[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 127 (Wednesday, September 19, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D888-D889]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                           SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Securities, Insurance and Investment, to hold hearings to examine 
computerized trading, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold 
hearings to examine business practices in the household goods moving 
industry, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: to hold hearings to 
examine the ``Water Resources Development Act'', focusing on growing 
the economy and protecting public safety, 10 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on 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, 10 a.m., HVC-210.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and 
Pacific Affairs, to hold hearings to examine maritime territorial 
disputes and sovereignty issues in Asia, 2 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: to hold 
hearings to examine pension modernization for a 21st century 
workforce, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations, to hold hearings to examine offshore 
profit shifting and the U.S. tax code, 2 p.m., SD-G50.
  Committee on 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, and 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, 2:15 p.m., SD-628.
  Committee on the 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 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, 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

  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Homeland Security, 
hearing entitled ``Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards 
(CFATS) Program'', 10 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Defense, hearing entitled ``Joint Improvised 
Explosive Device Defeat Organization'', 10 a.m., 2362-A Rayburn.
  Committee on Armed Services, Full Committee, hearing on Department 
of Defense Plans for Sequestration: The Sequestration Transparency 
Act of 2012 Report and the Way Forward, 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on Higher 
Education and Workforce Training, hearing entitled ``Assessing 
College Data: Helping to Provide Valuable Information to Students, 
Institutions and Taxpayers'', 10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Full Committee, continued markup 
of H.R. 1206, the ``Access to Professional Health Insurance Advisors 
Act of 2011''; and H.R. 1063, the ``Strengthening Medicare and 
Repaying Taxpayers Act of 2011'', 11:45 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Energy and Power, hearing entitled ``The American 
Energy Initiative: A Focus on H.R. 6172'', 10 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``The Semi-Annual Report of the Consumer Financial Protection 
Bureau'', 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on the Middle East and 
South Asia, hearing entitled ``Safeguarding Israel's Security in a 
Volatile Region'', 1:30 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Homeland Security, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``The Department of Homeland Security: An Assessment of the 
Department and a Roadmap for its Future'' 10 a.m., 311 Cannon.

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  Committee on the Judiciary, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Regulation Nation: The Obama Administration's Regulatory Expansion 
vs. Jobs and Economic Recovery'', 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition, and the 
Internet, hearing entitled ``International IP Enforcement: Opening 
Markets Abroad and Protecting Innovation'', 2 p.m. 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Full Committee, 
business meeting to approve ``A Citizen's Guide on Using the Freedom 
of Information Act and the Privacy Act of 1974 to Request Government 
Records''; and hearing entitled ``IG Report: The Department of 
Justice's Office of the Inspector General Examines the Failures of 
Operation Fast and Furious'', 9:30 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Health Care, District of Columbia, Census and the 
National Archives; hearing entitled ``Examining the Administration's 
Failure to Prevent and End Medicaid Overpayments'', 2 p.m., 2154 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign 
Operations, hearing entitled ``SIGAR Report: Document Destruction 
and Millions of Dollars Unaccounted for at the Department of 
Defense, Part II'', 2 p.m., 2247 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Sequestration: The Threat to Small Businesses, Jobs, and the 
Industrial Base'', 1 p.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Full Committee, 
hearing entitled ``A Review of Amtrak Operations, Part III: 
Examining 41 Years of Taxpayer Subsidies'', 9:30 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and 
Emergency Management, hearing on H.R. 6430, the ``Public Buildings 
Reform Act of 2012'', 1:30 p.m., 2253 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, hearing 
entitled ``A Review of the Challenges Maintaining Legacy Assets Pose 
to United States Coast Guard Mission Performance'', 2 p.m., 2167 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, hearing entitled 
``Forty Years after the Clean Water Act: Is it Time for the States 
to Implement Section 404 Permitting?'', 10 a.m., 2253 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Veterans Affairs in the 112th Congress: Reviewing VA's Performance 
and Accountability'', 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity, hearing entitled ``Examining 
the Re-Design of the Transition Assistance Program (TAP)'', 2 p.m., 
334 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Trade, hearing 
entitled ``Benefits of Expanding U.S. Services Trade Through an 
International Services Agreement'', 2 p.m., 1100 Longworth.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on 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, 10 a.m., HVC-210.
  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: to hold hearings 
to examine Georgia's parliamentary election, focusing on how free 
and fair has the campaign been, and how the United States government 
should respond, including the election's fairness during the run-up 
to the vote and the vote count, human rights issues connected to the 
election, and United States policy in response, 12:30 p.m., 2255, 
Rayburn Building.