[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 8]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 11332-11334]
[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

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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, July 19, 2011 may be found in the 
Daily Digest of today's Record.

                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED

                                JULY 20
     Time to be announced
       Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
         Business meeting to consider any pending nominations.
                                              Room to be announced
     10 a.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold hearings to examine building American 
           transportation infrastructure through innovative 
           funding.
                                                            SR-253
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
       Economic Policy Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine access to capital, focusing 
           on fostering job creation and innovation through high-
           growth startups.
                                                            SD-538
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Earl 
           Anthony Wayne, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to Mexico, 
           and Arnold A. Chacon, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to 
           the Republic of Guatemala, both of the Department of 
           State.
                                                            SD-419
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine Federal regulation, focusing 
           on a review of legislative proposals, part II.
                                                            SD-342
       Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine S. 598, to repeal the Defense 
           of Marriage Act and ensure respect for State regulation 
           of marriage, focusing on assessing the impact of the 
           Defense of Marriage Act on American families.
                                                            SH-216
       Environment and Public Works
       Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine the Yellowstone 
           River oil spill.
                                                            SD-406
     2 p.m.
       Armed Services
       Personnel Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine providing legal services by 
           members of the Judge Advocate Generals' Corps.
                                                           SR-232A
     2:30 p.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
       Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine looking to the future, 
           focusing on, lessons in prevention, response, and 
           restoration from the Gulf oil spill.
                                                            SR-253
       United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics 
           Control
         To hold hearings to examine counternarcotics efforts in 
           Afghanistan, focusing on future counternarcotics 
           efforts in the country as United States troop levels 
           are reduced in the coming years.
                                                            SD-562

                                JULY 21
     9:30 a.m.
       Armed Services
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of James A. 
           Winnefeld, Jr., USN for reappointment to the grade of 
           admiral and to be Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of 
           Staff, General Raymond T. Odierno, USA for 
           reappointment to the grade of general and to be Chief 
           of Staff, United States Army, and General William M. 
           Fraser III, USAF for reappointment to the grade of 
           general and to be Commander, United States 
           Transportation Command, all of the Department of 
           Defense.
                                                            SH-216
     10 a.m.
       Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
         To hold hearings to examine the nomination of Mark P. 
           Wetjen, of Nevada, to be a Commissioner of the 
           Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
                                                            SD-G50
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine enhanced oversight after the 
           financial crisis, focusing on the ``Wall Street Reform 
           Act'' at one year.
                                                            SD-538
       Energy and Natural Resources
         Business meeting to consider S. 916, to facilitate 
           appropriate oil and gas development on Federal land and 
           waters, to limit dependence of the United States on 
           foreign sources of oil and gas, and S. 917, to amend 
           the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to reform the 
           management of energy and mineral resources on the Outer 
           Continental Shelf.
                                                            SD-366
       Environment and Public Works
         To hold hearings to examine legislative issues for 
           transportation reauthorization.
                                                            SD-406
       Judiciary
         Business meeting to consider S. 1231, to reauthorize the 
           Second Chance Act of 2007, S. 27, to prohibit brand 
           name drug companies from compensating generic drug 
           companies to delay the entry of a generic drug into the 
           market, S. 1228, to prohibit trafficking in counterfeit 
           military goods or services, S. 401, to help Federal 
           prosecutors and investigators combat public corruption 
           by strengthening and clarifying the law, S. 657, to 
           encourage, enhance, and integrate Blue Alert plans 
           throughout the United States in order to disseminate 
           information when a law enforcement officer is seriously 
           injured or killed in the line of duty, S. 409, to ban 
           the sale of certain synthetic drugs, S. 605, to amend 
           the Controlled Substances Act to place synthetic drugs 
           in Schedule I, S. 839, to ban the sale of certain 
           synthetic drugs, and the nominations of Steve Six, of 
           Kansas, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Tenth 
           Circuit, Christopher Droney, of Connecticut, to be 
           United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, 
           Robert David Mariani, to be United States District 
           Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Cathy 
           Bissoon, and Mark Raymond Hornak, both to be a United 
           States District Judge for the Western District of 
           Pennsylvania, Robert N. Scola, Jr., to be United States 
           District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, 
           and Clayton D. Johnson, to be United States Marshal for 
           the Northern District of Oklahoma, Department of 
           Justice.
                                                            SD-226
     10:30 a.m.
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine the nomination of Sung Y. 
           Kim, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
           Korea, Department of State.
                                                            SD-419
     2 p.m.
       Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
         To hold hearings to examine improving for-profit higher 
           education, focusing on a roundtable discussion of 
           policy solutions.
                                              Room to be announced
       Aging
         To hold hearings to examine reducing drug costs to 
           Medicare.
                                                            SD-106
     2:15 p.m.
       Indian Affairs
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine floods and fires, 
           focusing on emergency preparedness for natural 
           disasters in the native communities.
                                                            SD-628
     2:30 p.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
       Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, 
           Safety, and Security Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine making our roads safer, 
           focusing on reauthorization of the Motor Carrier Safety 
           Programs.
                                                            SR-253
       Intelligence
         To hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence 
           matters.
                                                            SH-219

                                JULY 22
     9:30 a.m.
       Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
         To hold hearings to examine minority at risk, focusing on 
           Coptic Christian in Egypt and renewed concerns over 
           reports of disappearance, forced conversions and forced 
           marriages of Coptic Christian women and girls.
                                              210, Cannon Building

                                JULY 26
     2 p.m.
       Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
       Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, 
           and the District of Columbia Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine Federal workers' 
           compensation.
                                                            SD-342


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                                JULY 27
     2 p.m.
       Armed Services
       Readiness and Management Support Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine financial management and 
           business transformation at the Department of Defense.
                                                           SR-232A

                                JULY 28
     2:15 p.m.
       Indian Affairs
         To hold an oversight hearing to examine enforcing the 
           ``Indian Gaming Regulatory Act'', focusing on the role 
           of the National Indian Gaming Commission and tribes as 
           regulators.
                                                            SD-628
     2:30 p.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
       National Parks Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine S. 264, to direct the 
           Secretary of the Interior to convey to the State of 
           Mississippi 2 parcels of surplus land within the 
           boundary of the Natchez Trace Parkway, S. 265, to 
           authorize the acquisition of core battlefield land at 
           Champion Hill, Port Gibson, and Raymond for addition to 
           Vicksburg National Military Park, S. 324, to amend the 
           Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Development Act to extend to 
           the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park 
           Commission, S. 764, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers 
           Act to make technical corrections to the segment 
           designations for the Chetco River, Oregon, S. 864, to 
           designate a Distinguished Flying Cross National 
           Memorial at the March Field Air Museum in Riverside, 
           California, S. 883, to authorize National Mall Liberty 
           Fund D.C. to establish a memorial on Federal land in 
           the District of Columbia to honor free persons and 
           slaves who fought for independence, liberty, and 
           justice for all during the American Revolution, S. 888, 
           to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a 
           segment of Illabot Creek in Skagit County, Washington, 
           as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers 
           System, S. 925, to designate Mt. Andrea Lawrence, S. 
           970, to designate additional segments and tributaries 
           of White Clay Creek, in the States of Delaware and 
           Pennsylvania, as a component of the National Wild and 
           Scenic Rivers System, S. 1063, to allow for the harvest 
           of gull eggs by the Huna Tlingit people within Glacier 
           Bay National Park in the State of Alaska, S. 1134, to 
           authorize the St. Croix River Crossing Project with 
           appropriate mitigation measures to promote river 
           values, and S. 1235, to recognize the memorial at the 
           Navy UDT-SEAL Museum in Fort Pierce, Florida, as the 
           official national memorial of Navy SEALS and their 
           predecessors.
                                                            SD-366

                                AUGUST 3
     10 a.m.
       Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
         Business meeting to consider S. 958, to amend the Public 
           Health Service Act to reauthorize the program of 
           payments to children's hospitals that operate graduate 
           medical education programs, and S. 1094, to reauthorize 
           the Combating Autism Act of 2006 (Public Law 109-416), 
           an original bill entitled, ``Workforce Investment Act 
           Reauthorization of 2011'', and any pending nominations.
                                                            SD-430
       Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine cybercrime, focusing on 
           updating the ``Computer Fraud and Abuse Act'' to 
           protect cyberspace and combat emerging threats.
                                                            SD-226