[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 185 (Monday, December 5, 2011)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2182]
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, December 6, 2011 may be found in the 
Daily Digest of today's Record.

                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED

                               DECEMBER 7
     9:30 a.m.
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         To hold a joint hearing with the House Committee on 
           Homeland Security to examine homegrown terrorism, 
           focusing on the threat to military communities inside 
           the United States.
                                                           HVC-210
     10 a.m.
       Finance
         To hold hearings to examine drug shortages, focusing on 
           why they happen and what they mean.
                                                            SD-215
       Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine reauthorizing the EB-5 
           Regional Center Program, focusing on promoting job 
           creation and economic development in American 
           communities.
                                                            SD-226
     2 p.m.
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
       Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine enhanced supervision, 
           focusing on a new regime for regulating large, complex 
           financial institutions.
                                                            SD-538
     2:30 p.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold hearings to examine turning the investigation on 
           the science of forensics.
                                                            SR-253
       Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine the nomination of Paul J. 
           Watford, of California, to be United States Circuit 
           Judge for the Ninth Circuit.
                                                            SD-226
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
       Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, 
           and the District of Columbia Subcommittee
       Disaster Recovery and Intergovernmental Affairs 
           Subcommittee
         To hold joint hearings to examine earthquakes to 
           terrorist attacks, focusing on if the national capital 
           region is prepared for the next disaster.
                                                            SD-342
       United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics 
           Control
         To hold hearings to examine government efforts to curtail 
           marijuana cultivation on United States public lands, 
           focusing on exploitation of public lands as grow sites 
           for marijuana and discuss barriers to the criminal 
           prosecution of drug traffickers.
                                                            SD-562
       Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
         To receive a briefing on conflicts in the Caucasus, 
           focusing on prospects for resolution, where these 
           conflicts stand today, what factors impede a 
           settlement, whether the resumption of armed hostilities 
           is a serious threat, whether changes in the negotiating 
           format might yield a better outcome, and what, if 
           anything, could the United States do to facilitate a 
           resolution.
                                            B318, Rayburn Building
                               DECEMBER 8
     Time to be announced
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         Business meeting to consider the nominations of Jon D. 
           Leibowitz, of Maryland, to be a Federal Trade 
           Commissioner, Maureen K. Ohlhausen, of Virginia, to be 
           a Federal Trade Commissioner, Rebecca M. Blank, of 
           Maryland, to be Deputy Secretary of Commerce, Ajit 
           Varadaraj Pai, of Kansas, to be a Member of the Federal 
           Communications Commission, and Jessica Rosenworcel, of 
           Connecticut, to be a Member of the Federal 
           Communications Commission.
                                              Room to be announced
     9:30 a.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings to examine the nomination of Arunava 
           Majumdar, of California, to be Under Secretary of 
           Energy.
                                                            SD-366
       Environment and Public Works
         Business meeting to consider S. 432, to provide for 
           environmental restoration activities and forest 
           management activities in the Lake Tahoe Basin, S. 1296, 
           to revise the boundaries of John H. Chafee Coastal 
           Barrier Resources System Sachuest Point Unit RI-04P, 
           Easton Beach Unit RI-05P, Almy Pond Unit RI-06, and 
           Hazards Beach Unit RI-07 in the State of Rhode Island, 
           S. 1266, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to 
           establish a program to build on and help coordinate 
           funding for the restoration and protection efforts of 
           the 4-State Delaware River Basin region, S. 1740, to 
           amend the Chesapeake Bay Initiative Act of 1998 to 
           provide for the reauthorization of the Chesapeake Bay 
           Gateways and Watertrails Network, the nomination of 
           Rebecca R. Wodder, of Virginia, to be Assistant 
           Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife, and 
           proposed resolutions relating to the General Services 
           Administration.
                                                            SD-406
     9:45 a.m.
       Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
         To hold hearings to examine barriers facing the long-term 
           unemployed.
                                                            SD-106
     10 a.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold hearings to examine the Internet Corporation for 
           Assigned Names and Numbers' (ICANN) expansion of top 
           level domains.
                                                            SR-253
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Tara D. 
           Sonenshine, of Maryland, to be Under Secretary for 
           Public Diplomacy, Anne Claire Richard, of New York, to 
           be Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees, and 
           Migration, and Robert E. Whitehead, of Florida, to be 
           Ambassador to the Togolese Republic, all of the 
           Department of State, and Earl W. Gast, of California, 
           to be an Assistant Administrator of the United States 
           Agency for International Development.
                                                            SD-419
       Judiciary
         Business meeting to consider S. 1886, to prevent 
           trafficking in counterfeit drugs, S. 678, to increase 
           the penalties for economic espionage, S. 1821, to 
           prevent the termination of the temporary office of 
           bankruptcy judges in certain judicial districts, S. 
           1236, to reduce the trafficking of drugs and to prevent 
           human smuggling across the Southwest Border by 
           deterring the construction and use of border tunnels, 
           and the nominations of Kathryn Keneally, of New York, 
           to be an Assistant Attorney General, Department of 
           Justice, and Brian C. Wimes, to be United States 
           District Judge for the Eastern and Western Districts of 
           Missouri.
                                                            SD-226
     2:15 p.m.
       Indian Affairs
         Business meeting to consider S. 1763, to decrease the 
           incidence of violent crimes against Indian women, to 
           strengthen the capacity of Indian tribes to exercise 
           the sovereign authority of Indian tribes to respond to 
           violent crimes committed against Indian women, and to 
           ensure that perpetrators of violent crimes committed 
           against Indian women are held accountable for that 
           criminal behavior, and S. 1065, to settle land claims 
           within the Fort Hall Reservation; to be immediately 
           followed by an oversight hearing to examine state and 
           Federal tax policy, focusing on building new markets in 
           Indian country.
                                                            SD-628
     2:30 p.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
       Water and Power Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine opportunities and challenges 
           to address domestic and global water supply issues.
                                                            SD-366
       Intelligence
         To hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence 
           matters.
                                                            SH-219
                              DECEMBER 13
     9 a.m.
       Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
         To hold hearings to examine MF Global bankruptcy.
                                                            SH-216