[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 26125-26127]
[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, October 29, 2009 may be found in the 
Daily Digest of today's Record.

                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED

                               NOVEMBER 3
     11 a.m.
       Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
         To hold hearings to examine life in a Russian newsroom.
                                          1539, Longworth Building

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     2:30 p.m.
       Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
         To hold hearings to examine increasing health costs 
           facing small businesses.
                                                            SD-430
       Intelligence
         To receive a closed briefing on certain intelligence 
           matters from officials of the intelligence community.
                                                    S-407, Capitol

                               NOVEMBER 4
     10 a.m.
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         Business meeting to resume consideration of S. 1649, to 
           prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass 
           destruction, to prepare for attacks using weapons of 
           mass destruction, S. 1862, to provide that certain 
           Secret Service employees may elect to transition to 
           coverage under the District of Columbia Police and Fire 
           Fighter Retirement and Disability System, H.R. 553, to 
           require the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop a 
           strategy to prevent the over-classification of homeland 
           security and other information and to promote the 
           sharing of unclassified homeland security and other 
           information, S. 1755, to direct the Department of 
           Homeland Security to undertake a study on emergency 
           communications, H.R. 730, to strengthen efforts in the 
           Department of Homeland Security to develop nuclear 
           forensics capabilities to permit attribution of the 
           source of nuclear material, S. 1825, to extend the 
           authority for relocation expenses test programs for 
           Federal employees, S. 1860, to permit each current 
           member of the Board of Directors of the Office of 
           Compliance to serve for 3 terms, H.R. 955, to designate 
           the facility of the United States Postal Service 
           located at 10355 Northeast Valley Road in Rollingbay, 
           Washington, as the ``John `Bud' Hawk Post Office'', 
           H.R. 1516, to designate the facility of the United 
           States Postal Service located at 37926 Church Street in 
           Dade City, Florida, as the ``Sergeant Marcus Mathes 
           Post Office'', H.R. 1713, to name the South Central 
           Agricultural Research Laboratory of the Department of 
           Agriculture in Lane, Oklahoma, and the facility of the 
           United States Postal Service located at 310 North Perry 
           Street in Bennington, Oklahoma, in honor of former 
           Congressman Wesley ``Wes'' Watkins, H.R. 2004, to 
           designate the facility of the United States Postal 
           Service located at 4282 Beach Street in Akron, 
           Michigan, as the ``Akron Veterans Memorial Post 
           Office'', H.R. 2760, to designate the facility of the 
           United States Postal Service located at 1615 North 
           Wilcox Avenue in Los Angeles, California, as the 
           ``Johnny Grant Hollywood Post Office Building'', H.R. 
           2972, to designate the facility of the United States 
           Postal Service located at 115 West Edward Street in 
           Erath, Louisiana, as the ``Conrad DeRouen, Jr. Post 
           Office'', H.R. 3119, to designate the facility of the 
           United States Postal Service located at 867 Stockton 
           Street in San Francisco, California, as the ``Lim Poon 
           Lee Post Office'', H.R. 3386, to designate the facility 
           of the United States Postal Service located at 1165 2nd 
           Avenue in Des Moines, Iowa, as the ``Iraq and 
           Afghanistan Veterans Memorial Post Office'', H.R. 3547, 
           to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
           Service located at 936 South 250 East in Provo, Utah, 
           as the ``Rex E. Lee Post Office Building'', and H.R. 
           2215, to designate the facility of the United States 
           Postal Service located at 140 Merriman Road in Garden 
           City, Michigan, as the ``John J. Shivnen Post Office 
           Building''.
                                                            SD-342
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
       Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the future of ocean 
           governance, focusing on building our national ocean 
           policy.
                                                            SR-253
     2 p.m.
       Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine certain nominations.
                                                            SD-226
     2:15 p.m.
       Indian Affairs
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine the Federal 
           acknowledgment process.
                                                            SD-628
     2:30 p.m.
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Jide J. 
           Zeitlin, of New York, to be Alternate Representative to 
           the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United 
           Nations during his tenure of service as Representative 
           to the United Nations for U.N. Management and Reform, 
           and to be Representative to the United Nations for U.N. 
           Management and Reform, with the rank of Ambassador, 
           Department of State.
                                                            SD-419
       Energy and Natural Resources
       National Parks Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine S. 1369, to amend the Wild 
           and Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of the 
           Molalla River in the State of Oregon, as components of 
           the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, S. 1405, to 
           redesignate the Longfellow National Historic Site, 
           Massachusetts, as the ``Longfellow House-Washington's 
           Headquarters National Historic Site'', S. 1413, to 
           amend the Adams National Historical Park Act of 1998 to 
           include the Quincy Homestead within the boundary of the 
           Adams National Historical Park, S. 1767, to authorize a 
           land exchange to acquire land for the Blue Ridge 
           Parkway from the Town of Blowing Rock, North Carolina, 
           S. Res. 275, honoring the Minute Man National 
           Historical Park on the occasion of its 50th 
           anniversary, H.R. 2802, to provide for an extension of 
           the legislative authority of the Adams Memorial 
           Foundation to establish a commemorative work in honor 
           of former President John Adams and his legacy, H.R. 
           3113, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to 
           designate a segment of the Elk River in the State of 
           West Virginia for study for potential addition to the 
           National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and H.R. 1287, 
           to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter 
           into a partnership with the Porter County Convention, 
           Recreation and Visitor Commission regarding the use of 
           the Dorothy Buell Memorial Visitor Center as a visitor 
           center for the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.
                                                            SD-366

                               NOVEMBER 5
     10 a.m.
       Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
         To hold hearings to examine the Employment Non-
           Discrimination Act.
                                                            SD-430
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine business formation and 
           financial crime, focusing on finding a legislative 
           solution.
                                                            SD-342
       Veterans' Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine Veterans' Affairs and Indian 
           Health Service cooperation.
                                                            SR-418
     2 p.m.
       Judiciary
       Crime and Drugs Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine reducing recidivism at the 
           local level.
                                                            SD-226
     2:30 p.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
       Water and Power Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine S. 1757, to provide for the 
           prepayment of a repayment contract between the United 
           States and the Uintah Water Conservancy District, S. 
           1758, to provide for the allocation of costs to project 
           power with respect to power development within the 
           Diamond Fork System, and S. 1759, to authorize certain 
           transfers of water in the Central Valley Project.
                                                            SD-366
       Intelligence
         To hold closed hearings to consider certain intelligence 
           matters.
                                                    S-407, Capitol

                              NOVEMBER 10
     10 a.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings to examine policy options for reducing 
           greenhouse gas emissions.
                                                            SD-366
     2:15 p.m.
       Foreign Relations
         Business meeting to consider S. 1524, to strengthen the 
           capacity, transparency, and accountability of United 
           States foreign assistance programs to effectively adapt 
           and respond to new challenges of the 21st century, S. 
           1739, to promote freedom of the press around the world, 
           S. 1067, to support stabilization and lasting peace in 
           northern Uganda and areas affected by the Lord's 
           Resistance Army through development of a regional 
           strategy to support multilateral efforts to 
           successfully protect civilians and eliminate the threat 
           posed by the Lord's Resistance Army and to authorize 
           funds for humanitarian relief and reconstruction, 
           reconciliation, and transitional justice, H. Con. Res. 
           36, calling on the President and the allies of the 
           United States to raise in all appropriate bilateral and 
           multilateral fora the case of Robert Levinson at every 
           opportunity, urging Iran to fulfill their promises of 
           assistance to the family of Robert Levinson, and 
           calling on Iran to share the results of its 
           investigation into the disappearance of Robert Levinson 
           with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the 
           nominations of Jose W. Fernandez, of New York, to be 
           Assistant Secretary for Economic, Energy, and Business 
           Affairs, William E.

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           Kennard, of the District of Columbia, to be 
           Representative of the United States of America to the 
           European Union, with the rank and status of Ambassador, 
           John F. Tefft, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to 
           Ukraine, Michael C. Polt, of Tennessee, to be 
           Ambassador to the Republic of Estonia, and Cynthia 
           Stroum, of Washington, to be Ambassador to Luxembourg, 
           all of the Department of State, and James LaGarde 
           Hudson, of the District of Columbia, to be United 
           States Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction 
           and Development.
                                                    S-116, Capitol

                              NOVEMBER 18
     9:30 a.m.
       Veterans' Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine easing the burdens through 
           employment.
                                                            SR-418
     2:30 p.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
       Public Lands and Forests Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine managing Federal forests in 
           response to climate change, focusing on natural 
           resource adaptation and carbon sequestration.
                                                            SD-366