[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 131 (Monday, September 27, 2010)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1749-E1750]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

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                       SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS

  Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, agreed to by the Senate on February 
4, 1977, calls for establishment of a system for a computerized 
schedule of all meetings and hearings of Senate committees, 
subcommittees, joint committees, and committees of conference. This 
title requires all such committees to notify the Office of the Senate 
Daily Digest--designated by the Rules committee--of the time, place, 
and purpose of the meetings, when scheduled, and any cancellations or 
changes in the meetings as they occur.
  As an additional procedure along with the computerization of this 
information, the Office of the Senate Daily Digest will prepare this 
information for printing in the Extensions of Remarks section of the 
Congressional Record on Monday and Wednesday of each week.
  Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, September 28, 2010 may be found in 
the Daily Digest of today's Record.

                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED

                              SEPTEMBER 29
     10 a.m.
       Judiciary
       Crime and Drugs Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine crimes against America's 
           homeless, focusing on if the violence is growing.
                                                            SD-226
       Energy and Natural Resources
       Energy Subcommittee
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine the Propane 
           Education and Research Council (PERC) and National 
           Oilheat Research Alliance (NORA).
                                                            SD-366
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine the al-Megrahi release, 
           focusing on one year later.
                                                            SD-419
       Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
         Business meeting to consider S. 3817, to amend the Child 
           Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, the Family Violence 
           Prevention and Services Act, the Child Abuse Prevention 
           and Treatment and Adoption Reform Act of 1978, and the 
           Abandoned Infants Assistance Act of 1988 to reauthorize 
           the Acts, and S. 3199, to amend the Public Health 
           Service Act regarding early detection, diagnosis, and 
           treatment of hearing loss, and any pending nominations.
                                                            SD-430
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         Business meeting to consider S. 3806, to protect Federal 
           employees and visitors, improve the security of Federal 
           facilities and authorize and modernize the Federal 
           Protective Service, H.R. 2142, to require quarterly 
           performance assessments of Government programs for 
           purposes of assessing agency performance and 
           improvement, and to establish agency performance 
           improvement officers and the Performance Improvement 
           Council, S. 3794, to amend chapter 5 of title 40, 
           United States Code, to include organizations whose 
           membership comprises substantially veterans as 
           recipient organizations for the donation of Federal 
           surplus personal property through State agencies, H.R. 
           4543, to designate the facility of the United States 
           Postal Service located at 4285 Payne Avenue in San 
           Jose, California, as the ``Anthony J. Cortese Post 
           Office Building'', H.R. 5341, to designate the facility 
           of the United States Postal Service located at 100 
           Orndorf Drive in Brighton, Michigan, as the ``Joyce 
           Rogers Post Office Building'', H.R. 5390, to designate 
           the facility of the United States Postal Service 
           located at 13301 Smith Road in Cleveland, Ohio, as the 
           ``David John Donafee Post Office Building'', H.R. 5450, 
           to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
           Service located at 3894 Crenshaw Boulevard in Los 
           Angeles, California, as the ``Tom Bradley Post Office 
           Building'', and the nomination of Maria Elizabeth 
           Raffinan, to be an Associate Judge of the Superior 
           Court of the District of Columbia.
                                                            SD-342
       Rules and Administration
         To resume hearings to examine the filibuster, focusing on 
           ideas to reduce delay and encourage debate in the 
           Senate.
                                                            SR-301
     2 p.m.
       Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of James E. 
           Graves, Jr., of Mississippi, to be United States 
           Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, Paul Kinloch 
           Holmes, III, to be United States District Judge for the 
           Western District of Arkansas, Anthony J. Battaglia, to 
           be United States District Judge for the Southern 
           District of California, Edward J. Davila, to be United 
           States District Judge for the Northern District of 
           California, and Diana Saldana, to be United States 
           District Judge for the Southern District of Texas.
                                                            SD-226
       Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
         To hold hearings to examine charges against Mikhail 
           Khodorkovsky's Yukos Oil Company.
                                          1539, Longworth Building
     2:15 p.m.
       Foreign Relations
         Business meeting to consider S. 2982, to combat 
           international violence against women and girls, S. 
           3688, to establish an international professional 
           exchange program, an original bill entitled ``Naval 
           Vessels Transfer Act of 2010'', S. 1633, to require the 
           Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with 
           the Secretary of State, to establish a program to issue 
           Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Business Travel 
           Cards, S. J.Res. 37, calling upon the President to 
           issue a proclamation recognizing the 35th anniversary 
           of the Helsinki Final Act, Treaty between the 
           Government of the United States of America and the 
           Government of the Republic of Rwanda Concerning the 
           Encouragement and Reciprocal Protection of Investment, 
           signed at Kigali on February 19, 2008 (Treaty Doc.110-
           23), and the nominations of Cameron Munter, of 
           California, to be Ambassador Extraordinary to the 
           Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Mark M. Boulware, of 
           Texas, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Chad, 
           Kristie Anne Kenney, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to 
           the Kingdom of Thailand, Christopher J. McMullen, of 
           Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Angola, 
           Robert P. Mikulak, of Virginia, for the rank of 
           Ambassador during his tenure of service as United 
           States Representative to the Organization for the 
           Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Wanda L. Nesbitt, of 
           Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
           Namibia, Jo Ellen Powell, of Maryland, to be Ambassador 
           to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, Karen Brevard 
           Stewart, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Lao 
           People's Democratic Republic, and Pamela Ann White, of 
           Maine, to be Ambassador to the Republic of The Gambia, 
           all of the Department of State, and Nancy E. Lindborg, 
           of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant 
           Administrator, and Donald Kenneth Steinberg, of 
           California, to be Deputy Administrator, both of the 
           United States Agency for International Development.
                                                    S-116, Capitol
     2:30 p.m.
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
       Federal Financial Management, Government Information, 
           Federal Services, and International Security 
           Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine improving financial 
           accountability at the Department of Defense.
                                                            SD-342
       Appropriations
       Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related 
           Agencies Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine defending against public 
           health threats.
                                                            SD-124
       Energy and Natural Resources
       Public Lands and Forests Subcommittee
       National Parks Subcommittee
         To hold joint hearings to examine S. 3261, to establish 
           the Buffalo Bayou National Heritage Area in the State 
           of Texas, S. 3283, to designate Mt. Andrea Lawrence, S. 
           3291, to establish Coltsville National Historical Park 
           in the State of Connecticut, S. 3524 and H.R. 4438, to 
           authorize the Secretary of the Interior to expand the 
           boundary of the Park, to conduct a study of potential 
           land acquisitions, S. 3565, to provide for the 
           conveyance of certain Bureau of Land Management land in 
           Mohave County, Arizona, to the Arizona Game and Fish 
           Commission, for use as a public shooting range, S. 
           3612, to amend the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National 
           Historical Park Establishment Act to expand the 
           boundary of

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           the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park 
           in the State of Vermont, S. 3616, to withdraw certain 
           land in the State of New Mexico, S. 3744, to establish 
           Pinnacles National Park in the State of California as a 
           unit of the National Park System, S. 3778 and H.R. 
           4773, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
           lease certain lands within Fort Pulaski National 
           Monument, S. 3820, to authorize the Secretary of the 
           Interior to issue permits for a microhydro project in 
           nonwilderness areas within the boundaries of Denali 
           National Park and Preserve, to acquire land for Denali 
           National Park and Preserve from Doyon Tourism, Inc, S. 
           3822, to adjust the boundary of the Carson National 
           Forest, New Mexico, and H.R. 1858, to provide for a 
           boundary adjustment and land conveyances involving 
           Roosevelt National Forest, Colorado, to correct the 
           effects of an erroneous land survey that resulted in 
           approximately 7 acres of the Crystal Lakes Subdivision, 
           Ninth Filing, encroaching on National Forest System 
           land.
                                                            SD-366
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
       Security and International Trade and Finance Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine a comparison of international 
           housing finance systems.
                                                            SD-538

                              SEPTEMBER 30
     9:30 a.m.
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
         Business meeting to consider S. 118, to amend section 202 
           of the Housing Act of 1959, to improve the program 
           under such section for supportive housing for the 
           elderly, and S. 1481, to amend section 811 of the 
           Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to 
           improve the program under such section for supportive 
           housing for persons with disabilities; to be 
           immediately followed by a hearing to examine 
           implementing the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and 
           Consumer Protection Act.
                                                            SD-538
     10 a.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
       Energy Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the role of strategic 
           minerals in clean energy technologies and other 
           applications, including S. 3521, to provide for the 
           reestablishment of a domestic rare earths materials 
           production and supply industry in the United States.
                                                            SD-366
       Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
         To hold hearings to examine the Federal investment in 
           for-profit education, focusing on if students are 
           succeeding.
                                                            SD-124
       Judiciary
         Business meeting to consider S. 3675, to amend chapter 11 
           of title 11, United States Code, to address 
           reorganization of small businesses, S. 2888, to amend 
           section 205 of title 18, United States Code, to exempt 
           qualifying law school students participating in legal 
           clinics from the application of the general conflict of 
           interest rules under such section, S. 3804, to combat 
           online infringement, and the nominations of Robert Neil 
           Chatigny and Susan L. Carney, both of Connecticut, both 
           to be United States Circuit Judge for the Second 
           Circuit, Amy Totenberg, to be United States District 
           Judge for the Northern District of Georgia, James 
           Emanuel Boasberg and Amy Berman Jackson, both to be 
           United States District Judge for the District of 
           Columbia, James E. Shadid and Sue E. Myerscough, both 
           to be United States District Judge for the Central 
           District of Illinois, and Michael C. Ormsby, to be 
           United States Attorney for the Eastern District of 
           Washington, Mark F. Green, to be United States Attorney 
           for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, and Paul Charles 
           Thielen, to be United States Marshal for the District 
           of South Dakota, all of the Department of Justice.
                                                            SD-226
     10:30 a.m.
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
       State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness and 
           Integration Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine earthquake preparedness, 
           focusing on what the United States can learn from the 
           2010 Chilean and Haitian earthquakes.
                                                            SD-342
     2:30 p.m.
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine Latin America in 2010, 
           focusing on opportunities, challenges, and the future 
           of the United States policy in the hemisphere.
                                                            SD-419
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
       Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, 
           and the District of Columbia Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine implementation, improvement, 
           sustainability, focusing on management matters at the 
           Department of Homeland Security.
                                                            SD-342
       Intelligence
         To hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence 
           matters.
                                                            SH-219

                               OCTOBER 6
     9:30 a.m.
       Veterans' Affairs
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine Veterans' Affairs 
           Information Technology (IT) program, focusing on 
           looking ahead.
                                                            SR-418

                              NOVEMBER 17
     10 a.m.
       Environment and Public Works
         To hold hearings to examine Water Resources Development 
           Act of 2010, focusing on legislative and policy 
           proposals to benefit the economy, create jobs, protect 
           public safety and maintain America's water resources 
           infrastructure.
                                                            SD-406