[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 125 (Monday, September 17, 2012)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1547-E1548]
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, September 18, 2012 may be found in 
the Daily Digest of today's Record.

                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED

                              SEPTEMBER 19
     9:30 a.m.
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine the nomination of Robert 
           Stephen Beecroft, of California, to be Ambassador to 
           the Republic of Iraq, Department of State.
                                                            SD-419
       Energy and Natural Resources
       Water and Power Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine S. 3265, to amend the Federal 
           Power Act to remove the authority of the Federal Energy 
           Regulatory Commission to collect land use fees for land 
           that has been sold, exchanged, or otherwise transferred 
           from Federal ownership but that is subject to a power 
           site reservation, H.R. 2842, to authorize all Bureau of 
           Reclamation conduit facilities for hydropower 
           development under Federal Reclamation law, S. 3464, to 
           amend the Mni Wiconi Project Act of 1988 to facilitate 
           completion of the Mni Wiconi Rural Water Supply System, 
           and S. 3483, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to 
           adjust the Crooked River boundary, to provide water 
           certainty for the City of Prineville, Oregon.
                                                            SD-366
     10 a.m.
       Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
         Business meeting to consider S. 3391, to amend section 
           353 of the Public Health Service Act with respect to 
           suspension, revocation, and limitation of laboratory 
           certification, an original bill entitled, 
           ``Recalcitrant Cancer Research Act of 2012'', S. 1440, 
           to reduce preterm labor and delivery and the risk of 
           pregnancy-related deaths and complications due to 
           pregnancy, and to reduce infant mortality caused by 
           prematurity, and nomination lists in the Public Health 
           Service.
                                                            SD-430
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine homeland threats and agency 
           responses.
                                                            SD-342
       Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Katherine 
           Polk Failla, to be United States District Judge for the 
           Southern District of New York, Pamela Ki Mai Chen, to 
           be United States District Judge for the Eastern 
           District of New York, Troy L. Nunley, to be United 
           States District Judge for the Eastern District of 
           California, Sheri Polster Chappell, to be United States 
           District Judge for the Middle District of Florida, and 
           Mark A. Barnett, of Virginia, to be a Judge of the 
           United States Court of International Trade.
                                                            SD-226
     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, S. 
           Res. 466, calling for the release from prison of former 
           Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko, S. Res. 
           543, to express the sense of the Senate on 
           international parental child abduction, the nominations 
           of Richard G. Olson, of New Mexico, to be Ambassador to 
           the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Joseph E. Macmanus, 
           of New York, to be Representative of the United States 
           of America to the International Atomic Energy Agency, 
           with the rank of Ambassador, and to be Representative 
           of the United States of America to the Vienna Office of 
           the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, 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, 
           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, Dawn M. 
           Liberi, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
           Burundi, and Stephen D. Mull, of Virginia, to be 
           Ambassador to the Republic of Poland, all of the 
           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.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold hearings to examine five years of the ``America 
           COMPETES Act'', focusing on progress, challenges, and 
           next steps.
                                                            SR-253
       Judiciary
       Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine hate crimes and the threat of 
           domestic extremism.
                                                            SH-216
       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-342
       Aging
         To hold hearings to examine eliminating waste and fraud 
           in Medicare, focusing on an examination of prior 
           authorization requirements for power mobility devices.
                                                            SD-562

                              SEPTEMBER 20
     8:30 a.m.
       Foreign Relations
         To receive a closed briefing on the security of United 
           States diplomatic and consular missions.
                                                           SVC-217
     10 a.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold hearings to examine business practices in the 
           household goods moving industry.
                                                            SR-253
       Environment and Public Works
         To hold hearings to examine the ``Water Resources 
           Development Act'', focusing on growing the economy and 
           protecting public safety.
                                                            SD-406
       Finance
         To hold a joint hearing with the House Committee on Ways 
           and Means to examine tax reform and the tax treatment 
           of capital gains.
                                                           HVC-210
       Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
         To hold hearings to examine pension modernization for a 
           21st century workforce.
                                                            SD-430
       Judiciary
         Business meeting to consider 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

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           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
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
       Securities, Insurance and Investment Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine computerized trading.
                                                            SD-538
     2 p.m.
       Foreign Relations
       East Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine maritime territorial disputes 
           and sovereignty issues in Asia.
                                                            SD-419
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
       Investigations Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine offshore profit shifting and 
           the U.S. tax code.
                                                            SD-G50
     2:15 p.m.
       Indian Affairs
         Business meeting to consider S. 65, to reauthorize the 
           programs of the Department of Housing and Urban 
           Development for housing assistance for Native 
           Hawaiians, S. 2024, to make technical amendment to the 
           T'uf Shur Bien Preservation Trust Area Act, S. 3546, to 
           amend the Native American Programs Act of 1974 to 
           reauthorize a provision to ensure the survival and 
           continuing vitality of Native American languages, S. 
           3548, to clarify certain provisions of the Native 
           American Veterans' Memorial Establishment Act of 1994, 
           H.R. 2467, to take certain Federal lands in Mono 
           County, California, into trust for the benefit of the 
           Bridgeport Indian Colony, to be immediately followed by 
           an oversight hearing to examine advancing the Federal-
           tribal relationship through self-governance and self-
           determination.
                                                            SD-628
     2:30 p.m.
       Intelligence
         To hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence 
           matters.
                                                            SH-219

                              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