[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 10]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 14411]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

                                 ______
                                 

                        HON. CHARLES A. GONZALEZ

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                       Monday, September 26, 2011

  Mr. GONZALEZ. Mr. Speaker, I would like the Record to reflect that, 
had I been present for the vote, I should have voted ``nay'' on the 
Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment with an Amendment to the 
Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012 (H.R. 2608) as I had voted against 
it on Wednesday, September 21, 2010.

                       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 27, 2011 may be found in 
the Daily Digest of today's Record.

                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED

                               OCTOBER 4
     9:30 a.m.
       Budget
         To hold hearings to examine improving the budget process, 
           focusing on strategies for more effective congressional 
           budgeting.
                                                            SD-608
     10 a.m.
       Joint Economic Committee
         To hold hearings to examine the economic outlook.
                                                            SH-216
     10:30 a.m.
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
       Federal Financial Management, Government Information, 
           Federal Services, and International Security 
           Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine costs of prescription drug 
           abuse in the Medicare Part D program.
                                                            SD-342
     2:30 p.m.
       Intelligence
         To hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence 
           matters.
                                                            SH-219

                               OCTOBER 5
     10 a.m.
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Susan 
           Denise Page, of Illinois, to be Ambassador to the 
           Republic of South Sudan, Adrienne S. O'Neal, of 
           Michigan, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Cape 
           Verde, Mary Beth Leonard, of Massachusetts, to be 
           Ambassador to the Republic of Mali, and Mark Francis 
           Brzezinski, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to Sweden, 
           all of the Department of State.
                                                            SD-419

                               OCTOBER 6
     2:15 p.m.
       Indian Affairs
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine internet 
           infrastructure in native communities, focusing on equal 
           access to e-commerce, jobs and the global marketplace.
                                                            SD-628
     2:30 p.m.
       Intelligence
         To hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence 
           matters.
                                                            SH-219

                               OCTOBER 13
     2:15 p.m.
       Indian Affairs
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine the Carcieri 
           crisis, focusing on the ripple effect on jobs, economic 
           development and public safety in native communities.
                                                            SD-628

                               OCTOBER 20
     2:15 p.m.
       Indian Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine S. 134, to authorize the 
           Mescalero Apache Tribe to lease adjudicated water 
           rights, S. 399, to modify the purposes and operation of 
           certain facilities of the Bureau of Reclamation to 
           implement the water rights compact among the State of 
           Montana, the Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian 
           Reservation of Montana, and the United States, S. 1298, 
           to provide for the conveyance of certain property 
           located in Anchorage, Alaska, from the United States to 
           the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, S. 1327, to 
           amend the Act of March 1, 1933, to transfer certain 
           authority and resources to the Utah Dineh Corporation, 
           and S. 1345, to provide for equitable compensation to 
           the Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation 
           for the use of tribal land for the production of 
           hydropower by the Grand Coulee Dam.
                                                            SD-628