[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 71 (Monday, May 23, 2011)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E933-E934]
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 Tuesday, May 24, 2011 may be found in the 
Daily Digest of today's Record.

                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED

                                 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
       Appropriations
       Department of Homeland Security Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine protecting American jobs, 
           focusing on strengthening trade enforcement including 
           anti-dumping and maritime laws.
                                                            SD-124
       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
       United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics 
           Control
         To hold hearings to examine combating drug violence in 
           Central America, focusing on United States efforts to 
           enhance security throughout Central America.
                                                            SD-562

                                 MAY 26
     10 a.m.
       Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
         To hold hearings to examine the role, risks, and 
           challenges for American agriculture and the next farm 
           bill in meeting the demands of a growing world.
                                                            SH-216
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine public proposals for the 
           future of the housing finance system, part II.
                                                            SD-538
       Energy and Natural Resources
         Business meeting to consider S. 630, to promote marine 
           and hydrokinetic renewable energy research and 
           development, an original bill to provide for the 
           conduct of an analysis of the impact of energy 
           development and production on the water resources of 
           the United States, and for other purposes, an original 
           bill to promote the domestic development and deployment 
           of clean energy technologies, and for other purposes, 
           an original bill to amend the Federal Power Act to 
           protect the bulk-power system and electric 
           infrastructure critical to the defense of the United 
           States against cybersecurity and other threats and 
           vulnerabilities, 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, 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, S. 916, to facilitate 
           appropriate oil and gas development on Federal land and 
           waters, to limit dependence of the United States on 
           foreign sources of oil and gas, and S. 917, to amend 
           the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to reform the 
           management of energy and mineral resources on the Outer 
           Continental Shelf.
                                                            SD-366
       Finance
         To hold hearings to examine the United States-Korea Free 
           Trade Agreement.
                                                            SD-215
       Judiciary
         Business meeting to consider 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.
                                                            SD-226
     10:15 a.m.
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine the nomination of Gary Locke, 
           of Washington, to be Ambassador to the People's 
           Republic of China, Department of State.
                                                            SD-419

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     10:30 a.m.
       Appropriations
       Department of Defense Subcommittee
         To receive a closed briefing on proposed budget estimates 
           for fiscal year 2012 for United States Central Command 
           and United States Africa Command.
                                                           SVC-217
     2 p.m.
       Aging
         To hold hearings to examine meals, rides, and caregivers, 
           focusing on the ``Older American Act''.
                                                            SD-106
     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.
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         Business meeting to consider S. 792, to authorize the 
           waiver of certain debts relating to assistance provided 
           to individuals and households since 2005.
                                                            SD-342
       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 8
     9:30 a.m.
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine the nomination of Ryan C. 
           Crocker, of Washington, to be Ambassador to the Islamic 
           Republic of Afghanistan, Department of State.
                                                            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