[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 13]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 18077-18079]
[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, September 9, 2008, may be found in 
the Daily Digest of today's Record.

                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED

                              SEPTEMBER 10
     10 a.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold hearings to examine ways to improve consumer 
           protection in the prepaid calling card market.
                                                            SR-253
       Appropriations
       Defense Subcommittee
         Business meeting to markup Department of Defense 
           appropriations for fiscal year 2009.
                                                            SD-192
       Environment and Public Works
         To hold hearings to examine improving the Federal Bridge 
           Program, focusing on an assessment of S. 3338, to amend 
           title 23, United States Code, to improve the safety of 
           Federal-aid highway bridges, to strengthen bridge 
           inspection standards and processes, to increase 
           investment in the reconstruction of structurally 
           deficient bridges on the National Highway System, and 
           H.R. 3999, to amend title 23, United States Code, to 
           improve the safety of Federal-aid highway bridges, to 
           strengthen bridge inspection standards and processes, 
           to increase investment in the reconstruction of 
           structurally deficient bridges on the National Highway 
           System.
                                                            SD-406
       Finance
         Business meeting to consider S. 3038, to amend part E of 
           title IV of the Social Security Act to extend the 
           adoption incentives program, to authorize States to 
           establish a relative guardianship program, to promote 
           the adoption of children with special needs, S. 1070, 
           to amend the Social Security Act to enhance the social 
           security of the Nation by ensuring adequate public-
           private infrastructure and to resolve to prevent, 
           detect, treat, intervene in, and prosecute elder abuse, 
           neglect, and exploitation, and S. 1577, to amend titles 
           XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to require 
           screening, including national criminal history 
           background checks, of direct patient access employees 
           of skilled nursing facilities, nursing facilities, and 
           other long-term care facilities and providers, and to 
           provide for nationwide expansion of the pilot program 
           for national and State background checks on direct 
           patient access employees of long-term care facilities 
           or providers.
                                                            SD-215
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine audits at the Defense 
           Contract Audit Agency.
                                                            SD-342
       Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine new strategies for combating 
           violent crime, focusing on drawing lessons from recent 
           experience.
                                                            SD-562
     10:30 a.m.
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine protocols to the North 
           Atlantic Treaty of 1949 on the Accession of the 
           Republic of Albania and the Republic of Croatia adopted 
           at Brussels on July 9, 2008, and signed that day on 
           behalf of the United States and the other Parties to 
           the North Atlantic Treaty (Treaty Doc. 110-20).
                                                            SD-419
     1:30 p.m.
       Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
         To hold hearings to examine Russia, Georgia, and the 
           return of power politics.
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     2 p.m.
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Sung Y. 
           Kim, of California, for the rank of Ambassador during 
           his tenure of service as Special Envoy for the Six 
           Party Talks, C. Steven McGann, of New York, to be 
           Ambassador to the Republic of the Fiji Islands, and to 
           serve concurrently and without additional compensation 
           as Ambassador to the Republic of Nauru, the Kingdom of 
           Tonga, Tuvalu, and the Republic of Kiribati, and Carol 
           Ann Rodley, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the 
           Kingdom of Cambodia.
                                                            SD-419
     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 managing the challenges of 
           the federal government transition, focusing on 
           assessing the readiness and planning for the transition 
           and identifying critical needs for the new 
           Administration to address.
                                                            SD-342
     3 p.m.
       Environment and Public Works
       Transportation Safety, Infrastructure Security, and Water 
           Quality Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the quality and environmental 
           impacts of bottled water.
                                                            SD-406

                              SEPTEMBER 11
     9 a.m.
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Brian H. 
           Hook, of Iowa, to be an Assistant Secretary of State 
           (International Organization Affairs), Gregori Lebedev, 
           of Virginia, to be Alternate Representative of the 
           United States of America to the Sessions of the General 
           Assembly of the United Nations, during his tenure of 
           service as Representative of the United States of 
           America to the United Nations for U.N. Management and 
           Reform, Gregori Lebedev, of Virginia, to be 
           Representative of the United States of America to the 
           United Nations for U.N. Management and Reform, with the 
           rank of Ambassador, and Matthew A. Reynolds, of 
           Massachusetts, to be an Assistant Secretary of State 
           (Legislative Affairs).
                                                            SD-419
     9:30 a.m.
       Indian Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine S. 3128, to direct the 
           Secretary of the Interior to provide a loan to the 
           White Mountain Apache Tribe for use in planning, 
           engineering, and designing a certain water system 
           project, S. 3355, to authorize the Crow Tribe of 
           Indians water rights settlement, and S. 3381, to 
           authorize the Secretary of the Interior, acting through 
           the Commissioner of Reclamation, to develop water 
           infrastructure in the Rio Grande Basin, and to approve 
           the settlement of the water rights claims of the 
           Pueblos of Nambe, Pojoaque, San Ildefonso, Tesuque, and 
           Taos.
                                                            SD-628
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
       Investigations Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine dividend tax abuse, focusing 
           on ways that offshore entitites avoid taxes on United 
           States stock dividends.
                                                            SD-106
       Veterans' Affairs
         To hold joint hearings with the House Committee on 
           Veterans Affairs to examine the legislative 
           presentation of the American Legion.
                                              345, Cannon Building
     10 a.m.
       Judiciary
         Business meeting to consider S. 2746, to amend section 
           552(b)(3) of title 5, United States Code (commonly 
           referred to as the Freedom of Information Act) to 
           provide that statutory exemptions to the disclosure 
           requirements of that Act shall specifically cite to the 
           provision of that Act authorizing such exemptions, to 
           ensure an open and deliberative process in Congress by 
           providing for related legislative proposals to 
           explicitly state such required citations, S. 2838, to 
           amend chapter 1 of title 9 of United States Code with 
           respect to arbitration, S. 3136, to encourage the entry 
           of felony warrants into the NCIC database by States and 
           provide additional resources for extradition, S. 1276, 
           to establish a grant program to facilitate the creation 
           of methamphetamine precursor electronic logbook 
           systems, S. 3197, to amend title 11, United States 
           Code, to exempt for a limited period, from the 
           application of the means-test presumption of abuse 
           under chapter 7, qualifying members of reserve 
           components of the Armed Forces and members of the 
           National Guard who, after September 11, 2001, are 
           called to active duty or to perform a homeland defense 
           activity for not less than 90 days, S. 3325, to enhance 
           remedies for violations of intellectual property laws, 
           S. 3296, to extend the authority of the United States 
           Supreme Court Police to protect court officials off the 
           Supreme Court Grounds and change the title of the 
           Administrative Assistant to the Chief Justice, S. 2052, 
           to allow for certiorari review of certain cases denied 
           relief or review by the United States Court of Appeals 
           for the Armed Forces, H.R. 5235, to establish the 
           Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission, S. 3166, to amend 
           the Immigration and Nationality Act to impose criminal 
           penalties on individuals who assist aliens who have 
           engaged in genocide, torture, or extrajudicial killings 
           to enter the United States, and the nominations of 
           Jeffrey Leigh Sedgwick, of Massachusetts, to be an 
           Assistant Attorney General, J. Patrick Rowan, of 
           Maryland, to be an Assistant Attorney General, and 
           William B. Carr, Jr., of Pennsylvania, to be a Member 
           of the United States Sentencing Commission.
                                                            SD-562
       Small Business and Entrepreneurship
         To hold hearings to examine business start-up hurdles in 
           underserved communities access to venture capital and 
           entrepreneurship training.
                                                           SR-428A
     10:30 a.m.
       Aging
         To hold hearings to examine 1-800-MEDICARE Information 
           (1-800-633-4227).
                                                            SR-325
     12 noon
       Energy and Natural Resources
         Business meeting to consider pending calendar business.
                                                            SD-366
     2:30 p.m.
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Carol 
           Waller Pope, of the District of Columbia, and Thomas M. 
           Beck, of Virginia, both to be a Member of the Federal 
           Labor Relations Authority.
                                                            SD-342

                              SEPTEMBER 16
     10 a.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold hearings to examine reasons that broadband 
           internet access matters.
                                                            SR-253
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings to examine the current state of vehicles 
           powered by the electric grid and the prospects for 
           wider deployment in the near future.
                                                            SD-366
     2:30 p.m.
       Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
         To hold hearings to examine the state of democracy and 
           human rights in Belarus and how the Belarusian 
           authorities are complying with their OSCE election 
           commitments in advance of the September 28 
           parliamentary elections.
                                            B318, Rayburn Building

                              SEPTEMBER 17
     9:30 a.m.
       Judiciary
         To hold oversight hearings to examine the Federal Bureau 
           of Investigation.
                                                            SH-216
       Veterans' Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine the nomination of Patrick W. 
           Dunne, of New York, to be Under Secretary for Benefits 
           of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
                                                            SR-418
     10 a.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold hearings to examine protected marine areas, 
           focusing on federal and state efforts to conserve, 
           manage, and restore marine resources.
                                                            SR-253

                              SEPTEMBER 18
     2:30 p.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
       Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, 
           Safety and Security Subcommittee
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine bus safety.
                                                            SR-253

                              SEPTEMBER 24
     9:30 a.m.
       Veterans' Affairs
         To hold oversight hearings to examine cooperation and 
           collaboration by the Departments of Veterans Affairs 
           and

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           Defense on information technology efforts.
                                                            SR-418
     10 a.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
       Interstate Commerce, Trade, and Tourism Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the imbalance in United 
           States-Korea automobile trade.
                                                            SR-253

                             POSTPONEMENTS

                              SEPTEMBER 10
     10 a.m.
       Rules and Administration
         To hold hearings to examine S. 3308, to require the 
           Secretary of Veterans Affairs to permit facilities of 
           the Department of Veterans Affairs to be designated as 
           voter registration agencies.
                                                            SR-301

                              SEPTEMBER 11
     2:30 p.m.
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine transparency in accounting, 
           focusing changes, focusing proposed changes to 
           accounting for off-balance sheet entities.
                                                            SD-538