[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 157 (Wednesday, October 19, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1120-D1121]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
  No hearings were held.

Joint Meetings
  No joint committee meetings were held.


           COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2011

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)

                                 Senate

  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: to hold hearings 
to examine housing finance reform, focusing on continuation of the 
30-year fixed-rate mortgage, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Subcommittee on Security and International Trade and Finance, to 
hold hearings to examine the Group of Twenty (G20) and global 
economic and financial risks, 2 p.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water 
and Power, to hold an oversight hearing to examine shale gas 
production and water resources in the Eastern United States, 2:30 
p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to receive a closed briefing on 
United States military deployment to Central Africa, 10 a.m., SVC-
217.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: business 
meeting to consider an original bill to reauthorize the Elementary 
and Secondary Education Act, 8 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Ad Hoc 
Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery and Intergovernmental Affairs, to 
hold hearings to examine accountability at the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency (FEMA), 10:30 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: business meeting to consider S. 1262, 
to improve Indian education; to be immediately followed by a hearing 
to examine S. 134, to authorize the Mescalero Apache Tribe to lease 
adjudicated water rights, S. 399, to modify the purposes and 
operation of certain facilities of the Bureau of Reclamation to 
implement the water rights compact among the State of Montana, the 
Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana, and 
the United States, S. 1298, to provide for the conveyance of certain 
property located in Anchorage, Alaska, from the United States to the 
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, S. 1327, to amend the Act of 
March 1, 1933, to transfer certain authority and resources to the 
Utah Dineh Corporation, and S. 1345, to provide for equitable 
compensation to the Spokane

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Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation for the use of tribal 
land for the production of hydropower by the Grand Coulee Dam, 2:15 
p.m., SD-628.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider S. 75, to 
restore the rule that agreements between manufacturers and 
retailers, distributors, or wholesalers to set the minimum price 
below which the manufacturer's product or service cannot be sold 
violates the Sherman Act, and the nominations of Stephanie Dawn 
Thacker, of West Virginia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the 
Fourth Circuit, Michael Walter Fitzgerald, to be United States 
District Judge for the Central District of California, Ronnie 
Abrams, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District 
of New York, Rudolph Contreras, of Virginia, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of Columbia, and Miranda Du, to be 
United States District Judge for the District of Nevada, 10 a.m., 
SD-226.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold closed hearings to 
examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                                 House

  No hearings are scheduled.