[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 26461-26463]
[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, November 3, 2009 may be found in the 
Daily Digest of today's Record.

                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED

                               NOVEMBER 4
     10 a.m.
       Finance
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Michael W. 
           Punke, of Montana, to be a Deputy United States Trade 
           Representative, with the rank of Ambassador, Department 
           of State, Islam A. Siddiqui, of Virginia, to be Chief 
           Agricultural Negotiator, Office of the United States 
           Trade Representative,

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           with the rank of Ambassador, and Michael F. Mundaca, of 
           New York, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.
                                                            SD-215
       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 national ocean policy.
                                                            SR-253
     2 p.m.
       Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Thomas I. 
           Vanaskie, of Pennsylvania, to be United States Circuit 
           Judge for the Third Circuit, Christina Reiss, to be 
           United States District Judge for the District of 
           Vermont, Louis B. Butler, Jr., to be United States 
           District Judge for the Western District of Wisconsin, 
           Abdul K. Kallon, to be United States District Judge for 
           the Northern District of Alabama, and Victoria Angelica 
           Espinel, of the District of Columbia, to be 
           Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, 
           Executive Office of the President.
                                                            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, 
           Frederick D. Barton, of Maine, to be Representative of 
           the United States of America on the Economic and Social 
           Council of the United Nations, with the rank of 
           Ambassador, and Carmen Lomellin, of Virginia, to be 
           Permanent Representative to the Organization of 
           American States, with the rank of Ambassador, all of 
           the Department of State, Gustavo Arnavat, of New York, 
           to be United States Executive Director of the Inter-
           American Development Bank, and Daniel W. Yohannes, of 
           Colorado, to be Chief Executive Officer, Millennium 
           Challenge Corporation.
                                                            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 and H.R. 1121, 
           bills 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.
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Steven L. 
           Jacques, of Kansas, to be Assistant Secretary of 
           Housing and Urban Development for Public Affairs, and 
           Eric L. Hirschhorn, of Maryland, to be Under Secretary 
           of Commerce for Export Administration.
                                                            SD-538
       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
       Judiciary
         Business meeting to consider S. 448 and H.R. 985, bills 
           to maintain the free flow of information to the public 
           by providing conditions for the federally compelled 
           disclosure of information by certain persons connected 
           with the news media, S. 714, to establish the National 
           Criminal Justice Commission, S. 1490, to prevent and 
           mitigate identity theft, to ensure privacy, to provide 
           notice of security breaches, and to enhance criminal 
           penalties, law enforcement assistance, and other 
           protections against security breaches, fraudulent 
           access, and misuse of personally identifiable 
           information, S. 139, to require Federal agencies, and 
           persons engaged in interstate commerce, in possession 
           of data containing sensitive personally identifiable 
           information, to disclose any breach of such 
           information, S. 1624, to amend title 11 of the United 
           States Code, to provide protection for medical debt 
           homeowners, to restore bankruptcy protections for 
           individuals experiencing economic distress as 
           caregivers to ill, injured, or disabled family members, 
           and to exempt from means testing debtors whose 
           financial problems were caused by serious medical 
           problems, S. 1472, to establish a section within the 
           Criminal Division of the Department of Justice to 
           enforce human rights laws, to make technical and 
           conforming amendments to criminal and immigration laws 
           pertaining to human rights violations, S. 1147, to 
           prevent tobacco smuggling, to ensure the collection of 
           all tobacco taxes, and the nominations of Ketanji Brown 
           Jackson, of Maryland, to be a Member of the

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           United States Sentencing Commission, Jane Branstetter 
           Stranch, of Tennessee, to be United States Circuit 
           Judge for the Sixth Circuit, Benjamin B. Tucker, of New 
           York, to be Deputy Director for State, Local, and 
           Tribal Affairs, Office of National Drug Control Policy, 
           and Kenyen Ray Brown, to be United States Attorney for 
           the Southern District of Alabama, Stephanie M. Rose, to 
           be United States Attorney for the Northern District of 
           Iowa, and Nicholas A. Klinefeldt, to be United States 
           Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa, all of the 
           Department of Justice.
                                                            SD-226
       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.
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Jeffrey L. 
           Bleich, of California, to be Ambassador to Australia, 
           David Huebner, of California, to be Ambassador to New 
           Zealand, and to serve concurrently and without 
           additional compensation as Ambassador to Samoa, and 
           Robert R. King, of Virginia, to be Special Envoy on 
           North Korean Human Rights Issues, with the rank of 
           Ambassador, all of the Department of State.
                                                            SD-419
       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
     3 p.m.
       Intelligence
         To hold closed hearings to consider certain intelligence 
           matters.
                                                    S-407, Capitol

                               NOVEMBER 6
     9:30 a.m.
       Joint Economic Committee
         To hold hearings to examine the employment situation for 
           October 2009.
                                                            SD-106

                              NOVEMBER 10
     9 a.m.
       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 French Republic 
           for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention 
           of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income and 
           Capital, signed at Paris on August 21, 1994, as Amended 
           by the Protocol signed on December 8, 2004, signed 
           January 13, 2009, at Paris, together with a related 
           Memorandum of Understanding, signed January 13, 2009 
           (Treaty Doc. 111-04), protocol Amending the Convention 
           between the United States of America and New Zealand 
           for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention 
           of Fiscal Evasion With Respect to Taxes on Income, 
           signed on December 1, 2008, at Washington (Treaty Doc. 
           111-03), convention Between the Government of the 
           United States of America and the Government of Malta 
           for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention 
           of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income, 
           signed on August 8, 2008, at Valletta (Treaty Doc. 111-
           01), treaty between the Government of the United States 
           of America and the Government of the Republic of Rwanda 
           Concerning the Encouragement and Reciprocal Protection 
           of Investment, signed at Kigali on February 19, 2008 
           (Treaty Doc. 110-23), and international Treaty on Plant 
           Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, adopted by 
           the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United 
           Nations on November 3, 2001, and signed by the United 
           States on November 1, 2002 (the ``Treaty'') (Treaty 
           Doc. 110-19).
                                                            SD-419
     10 a.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings to examine policy options for reducing 
           greenhouse gas emissions.
                                                            SD-366
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Erroll G. 
           Southers, of California, to be Assistant Secretary of 
           Homeland Security, and Daniel I. Gordon, of the 
           District of Columbia, to be Administrator for Federal 
           Procurement Policy.
                                                            SD-342
     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 for a 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. 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 17
     2:30 p.m.
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine the United States and the G-
           20, focusing on remaking the international economic 
           architecture.
                                                            SD-419

                              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