[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 157 (Friday, December 3, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1150-D1151]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

              Week of December 6 through December 11, 2010

                             Senate Chamber

  Senate will consider any cleared legislative and executive business.


                           Senate Committees

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
  Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: December 9, to 
hold hearings to examine the nomination of Ramona Emilia Romero, of 
Pennsylvania, to be General Counsel of the Department of 
Agriculture, 10 a.m., SR-328A.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: December 7, to 
hold hearings to examine the state of the credit union industry; to 
be immediately followed by a hearing to examine the nomination of 
Joseph A. Smith, Jr., of North Carolina, to be Director of the 
Federal Housing Finance Agency, 2:30 p.m., SD-538.
  December 8, Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance and Investment, 
with the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, 
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, to hold joint hearings to 
examine the efficiency, stability, and integrity of the United 
States capital markets, 2 p.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Finance: December 9, to hold hearings to examine the 
nomination of Carolyn W. Colvin, of Maryland, to be Deputy 
Commissioner of Social Security, Social Security Administration, 10 
a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: December 7, business meeting to 
consider S. 3688, to establish an international professional 
exchange program, 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. 3798, to authorize appropriations of United States 
assistance to help eliminate conditions in foreign prisons and other 
detention facilities that do not meet minimum human standards of 
health, sanitation, and safety, S. Con. Res. 71, recognizing the 
United States national interest in helping to prevent and mitigate 
acts of genocide and other mass atrocities against civilians, and 
supporting and encouraging efforts to develop a whole of government 
approach to prevent and mitigate such acts, S. Res. 680, supporting 
international tiger conservation efforts and the upcoming Global 
Tiger Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, S.J. Res. 37, calling upon 
the President to issue a proclamation recognizing the 35th 
anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act, S. 2982, to combat 
international violence against women and girls, 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), international Treaty on Plant Genetic 
Resources for Food and Agriculture, adopted by the Food and 
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations on November 3, 2001, 
and signed by the United States on November 1, 2002 (the ``Treaty'') 
(Treaty Doc. 110-19), and the nominations of Thomas R. Nides, of the 
District of Columbia, to be Deputy Secretary for Management and 
Resources, William R. Brownfield, of Texas, to be Assistant 
Secretary for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, 
and Suzan D. Johnson Cook, of New York, to be Ambassador at Large 
for International Religious Freedom, all of the Department of State, 
Paige Eve Alexander, of Georgia, to be an Assistant Administrator of 
the United States Agency for International Development, and Alan J. 
Patricof, of New York, and Mark Green, of Wisconsin, both to be a 
Member of the Board of Directors of the Millennium Challenge 
Corporation, and a routine list in the foreign service, 2:15 p.m., 
S-116, Capitol.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: December 
7, to hold hearings to examine catastrophic preparedness, focusing 
on FEMA, 2:30 p.m., SD-342.
  December 8, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine border 
security, focusing on the challenge of protecting Federal lands, 10 
a.m., SD-342.
  December 8, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, with the 
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Subcommittee on 
Securities, Insurance and Investment, to hold joint hearings to 
examine the efficiency, stability, and integrity of the United 
States capital markets, 2 p.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: December 8, to resume oversight 
hearings to examine how the Indian Health Service will correct 
mismanagement in the Aberdeen area, 10 a.m., SD-628.
  Committee on the Judiciary: December 8, 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. 1598, to amend the National Child Protection Act of 1993 
to establish a permanent background check system, and the 
nominations of Max Oliver Cogburn, Jr., to be United States District 
Judge for the Western District of North Carolina, Robert Neil 
Chatigny, of Connecticut, to be United States Circuit Judge for the 
Second Circuit, Marco A. Hernandez, and Michael H. Simon, both to be 
United States District Judge for the District of Oregon, Steve C. 
Jones, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District 
of Georgia, and Patti B. Saris, of Massachusetts, to be Chair, and 
Dabney Langhorne Friedrich,

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of Maryland, both to be a Member of the United States Sentencing 
Commission, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: December 7, to hold closed 
hearings to examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  December 9, Full Committee, to hold closed hearings to examine 
certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Education and Labor, December 7, Subcommittee on 
Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, hearing on a Review of the 
Independent Audit of the Labor Department's FY 2010 Consolidated 
Financial Statements, 10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, December 8, hearing entitled ``A 
Proposal to Increase the Offering Limit Under SEC Regulation A,'' 10 
a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, December 8, to continue hearings on 
Foreclosed Justice: Causes and Effects of the Foreclosure Crisis--
Part II, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  December 9, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and 
Civil Liberties, hearing on Civil Liberties and National Security, 
10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.


                             Joint Meetings

  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: December 8, to 
hold hearings to examine the Western Balkans, focusing on 
developments in 2010 and hopes for the future, 11 a.m., SVC-202/203.