[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 5]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 7486-7487]
[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 Thursday, May 1, 2008 may be found in the 
Daily Digest of today's Record.

                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED

                                 MAY 2
     9:30 a.m.
       Joint Economic Committee
         To hold hearings to examine the employment-unemployment 
           situation for April 2008.
                                                            SD-562

                                 MAY 6
     10 a.m.
       Environment and Public Works
         To hold hearings to examine perchlorate and 
           trichloroethylene (TCE) in water.
                                                            SD-406
       Finance
         To hold hearings to examine seizing the new opportunity 
           for health reform.
                                                            SD-215
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
       Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard Subcommittee
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine the National 
           Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
                                                            SR-253
     2 p.m.
       Judiciary
       Administrative Oversight and the Courts Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine policing lenders and 
           protecting homeowners, focusing on the current 
           foreclosure crisis.
                                                            SD-226
     2:30 p.m.
       Intelligence
         To hold hearings to examine the nomination of Michael E. 
           Leiter, of the District of Columbia, to be Director of 
           the National Counterterrorism Center, Office of the 
           Director of National Intelligence.
                                                            SH-216
     3 p.m.
       Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
         To hold hearings to examine oil and food prices relating 
           to the link between energy and environmental security, 
           focusing on the role that environmental technologies 
           can play in increasing energy security while combating 
           climate change by reducing demand on hydrocarbon 
           resources.
                                            B318, Rayburn Building

                                 MAY 7
     9:30 a.m.
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Marcia 
           Stephens Bloom Bernicat, of New Jersey, to be 
           Ambassador to the Republic of Senegal, and to serve 
           concurrently and without additional compensation as 
           Ambassador

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           to the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, Gillian Arlette 
           Milovanovic, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the 
           Republic of Mali, Donald Gene Teitelbaum, of Texas, to 
           be Ambassador to the Republic of Ghana, Linda Thomas-
           Greenfield, of Louisiana, to be Ambassador to the 
           Republic of Liberia, Peter William Bodde, of Maryland, 
           to be Ambassador to the Republic of Malawi, Donald E. 
           Booth, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
           Zambia, Marianne Matuzic Myles, of New York, to be 
           Ambassador to the Republic of Cape Verde, and Stephen 
           James Nolan, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the 
           Republic of Botswana, all of the Department of State.
                                                            SD-419
       Environment and Public Works
       Public Sector Solutions to Global Warming, Oversight, and 
           Children's Health Protection Subcommittee
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine science and 
           environmental regulatory decisions.
                                                            SD-406
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
       Space, Aeronautics, and Related Agencies Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine reauthorization of vision for 
           space exploration.
                                                            SR-253
       Veterans' Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine pending benefits legislation.
                                                            SR-418
     10 a.m.
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine fuel subsidies relating to 
           food supply and prices.
                                                            SD-342
       Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Helene N. 
           White, and Raymond M. Kethledge, both of Michigan, both 
           to be United States Circuit Judges for the Sixth 
           Circuit, and Stephen Joseph Murphy III, to be United 
           States District Judge for the Eastern District of 
           Michigan.
                                                            SD-226
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
       Securities, Insurance and Investment Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine United States credit markets, 
           focusing on the regulation of investment banks by the 
           United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
                                                            SD-538
     10:30 a.m.
       Appropriations
       Defense Subcommittee
         To hold closed hearings to examine proposed budget 
           estimates for fiscal year 2009 for the United States 
           intelligence community.
                                                    S-407, Capitol
     2 p.m.
       Judiciary
       Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights 
           Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine concentration in agriculture, 
           focusing on an examination of the JBS Swift Group 
           acquisitions.
                                                            SD-226
     2:30 p.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
       Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the state of the airline 
           industry, focusing on the impact of the Delta/Northwest 
           airlines merger.
                                                            SR-253
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine international Convention for 
           the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (the 
           ``Convention''), adopted by the United Nations General 
           Assembly on April 13, 2005, and signed on behalf of the 
           United States of America on September 14, 2005 (Treaty 
           Doc. 110-04), amendment to the Convention on the 
           Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (the 
           ``Amendment''). A conference of States Parties to the 
           Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear 
           Material, adopted on October 28, 1979, adopted the 
           Amendment on July 8, 2005, at the International Atomic 
           Energy Agency in Vienna (Treaty Doc. 110-06), and 
           protocol of 2005 to the Convention for the Suppression 
           of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime 
           Navigation (the ``2005 SUA Protocol'') and the Protocol 
           of 2005 to the Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful 
           Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on 
           the Continental Shelf (the ``2005 Fixed Platforms 
           Protocol'') (together, ``the Protocols''), adopted by 
           the International Maritime Organization Diplomatic 
           Conference in London on October 14, 2005, and signed by 
           the United States of America on February 17, 2006 
           (Treaty Doc. 110-08).
                                                            SD-419
       Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine a way forward for the United 
           States Commission on Civil Rights.
                                                            SD-430
     3 p.m.
       Appropriations
       Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for 
           fiscal year 2009 for the Commodity Futures Trading 
           Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission.
                                                            SD-192

                                 MAY 8
     10 a.m.
       Finance
         To hold hearings to examine social security field 
           offices, focusing on the resources and workforce needed 
           to deliver quality service to the public.
                                                            SD-215
     2:30 p.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold hearings to examine improving the capacity of 
           United States climate modeling for decision-makers and 
           end-users.
                                                            SR-253
       Intelligence
         To hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence 
           matters.
                                                            SH-219

                                 MAY 13
     10 a.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings to examine the impacts of climate change 
           on the reliability, security, economics, and design of 
           critical energy infrastructure in coastal regions.
                                                            SD-366

                                 MAY 20
     10 a.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings to examine the Territorial Energy 
           Assessment as updated pursuant to the Energy Policy Act 
           of 2005 (Public Law 109-58).
                                                            SD-366

                                 MAY 21
     9:30 a.m.
       Veterans' Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine pending health care 
           legislation.
                                                            SR-418

                             CANCELLATIONS

                                 MAY 2
     9:30 a.m.
       Armed Services
         Closed business meeting to markup the proposed National 
           Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2009.
                                                            SR-222