[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 156 (Tuesday, October 18, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1112-D1113]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                            OCTOBER 19, 2011

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and 
Management Support, to hold hearings to examine the final report of 
the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, 2:30 
p.m., SR-232A.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Securities, Insurance and Investment, to hold hearings to examine 
market microstructure, focusing on an examination of Exchange-Traded 
Funds (ETFs), 9:30 a.m., SD-538.

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  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold 
hearings to examine concussions and the marketing of sports 
equipment, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on 
National Parks, to hold hearings to examine S. 544, to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of alternatives for 
commemorating and interpreting the role of the Buffalo Soldiers in 
the early years of the National Parks, S. 1083, to amend the 
National Trails System Act to designate the route of the Smoky Hill 
Trail, an overland trail across the Great Plains during pioneer days 
in Kansas and Colorado, for study for potential addition to the 
National Trails System, S. 1084, to amend the National Trails System 
Act to designate the routes of the Shawnee Cattle Trail, the oldest 
of the major Texas Cattle Trails, for study for potential addition 
to the National Trails System, S. 1303, to authorize the Secretary 
of the Interior to establish Fort Monroe National Historical Park in 
the Commonwealth of Virginia, S. 1325, to direct the Secretary of 
the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of designating 
sites in the Lower Mississippi River Area in the State of Louisiana 
as a unit of the National Park System, S. 1347, to establish 
Coltsville National Historical Park in the State of Connecticut, S. 
1421, to authorize the Peace Corps Commemorative Foundation to 
establish a commemorative work in the District of Columbia and its 
environs, S. 1478, to modify the boundary of the Minuteman Missile 
National Historic Site in the State of South Dakota, and S. 1537, to 
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to accept from the Board of 
Directors of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the 
World Trade Center Foundation, Inc., the donation of title to The 
National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center, 
2:30 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: with the Subcommittee 
on Superfund, Toxics and Environmental Health, to hold a joint 
oversight hearing to examine the Brownfields Program, focusing on 
cleaning up and rebuilding communities, 10 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: business 
meeting to consider an original bill entitled, ``Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act'', and the nominations of Claude M. Steele, 
of New York, and Anneila I. Sargent, of California, both to be a 
Member of the National Science Board, National Science Foundation, 
and Laura A. Cordero, of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of 
the Board of Trustees of the Harry S Truman Scholarship Foundation, 
10 a.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: business 
meeting to consider S. 1268, to increase the efficiency and 
effectiveness of the Government by providing for greater interagency 
experience among national security and homeland security personnel 
through the development of a national security and homeland security 
human capital strategy and interagency rotational service by 
employees, S. 1409, to intensify efforts to identify, prevent, and 
recover payment error, waste, fraud, and abuse within Federal 
spending, S. 743, to amend chapter 23 of title 5, United States 
Code, to clarify the disclosures of information protected from 
prohibited personnel practices, require a statement in nondisclosure 
policies, forms, and agreements that such policies, forms, and 
agreements conform with certain disclosure protections, provide 
certain authority for the Special Counsel, S. 237, to amend title 
31, United States Code, to enhance the oversight authorities of the 
Comptroller General, S. 1379, to amend title 11, District of 
Columbia Official Code, to revise certain administrative authorities 
of the District of Columbia courts, and to authorize the District of 
Columbia Public Defender Service to provide professional liability 
insurance for officers and employees of the Service for claims 
relating to services furnished within the scope of employment with 
the Service, S. 1487, to authorize the Secretary of Homeland 
Security, in coordination with the Secretary of State, to establish 
a program to issue Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Business Travel 
Cards, H.R. 1059, to protect the safety of judges by extending the 
authority of the Judicial Conference to redact sensitive information 
contained in their financial disclosure reports, S. 384, to amend 
title 39, United States Code, to extend the authority of the United 
States Postal Service to issue a semipostal to raise funds for 
breast cancer research, H.R. 2062, to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 45 Meetinghouse Lane in 
Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts, as the ``Matthew A. Pucino Post 
Office'', H.R. 2149, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 4354 Pahoa Avenue in Honolulu, Hawaii, as 
the ``Cecil L. Heftel Post Office Building'', H.R. 1975, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 281 East Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, California, as the 
``First Lieutenant Oliver Goodall Post Office Building'', S. 1412, 
to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 462 Washington Street, Woburn Massachusetts, as the 
``Officer John Maguire Post Office'', H.R. 1843, to designate the 
facility of the United States Postal Service located at 489 Army 
Drive in Barrigada, Guam, as the ``John Pangelinan Gerber Post 
Office Building'', and the nominations of Ronald David McCray, of 
Texas, to be a Member of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment 
Board, Corinne Ann Beckwith, and Catharine Friend Easterly, both to 
be an Associate Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, 
and Ernest Mitchell, Jr., of California, to be Administrator of the 
United States Fire Administration, Federal Emergency Management 
Agency, Department of Homeland Security, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to hold an oversight hearing to 
examine the Department of Homeland Security, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the nominations of 
Michael E. Horowitz, of Maryland, to be Inspector General, 
Department of Justice, and Susie Morgan, to be United States 
District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana, 2:30 p.m., SD-
226.
  United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control: to 
hold hearings to examine United States-Andean security cooperation, 
2:30 p.m., SD-562.


                                 House

  No hearings are scheduled.