[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 4]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 4573-4575]
[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, April 1, 2008 may be found in the 
Daily Digest of today's Record.

                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED

                                APRIL 2
     9:30 a.m.
       Appropriations
       Energy and Water Development Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for 
           fiscal year 2009 for the Department of Energy.
                                                            SD-124
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine Iraq after the surge, 
           focusing on military prospects.
                                                            SD-419
       Judiciary
         To hold oversight hearings to examine the Department of 
           Homeland Security.
                                                            SH-216
       Joint Economic Committee
         To hold hearings to examine the current economic outlook.
                                                            SD-106
     10 a.m.
       Armed Services
       Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the defense authorization 
           request for fiscal year 2009 for the Cooperative Threat 
           Reduction Program and the Proliferation Security 
           Initiative at the Department of Defense, and nuclear 
           nonproliferation programs at the National Nuclear 
           Security Administration, and the future years defense 
           program.
                                                           SR-232A
       Environment and Public Works
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine the listing 
           decision for the polar bear under the Endangered 
           Species Act.
                                                            SD-406
     10:30 a.m.
       Appropriations
       Defense Subcommittee
         To meet in closed session to examine National 
           Reconnaissance Office (NRO)/Space Programs.
                                                    S-407, Capitol
       Appropriations
       Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related 
           Agencies Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine National Labor Relations 
           Board Representation elections and initial collective 
           bargaining agreements, focusing on safeguarding 
           workers' rights.
                                                            SD-138
     11 a.m.
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine nuclear terrorism, focusing 
           on assessing the threat to the United States.
                                                            SD-342
     2:30 p.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         Business meeting to consider S. 2688, to improve the 
           protections afforded under Federal law to consumers 
           from contaminated seafood by directing the Secretary of 
           Commerce to establish a program, in coordination with 
           other appropriate Federal agencies, to strengthen 
           activities for ensuring that seafood sold or offered 
           for sale to the public in or affecting interstate 
           commerce is fit for human consumption, S.J. Res. 28, 
           disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal 
           Communications Commission with respect to broadcast 
           media ownership, S. 2607, to make a technical 
           correction to section 3009 of the Deficit Reduction Act 
           of 2005, H.R. 3985, to amend title 49, United States 
           Code, to direct the Secretary of Transportation to 
           register a person providing transportation by an over-
           the-road bus as a motor carrier of passengers only if 
           the person is willing and able to comply with certain 
           accessibility requirements in addition to other 
           existing requirements, H.R. 802, to amend the Act to 
           Prevent Pollution from Ships to implement MARPOL Annex 
           VI, and the nomination of Robert A. Sturgell, of 
           Maryland, to be Administrator of the Federal Aviation 
           Administration.
                                                            SR-253
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine Iraq after the surge, 
           focusing on political prospects.
                                                            SD-419
       Armed Services
       Readiness and Management Support Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the Department of Defense 
           contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
                                                            SR-222

                                APRIL 3
     9:30 a.m.
       Armed Services
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Gen. David 
           D. McKiernan, to be General, and Commander, 
           International Security Assistance Force, Afghanistan, 
           Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, to be General, and Vice 
           Chief of Staff, and Lt. Gen. Walter L. Sharp, to be 
           General, and Commander, United Nations Command/Combined 
           Forces Command/United States Forces Korea, all of the 
           United States Army.
                                                            SD-106
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings to examine the current price of oil, 
           focusing on non-commercial institutional investors.
                                                            SD-366
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine the conditions and 
           developments of Iraq in 2012.
                                                            SD-419
       Appropriations
       Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related 
           Agencies Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the status of the Surface 
           Transportation Trust Funds and impact on federal 
           spending.
                                                            SD-138
       Veterans' Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine legislative presentations 
           from sundry Veteran Affairs organizations.
                                                            SH-216
     10 a.m.
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine turmoil in U.S. credit 
           markets, focusing on the recent actions of federal 
           financing regulators.
                                                            SD-538
       Appropriations
       Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies 
           Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for 
           fiscal year 2009 for the National Aeronautics and Space 
           Administration Fiscal Year.
                                                            SD-192

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       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold hearings to examine international fisheries, 
           focusing on management and enforcement.
                                                            SR-253
       Environment and Public Works
         To hold hearings to examine strategies to reduce 
           greenhouse gas emissions at United States colleges and 
           universities.
                                                            SD-406
       Finance
         To hold hearings to examine outside the box on estate tax 
           reform, focusing on reviewing ideas to simplify 
           planning.
                                                            SD-215
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine Federal Emergency Management 
           Agency, focusing on if the agency is better prepared 
           for a catastrophe now than it was in 2005.
                                                            SD-342
       Judiciary
         Business meeting to consider S. 2136, to address the 
           treatment of primary mortgages in bankruptcy, S. 2133, 
           to authorize bankruptcy courts to take certain actions 
           with respect to mortgage loans in bankruptcy, S. 2041, 
           to amend the False Claims Act, S. 2533, to enact a 
           safe, fair, and responsible state secrets privilege 
           Act, S. 702, to authorize the Attorney General to award 
           grants to State courts to develop and implement State 
           courts interpreter programs, S. Res. 468, designating 
           April 2008 as ``National 9-1-1 Education Month'', and 
           the nominations of Catharina Haynes, of Texas, to be 
           United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, and 
           Rebecca A. Gregory, to be United States Attorney for 
           the Eastern District of Texas.
                                                            SD-226
     10:30 a.m.
       Aging
         To hold hearings to examine scrambling for health 
           insurance coverage, focusing on health security for 
           people in late middle age.
                                                            SD-608
     2 p.m.
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
       Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, 
           and the District of Columbia Subcommittee
         To hold joint hearings with the House Committee on 
           Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on the 
           Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of 
           Columbia to examine managing diversity of senior 
           leadership in the Federal workforce and Postal Service.
                                            2154, Rayburn Building
     2:15 p.m.
       Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Mark S. 
           Davis, to be United States District Judge for the 
           Eastern District of Virginia, David Gregory Kays, to be 
           United States District Judge for the Western District 
           of Missouri, David J. Novak, to be United States 
           District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, 
           Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr., to be United States District 
           Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri, and 
           Elisebeth C. Cook, of Virginia, to be an Assistant 
           Attorney General.
                                                            SD-226
     3 p.m.
       Armed Services
       Airland Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the defense authorization 
           request for fiscal year 2009 on Army modernization, and 
           the future years defense program.
                                                            SR-222

                                APRIL 4
     9:30 a.m.
       Joint Economic Committee
         To hold hearings to examine the current employment 
           situation.
                                                            SD-106

                                APRIL 8
     9:30 a.m.
       Armed Services
         To hold hearings to examine the situation in Iraq and 
           progress made by the Government of Iraq in meeting 
           benchmarks and achieving reconciliation.
                                                            SD-106
     10 a.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold hearings to examine the Federal Trade Commission 
           reauthorization.
                                                            SR-253
     2:30 p.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine the digital 
           television transition, focusing on consumers, 
           broadcasters, and converter boxes.
                                                            SR-253
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings to examine S. 2259 and H.R. 813, bills 
           to amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater 
           Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of 
           the Interior to participate in the Prado Basin Natural 
           Treatment System Project, to authorize the Secretary to 
           participate in the Lower Chino Dairy Area desalination 
           demonstration and reclamation project, H.R. 31, to 
           amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study 
           and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the 
           Interior to participate in the Elsinore Valley 
           Municipal Water District Wildomar Service Area Recycled 
           Water Distribution Facilities and Alberhill Wastewater 
           Treatment and Reclamation Facility Projects, H.R. 716, 
           to amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater 
           Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of 
           the Interior to participate in the Santa Rosa Urban 
           Water Reuse Plan, H.R. 786, to amend the Reclamation 
           Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to 
           authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate 
           in the Los Angeles County Water Supply Augmentation 
           Demonstration Project, H.R. 1140, to authorize the 
           Secretary, in cooperation with the City of San Juan 
           Capistrano, California, to participate in the design, 
           planning, and construction of an advanced water 
           treatment plant facility and recycled water system, 
           H.R. 1503, to amend the Reclamation Wastewater and 
           Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the 
           Secretary of the Interior to participate in the Avra 
           Black Wash Reclamation and Riparian Restoration 
           Project, H.R. 1725, to amend the Reclamation Wastewater 
           and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize 
           the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the 
           Rancho California Water District Southern Riverside 
           County Recycled Non-Potable Distribution Facilities and 
           Demineralization Desalination Recycled Water Treatment 
           and Reclamation Facility Project, H.R. 1737, to amend 
           the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and 
           Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the 
           Interior to participate in the design, planning, and 
           construction of permanent facilities for the GREAT 
           project to reclaim, reuse, and treat impaired waters in 
           the area of Oxnard, California, and H.R. 2614, to amend 
           the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and 
           Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the 
           Interior to participate in certain water projects in 
           California.
                                                            SD-366
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine Iraq after the surge.
                                                            SH-216
       Armed Services
       SeaPower Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the defense authorization 
           request for fiscal year 2009 on Navy force structure 
           requirements and programs to meet those requirements, 
           and the future years defense program.
                                                            SR-222

                                APRIL 9
     9:30 a.m.
       Veterans' Affairs
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine making Veterans 
           Affairs the workplace of choice for health care 
           providers.
                                                            SR-418
     10 a.m.
       Appropriations
       State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs 
           Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for 
           fiscal year 2009 for the Department of State and 
           foreign operations.
                                                            SD-138
     2:30 p.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings to examine S. 1633, to authorize the 
           Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource 
           study to determine the suitability and feasibility of 
           including the battlefield and related sites of the 
           Battle of Shepherdstown in Shepherdstown, West 
           Virginia, as part of Harpers Ferry National Historical 
           Park or Antietam National Battlefield, S. 1993 and H.R. 
           2197, bills to modify the boundary of the Hopewell 
           Culture National Historical Park in the State of Ohio, 
           S. 2207, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to 
           study the suitability and feasibility of designating 
           Green McAdoo School in Clinton, Tennessee, as a unit of 
           the National Park System, S. 2254, to establish the 
           Mississippi Hills National Heritage Area in the State 
           of Mississippi, S. 2329 and H.R. 2627, bills to 
           establish the Thomas Edison National Historical Park in 
           the State of New Jersey as the successor to the Edison 
           National Historic Site, S. 2502 and H.R. 3332, bills to 
           provide for the establishment of a memorial within 
           Kalaupapa National Historical Park located on the 
           island of Molokai, in the State of Hawaii, to honor and 
           perpetuate the memory of those individuals who were 
           forcibly relocated to the Kalaupapa Peninsula

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           from 1866 to 1969, S. 2512, to establish the 
           Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area in the State 
           of Mississippi, and H.R. 3998, to authorize the 
           Secretary of the Interior to conduct special resources 
           studies of certain lands and structures to determine 
           the appropriate means for preservation, use, and 
           management of the resources associated with such lands 
           and structures.
                                                            SD-366

                                APRIL 10
     10 a.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
       Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine aviation safety oversight.
                                                            SR-253

                                APRIL 15
     10 a.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings to examine S. 2438, to repeal certain 
           provisions of the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement 
           Act.
                                                            SD-366

                                APRIL 23
     9:30 a.m.
       Veterans' Affairs
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine an update on the 
           Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense 
           cooperation and collaboration.
                                                            SR-418
     2:30 p.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold hearings to examine phantom traffic.
                                                            SR-253