[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 63 (Tuesday, May 10, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D475-D477]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                              MAY 11, 2011

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)

                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: 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.
  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.
  Committee on Armed Services: 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.
  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 p.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold 
hearings to examine manufacturing our way to a stronger economy, 2 
p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: 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.
  Committee on Finance: to hold hearings to examine the United 
States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: 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: Subcommittee 
on Primary Health and Aging, 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.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: business 
meeting to consider S. 772, to protect Federal employees and 
visitors, improve the security of Federal facilities and authorize 
and modernize the Federal Protective Service, S. 550, to improve the 
provision of assistance to fire departments, S. 792, to authorize 
the waiver of certain debts relating to assistance provided to 
individuals and households since 2005, S. Res. 174, expressing the 
sense of the Senate that effective sharing of passenger information 
from inbound international flight manifests is a crucial component 
of our national security and that the

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Department of Homeland Security must maintain the information 
sharing standards required under the 2007 Passenger Name Record 
Agreement between the United States and the European Union, H.R. 
793, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 12781 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard in Inverness, 
California, as the ``Specialist Jake Robert Velloza Post Office'', 
S. 349, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 4865 Tallmadge Road in Rootstown, Ohio, as the 
``Marine Sgt. Jeremy E. Murray Post Office'', and S. 655, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 95 Dogwood Street in Cary, Mississippi, as the ``Spencer Byrd 
Powers, Jr. Post Office'', 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: 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.
  Committee on Rules and Administration: 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.


                                 House

  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Interior, 
Environment, and Related Agencies, hearing on the National Endowment 
for the Arts FY12 Budget, 9:30 a.m., B-308 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Defense, hearing on Defense Health Program, 10 
a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Legislative Branch, hearing on the Government 
Printing Office, Congressional Budget Office, Members and Public 
Witnesses, 10 a.m., HT-2, Capitol.
  Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, 
hearing on National Endowment for the Humanities FY12 Budget 
Oversight, 11 a.m., B-308 Rayburn.
  Committee on Armed Services, 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. 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on Higher 
Education and Workforce Training, hearing on Removing Inefficiencies 
in the Nation's Job Training Programs, 10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Full Committee continued markup 
of the following: H.R. 5, the Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, 
Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2011; and H.R. 908, the Full 
Implementation of the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards 
(CFATS) Act, as reported by the Subcommittee on Environment and the 
Economy. On May 10 at 4 p.m., 2123 Rayburn. 10:30 a.m., 2123 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Health, begin markup of H.R. 1683, the State 
Flexibility Act of 2011, the Subcommittee will convene immediately 
after the completion of the Full Committee markup, 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, 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.
  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, Full Committee, hearing on the Peace 
Corps at 50, 9:30 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Full Committee, markup on H. Res. 209, Directing the Secretary of 
State to transmit to the House of Representatives copies of any 
document, record, memo, correspondence, or other communication of 
the Department of State, 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, 4:30 
p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, 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.
  Committee on House Administration, Subcommittee on Oversight, 
hearing on GPO--Issues and Challenges: How will GPO Transition to 
the Future? 1:30 p.m., 210 Cannon.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and 
Homeland Security, hearing on the USA PATRIOT Act: Dispelling the 
Myths, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement, hearing on 
H.R. 1741, the Secure Visas Act, 1:30 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on 
National Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations, hearing 
entitled ``USAID: Following the Money.'' 1:30 p.m., 2247 Rayburn.
  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.
  Committee on Rules, Full Committee, hearing on H.R. 754, 
Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011, 3 p.m., H-313 
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  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Full Committee, 
hearing on Review of Hydraulic Fracturing Technology and Practices, 
10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 1425, 
Creating Jobs Through Small Business Innovation Act of 2011, 1 p.m., 
2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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, Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations, hearing on Reboot: Examining VA's IT Strategy for 
the 21st Century, 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Full Committee, markup on H.R. 1745, 
Jobs, Opportunity, Benefits, and Services Act of 2011, 10:30 a.m., 
1100 Longworth.


                             Joint Meetings

  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: to hold hearings 
to examine Central Asia and the Arab spring, focusing on growing 
pressure for human rights and whether the factors that drove the 
uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East exist in any of the 
Central Asian States, 2 p.m., 2322, Rayburn Building.