[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 120 (Monday, September 10, 2012)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1468-E1469]
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 Ccommittee--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, September 11, 2012 may be found in 
the Daily Digest of today's Record.

                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED

                              SEPTEMBER 12
     9:30 a.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings to examine S. 3469, to establish a new 
           organization to manage nuclear waste, provide a 
           consensual process for siting nuclear waste facilities, 
           ensure adequate funding for managing nuclear waste.
                                                            SD-366
     10 a.m.
       Environment and Public Works
       Clean Air and Nuclear Safety Subcommittee
         To hold a joint oversight hearing to examine the Nuclear 
           Regulatory Commission's (NRC) implementation of 
           recommendations for enhancing nuclear reactor safety in 
           the 21st century.
                                                            SD-406
       Foreign Relations
         To receive a closed briefing on an intelligence update on 
           Syria and Iran.
                                                           SVC-217
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine the future of the General 
           Services Administration.
                                                            SD-342
       Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine the Citizens United court and 
           the continuing importance of the ``Voting Rights Act''.
                                                            SD-226
       Veterans' Affairs
         Business meeting to consider pending calendar business.
                                                            SR-418
     2 p.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold hearings to examine the path from low-Earth orbit 
           (LEO) to Mars.
                                                            SR-253
     2:45 p.m.
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Joseph E. 
           Macmanus, of New

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           York, to be Representative to the Vienna Office of the 
           United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, and to be 
           Representative to the International Atomic Energy 
           Agency, with the rank of Ambassador, Sharon English 
           Woods Villarosa, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the 
           Republic of Mauritius, and to serve concurrently and 
           without additional compensation as Ambassador to the 
           Republic of Seychelles, and Walter North, of 
           Washington, to be Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, and 
           to serve concurrently and without additional 
           compensation as Ambassador to the Solomon Islands, and 
           Ambassador to the Republic of Vanuatu, all of the 
           Department of State.
                                                            SD-419

                              SEPTEMBER 13
     9:30 a.m.
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
       Investigations Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine issues related to the quality 
           of disability benefit awards involving 300 case files 
           of claimants under the Social Security Disability 
           Insurance (SSDI) and Supplement Security Income (SSI) 
           programs involving initial applications and subsequent 
           levels of appeal.
                                                            SD-342
     10 a.m.
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine holding the Consumer 
           Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) accountable, 
           focusing on a review of the semi-annual report to 
           Congress.
                                                            SD-538
       Judiciary
         Business meeting to consider S. 645, to amend the 
           National Child Protection Act of 1993 to establish a 
           permanent background check system, H.R. 2471, to amend 
           section 2710 of title 18, United States Code, to 
           clarify that a video tape service provider may obtain a 
           consumer's informed, written consent on an ongoing 
           basis and that consent may be obtained through the 
           Internet, S. 3486, to implement the provisions of the 
           Hague Agreement and the Patent Law Treaty, S. 1894, to 
           deter terrorism, provide justice for victims, S. 3250, 
           to amend the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 
           2000 to provide for Debbie Smith grants for auditing 
           sexual assault evidence backlogs and to establish a 
           Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence Registry, S. 3523, 
           Innovative Design Protection Act, and the nomination of 
           William Joseph Baer, of Maryland, to be an Assistant 
           Attorney General, Department of Justice.
                                                            SD-226
     10:30 a.m.
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations Stephen D. 
           Mull, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
           Poland, and Dawn M. Liberi, of Florida, to be 
           Ambassador to the Republic of Burundi, both of the 
           Department of State.
                                                            SD-419
       Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
         To hold hearings to examine improving college 
           affordability, focusing on a view from the states.
                                                            SD-430
     2:15 p.m.
       Indian Affairs
         Business meeting to consider S. 675, to express the 
           policy of the United States regarding the United States 
           relationship with Native Hawaiians and to provide a 
           process for the recognition by the United States of the 
           Native Hawaiian governing entity, S. 1345, to provide 
           for equitable compensation to the Spokane Tribe of 
           Indians of the Spokane Reservation for the use of 
           tribal land for the production of hydropower by the 
           Grand Coulee Dam, and S. 1684, to amend the Indian 
           Tribal Energy Development and Self-Determination Act of 
           2005, to be immediately followed by an oversight 
           hearing to examine the impacts of the Carcieri and 
           Patchak decisions.
                                                            SD-628
     2:30 p.m.
       Intelligence
         To hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence 
           matters.
                                                            SH-219

                              SEPTEMBER 14
     2:30 p.m.
       Indian Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine the nomination of Kevin K. 
           Washburn, of New Mexico, to be Assistant Secretary of 
           the Interior for Indian Affairs.
                                                            SD-628

                              SEPTEMBER 19
     10 a.m.
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine homeland threats and agency 
           responses.
                                                            SD-342
     2:15 p.m.
       Foreign Relations
         Business meeting to consider S. 2215, to create jobs in 
           the United States by increasing United States exports 
           to Africa by at least 200 percent in real dollar value 
           within 10 years, S. 2318, to authorize the Secretary of 
           State to pay a reward to combat transnational organized 
           crime and for information concerning foreign nationals 
           wanted by international criminal tribunals, S. 3310, to 
           direct the President, in consultation with the 
           Department of State, United States Agency for 
           International Development, Millennium Challenge 
           Corporation, and the Department of Defense, to 
           establish guidelines for United States foreign 
           assistance programs, S. 3331, to provide for universal 
           intercountry adoption accreditation standards, S. 3341, 
           to require a quadrennial diplomacy and development 
           review, S. Con. Res. 50, expressing the sense of 
           Congress regarding actions to preserve and advance the 
           multistakeholder governance model under which the 
           Internet has thrived, S. Res. 516, expressing the sense 
           of the Senate on the restitution of or compensation for 
           property seized during the Nazi and Communist eras, the 
           nominations of Richard G. Olson, of New Mexico, to be 
           Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 
           Department of State, and John Hardy Isakson, of 
           Georgia, and Patrick J. Leahy, of Vermont, both to be a 
           Representative of the United States of America to the 
           Sixty-seventh Session of the General Assembly of the 
           United Nations, and lists in the Foreign Service.
                                                    S-116, Capitol
     2:30 p.m.
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
       Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, 
           and the District of Columbia Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine investing in an effective 
           Federal workforce.
                                                            SD-628

                              SEPTEMBER 20
     2:15 p.m.
       Indian Affairs
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine advancing the 
           Federal-tribal relationship through self-governance and 
           self-determination.
                                                            SD-628

                              SEPTEMBER 25
     2 p.m.
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
       Federal Financial Management, Government Information, 
           Federal Services, and International Security 
           Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine improving financial 
           accountability at the Department of Defense.
                                                            SD-342