[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 60 (Thursday, May 5, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D460-D463]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

                   Week of May 9 through May 14, 2011

                             Senate Chamber

  On Monday, at 4:30 p.m., Senate will resume consideration of the 
nomination of James Michael Cole, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Deputy Attorney General. At approximately 5:30 p.m., Senate will vote 
on the motion to invoke cloture on the nomination of James Michael 
Cole, of the District of Columbia, to be Deputy Attorney General.
  During the balance of the week, Senate may consider any cleared 
legislative and executive business.


                           Senate Committees

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
  Committee on Appropriations: May 10, Subcommittee on Department of 
Homeland Security, to hold hearings to examine proposed budget 
estimates for fiscal year 2012 for the Coast Guard, focusing on an 
examination of operational and recapitalization requirements, 10 
a.m., SD-138.
  May 11, Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies, to hold hearings to 
examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2012 for the 
National Institutes of Health, 10 a.m., SD-124.
  May 11, Subcommittee on Department of Defense, to hold hearings to 
examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2012 for the Guard 
and Reserve, 10 a.m., SD-192.
  May 12, Subcommittee on Department of Defense, to receive a closed 
briefing on the proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2012 for 
the United States Special Operations Command, and the United States 
European Command, 10:30 a.m., SVC-217.
  May 12, Subcommittee on Legislative Branch, to hold hearings to 
examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2012 for the 
Secretary of the Senate, the Senate Sergeant at Arms, and the United 
States Capitol Police, 2:30 p.m., SD-138.
  Committee on Armed Services: May 10, Subcommittee on Emerging 
Threats and Capabilities, to hold closed hearings to examine 
proliferation prevention programs at the Department of Energy and 
the Department of Defense in review of the Defense Authorization 
Request for fiscal year 2012 and the Future Years Defense Program; 
to be immediately followed by an open hearing in SR-232A, 2:30 p.m., 
SVC-217.
  May 11, Subcommittee on Personnel, to resume hearings to examine 
the Active, Guard, Reserve, and civilian personnel programs in 
review of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2012 and 
the Future Years Defense Program, 1:30 p.m., SR-232A.
  May 11, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, to hold hearings to 
examine military space programs 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, 2:30 p.m., SD-106.
  May 12, Subcommittee on SeaPower, to receive a closed briefing on 
threats faced by our naval forces and the capabilities of our naval 
forces to respond to those threats in review of the Defense 
Authorization Request for fiscal year 2012 and the Future Years 
Defense Program, 2:30 p.m., SVC-217.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, May 10, to hold 
hearings to examine reviewing the Financial Crisis Inquiry 
Commission's final report, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  May 12, Full Committee, to hold an oversight hearing to examine 
the Dodd-Frank implementation, focusing on monitoring systemic risk 
and promoting financial stability, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  May 12, Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation and Community 
Development, to hold hearings to examine the need for national 
mortgage servicing standards, 2 p.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: May 10, to 
hold hearings to examine the Transportation Worker Identification 
Credential Program, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  May 11, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine manufacturing 
our way to a stronger economy, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.

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  May 12, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine economic 
ramifications of cyber threats and vulnerabilities to the private 
sector, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: May 10, to hold 
hearings to examine new developments in upstream oil and gas 
technologies, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  May 11, Subcommittee on National Parks, to hold hearings to 
examine S. 114, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter 
into a cooperative agreement for a park headquarters at San Antonio 
Missions National Historical Park, to expand the boundary of the 
Park, to conduct a study of potential land acquisitions, S. 127, to 
establish the Buffalo Bayou National Heritage Area in the State of 
Texas, S. 140, to designate as wilderness certain land and inland 
water within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in the State 
of Michigan, S. 161, to establish Pinnacles National Park in the 
State of California as a unit of the National Park System, S. 177, 
to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire the Gold Hill 
Ranch in Coloma, California, S. 247, to establish the Harriet Tubman 
National Historical Park in Auburn, New York, and the Harriet Tubman 
Underground Railroad National Historical Park in Caroline, 
Dorchester, and Talbot Counties, Maryland, S. 279, to direct the 
Secretary of the Interior to carry out a study to determine the 
suitability and feasibility of establishing Camp Hale as a unit of 
the National Park System, S. 302, to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to issue right-of-way permits for a natural gas 
transmission pipeline in nonwilderness areas within the boundary of 
Denali National Park, S. 313, 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. 323, to establish the First State National 
Historical Park in the State of Delaware, S. 403, to amend the Wild 
and Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of the Molalla River in 
the State of Oregon, as components of the National Wild and Scenic 
Rivers System, S. 404, to modify a land grant patent issued by the 
Secretary of the Interior, S. 508, to establish the Chimney Rock 
National Monument in the State of Colorado, S. 535, to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to lease certain lands within Fort Pulaski 
National Monument, S. 564, to designate the Valles Caldera National 
Preserve as a unit of the National Park System, S. 599, to establish 
a commission to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the American 
Civil War, S. 713, to modify the boundary of Petersburg National 
Battlefield in the Commonwealth of Virginia, S. 765, to modify the 
boundary of the Oregon Caves National Monument, S. 779, to authorize 
the acquisition and protection of nationally significant 
battlefields and associated sites of the Revolutionary War and the 
War of 1812 under the American Battlefield Protection Program, S. 
849, to establish the Waco Mammoth National Monument in the State of 
Texas, and S. 858, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
conduct a special resource study to determine the suitability and 
feasibility of designating the Colonel Charles Young Home in Xenia, 
Ohio as a unit of the National Park System, 2:30 p.m., SD-366.
  May 12, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine carbon capture 
and sequestration legislation, including S. 699, to authorize the 
Secretary of Energy to carry out a program to demonstrate the 
commercial application of integrated systems for long-term 
geological storage of carbon dioxide, and S. 757, to provide 
incentives to encourage the development and implementation of 
technology to capture carbon dioxide from dilute sources on a 
significant scale using direct air capture technologies, 9:30 a.m., 
SD-366.
  Committee on Finance: May 10, to hold hearings to examine 
perspectives on deficit reduction, focusing on Social Security, 10 
a.m., SD-215.
  May 11, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the United 
States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: May 10, to hold hearings to 
examine steps needed for a successful 2014 transition in 
Afghanistan, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  May 11, Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian 
Affairs, to hold hearings to examine human rights and democratic 
reform in Iran, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: May 11, to 
hold hearings to examine diverting non-urgent emergency room use, 
focusing on if it can provide better care and lower costs, 10 a.m., 
SD-430.
  May 12, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the middle 
class, focusing on if the American dream is slipping out of reach 
for American families, 9:45 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: May 10, 
Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal 
Workforce, and the District of Columbia, with the Subcommittee on 
Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal 
Services, and International Security, to hold joint hearings to 
examine a roadmap for a more efficient and accountable Federal 
government, focusing on implementing the ``Government Performance 
and Results (GPRA) Modernization Act,'' 2:30 p.m., SD-562.
  May 11, Full Committee, business meeting to consider pending 
calendar business, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  May 12, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine ten years 
after 9/11, focusing on if intelligence reform is working, 2:30 
p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: May 10, Subcommittee on Privacy, 
Technology and the Law, to hold hearings to examine protecting 
mobile privacy, focusing on smartphones, tablets, cell phones and 
privacy, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  May 11, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer 
Rights, to hold hearings to examine the AT&T/T-Mobile merger, 10:15 
a.m., SD-226.
  May 12, Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. 350, to 
require restitution for victims of criminal violations of the 
Federal Water Pollution Control Act, S. 623, to amend chapter 111 of 
title 28, United States Code, relating to protective orders, sealing 
of cases, disclosures of discovery information in civil actions, an 
original bill entitled ``Fighting Fraud to Protect Taxpayers Act of 
2011,'' and the nominations of Bernice Bouie

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Donald, of Tennessee, to be United States Circuit Judge for the 
Sixth Circuit, Henry F. Floyd, of South Carolina, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit, Kathleen M. Williams, 
to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of 
Florida, Nelva Gonzales Ramos, to be United States District Judge 
for the Southern District of Texas, Richard Brooke Jackson, to be 
United States District Judge for the District of Colorado, Sara Lynn 
Darrow, to be United States District Judge for the Central District 
of Illinois, and Virginia A. Seitz, of the District of Columbia, and 
Lisa O. Monaco, of the District of Columbia, both to be an Assistant 
Attorney General, Denise Ellen O'Donnell, of New York, to be 
Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance, and Donald B. 
Verrilli, Jr., of the District of Columbia, to be Solicitor General 
of the United States, all of the Department of Justice, 10 a.m., SD-
226.
  Committee on Rules and Administration: May 11, business meeting to 
consider the nomination of William J. Boarman, of Maryland, to be 
Public Printer, Government Printing Office, S. Res. 116, to provide 
for expedited Senate consideration of certain nominations subject to 
advice and consent, and S. 739, to authorize the Architect of the 
Capitol to establish battery recharging stations for privately owned 
vehicles in parking areas under the jurisdiction of the Senate at no 
net cost to the Federal Government, 2 p.m., SR-301.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: May 10, to hold closed hearings 
to examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  May 12, Full Committee, to hold closed hearings to examine certain 
intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Agriculture, May 12, full Committee, hearing to 
review pending free trade agreements, 10 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, May 11, Subcommittee on Interior, 
Environment, and Related Agencies, hearing on National Endowment for 
the Arts FY12 Budget, 9:30 a.m., B-308 Rayburn.
  May 11, Subcommittee on Defense, hearing on Defense Health 
Program, 10 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  May 11, Subcommittee on Legislative Branch, hearing on the 
Government Printing Office, Congressional Budget Office, Members and 
Public Witnesses, 10 a.m., HT-2, Capitol.
  May 11, Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related 
Agencies, hearing on National Endowment for the Humanities FY12 
Budget Oversight, 11 a.m., B-308 Rayburn.
  May 12, Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related 
Agencies, hearing on Smithsonian Institution FY12 Budget Oversight, 
9:30 a.m., B-308 Rayburn.
  May 12, Subcommittee on Legislative Branch, hearing on the House 
of Representatives FY 2012, 11 a.m., HC-5, Capitol.
  May 13, Subcommittee on Legislative Branch, hearing on U.S. 
Capitol Police, FY 2012, 10 a.m., HT-2, Capitol.
  Committee on Armed Services, May 11, full Committee, markup of the 
following: H. Res. 208, Directing the Secretary of Defense to 
transmit to the House of Representatives copies of any document, 
record, memo, correspondence, or other communication of the 
Department of Defense, or any portion of such communication, that 
refers or relates to any consultation with Congress regarding 
Operation Odyssey Dawn or military actions in or against Libya; and 
H.R. 1540, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2012 for 
military activities of the Department of Defense and for military 
construction, to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal 
year 2012, and for other purposes.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, May 11, Subcommittee on 
Higher Education and Workforce Training, hearing on Removing 
Inefficiencies in the Nation's Job Training Programs, 10 a.m., 2175 
Rayburn.
  May 12, Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, hearing on 
Reviewing Workers' Compensation for Federal Employees, 10 a.m., 2175 
Rayburn.
  May 13, Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary 
Education, hearing on Examining the Costs of Federal Overreach into 
School Meals, 10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, May 13, Subcommittee on 
Communications and Technology, hearing FCC Process Reform, 9:30 
a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, May 11, Subcommittee on Domestic 
Monetary Policy and Technology, hearing entitled ``Monetary Policy 
and the Debt Ceiling: Examining the Relationship Between the Federal 
Reserve and Government Debt,'' 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  May 11, Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored 
Enterprises, hearing entitled ``Legislative Proposals to Address the 
Negative Consequences of the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Provisions,'' 
2 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, May 10, Subcommittee on Africa, 
Global Health, and Human Rights, hearing on Governance, Democracy, 
Human Rights, and the Millennium Challenge Corporation in Africa: 
The FY2012 Proposed Budget, 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  May 11, full Committee, hearing on the Peace Corps at 50, 9:30 
a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  May 11, Subcommittee on the Asia and the Pacific, hearing on 
Piercing Burma's Veil of Secrecy: The Truth Behind the Sham Election 
and the Difficult Road Ahead, 2:30 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  May 11, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing on 
UN Climate Talks and Power Politics: It's Not about the Temperature, 
2:30 p.m., 2200 Rayburn.
  May 12, full Committee, hearing on Export Controls, Arms Sales, 
and Reform: Balancing U.S. Interests, Part 1, 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, May 11, Subcommittee on Oversight, 
Investigations, and Management, hearing entitled ``On the Border and 
in the Line of Fire: U.S. Law Enforcement, Homeland Security and 
Drug Cartel Violence.'' 10 a.m., 311 Cannon.

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  May 12, Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response, and 
Communications, hearing entitled ``Taking Measure of Countermeasures 
(Part 2): A Review of Efforts to Protect the Homeland Through 
Distribution and Dispensing of CBRN Medical Countermeasures.'' 2 
p.m., 311 Cannon.
  Committee on House Administration, May 11, full Committee, hearing 
on GPO--Issues and Challenges: How Will GPO Transition to the 
Future? 1:30 p.m., 210 Cannon.
  Committee on the Judiciary, May 11, Subcommittee on Crime, 
Terrorism and Homeland Security, hearing on the USA PATRIOT Act: 
Dispelling the Myths, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  May 11, Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement, 
hearing on legislation regarding the Secure Visas Act, 1:30 p.m., 
2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, May 11, full Committee, hearing on 
American Energy Initiative: Identifying Roadblocks to Wind and Solar 
Energy on Public Lands and Waters, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  May 12, Subcommittee on Water and Power, hearing on the following 
bills: H.R. 470, to further allocate and expand the availability of 
hydroelectric power generated at Hoover Dam, and for other purposes; 
H.R. 489, to clarify the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the 
Interior with respect to the C.C. Cragin Dam and Reservoir, and for 
other purposes; and H.R. 818, to direct the Secretary of the 
Interior to allow for prepayment of repayment contracts between the 
United States and the Uintah Water Conservancy District, 10 a.m., 
1334 Longworth.
  May 12, Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular 
Affairs, hearing on the following bills: H.R. 295, to amend the 
Hydrographic Services Improvement Act of 1998 to authorize funds to 
acquire hydrographic data and provide hydrographic services specific 
to the Arctic for safe navigation, delineating the United States 
extended continental shelf, and the monitoring and description of 
coastal changes; H.R. 670, to convey certain submerged lands to the 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in order to give that 
territory the same benefits in its submerged lands as Guam, the 
Virgin Islands, and American Samoa have in their submerged lands; 
H.R. 991, to amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to allow 
importation of polar bear trophies taken in sport hunts in Canada 
before the date the polar bear was determined to be a threatened 
species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973; H.R. 1160, 
McKinney Lake National Fish Hatchery Conveyance Act; H.R. 1670, 
Sikes Act Amendments Act, 11 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, May 10, full 
Committee, hearing entitled ``The Future of Capital Formation,'' 
12:30 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  May 11, Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense and 
Foreign Operations, hearing entitled ``USAID: Following the Money,'' 
1:30 p.m., 2247 Rayburn.
  May 11, Subcommittee on TARP, Financial Services and Bailouts of 
Public and Private Programs, hearing entitled ``Transparency as an 
Alternative to the Federal Government's Regulation of Risk 
Retention,'' 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  May 12, Subcommittee on Health Care, DC, Census and the National 
Archives, hearing entitled ``The District of Columbia's Fiscal Year 
2012 Budget: Ensuring Fiscal Sustainability,'' 8:45 a.m., 2154 
Rayburn.
  May 12, Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and 
Labor Policy, hearing entitled ``Where Have All the Letters Gone?--
The Mailing Industry and Its Future,'' 1:30 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  May 12, full Committee and the Committee on Small Business, joint 
hearing entitled ``Politicizing Procurement: Will President Obama's 
Proposal Curb Free Speech and Hurt Small Business?'' 1:30 p.m., 2154 
Rayburn.
  May 13, Subcommittee on Government Organization, Efficiency, and 
Financial Management, hearing entitled ``Department of Homeland 
Security Financial Management,'' 10 a.m., 2247 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, May 10, full Committee, hearing on H.R. 1231, 
Reversing President Obama's Offshore Moratorium Act, 5 p.m., H-313 
Capitol.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, May 11, full 
Committee, hearing on Review of Hydraulic Fracturing Technology and 
Practices, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  May 13, Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight and 
Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, joint hearing on Nuclear 
Energy Risk Management, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, May 12, Subcommittee on Oversight, 
Investigations and Regulations, hearing entitled ``Green Isn't 
Always Gold: Are EPA Regulations Harming Small Businesses?'' 10 
a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, May 11, 
Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, hearing on EPA 
Mining Policies: Assault on Appalachian Jobs--Part II, 10:30 a.m., 
2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, May 12, full Committee, markup of 
pending legislation, 3 p.m., 334 Cannon.
  May 13, Subcommittee on Health, hearing on The Federal Recovery 
Coordination Program: From Concept to Reality, 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, May 12, full Committee, hearing on 
the burdens that the tax code imposes on American companies and how 
such burdens place them at a competitive disadvantage as they try to 
sell goods and services around the world, 9 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, May 13, full 
Committee, hearing on FY 2012 Budget Overview, 10 a.m., HVC-304, 
Capitol. This is a closed hearing.