[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 69 (Wednesday, May 18, 2011)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E913-E914]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS

  Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, agreed to by the Senate on February 
4, 1977, calls for establishment of a system for a computerized 
schedule of all meetings and hearings of Senate committees, 
subcommittees, joint committees, and committees of conference. This 
title requires all such committees to notify the Office of the Senate 
Daily Digest--designated by the Rules Committee--of the time, place, 
and purpose of the meetings, when scheduled, and any cancellations or 
changes in the meetings as they occur.
  As an additional procedure along with the computerization of this 
information, the Office of the Senate Daily Digest will prepare this 
information for printing in the Extensions of Remarks section of the 
Congressional Record on Monday and Wednesday of each week.
  Meetings scheduled for Thursday, May 19, 2011 may be found in the 
Daily Digest of today's Record.

                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED

                                 MAY 23
     10:30 a.m.
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine protecting cyberspace, 
           focusing on assessing the White House proposal.
                                                            SD-342
     2 p.m.
       Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
         To hold hearings to examine labor trafficking in troubled 
           economic times, focusing on protecting American jobs 
           and migrant human rights.
                                              210, Cannon Building

                                 MAY 24
     9 a.m.
       Judiciary
       Crime and Terrorism Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine responding to the 
           prescription drug epidemic, focusing on strategies for 
           reducing abuse, misuse, diversion, and fraud.
                                                            SD-226
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine al Qaeda, the Taliban, and 
           other extremist groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
                                                            SD-419
     10 a.m.
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine public proposals for the 
           future of the housing finance system, part II.
                                                            SD-538
     2:30 p.m.
       Armed Services
       Airland Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine tactical aircraft programs in 
           review of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal 
           year 2012 and the Future Years Defense Program.
                                                           SR-232A
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
       Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security Subcommittee
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine air traffic 
           control safety.
                                                            SR-253
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine the nomination of William J. 
           Burns, of Maryland, to be Deputy Secretary of State.
                                                            SD-419
       Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine certain nominations.
                                                            SD-226
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
       Investigations Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine stimulus contractors, 
           focusing on taxes.
                                                            SD-342
       Intelligence
         To hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence 
           matters.
                                                            SH-219

                                 MAY 25
     9:30 a.m.
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
       Securities, Insurance and Investment Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine derivatives clearinghouses, 
           focusing on opportunities and challenges.
                                                            SD-538
     10 a.m.
       Environment and Public Works
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of William 
           Charles Ostendorff, of Virginia, to be a Member of the 
           Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Richard C. Howorth, of 
           Mississippi, to be a Member of the Board of Directors 
           of the Tennessee Valley Authority, and Lieutenant 
           General Thomas P. Bostick, to be Chief of Engineers, 
           and Commanding General, United States Army Corps of 
           Engineers, Department of Defense.
                                                            SD-406
       Finance
         To hold hearings to examine the United States-Panama 
           Trade Promotion Agreement.
                                                            SD-215
       Appropriations
       Financial Service and General Government Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine creating jobs and 
           transforming communities, focusing on funding for the 
           Small Business Administration and the Community 
           Development Financial Institutions Fund.
                                                            SD-138
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine how to save taxpayer dollars, 
           focusing on case studies of duplication in the Federal 
           government.
                                                            SD-342
       Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine holding criminals 
           accountable, focusing on extending criminal 
           jurisdiction to government contractors and employees 
           abroad.
                                                            SD-226
       Veterans' Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine seamless transition, focusing 
           on meeting the needs of service members and veterans.
                                                            SR-418
     10:15 a.m.
       Joint Economic Committee
         To hold hearings to examine driving innovation and job 
           growth through the life sciences industry.
                                                            SH-216
     10:30 a.m.
       Appropriations
       Department of Defense Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for 
           fiscal year 2012 for the Missile Defense Agency.
                                                            SD-192
     2 p.m.
       Finance
       Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the spread of tax fraud by 
           identity theft, focusing on a threat to taxpayers, a 
           drain on the public treasury.
                                                            SD-215
     2:30 p.m.
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
       Federal Financial Management, Government Information, 
           Federal Services, and International Security 
           Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine assessing efforts to 
           eliminate improper payments.
                                                            SD-342
       Energy and Natural Resources
       Public Lands and Forests Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine S. 375, to authorize the 
           Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the 
           Interior to enter into cooperative agreements with 
           State foresters authorizing State foresters to provide 
           certain forest, rangeland, and watershed restoration 
           and protection services, S. 714, to reauthorize the 
           Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act, S. 730, to 
           provide for the settlement of certain claims under the 
           Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, S. 233, to 
           withdraw certain Federal land and interests in that 
           land from location, entry, and patent under the mining 
           laws and disposition under the mineral and geothermal 
           leasing laws, and S. 268, to sustain the economic 
           development and recreational use of National Forest 
           System land and other public land in the State of 
           Montana, to add certain land to the National Wilderness 
           Preservation System, to release certain wilderness 
           study areas, to designate new areas for recreation.
                                                            SD-366
       Armed Services
       SeaPower Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine Navy shipbuilding programs in 
           review of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal 
           year 2012 and the Future Years Defense Program.
                                                           SR-232A

                                 MAY 26
     10 a.m.
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine the nomination of Gary Locke, 
           of Washington, to

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           be Ambassador to the People's Republic of China, 
           Department of State.
                                                            SD-419
     10:30 a.m.
       Appropriations
       Department of Defense Subcommittee
         To receive a closed briefing on the United States Central 
           Command (CENTCOM) and United States African Command 
           (AFRICOM).
                                                           SVC-217
     2:15 p.m.
       Indian Affairs
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine expanding the 
           success of native language and culture-based education.
                                                            SD-628
     2:30 p.m.
       Intelligence
         To hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence 
           matters.
                                                            SH-219

                                 JUNE 7
     2:30 p.m.
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine Protocol Amending the 
           Convention between the United States of America and the 
           Swiss Confederation for the Avoidance of Double 
           Taxation with Respect to Taxes on Income, signed at 
           Washington on October 2, 1996 (Treaty Doc. 112-01), 
           Protocol Amending the Convention between the Government 
           of the United States of America and the Government of 
           the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg for the Avoidance of 
           Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion 
           with Respect to Taxes on Income and Capital, signed on 
           May 20, 2009, at Luxembourg (the ``proposed Protocol'') 
           and a related agreement effected by the exchange of 
           notes also signed on May 20, 2009 (Treaty Doc. 111-08), 
           and Convention between the Government of the United 
           States of America and the Government of the Republic of 
           Hungary for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the 
           Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on 
           Income, signed on February 4, 2010, at Budapest (the 
           ``proposed Convention'') and a related agreement 
           effected by an exchange of notes on February 4, 2010 
           (Treaty Doc. 111-07).
                                                            SD-419

                                 JUNE 9
     10 a.m.
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
       Disaster Recovery and Intergovernmental Affairs 
           Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine border corruption, focusing 
           on assessing customs and border protection and the 
           Department of Homeland Security Inspector General's 
           office collaboration in the fight to prevent 
           corruption.
                                                            SD-342

                                JUNE 15
     10:30 a.m.
       Appropriations
       Department of Defense Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the Secretary of Defense and 
           the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
                                                            SD-192

                                JUNE 16
     10:30 a.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings to examine S. 343, to amend Title I of 
           PL 99-658 regarding the Compact of Free Association 
           between the Government of the United States of America 
           and the Government of Palau, to approve the results of 
           the 15-year review of the Compact, including the 
           Agreement Between the Government of the United States 
           of America and the Government of the Republic of Palau 
           Following the Compact of Free Association Section 432 
           Review, and to appropriate funds for the purposes of 
           the amended PL 99-658 for fiscal years ending on or 
           before September 30, 2024, to carry out the agreements 
           resulting from that review.
                                                            SD-366