[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 69 (Wednesday, May 18, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D520-D521]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

COMMITTEE MEETINGS
  No hearings were held.

Joint Meetings
DISSIDENTS AND THE INTERNET
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: Commission received a 
briefing on what dissidents need from the Internet, focusing on changes 
in technologies and social media platforms that enable dissidents to 
access information and to communicate from Rebecca Mackinnon, Global 
Voices, Robert Guerra, Freedom House, and Kathleen Reen, Internews, all 
of Washington, DC.


                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                              MAY 19, 2011

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of the 
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, to hold hearings to 
examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2012 for the 
United States Forest Service, 2:30 p.m., SD-124.
  Committee on Armed Services: To hold hearings to examine the F-35 
Joint Strike Fighter Program in review of the Defense Authorization 
Request for fiscal year 2012 and the Future Years Defense Program, 
9:30 a.m., SD-G50.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: To hold hearings 
to examine public transportation, focusing on priorities and 
challenges for reauthorization, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee 
on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance, to hold 
hearings to examine consumer privacy and protection in the mobile 
marketplace, 10 a.m., SR-253.

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  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: To hold hearings to 
examine policies to reduce oil consumption through the promotion of 
advanced vehicle technologies and accelerated deployment of 
electric-drive vehicles, including S. 734, to provide for a program 
of research, development, demonstration, and commercial application 
in vehicle technologies at the Department of Education, and S. 948, 
to promote the deployment of plug-in electric drive vehicles, 10 
a.m., SD-366.
  Subcommittee on Water and Power, to hold hearings to examine S. 
201, to clarify the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior 
with respect to the C.C. Cragin Dam and Reservoir, S. 333, to 
reinstate and extend the deadline for commencement of construction 
of a hydroelectric project involving the Little Wood River Ranch, S. 
334, to reinstate and extend the deadline for commencement of 
construction of a hydroelectric project involving the American Falls 
Reservoir, S. 419, to authorize the Dry-Redwater Regional Water 
Authority System, S. 499, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior 
to facilitate the development of hydroelectric power on the Diamond 
Fork System of the Central Utah Project, S. 519, to further allocate 
and expand the availability of hydroelectric power generated at 
Hoover Dam, and S. 808, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to 
allow for prepayment of repayment contracts between the United 
States and the Uintah Water Conservancy District, 2:30 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs, 
to hold hearings to examine the next steps in Cote d'Ivoire, 3:30 
p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: To hold 
hearings to examine ten years after 9/11, focusing on if 
intelligence reform is working, part II, 1:30 p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: 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, S. 
890, to establish the supplemental fraud fighting account, S. 968, 
to prevent online threats to economic creativity and theft of 
intellectual property, S. 978, to amend the criminal penalty 
provision for criminal infringement of a copyright, and the 
nominations of John Andrew Ross, to be United States District Judge 
for the Eastern District of Missouri, Timothy M. Cain, to be United 
States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, Nannette 
Jolivette Brown, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern 
District of Louisiana, Nancy Torresen, to be United States District 
Judge for the District of Maine, and William Francis Kuntz II, to be 
United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, 
10 a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: To hold hearings 
to examine small business recovery, focusing on the progress report 
on ``Small Business Jobs Act of 2010'' implementation, 10 a.m., SR-
428A.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: To hold closed hearings to 
examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                                 House

  No hearings are scheduled.