[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 17]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 22929-22930]
[From the U.S. 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, October 18, 2005 may be found in the 
Daily Digest of today's Record.

                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED

                               OCTOBER 19
     9:30 a.m.
       Appropriations
       Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related 
           Agencies Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the potential of stem cell 
           and nuclear transplantation research.
                                                            SD-138
     10 a.m.
       Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
         Business meeting to consider recommendations which it 
           will make to the Committee on the Budget with respect 
           to spending reductions and revenue increases to meet 
           reconciliation expenditures as imposed by H. Con. Res. 
           95, establishing the congressional budget for the 
           United States Government for fiscal year 2006, revising 
           appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2005, and 
           setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal 
           years 2007 through 2010.
                                                           SR-328A
       Energy and Natural Resources
         Business meeting to consider pending calendar business.
                                                            SD-366
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine United State foreign policy 
           relating to Iraq.
                                                            SD-106
     10:30 a.m.
       Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine issues and implications 
           regarding reporters' privilege legislation.
                                                            SD-226
     2 p.m.
       Judiciary
       Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights 
           Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine video competition in 2005.
                                                            SD-226
       Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
       Employment and Workplace Safety Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine enhancing cooperation between 
           employers and guardsmen/reservists.
                                                            SD-430
     2:30 p.m.
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine the nomination of David M. 
           Hale, of New Jersey, to be Ambassador to the Hashemite 
           Kingdom of Jordan.
                                                            SD-419
       Intelligence
         To receive a closed briefing regarding certain 
           intelligence matters.
                                                            SH-219

                               OCTOBER 20
     9:30 a.m.
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Benson K. 
           Whitney, of Minnesota, to be Ambassador to Norway, 
           Roland Arnall, of California, to be Ambassador to the 
           Kingdom of the Netherlands, Susan Rasinski McCaw, of 
           Washington, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
           Austria, and Nicholas F. Taubman, of Virginia, to be 
           Ambassador to Romania.
                                                            SD-419
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine the response to Hurricane 
           Katrina in New Orleans.
                                                            SD-342
       Judiciary
         Business meeting to consider pending calendar business.
                                                            SD-226
     10 a.m.
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
         To resume hearings to examine the implementation of the 
           Exon-Florio provision by the Committee on Foreign 
           Investment in the United States (CFIUS), Department of 
           the Treasury, which seeks to serve U.S. investment 
           policy through reviews that protect national security 
           while maintaining the credibility of open investment 
           policy.
                                                            SD-538
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold hearings to examine S. 1052, to improve 
           transportation security, including public and private 
           sector actions taken since September 11, 2001, and the 
           attacks on rail systems overseas, to enhance the 
           security of passenger and freight rail transportation.
                                                            SD-562
       Veterans' Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine IT Management by the VA.
                                                            SR-418
       Joint Economic Committee
         To hold hearings to examine the current economic outlook.
                                              Room to be announced
     10:30 a.m.
       Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
         To hold hearings to examine USDA Farm Service Agency 
           Office consolidation plan known as FSA Tomorrow.
                                                           SR-328A
     2 p.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         Business meeting to consider proposed DTV bill, S. 1753, 
           to establish a unified national hazard alert system, S. 
           967, to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to ensure 
           that prepackaged news stories contain announcements 
           that inform viewers that the information within was 
           provided by the United States Government, and S. 1063, 
           to promote and enhance public safety and to encourage 
           the rapid deployment of IP-enabled voice services.
                                                            SR-325
       Judiciary
       Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the constitutional amendment 
           on marriage.
                                                            SD-226
       Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
         To hold hearings to examine Federal employment programs 
           for persons with disabilities.
                                                            SD-430
     2:30 p.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings to examine S. 1016, to direct the 
           Secretary of Energy to make incentive payments to the 
           owners or operators of qualified desalination 
           facilities to partially offset the cost of electrical 
           energy required to operate the facilities, and S. 1860, 
           to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to improve 
           energy production and reduce energy demand through 
           improved use of reclaimed waters.
                                                            SD-366
       Foreign Relations
       Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine U.S. foreign policy, 
           petroleum, and the Middle East.
                                                            SD-419
       Intelligence
       To receive a closed briefing regarding certain intelligence 
           matters.
                                                            SH-219

                               OCTOBER 25
     9:30 a.m.
       Armed Services
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of John J. 
           Young, Jr., of Virginia, to be Director of Defense 
           Research and Engineering, Department of Defense, 
           Dorrance Smith, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary 
           of Defense for Public Affairs, Delores M. Etter, of 
           Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy for 
           Research, Development and Acquisition, and General 
           Burwell B. Bell, III, USA, for reappointment to the 
           grade of general and to be Commander, United Nations 
           Command/Combined Forces Command, and Commander, United 
           States Forces Korea.
                                                            SD-106

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       Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine U.S.-Saudi Arabia relations 
           relating to the war on terror.
                                                            SD-226
     10 a.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings to examine S. 1829, to repeal certain 
           sections of the Act of May 26, 1936, pertaining to the 
           Virgin Islands, S. 1830, to amend the Compact of Free 
           Association Amendments Act of 2003, and S. 1831, to 
           convey certain submerged land to the Commonwealth of 
           the Northern Mariana Islands.
                                                            SD-366

                               OCTOBER 26
     9:30 a.m.
       Indian Affairs
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine In Re Tribal 
           Lobbying Matters, Et Al.
                                                            SH-216
       Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine the Streamlined Procedures 
           Act relating to Habeas Reform.
                                                            SD-226
     2 p.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
       Public Lands and Forests Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the implementation of the 
           Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act (P.L. 108-
           447), by the Forest Service and the Department of the 
           Interior.
                                                            SD-366

                               NOVEMBER 2
     2 p.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
       Public Lands and Forests Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine S. 1541, to protect, 
           conserve, and restore public land administered by the 
           Department of the Interior or the Forest Service and 
           adjacent land through cooperative cost-shared grants to 
           control and mitigate the spread of invasive species, S. 
           1548, to provide for the conveyance of certain Forest 
           Service land to the city of Coffman Cove, Alaska, S. 
           1552, to amend Public Law 97-435 to extend the 
           authorization for the Secretary of the Interior to 
           release certain conditions contained in a patent 
           concerning certain land conveyed by the United States 
           to Eastern Washington University until December 31, 
           2009, and H.R. 482, to provide for a land exchange 
           involving Federal lands in the Lincoln National Forest 
           in the State of New Mexico.
                                                            SD-366

                             CANCELLATIONS

                               OCTOBER 20
     10 a.m.
       Indian Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine Indian water rights 
           settlement policy effects on the Duck Valley 
           Reservation proposed settlement agreement.
                                                            SR-485

                             POSTPONEMENTS

                               OCTOBER 19
     10 a.m.
       Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
       Bioterrorism and Public Health Preparedness Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine biosurveillance.
                                                            SD-430

                               OCTOBER 20
     2:30 p.m.
       Indian Affairs
         Business meeting to consider S. 1057, to amend the Indian 
           Health Care Improvement Act to revise and extend that 
           Act, S. 1003, to amend the Act of December 22, 1974, S. 
           692, to provide for the conveyance of certain public 
           land in northwestern New Mexico by resolving a dispute 
           associated with coal preference right lease interests 
           on the land, and a proposed bill to extend the statute 
           of limitations for breach of trust claims.
                                                            SR-485