[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 28 (Monday, February 28, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D157-D159]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR TUESDAY,

                             MARCH 1, 2011

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)

                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of 
Defense, to hold hearings to examine the impacts of a long-term 
continuing resolution on the Department of Defense and proposed 
budget estimates for fiscal year 2012 for the Department of Defense, 
10:30 a.m., SD-192.
  Committee on Armed Services: To hold hearings to examine U.S. 
Special Operations Command and U.S. Central Command in review of the 
Defense Authorization request for fiscal year 2012 and the Future 
Years Defense Program; with the possibility of a closed session in 
SVC-217 following the open session, 9:30 a.m., SD-106.
  Full Committee, organizational business meeting to consider 
committee's rules of procedure for the 112th Congress, 4:30 p.m., 
SR-222.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: To hold hearings 
to examine the semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress, 10 
a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on the Budget: To hold hearings to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2012 for 
education, 10 a.m., SD-608.
  Committee on Finance: To hold hearings to examine changes in the 
law and tax environment since the ``Tax Reform Act of 1986'', 10 
a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: To hold hearings to examine 
breaking the cycle of North Korean provocations, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Ad Hoc 
Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight, to hold hearings to examine 
public relations contracts at the General Services Administration's 
Heartland Region, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Rules and Administration: Business meeting to mark up 
the Omnibus Budget for Senate committees, 10 a.m., SR-301.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: To hold joint hearings to examine 
a legislative presentation from Disabled American Veterans, 2 p.m., 
345, Cannon Building.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: Closed business meeting to 
consider pending calendar business, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.

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                            House Committees

  Committee on Appropriations, March 1, Subcommittee on Agriculture, 
Rural Development, FDA, and Related Agencies Appropriations, on FY 
2012 Budget Request, 10:30 a.m., 2362-A Rayburn.
  March 1, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related 
Agencies Appropriations, on FY 2012 Budget Request, 9 a.m., 2359 
Rayburn.
  March 1, Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations, Department of Energy Weapons Activities FY 
2012 Budget Request, 2362-B Rayburn.
  March 1, Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government 
Appropriations, on FY 2110 Budget, 10 a.m., H-309 Capitol.
  March 1, Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations, on Major Management Challenges at the 
Department of the Interior, 9:30 a.m., and on Major Management 
Challenges at the U.S. Forest Service, 1 p.m., B-308 Rayburn.
  March 2, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA, and 
Related Agencies Appropriations, on FY 2012 Budget Request, 10 a.m., 
2362-A Rayburn.
  March 2, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations, on Patent and Trademark Office FY 2010 
Budget Request, 10 a.m., H-309 Capitol.
  March 2, Subcommittee on Defense, on Department of Defense Budget 
Review, 10 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  March 2, Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations, on Department of Energy, Defense Nuclear 
Nonproliferation and Naval Reactors FY 2012 Budget Requests, 10 
a.m., 2362-B Rayburn.
  March 2, Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government 
Appropriations, on Election Assistance Commission, 10 a.m., H-140 
Capitol.
  March 2, Subcommittee on Homeland Security Appropriations, on 
Department of Homeland Security, 2 p.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  March 2, Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations, on Major Management Challenges at the EPA, 
9:30 a.m., B-308 Rayburn.
  March 2, Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, 
and Related Agencies Appropriations, on FY 2012 Budget Request, 2 
p.m., H-140 Capitol.
  March 3, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations, on NASA FY 2012 Budget Request, 10 a.m., 
2362-A Rayburn.
  March 3, Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations, oversight hearing on FY 2012 Budget 
Oversight, 9:30 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  March 3, Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related 
Agencies Appropriations, oversight sight of the State Department and 
foreign operations programs, 1 p.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Committee on Armed Services, March 1, hearing on the FY 2012 
national defense authorization budget request from the Department of 
the Navy, 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  March 1, Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, 
hearing on the FY 2012 national defense authorization budget request 
for the Department of Defense science and Technology programs, 3 
p.m., 2212 Rayburn.
  March 1, Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces, hearing on 
equipping the warfighter in Afghanistan, 3:30 p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  March 2, full Committee, hearing on the FY 2012 national defense 
authorization budget request from the Department of the Army, 10 
a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  March 2, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, hearing on the status 
of U.S. Strategic Forces, 3:30 p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  March 3, full Committee, hearing on the FY 2012 on national 
defense authorization budget requests from the U.S. Central Command 
and the U.S. Special Operations Command, 1 p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  March 3, Subcommittee on Readiness, hearing on Are We Ready? An 
Independent Look at the Required Readiness Posture of U.S. Forces, 
10 a.m., 2212 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, March 1, hearing on 
Education Regulations: Weighing the Burden on Schools and Students, 
10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  March 3, Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, hearing on 
Examining Recent Regulatory and Enforcement Actions of the Mine 
Safety and Health Administration, 10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, March 1, hearing entitled ``The 
Consequences of Obamacare: Impact on Medicaid and State Health Care 
Reform,'' 9:45 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  March 1, Subcommittee on Energy and Power, hearing entitled 
``EPA's Greenhouse Gas Regulations and Their Effect on American 
Jobs,'' 1 p.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  March 2, Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, to mark up 
H.J. Res. 37, Disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal 
Communications Commission with respect to regulating the Internet 
and broadband industry practices, 9:30 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  March 2, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing 
entitled ``Waste, Fraud, and Abuse: A Continuing Threat to Medicare 
and Medicaid,'' 10 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  March 3, Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, 
hearing entitled ``Made in America: Innovations in Job Creation and 
Economic Growth,'' 10 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  March 3, Subcommittee on Health, hearing entitled ``FY 2012 HHS 
Budget and the Implementation of Public Laws 111-148 and 111-152,'' 
9:30 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, March 1, hearing entitled 
``Mortgage Finance Reform: An Examination of the Obama 
Administration's Report to Congress,'' 10 a.m., followed by an 
oversight hearing of the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development, including the Department's budget request for FY 2012, 
2 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  March 2, hearing on monetary policy and the state of the economy, 
10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  March 2, Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer 
Credit, hearing entitled ``The Effect of Dodd-

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Frank on Small Financial Institutions and Small Businesses,'' 2 
p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  March 2, Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community 
Opportunity, hearing entitled ``Legislative Proposals to End 
Taxpayer Funding for Ineffective Foreclosure Mitigation Programs,'' 
2 p.m., 2220 Rayburn.
  March 3, full Committee, to consider the following measures: the 
HAMP Termination Act; the FHA Refinance Program Termination Act; the 
NSP Termination Act; and the Emergency Mortgage Relief Program 
Termination Act, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, March 1, hearing on Assessing U.S. 
Foreign Policy Priorities and Needs Amidst Economic Challenges, 10 
a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  March 3, hearing on Reforming the United Nations: Lessons Learned, 
10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, March 2, Subcommittee on 
Counterterrorism and Intelligence, hearing entitled ``Terrorist 
Threat to the U.S. Homeland--Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula 
(AQAP),'' 10 a.m., 311 Cannon.
  March 3, full Committee, hearing entitled ``The President's FY 
2012 Budget Request for the Department of Homeland Security,'' 10 
a.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on House Administration, March 1 and March 2, hearings 
on Committee Funding for the 112th Congress, 10:30 a.m., 1310 
Longworth.
  Committee on the Judiciary, March 1, Subcommittee on Immigration 
Policy and Enforcement, hearing on Making Immigration Work for 
American Minorities, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  March 1, Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and 
the Internet, hearing on Oversight of the Office of the U.S. 
Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, 1:30 p.m., 2141 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, March 1, oversight hearing on the 
Impact of the Administration's Wild Lands Order on Jobs and Economic 
Growth, 2 p.m., 1324 Longworth.
  March 2, Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular 
Affairs, oversight hearing on the Department of the Interior 
spending for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Office of 
Insular Affairs and the President's Fiscal Year 2012 budget request 
for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Office of Insular 
Affairs, 10 a.m., 1334 Longworth.
  March 2, Subcommittee on Water and Power, oversight hearing on 
examining the spending, priorities and the missions of the Bureau of 
Reclamation and the U.S. Geological Survey's Water Resources 
program, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  March 3, full Committee, oversight hearing on Department of 
Interior Spending and the President's Fiscal Year 2012 Budget 
Proposal, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, March 1, 
Subcommittee on Health Care, District of Columbia, Census and the 
National Archives, hearing on the DC Opportunity Scholarship 
Program: Keeping the Door Open, 9:30 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  March 2, Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense, and 
Foreign Operations, hearing on U.S. Military Leaving Iraq: Is the 
State Department Ready? 10:30 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  March 2, Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service 
and Labor Policy, hearing on Pushing the Envelope: The Looming 
Crisis at USPS, 1:30 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  March 3, full Committee, hearing on the Refuse of the Federal 
Spending Binge: How U.S. Taxpayers are Paying Double for Failing 
Government Programs, 9:30 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, March 1, to consider the following bills: H.R. 
662 Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2011; and H.R. 4 Small 
Business Paperwork Mandate Elimination Act of 2011, 3 p.m., H-313 
Capitol.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, March 2, hearing on 
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration FY 2012 Budget 
Request, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  March 3, hearing on the Department of Energy FY 2012 Research and 
Development Budget Request, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, March 2, hearing on the Small 
Business Administration FY 2012 Budget Request, 1 p.m., 2360 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, March 1, 
Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, hearing on 
a Review of the Administration's FY 2012 Budget Requests for the 
U.S. Coast Guard, Federal Maritime Commission, and Federal Maritime 
Administration; Finding Ways to do More with Less, 10 a.m., 2167 
Rayburn.
  March 2, Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, hearing 
on Review of the FY 2010 Budget and Priorities of the Environmental 
Protection Agency: Impacts on Jobs, Liberty, and the Economy, 10 
a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, March 3, Subcommittee on Economic 
Opportunity, hearing on Veterans Employment and Training Service's 
Budget and State Grant Program, 10 a.m., 334 Canon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, March 3, Subcommittee on Select 
Revenue Measures, to meet for organizational purposes; followed by a 
hearing on Small Businesses and Tax Reform, 9 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, March 3, executive, on 
Ongoing Intelligence Activities, 10 a.m., 304-HVC.