[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 5]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 6880-6882]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



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                          EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS

    

                       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, May 10, 2011 may be found in the 
Daily Digest of today's Record.

                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED
                                 MAY 11
     10 a.m.
       Appropriations
       Department of Defense Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for 
           fiscal year 2012 for the Guard and Reserve.
                                                            SD-192
       Finance
         To hold hearings to examine the United States-Colombia 
           Trade Promotion Agreement.
                                                            SD-215
       Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
       Primary Health and Aging Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine diverting non-urgent 
           emergency room use, focusing on if it can provide 
           better care and lower costs.
                                                            SD-430
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         Business meeting to consider S. 772, to protect Federal 
           employees and visitors, improve the security of Federal 
           facilities and authorize and modernize the Federal 
           Protective Service, S. 550, to improve the provision of 
           assistance to fire departments, S. 792, to authorize 
           the waiver of certain debts relating to assistance 
           provided to individuals and households since 2005, S. 
           Res. 174, expressing the sense of the Senate that 
           effective sharing of passenger information from inbound 
           international flight manifests is a crucial component 
           of our national security and that the Department of 
           Homeland Security must maintain the information sharing 
           standards required under the 2007 Passenger Name Record 
           Agreement between the United States and the European 
           Union, H.R. 793, to designate the facility of the 
           United States Postal Service located at 12781 Sir 
           Francis Drake Boulevard in Inverness, California, as 
           the ``Specialist Jake Robert Velloza Post Office'', S. 
           349, to designate the facility of the United States 
           Postal Service located at 4865 Tallmadge Road in 
           Rootstown, Ohio, as the ``Marine Sgt. Jeremy E. Murray 
           Post Office'', and S. 655, to designate the facility of 
           the United States Postal Service located at 95 Dogwood 
           Street in Cary, Mississippi, as the ``Spencer Byrd 
           Powers, Jr. Post Office''.
                                                            SD-342
       Appropriations
       Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and 
           Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for 
           fiscal year 2012 for the National Institutes of Health.
                                                            SD-124
       Foreign Relations
       Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs 
           Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine human rights and democratic 
           reform in Iran.
                                                            SD-419
     10:15 a.m.
       Judiciary
       Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights 
           Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the AT&T/T-Mobile merger.
                                                            SD-226
     1:30 p.m.
       Armed Services
       Personnel Subcommittee
         To resume hearings to examine the Active, Guard, Reserve, 
           and civilian personnel programs in review of the 
           Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2012 and 
           the Future Years Defense Program.
                                                           SR-232A
     2 p.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold hearings to examine manufacturing our way to a 
           stronger economy.
                                                            SR-253
       Rules and Administration
         Business meeting to consider the nomination of William J. 
           Boarman, of Maryland, to be Public Printer, Government 
           Printing Office, S. Res. 116, to provide for expedited 
           Senate consideration of certain nominations subject to 
           advice and consent, and S. 739, to authorize the 
           Architect of the Capitol to establish battery 
           recharging stations for privately owned vehicles in 
           parking areas under the jurisdiction of the Senate at 
           no net cost to the Federal Government.
                                                            SR-301
       Armed Services
       Strategic Forces Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine military space programs in 
           review of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal 
           year 2012 and the Future Years Defense Program; with 
           the possibility of a closed session in SVC-217 
           following the open session.
                                                            SD-106
       Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
         To hold hearings to examine Central Asia and the Arab 
           spring, focusing on growing pressure for human rights 
           and whether the factors that drove the uprisings in 
           North Africa and the Middle East exist in any of the 
           Central Asian States.
                                            2322, Rayburn Building
     2:30 p.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
       National Parks Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine S. 114, to authorize the 
           Secretary of the Interior to enter into a cooperative 
           agreement for a park headquarters at San Antonio 
           Missions National Historical Park, to expand the 
           boundary of the Park, to conduct a study of potential 
           land acquisitions, S. 127, to establish the Buffalo 
           Bayou National Heritage Area in the State of Texas, S. 
           140, to designate as wilderness certain land and inland 
           water within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore 
           in the State of Michigan, S. 161, to establish 
           Pinnacles National Park in the State of California as a 
           unit of the National Park System, S. 177, to authorize 
           the Secretary of the Interior to acquire the Gold Hill 
           Ranch in Coloma, California, S. 247, to establish the 
           Harriet Tubman National Historical Park in Auburn, New 
           York, and the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad 
           National Historical Park in Caroline, Dorchester, and 
           Talbot Counties, Maryland, S. 279, to direct the 
           Secretary of the Interior to carry out a study to 
           determine the suitability and feasibility of 
           establishing Camp Hale as a unit of the National Park 
           System, S. 302, to authorize the Secretary of the 
           Interior to issue right-of-way permits for a natural 
           gas transmission pipeline in nonwilderness areas within 
           the boundary of Denali National Park, S. 313, to 
           authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue 
           permits for a microhydro project in nonwilderness areas 
           within the boundaries of Denali National Park and 
           Preserve, to acquire land for Denali National Park and 
           Preserve from Doyon Tourism, Inc, S. 323, to establish 
           the First State National Historical Park in the State 
           of Delaware, S. 403, 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. 404, to modify a land 
           grant patent issued by the Secretary of the Interior, 
           S. 508, to establish the Chimney Rock National Monument 
           in the State of Colorado, S. 535, to authorize the 
           Secretary of the Interior to lease certain lands within 
           Fort Pulaski National Monument, S. 564, to designate 
           the Valles Caldera National Preserve as a unit of the 
           National Park System, S. 599, to establish

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           a commission to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the 
           American Civil War, S. 713, to modify the boundary of 
           Petersburg National Battlefield in the Commonwealth of 
           Virginia, S. 765, to modify the boundary of the Oregon 
           Caves National Monument, S. 779, to authorize the 
           acquisition and protection of nationally significant 
           battlefields and associated sites of the Revolutionary 
           War and the War of 1812 under the American Battlefield 
           Protection Program, S. 849, to establish the Waco 
           Mammoth National Monument in the State of Texas, and S. 
           858, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
           conduct a special resource study to determine the 
           suitability and feasibility of designating the Colonel 
           Charles Young Home in Xenia, Ohio as a unit of the 
           National Park System.
                                                            SD-366

                                 MAY 12
     9:15 a.m.
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine assessing the situation in 
           Libya.
                                                            SD-419
     9:30 a.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings to examine carbon capture and 
           sequestration legislation, including S. 699, to 
           authorize the Secretary of Energy to carry out a 
           program to demonstrate the commercial application of 
           integrated systems for long-term geological storage of 
           carbon dioxide, and S. 757, to provide incentives to 
           encourage the development and implementation of 
           technology to capture carbon dioxide from dilute 
           sources on a significant scale using direct air capture 
           technologies.
                                                            SD-366
       Appropriations
       Transportation and Housing and Urban Development, and 
           Related Agencies Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for 
           fiscal year 2012 for the Federal Aviation 
           Administration.
                                                            SD-138
     9:45 a.m.
       Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
         To hold hearings to examine the middle class, focusing on 
           if the American dream is slipping out of reach for 
           American families.
                                                            SD-430
     10 a.m.
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
         Business meeting to consider the nominations of Peter A. 
           Diamond, of Massachusetts, to be a Member of the Board 
           of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, David S. 
           Cohen, of Maryland, to be Under Secretary for Terrorism 
           and Financial Crimes, Daniel L. Glaser, of the District 
           of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary for Terrorist 
           Financing, and Timothy G. Massad, of Connecticut, to be 
           Assistant Secretary, all of the Department of the 
           Treasury, and Wanda Felton, of New York, to be First 
           Vice President, and Sean Robert Mulvaney, of Illinois, 
           to be a Member, both of the Board of Directors of the 
           Export-Import Bank of the United States; to be 
           immediately followed by an oversight hearing to examine 
           the Dodd-Frank implementation, focusing on monitoring 
           systemic risk and promoting financial stability.
                                                            SD-538
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold hearings to examine economic ramifications of 
           cyber threats and vulnerabilities to the private 
           sector.
                                                            SR-253
       Finance
         To hold hearings to examine oil and gas tax incentives 
           and rising energy prices.
                                                            SD-215
       Judiciary
         Business meeting to consider S. 350, to require 
           restitution for victims of criminal violations of the 
           Federal Water Pollution Control Act, S. 623, to amend 
           chapter 111 of title 28, United States Code, relating 
           to protective orders, sealing of cases, disclosures of 
           discovery information in civil actions, S. 890, 
           ``Fighting Fraud to Protect Taxpayers Act of 2011'', 
           and the nominations of Henry F. Floyd, of South 
           Carolina, to be United States Circuit Judge for the 
           Fourth Circuit, Kathleen M. Williams, to be United 
           States District Judge for the Southern District of 
           Florida, Nelva Gonzales Ramos, to be United States 
           District Judge for the Southern District of Texas, 
           Richard Brooke Jackson, to be United States District 
           Judge for the District of Colorado, Sara Lynn Darrow, 
           to be United States District Judge for the Central 
           District of Illinois, and Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., of 
           the District of Columbia, to be Solicitor General of 
           the United States, Department of Justice.
                                                            SD-226
     10:30 a.m.
       Appropriations
       Department of Defense Subcommittee
         To receive a closed briefing on the proposed budget 
           estimates for fiscal year 2012 for the United States 
           Special Operations Command, and the United States 
           European Command.
                                                           SVC-217
     2 p.m.
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
       Housing, Transportation and Community Development 
           Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the need for national 
           mortgage servicing standards.
                                                            SD-538
     2:30 p.m.
       Environment and Public Works
       Clean Air and Nuclear Safety Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine Federal efforts to protect 
           public health by reducing diesel emissions.
                                                            SD-406
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine ten years after 9/11, 
           focusing on if intelligence reform is working.
                                                            SD-342
       Appropriations
       Legislative Branch Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for 
           fiscal year 2012 for the Secretary of the Senate, the 
           Senate Sergeant at Arms, and the United States Capitol 
           Police.
                                                            SD-138
       Armed Services
       SeaPower Subcommittee
         To receive a closed briefing on threats faced by our 
           naval forces and the capabilities of our naval forces 
           to respond to those threats in review of the Defense 
           Authorization Request for fiscal year 2012 and the 
           Future Years Defense Program.
                                                           SVC-217
       Intelligence
         To hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence 
           matters.
                                                            SH-219

                                 MAY 17
     10 a.m.
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine strategic implications of 
           Pakistan and the region.
                                                            SD-419
     10:30 a.m.
       Appropriations
       Department of Defense Subcommittee
         To receive a closed briefing the United States Northern 
           Command (NORTHCOM) and the United States Southern 
           Command (SOUTHCOM).
                                                           SVC-217
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
       Federal Financial Management, Government Information, 
           Federal Services, and International Security 
           Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine addressing the U.S. Postal 
           Service's financial crisis.
                                                            SD-342

                                 MAY 18
     10 a.m.
       Armed Services
       Readiness and Management Support Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the current materiel 
           readiness of U.S. Forces in review of the Defense 
           Authorization Request for fiscal year 2012 and the 
           Future Years Defense Program.
                                                           SR-232A
       Veterans' Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine seamless transition, focusing 
           on improving Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense 
           collaboration.
                                                            SR-418
     2:30 p.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
       Public Lands and Forests Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine S. 220, to provide for the 
           reforestation of forest landscapes, protection of old 
           growth forests, and management of national forests in 
           the eastside forests of the State of Oregon, S. 270, to 
           direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain 
           Federal land to Deschutes County, Oregon, S. 271, to 
           require the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into a 
           property conveyance with the city of Wallowa, Oregon, 
           S. 278, to provide for the exchange of certain land 
           located in the Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forests in 
           the State of Colorado, S. 292, to resolve the claims of 
           the Bering Straits Native Corporation and the State of 
           Alaska to land adjacent to Salmon Lake in the State of 
           Alaska and to provide for the conveyance to the Bering 
           Straits Native Corporation of certain other public land 
           in partial satisfaction of the land entitlement of the 
           Corporation under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement 
           Act, S. 322, to expand the Alpine Lakes Wilderness in 
           the State of Washington, to designate the Middle Fork 
           Snoqualmie River and Pratt River as wild and scenic 
           rivers, S. 382, to amend

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           the National Forest Ski Area Permit Act of 1986 to 
           clarify the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture 
           regarding additional recreational uses of National 
           Forest System land that is subject to ski area permits, 
           and for other permits, S. 427, to withdraw certain land 
           located in Clark County, Nevada, from location, entry, 
           and patent under the mining laws and disposition under 
           all laws pertaining to mineral and geothermal leasing 
           or mineral materials, S. 526, to provide for the 
           conveyance of certain Bureau of Land Management land in 
           Mohave County, Arizona, to the Arizona Game and Fish 
           Commission, for use as a public shooting range, S. 566, 
           to provide for the establishment of the National 
           Volcano Early Warning and Monitoring System, S. 590, to 
           convey certain submerged lands to the Commonwealth of 
           the Northern Mariana Islands in order to give that 
           territory the same benefits in its submerged lands as 
           Guam, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa have in 
           their submerged lands, S. 607, to designate certain 
           land in the State of Oregon as wilderness, to provide 
           for the exchange of certain Federal land and non-
           Federal land, S. 617, to require the Secretary of the 
           Interior to convey certain Federal land to Elko County, 
           Nevada, and to take land into trust for the Te-moak 
           Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada, S. 683, to 
           provide for the conveyance of certain parcels of land 
           to the town of Mantua, Utah, S. 684, to provide for the 
           conveyance of certain parcels of land to the town of 
           Alta, Utah, S. 667, to establish the Rio Grande del 
           Norte National Conservation Area in the State of New 
           Mexico, S. 729, to validate final patent number 27-
           2005-0081, S. 766, to provide for the designation of 
           the Devil's Staircase Wilderness Area in the State of 
           Oregon, to designate segments of Wasson and Franklin 
           Creeks in the State of Oregon as wild rivers, S. 896, 
           to amend the Public Land Corps Act of 1993 to expand 
           the authorization of the Secretaries of Agriculture, 
           Commerce, and the Interior to provide service 
           opportunities for young Americans; help restore the 
           nation's natural, cultural, historic, archaeological, 
           recreational and scenic resources; train a new 
           generation of public land managers and enthusiasts; and 
           promote the value of public service, and S. 897, to 
           amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 
           1977 to clarify that uncertified States and Indian 
           tribes have the authority to use certain payments for 
           certain noncoal reclamation projects and acid mine 
           remediation programs.
                                                            SD-366

                                 MAY 19
     10 a.m.
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine evaluating goals and progress 
           in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
                                                            SD-419

                                 MAY 24
     10 a.m.
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine al Qaeda, the Taliban, and 
           other extremist groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
                                                            SD-419

                                 MAY 25
     10 a.m.
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine how to save taxpayer dollars, 
           focusing on case studies of duplication in the Federal 
           government.
                                                            SD-342
     10:30 a.m.
       Appropriations
       Department of Defense Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for 
           fiscal year 2012 for the Missile Defense Agency.
                                                            SD-192
     2:30 p.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
       Public Lands and Forests Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine S. 233, to withdraw certain 
           Federal land and interests in that land from location, 
           entry, and patent under the mining laws and disposition 
           under the mineral and geothermal leasing laws, S. 375, 
           to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture and the 
           Secretary of the Interior to enter into cooperative 
           agreements with State foresters authorizing State 
           foresters to provide certain forest, rangeland, and 
           watershed restoration and protection services, S. 714, 
           to reauthorize the Federal Land Transaction 
           Facilitation Act, and S. 730, to provide for the 
           settlement of certain claims under the Alaska Native 
           Claims Settlement Act.
                                                            SD-366

                                 MAY 26
     10:30 a.m.
       Appropriations
       Department of Defense Subcommittee
         To receive a closed briefing on the United States Central 
           Command (CENTCOM) and United States African Command 
           (AFRICOM).
                                                           SVC-217

                                JUNE 15
     10:30 a.m.
       Appropriations
       Department of Defense Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the Secretary of Defense and 
           the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
                                                            SD-192

                                JUNE 16
     10:30 a.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings to examine S. 343, to amend Title I of 
           PL 99-658 regarding the Compact of Free Association 
           between the Government of the United States of America 
           and the Government of Palau, to approve the results of 
           the 15-year review of the Compact, including the 
           Agreement Between the Government of the United States 
           of America and the Government of the Republic of Palau 
           Following the Compact of Free Association Section 432 
           Review, and to appropriate funds for the purposes of 
           the amended PL 99-658 for fiscal years ending on or 
           before September 30, 2024, to carry out the agreements 
           resulting from that review.
                                                            SD-366