H.R. 
1517, to allow certain U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees 
who serve under an overseas limited appointment for at least 2 
years, and whose service is rated fully successful or higher 
throughout that time, to be converted to a permanent appointment in 
the competitive service, S. 3650, to amend chapter 21 of title 5, 
United States Code, to provide that fathers of certain permanently 
disabled or deceased veterans shall be included with mothers of such 
veterans as preference eligibles for treatment in the civil service, 
S. 3567, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 100 Broadway in Lynbrook, New York, as the ``Navy 
Corpsman Jeffrey L. Wiener Post Office Building'', H.R. 5278, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 405 West Second Street in Dixon, Illinois, as the ``President 
Ronald W. Reagan Post Office Building'', and H.R. 5395, to designate 
the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 151 
North Maitland Avenue in Maitland, Florida, as the ``Paula Hawkins 
Post Office Building'', 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Ad Hoc Subcommittee on State, Local, and Private Sector 
Preparedness and Integration, with the Ad Hoc Subcommittee on 
Disaster Recovery, to hold joint hearings to examine flood 
preparedness and mitigation, focusing on map modernization, levee 
inspection, and levee repairs, 3 p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: To hold an oversight hearing to 
examine the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the nominations of 
Kathleen M. O'Malley, of Ohio, to be United States Circuit Judge for 
the Federal Circuit, Beryl Alaine Howell, of the District of 
Columbia, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Columbia, and Robert Leon Wilkins, of the District of Columbia, to 
be a United States District Judge for the District of Columbia, 2:30 
p.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Rules and Administration: To resume hearings to 
examine the filibuster, focusing on legislative proposals to change 
Senate procedures, 10:30 a.m., SR-301.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, to consider the following: H.R. 5509, 
Chesapeake Bay Program Reauthorization and Improvement Act; H.R. 
3519, Veterinarian Services Investment Act; a measure reauthorizing 
mandatory price reporting; and other pending business, 2:30 p.m., 
1300 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Department of Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and 
Forestry, hearing to review quality control systems in the 
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, 10 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on State, Foreign 
Operations, and Related Programs, oversight hearing on U.S. Civilian 
Assistance for Afghanistan, 10 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations, hearing on Transformation in

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Progress: The Services' Enlisted Professional Military Education 
Programs, 1:30 p.m., 2212 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Readiness and the Subcommittee on Seapower and 
Expeditionary Forces, joint hearing on surface fleet readiness, 10 
a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and 
Capabilities, hearing on harnessing small business innovation for 
national security cyber needs, 2 p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, to mark up the following bills: 
H.R. 903, Dental Emergency Responder Act; H.R. 1745, Family Health 
Care Accessibility Act; H.R. 3199, Emergency Medic Transition (EMT) 
Act; H.R. 5710, National All Schedules Prescription Electronic 
Reporting Reauthorization Act of 2010; H.R. 5756, Training and 
Research for Autism Improvements Nationwide Act of 2010; H.R. 5809, 
Safe Drug Disposal Act of 2010; H.R. 2923, Combat Methamphetamine 
Enhancement Act of 2009; and H.R. 3470, Nationally Enhancing the 
Well-being of Babies through Outreach and Research Now Act, 10 a.m., 
2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, to mark up the following bills: 
H.R. 2267, Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and 
Enforcement Act; H.R. 3421, Medical Debt Relief Act of 2009; H.R. 
4790, Shareholder Protection Act of 2010; H.R. 5823, United States 
Covered Bond Act of 2010; and H.R. 476, House Fairness Act of 2009, 
10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, hearing on Turkey's New Foreign 
Policy Direction: Implications for U.S.-Turkish Relations, 10 a.m., 
2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Transportation 
Security and Infrastructure Protection, hearing entitled ``Lost in 
the Shuffle: Examining TSA's Management of Surface Transportation 
Security Inspectors,'' 2 p.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and 
Homeland Security, hearing on Online Privacy, Social Networking, and 
Crime Victimization, 2 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, hearing on the following bills: 
H.R. 5023, Requirements, Expectations, and Standard Procedures for 
Executive Consultation with Tribes Act; H.R. 4384, To establish the 
Utah Navajo Trust Fund Commission; and H.R. 5468, Bridgeport Indian 
Colony Land Trust, Health, and Economic Development Act of 2010, 10 
a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, to consider the 
following: H.R. 5815, Inspector General Authority Improvement Act of 
2010; H.R. 1507, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2009; 
H.R. 2853, All-American Flag Act; H.R. 5637, American Jobs Matter 
Act of 2010; S. 2868, Federal Supply Schedules Usage Act of 2009; 
H.R. 5366, Overseas Contractor Reform Act; H.R. 5616, National 
Historical Publication and Records Commission Act of 2010; H. Res. 
1428, Recognizing Brooklyn Botanic Garden on its 100th anniversary 
as the preeminent horticultural attraction in the borough of 
Brooklyn and its longstanding commitment to environmental 
stewardship and education for the City of New York; H. Res. 1546, 
Congratulating the Washington Stealth for winning the National 
Lacrosse League Championship; H.R. 3456, To designate the facility 
of the United States Postal Service located at 1900 West Gray Street 
in Houston, Texas, as the ``Hazel Hainsworth Young Post Office 
Building;'' H.R. 4266, To designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 4110 Almeda Road in Houston, Texas, 
as the ``George Thomas `Mickey' Leland Post Office Building''; H.R. 
5565, To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 5014 Gary Avenue in Lubbock, Texas, as the ``Sergeant 
Chris Davis Post Office''; H.R. 5584, to designate the facility of 
the United States Postal Service located at 500 Whitestone Boulevard 
in Cedar Park, Texas, as the ``Army Specialist Matthew Troy Morris 
Post Office Building''; H.R. 5605vania, To designate the facility of 
the United States Postal Service located at 47 East Fayette Street 
in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, as the ``George C. Marshall Post 
Office''; H.R. 5606, To designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 47 South 7th Street in Indiana, 
Pennsylvania, as the ``Jimmy M. `Jimmy' Stewart Post Office 
Building''; H.R. 5655, To designate the Little River Branch facility 
of the United States Postal Service located at 240 NE 84th Street in 
Miami, Florida, as the ``Jesse J. McCrary, Jr. Post Office''; H.R. 
5721, To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 335 Merchant Street, Honolulu, Hawaii, as the ``Frank F. 
Fasi Post Office Building''; H.R. 5758, To designate the facility of 
the United States Postal Service located at 2 Government Center in 
Fall River, Massachusetts, as the ``Sergeant Robert Barrett Post 
Office Building''; and H.R. 5831, To designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 1081 Elbel Road in Schertz, 
Texas, as the ``Schertz Veterans Post Office''; 10 a.m., 2154 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Domestic Policy, hearing entitled ``Are Superweeds 
an Outgrowth of USDA Biotech Policy?'' 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, hearing 
entitled ``National Security, Interagency Collaboration, and Lessons 
from SOUTHCOM and AFRICOM,'' 2 p.m., 2247 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, to consider H.R. 5850, Transportation, Housing 
and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2011, 5 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science and Technology, Subcommittee on Energy and 
Environment, to mark H.R 5866, Nuclear Energy Research and 
Development Act of 2010, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, hearing entitled ``Oversight of the 
Small Business Administration and Its Programs,'' 1 p.m., 2360 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, to continue oversight hearings of 
Inadequate Cost Control at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 
10 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, executive, briefing on 
Diversity Practices, 2 p.m., 304-HVC.
  Subcommittee on Terrorism, Human Intelligence, Analysis, and 
Counterintelligence, executive, briefing on Somalia, 10 a.m., 304-
HVC.