[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 29 (Tuesday, March 1, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D169-D170]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                             MARCH 2, 2011

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)

                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of 
Homeland Security, to hold hearings to examine proposed budget 
estimates for fiscal year 2012 for the Department of Homeland 
Security, 10 a.m., SD-138.
  Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, 
to hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2012 for the Department of State and Foreign Operations, 2 
p.m., SD-192.
  Committee on the Budget: To hold hearings to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2012 for the 
Department of Energy, 10 a.m., SD-608.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: To hold 
hearings to examine the future of American manufacturing, focusing 
on maintaining America's competitive edge, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: To hold hearings to 
examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2012 
for the Department of the Interior, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: To hold hearings to 
examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2012 
for the Environmental Protection Agency, 2:30 p.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: To hold hearings to examine preventing 
health care fraud, focusing on new tools and approaches to combat 
old challenges, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: To hold hearings to examine 
national security and foreign policy priorities in the fiscal year 
2012 International Affairs Budget, 9:30 a.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: To hold 
hearings to examine improving employment opportunities for people 
with intellectual disabilities, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: To hold 
hearings to examine eliminating bottlenecks, focusing on 
streamlining the nominations process, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government 
Information, Federal Services, and International Security, to hold 
hearings to examine preventing abuse of the Military's Tuition 
Assistance Program, 2:30 p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: To hold hearings to examine helping 
law enforcement find missing children, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the nominations of 
Goodwin Liu, of California, to be United States Circuit Judge for 
the Ninth Circuit, Kevin Hunter Sharp, to be United States District 
Judge for the Middle District of Tennessee, Roy Bale Dalton, Jr., to 
be United States District Judge for the Middle District of Florida, 
and Claire C. Cecchi, and Esther Salas, both to be United

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States District Judge for the District of New Jersey, 2:45 p.m., SD-
226.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: To hold hearings to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2012, 10:30 
a.m., SR-418.
  Special Committee on Aging: To hold hearings to examine ending 
elder abuse, neglect and financial exploitation, 2 p.m., SD-106.


                                 House

  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural 
Development, FDA, and Related Agencies Appropriations, on FY 2012 
Budget Request, 10 a.m., 2362-A Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations, on Patent and Trademark Office FY 2010 Budget 
Request, 10 a.m., H-309 Capitol.
  Subcommittee on Defense, on Department of Defense Budget Review, 
10 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  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.
  Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government 
Appropriations, on Election Assistance Commission, 10 a.m., H-140 
Capitol.
  Subcommittee on Homeland Security Appropriations, on Department of 
Homeland Security, 2 p.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations, on Major Management Challenges at the EPA, 9:30 
a.m., B-308 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and 
Related Agencies Appropriations, on FY 2012 Budget Request, 2 p.m., 
H-140 Capitol.
  Committee on Armed Services, hearing on the FY 2012 national 
defense authorization budget request from the Department of the 
Army, 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, hearing on the status of U.S. 
Strategic Forces, 3:30 p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.
  Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing entitled 
``Waste, Fraud, and Abuse: A Continuing Threat to Medicare and 
Medicaid,'' 10 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, hearing on monetary policy and 
the state of the economy, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, 
hearing entitled ``The Effect of Dodd-Frank on Small Financial 
Institutions and Small Businesses,'' 2 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  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.
  Committee on Homeland Security, 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.
  Committee on House Administration, continued hearing on Committee 
Funding for the 112th Congress, 10:30 a.m., 1310 Longworth.
  Committee on Natural Resources, 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.
  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.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on 
National Security, Homeland Defense, and Foreign Operations, hearing 
on U.S. Military Leaving Iraq: Is the State Department Ready? 9:30 
a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  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.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, hearing on the 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration FY 2012 Budget 
Request, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, hearing on the Small Business 
Administration FY 2012 Budget Request, 1 p.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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 Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Oversight, to 
continue to meet for organizational purposes, and to hold a hearing 
on Improving Efforts to Combat Health Care Fraud, 2 p.m., 1100 
Longworth.