[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 13]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 18211-18212]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



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                          EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS

                       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, July 10, 2007 may be found in the 
Daily Digest of today's Record.

                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED

                                JULY 11
     9 a.m.
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Bijan 
           Rafiekian, of California, and Diane G. Farrell, of 
           Connecticut, both to be Members of the Board of 
           Directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United 
           States, and William Herbert Heyman, of New York, 
           William S. Jasien, of Virginia, and Mark S. Shelton, of 
           Kansas, all to be Directors of the Securities Investor 
           Protection Corporation.
                                                            SD-538
     10 a.m.
       Environment and Public Works
       Clean Air and Nuclear Safety Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the Environmental Protection 
           Agency's proposed revision to the Ozone NAAQS.
                                                            SD-406
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold hearings to examine United States weather and 
           environmental satellites, focusing on their readiness 
           for the 21st century.
                                                            SR-253
       Finance
         To hold hearings to examine carried interest, Part 1.
                                                            SD-215
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine ways to strengthen the unique 
           role of the Nation's Inspectors General.
                                                            SD-342
       Judiciary
         To continue hearings to examine the Department of Justice 
           politicizing the hiring and firing of United States 
           Attorneys, focusing on preserving prosecutorial 
           independence (Part VI).
                                                            SD-226
     2:30 p.m.
       Intelligence
         To hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence 
           matters.
                                                            SH-219

                                JULY 12
     9 a.m.
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
       Investigations Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine certain vulnerabilities in 
           the government's procedures for licensing radiological 
           materials, focusing on the effectiveness of the Nuclear 
           Regulatory Commission's materials licensing policies 
           and procedures, and the vulnerability of those licenses 
           to counterfeiting.
                                                            SD-342
     9:30 a.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Clarence 
           H. Albright, of South Carolina, to be Under Secretary 
           of Energy, Lisa E. Epifani, of Texas, to be Assistant 
           Secretary of Energy for Congressional and 
           Intergovernmental Affairs, and James L. Caswell, of 
           Idaho, to be Director of the Bureau of Land Management, 
           Department of the Interior.
                                                            SD-366
       Indian Affairs
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine transportation 
           issues in Indian country.
                                                            SR-485
     10 a.m.
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine cross-border exchange 
           mergers, focusing on the global view.
                                                            SD-538
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold hearings to examine telephone number portability.
                                                            SR-253
       Finance
         To hold hearings to examine airport airways trust fund, 
           focusing on the future of aviation financing.
                                                            SD-215
       Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
         To hold hearings to examine the nomination of James W. 
           Holsinger, Jr., of Kentucky, to be Medical Director in 
           the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service, subject 
           to qualifications therefor as provided by law and 
           regulations, and to be Surgeon General of the Public 
           Health Service, Department of Health and Human 
           Services.
                                                            SD-G50
       Judiciary
         Business meeting to consider S. 1145, to amend title 35, 
           United States Code, to provide for patent reform, S. 
           1060, to reauthorize the grant program for reentry of 
           offenders into the community in the Omnibus Crime 
           Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, to improve 
           reentry planning and implementation, S. Res. 248, 
           honoring the life and achievements of Dame Lois Browne 
           Evans, Bermuda's first female barrister and Attorney 
           General, and the first female Opposition Leader in the 
           British Commonwealth, S. Res. 236, supporting the goals 
           and ideals of the National Anthem Project, which has 
           worked to restore America's voice by re-teaching 
           Americans to sing the national anthem, proposed 
           legislation entitled ``School Safety and Law 
           Enforcement Improvement Act'', and the nominations of 
           William Lindsay Osteen, Jr., of North Carolina, to be 
           United States District Judge for the Middle District of 
           North Carolina, Martin Karl Reidinger, of North 
           Carolina, to be United States District Judge for the 
           Western District of North Carolina, Timothy D. 
           DeGiusti, of Oklahoma, to be United States District 
           Judge for the Western District of Oklahoma, and Janis 
           Lynn Sammartino, of California, to be United States 
           District Judge for the Southern District of California.
                                                            SD-226
     2 p.m.
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
       State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness and 
           Integration Subcommittee
         To continue hearings to examine the state of public-
           private collaboration in preparing for and responding 
           to national catastrophes.
                                                            SD-342
     2:30 p.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
       National Parks Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine S. 488 and H.R. 1100, bills 
           to revise the boundary of the Carl Sandburg Home 
           National Historic Site in the State of North Carolina, 
           S. 617, to make the National Parks and Federal 
           Recreational Lands Pass available at a discount to 
           certain veterans, S. 824 and H.R. 995, bills to amend 
           Public Law 106-348 to extend the authorization for 
           establishing a memorial in the District of Columbia or 
           its environs to honor veterans who became disabled 
           while serving in the Armed Forces of the United States, 
           S. 955, to establish the Abraham Lincoln National 
           Heritage Area, S. 1148, to establish the Champlain 
           Quadricentennial Commemoration Commission and the 
           Hudson-Fulton 400th Commemoration Commission, S. 1380, 
           to designate as wilderness certain land within the 
           Rocky Mountain National Park and to adjust the 
           boundaries of the Indian Peaks Wilderness and the 
           Arapaho National Recreation Area of the Arapaho 
           National Forest in the State of Colorado, and S. 1182, 
           to amend the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley 
           National Heritage Corridor Act of 1994 to increase the 
           authorization of appropriations and modify the date on 
           which the authority of the Secretary of the Interior 
           terminates under the Act, and S. 1728, to amend the 
           National

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           Parks and Recreation Act of 1978 to reauthorize the Na 
           Hoa Pili O Kaloko-Honokohau Advisory Commission.
                                                            SD-366
       Intelligence
         To hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence 
           matters.
                                                            SH-219

                                JULY 17
     10 a.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
       Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine improving air services to 
           small and rural communities.
                                                            SR-253
     2:30 p.m.
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
       Federal Financial Management, Government Information, 
           Federal Services, and International Security 
           Subcommittee
         To continue hearings to examine the readiness of the 
           Census Bureau for the 2010 census.
                                                            SD-342
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine protocol Amending the 
           Convention Between the Government of the United States 
           of America and the Government of the Republic of 
           Finland for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the 
           Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on 
           Income and on Capital, signed at Helsinki May 31, 2006 
           (the ``Protocol'') (Treaty Doc.109-18), protocol 
           Amending the Convention Between the Government of the 
           United States of America and the Government of the 
           Kingdom of Denmark for the Avoidance of Double Taxation 
           and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to 
           Taxes on Income signed at Copenhagen May 2, 2006 (the 
           ``Protocol'') (Treaty Doc.109-19), and protocol 
           Amending the Convention Between the United States of 
           America and the Federal Republic of Germany for the 
           Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of 
           Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income and 
           Capital and to Certain Other Taxes, Signed on August 
           29, 1989, signed at Berlin June 1, 2006 (the 
           ``Protocol''), along with a related Joint Declaration 
           (Treaty Doc.109-20), and Convention Between the 
           Government of the United States of America and the 
           Government of the Kingdom of Belgium for the Avoidance 
           of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion 
           with Respect to Taxes on Income and accompanying 
           Protocol, signed on November 27, 2006, at Brussels (the 
           ``proposed Treaty'') (Treaty Doc.110-3).
                                                            SD-419
       Veterans' Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine Department of Veterans 
           Affairs and Department of Defense education issues.
                                                            SD-562

                                JULY 18
     10 a.m.
       Judiciary
         To continue oversight hearings to examine the Department 
           of Justice.
                                                            SH-216

                                JULY 25
     9:30 a.m.
       Veterans' Affairs
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine Department of 
           Veterans Affairs health care funding.
                                                            SD-562