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01-31-2007, 05:30 PM
Senate:
Committee Meetings/Hearings Scheduled
This document provides a brief description of each committee meeting and hearing scheduled to take place today, and on days thereafter. The time and location of each meeting/hearing is identified. Meetings that have been canceled or postponed are also noted.
Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2007
9:30 a.m.
Foreign Relations
To continue hearings to examine securing
America's interests in Iraq, focusing on the
remaining options in Iraq in the strategic
context.
SH-216
9:30 a.m.
Rules and Administration
Organizational business meeting to consider an
original resolution authorizing expenditures for
committee operations, committee's rules of
procedure for the 110th Congress, and
subcommittee assignments.
SR-301
9:30 a.m.
Joint Economic Committee
To hold hearings to examine ensuring the economic
future by promoting middle-class prosperity.
SD-106
9:45 a.m.
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Organizational business meeting to consider an
original resolution authorizing expenditures for
committee operation; to be followed by a hearing
to examine the roles of Federal food assistance
programs in family economic security and
nutrition.
SR-328A
10 a.m.
Armed Services
To receive a closed briefing regarding the Iraq
“surge” plan.
SR-222
10 a.m.
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Organizational business meeting to consider an
original resolution authorizing expenditures for
committee operations, committee's rules of
procedure for the 110th Congress, and
subcommittee assignments; to be followed by a
hearing to examine the Department of the
Treasury's report to Congress on International
Economic and Exchange Rate Policy (IEERP) and the
U.S.-China strategic economic dialogue.
SD-G50
10 a.m.
Budget
To hold hearings to examine solutions to
long-term fiscal challenges.
SD-608
10 a.m.
Finance
Organizational business meeting to consider an
original resolution authorizing expenditures for
committee operations, subcommittee assignments,
and the nominations of Michael J. Astrue, of
Massachusetts, to be Commissioner of Social
Security, and Dean A. Pinkert, of Virginia, and
Irving A. Williamson, of New York, each to be a
Member of the United States International Trade
Commission.
SD-215
10 a.m.
Judiciary
To hold hearings to examine the Iraq Study Group,
focusing on recommendations for improvements to
Iraq's police and criminal justice system.
SD-226
10 a.m.
Small Business and Entrepreneurship
To hold hearings to examine Federal small
business assistance programs for veterans and
reservists.
SR-428A
10:30 a.m.
Aging
To hold hearings to examine if Medicare Part D is
working for low-income seniors.
SD-562
11:30 a.m.
Energy and Natural Resources
Business meeting to consider S.202, to provide
for the conveyance of certain Forest Service land
to the city of Coffman Cove, Alaska, S.216, to
provide for the exchange of certain Federal land
in the Santa Fe National Forest and certain
non-Federal land in the Pecos National Historical
Park in the State of New Mexico, S.220, to
authorize early repayment of obligations to the
Bureau of Reclamation within the A & B Irrigation
District in the State of Idaho, S.232, to make
permanent the authorization for watershed
restoration and enhancement agreements, S.235, to
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey
certain buildings and lands of the Yakima
Project, Washington, to the Yakima-Tieton
Irrigation District, S.240, to reauthorize and
amend the National Geologic Mapping Act of 1992,
S.241, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior
to enter into cooperative agreements to protect
natural resources of units of the National Park
System through collaborative efforts on land
inside and outside of units of the National Park
System, S.245, to authorize the Secretary of the
Interior to designate the President William
Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home in Hope,
Arkansas, as a National Historic Site and unit of
the National Park System, S.255, to provide
assistance to the State of New Mexico for the
development of comprehensive State water plans,
S.260, to establish the Fort Stanton-Snowy River
Cave National Conservation Area, S.262, to rename
the Snake River Birds of Prey National
Conservation Area in the State of Idaho as the
Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National
Conservation Area in honor of the late Morley
Nelson, an international authority on birds of
prey, who was instrumental in the establishment
of this National Conservation Area, S.263, to
amend the Oregon Resource Conservation Act of
1996 to reauthorize the participation of the
Bureau of Reclamation in the Deschutes River
Conservancy, S.264, to authorize the Bureau of
Reclamation to participate in the rehabilitation
of the Wallowa Lake Dam in Oregon, S.265, to
authorize the Secretary of the Interior, acting
through the Bureau of Reclamation, to conduct a
water resource feasibility study for the Little
Butte/Bear Creek Subbasins in Oregon, S.266, to
provide for the modification of an amendatory
repayment contract between the Secretary of the
Interior and the North Unit Irrigation District,
S.268, to designate the Ice Age Floods National
Geologic Trail, S.275, to establish the
Prehistoric Trackways National Monument in the
State of New Mexico, S.277, to modify the
boundaries of Grand Teton National Park to
include certain land within the GT Park
Subdivision, S.283, to amend the Compact of Free
Association Amendments Act of 2003, S.320, to
provide for the protection of paleontological
resources on Federal lands, H.R.57, to repeal
certain sections of the Act of May 26, 1936,
pertaining to the Virgin Islands, and S.200, to
require the Secretary of the Interior, acting
through the Bureau of Reclamation and the United
States Geological Survey, to conduct a study on
groundwater resources in the State of Alaska.
SD-366
2:30 p.m.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Business meeting to consider pending calendar
business; to be followed by a hearing to examine
economic and security concerns relating to
promoting travel to America.
SR-253
2:30 p.m.
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Organizational business meeting to consider an
original resolution authorizing expenditures for
committee operations, committee's rules of
procedure for the 110th Congress, and
subcommittee assignments; committee will also
consider the Genetic Information
Nondiscrimination Act.
S-216, Capitol
2:30 p.m.
Armed Services
Readiness and Management Support Subcommittee
To resume hearings to examine abusive practices
in Department of Defense contracting for services
and inter-agency contracting.
SR-222
2:30 p.m.
Judiciary
Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security
Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine challenges and
strategies for securing the U.S. border.
SD-226
Thursday, Feb. 1, 2007
9:15 a.m.
Foreign Relations
Business meeting to consider an original
resolution authorizing expenditures by the
committee during the 110th Congress; to be
followed by a hearing to examine securing
America's interests in Iraq, focusing on the
remaining options in Iraq in the strategic
context.
SH-216
9:30 a.m.
Armed Services
To hold hearings to examine the nomination of
Gen. George W. Casey Jr.,USA, for reappointment
to the grade of general and to be Chief of Staff,
United States Army.
SR-325
9:30 a.m.
Energy and Natural Resources
To hold hearings to examine accelerated biofuels
diversity, focusing on how home-grown,
biologically derived fuels can blend into the
nation's transportation fuel mix.
SDG-50
9:30 a.m.
Indian Affairs
To hold hearings to examine the nomination of
Carl Joseph Artman, of Colorado, to be an
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian
Affairs; to be followed by a business meeting to
consider the nomination.
SR-485
10 a.m.
Budget
To hold hearings to examine the current account
deficit and the foreign debt of the United States.
SD-608
10 a.m.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
To hold hearings to examine a view from the
Federal Communications Commission relating to
assessing the communications marketplace.
SR-253
10 a.m.
Finance
To hold hearings to examine improving the health
of America's children relating to the future of
Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
SD-215
2:30 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 privacy implications
of the Federal government's health information
technology initiative relating to private health
records, focusing on the efforts of Department of
Health and Human Services to integrate privacy
into the Health Information Technology national
infrastructure and Office of Personnel
Management's efforts to expand the use of Health
Information Technology through the Federal
Employees Health Benefits Program and the impact
such actions have on Federal employees' health
information privacy.
SD-342
2:30 p.m.
Intelligence
To hold hearings to examine the nomination of J.
Michael McConnell, of Virginia, to be Director of
National Intelligence.
SD-106
2:30 p.m.
Intelligence
To hold closed hearings to examine certain
intelligence matters.
SH-219
Monday, Feb. 5, 2007
2 p.m.
Judiciary
Human Rights and the Law Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine genocide and the rule
of law.
SD-226
Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2007
9:30 a.m.
Armed Services
To hold hearings to examine the President's
budget request for fiscal year 2008 and the
fiscal years 2007 and 2008 war supplemental
requests in review of the Defense Authorization
Request for Fiscal Year 2008 and the Future Years
Defense Program.
SH-216
9:30 a.m.
Judiciary
To hold hearings to examine if the Department of
Justice is politicizing the hiring and firing of
U.S. attorneys relating to preserving
prosecutorial independence.
SD-226
10 a.m.
Budget
To hold hearings to examine war costs.
SD-608
10 a.m.
Environment and Public Works
To hold an oversight hearing to examine recent
Environmental Protection Agency decisions,
focusing on EPA actions and documents, including
monitoring regulations related to perchlorate,
the process for setting National Ambient Air
Quality Standards (NAAQS), the lead NAAQS
process, air toxics control (the “once in always
in” policy), the Toxic Release Inventory, and EPA
library closures.
SD-406
2:45 p.m.
Finance
To hold hearings to examine the President's
Fiscal Year 2008 budget proposal.
SD-215
Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2007
9:30 a.m.
Energy and Natural Resources
To hold hearings to examine the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 2008 for
the Department of Energy.
SD-366
10 a.m.
Budget
To hold hearings to examine the President's
Fiscal Year 2008 budget proposal.
SD-608
10 a.m.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
To hold hearings to examine climate change
research and scientific integrity.
SR-253
10 a.m.
Rules and Administration
To hold hearings to examine the hazards of
electronic voting, focusing on the machinery of
democracy.
SR-301
Thursday, Feb. 8, 2007
9 a.m.
Foreign Relations
To hold hearings to examine the President's
foreign affairs budget.
SD-106
9:30 a.m.
Energy and Natural Resources
To hold hearings to examine issues relating to
labor, immigration, law enforcement, and economic
conditions in the Commonwealth of the Northern
Mariana Islands.
SD-366
10 a.m.
Budget
To hold hearings to examine the President's
Fiscal Year 2008 budget and revenue proposals.
SD-608
10 a.m.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
To hold hearings to examine the present and
future of public safety communications.
SR-253
10 a.m.
Judiciary
Business meeting to consider pending calendar
business.
SD-226
Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2007
10 a.m.
Energy and Natural Resources
To hold hearings to examine the “Stern
Review of the Economics of Climate Change”
examining the economic impacts of climate change
and stabilizing greenhouse gases in the
atmosphere.
SD-106
Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007
9:30 a.m.
Energy and Natural Resources
To hold hearings to examine the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 2008 for
the Department of the Interior.
SD-366
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Committee Meetings/Hearings Scheduled
This document provides a brief description of each committee meeting and hearing scheduled to take place today, and on days thereafter. The time and location of each meeting/hearing is identified. Meetings that have been canceled or postponed are also noted.
Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2007
9:30 a.m.
Foreign Relations
To continue hearings to examine securing
America's interests in Iraq, focusing on the
remaining options in Iraq in the strategic
context.
SH-216
9:30 a.m.
Rules and Administration
Organizational business meeting to consider an
original resolution authorizing expenditures for
committee operations, committee's rules of
procedure for the 110th Congress, and
subcommittee assignments.
SR-301
9:30 a.m.
Joint Economic Committee
To hold hearings to examine ensuring the economic
future by promoting middle-class prosperity.
SD-106
9:45 a.m.
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Organizational business meeting to consider an
original resolution authorizing expenditures for
committee operation; to be followed by a hearing
to examine the roles of Federal food assistance
programs in family economic security and
nutrition.
SR-328A
10 a.m.
Armed Services
To receive a closed briefing regarding the Iraq
“surge” plan.
SR-222
10 a.m.
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Organizational business meeting to consider an
original resolution authorizing expenditures for
committee operations, committee's rules of
procedure for the 110th Congress, and
subcommittee assignments; to be followed by a
hearing to examine the Department of the
Treasury's report to Congress on International
Economic and Exchange Rate Policy (IEERP) and the
U.S.-China strategic economic dialogue.
SD-G50
10 a.m.
Budget
To hold hearings to examine solutions to
long-term fiscal challenges.
SD-608
10 a.m.
Finance
Organizational business meeting to consider an
original resolution authorizing expenditures for
committee operations, subcommittee assignments,
and the nominations of Michael J. Astrue, of
Massachusetts, to be Commissioner of Social
Security, and Dean A. Pinkert, of Virginia, and
Irving A. Williamson, of New York, each to be a
Member of the United States International Trade
Commission.
SD-215
10 a.m.
Judiciary
To hold hearings to examine the Iraq Study Group,
focusing on recommendations for improvements to
Iraq's police and criminal justice system.
SD-226
10 a.m.
Small Business and Entrepreneurship
To hold hearings to examine Federal small
business assistance programs for veterans and
reservists.
SR-428A
10:30 a.m.
Aging
To hold hearings to examine if Medicare Part D is
working for low-income seniors.
SD-562
11:30 a.m.
Energy and Natural Resources
Business meeting to consider S.202, to provide
for the conveyance of certain Forest Service land
to the city of Coffman Cove, Alaska, S.216, to
provide for the exchange of certain Federal land
in the Santa Fe National Forest and certain
non-Federal land in the Pecos National Historical
Park in the State of New Mexico, S.220, to
authorize early repayment of obligations to the
Bureau of Reclamation within the A & B Irrigation
District in the State of Idaho, S.232, to make
permanent the authorization for watershed
restoration and enhancement agreements, S.235, to
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey
certain buildings and lands of the Yakima
Project, Washington, to the Yakima-Tieton
Irrigation District, S.240, to reauthorize and
amend the National Geologic Mapping Act of 1992,
S.241, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior
to enter into cooperative agreements to protect
natural resources of units of the National Park
System through collaborative efforts on land
inside and outside of units of the National Park
System, S.245, to authorize the Secretary of the
Interior to designate the President William
Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home in Hope,
Arkansas, as a National Historic Site and unit of
the National Park System, S.255, to provide
assistance to the State of New Mexico for the
development of comprehensive State water plans,
S.260, to establish the Fort Stanton-Snowy River
Cave National Conservation Area, S.262, to rename
the Snake River Birds of Prey National
Conservation Area in the State of Idaho as the
Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National
Conservation Area in honor of the late Morley
Nelson, an international authority on birds of
prey, who was instrumental in the establishment
of this National Conservation Area, S.263, to
amend the Oregon Resource Conservation Act of
1996 to reauthorize the participation of the
Bureau of Reclamation in the Deschutes River
Conservancy, S.264, to authorize the Bureau of
Reclamation to participate in the rehabilitation
of the Wallowa Lake Dam in Oregon, S.265, to
authorize the Secretary of the Interior, acting
through the Bureau of Reclamation, to conduct a
water resource feasibility study for the Little
Butte/Bear Creek Subbasins in Oregon, S.266, to
provide for the modification of an amendatory
repayment contract between the Secretary of the
Interior and the North Unit Irrigation District,
S.268, to designate the Ice Age Floods National
Geologic Trail, S.275, to establish the
Prehistoric Trackways National Monument in the
State of New Mexico, S.277, to modify the
boundaries of Grand Teton National Park to
include certain land within the GT Park
Subdivision, S.283, to amend the Compact of Free
Association Amendments Act of 2003, S.320, to
provide for the protection of paleontological
resources on Federal lands, H.R.57, to repeal
certain sections of the Act of May 26, 1936,
pertaining to the Virgin Islands, and S.200, to
require the Secretary of the Interior, acting
through the Bureau of Reclamation and the United
States Geological Survey, to conduct a study on
groundwater resources in the State of Alaska.
SD-366
2:30 p.m.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Business meeting to consider pending calendar
business; to be followed by a hearing to examine
economic and security concerns relating to
promoting travel to America.
SR-253
2:30 p.m.
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Organizational business meeting to consider an
original resolution authorizing expenditures for
committee operations, committee's rules of
procedure for the 110th Congress, and
subcommittee assignments; committee will also
consider the Genetic Information
Nondiscrimination Act.
S-216, Capitol
2:30 p.m.
Armed Services
Readiness and Management Support Subcommittee
To resume hearings to examine abusive practices
in Department of Defense contracting for services
and inter-agency contracting.
SR-222
2:30 p.m.
Judiciary
Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security
Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine challenges and
strategies for securing the U.S. border.
SD-226
Thursday, Feb. 1, 2007
9:15 a.m.
Foreign Relations
Business meeting to consider an original
resolution authorizing expenditures by the
committee during the 110th Congress; to be
followed by a hearing to examine securing
America's interests in Iraq, focusing on the
remaining options in Iraq in the strategic
context.
SH-216
9:30 a.m.
Armed Services
To hold hearings to examine the nomination of
Gen. George W. Casey Jr.,USA, for reappointment
to the grade of general and to be Chief of Staff,
United States Army.
SR-325
9:30 a.m.
Energy and Natural Resources
To hold hearings to examine accelerated biofuels
diversity, focusing on how home-grown,
biologically derived fuels can blend into the
nation's transportation fuel mix.
SDG-50
9:30 a.m.
Indian Affairs
To hold hearings to examine the nomination of
Carl Joseph Artman, of Colorado, to be an
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian
Affairs; to be followed by a business meeting to
consider the nomination.
SR-485
10 a.m.
Budget
To hold hearings to examine the current account
deficit and the foreign debt of the United States.
SD-608
10 a.m.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
To hold hearings to examine a view from the
Federal Communications Commission relating to
assessing the communications marketplace.
SR-253
10 a.m.
Finance
To hold hearings to examine improving the health
of America's children relating to the future of
Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
SD-215
2:30 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 privacy implications
of the Federal government's health information
technology initiative relating to private health
records, focusing on the efforts of Department of
Health and Human Services to integrate privacy
into the Health Information Technology national
infrastructure and Office of Personnel
Management's efforts to expand the use of Health
Information Technology through the Federal
Employees Health Benefits Program and the impact
such actions have on Federal employees' health
information privacy.
SD-342
2:30 p.m.
Intelligence
To hold hearings to examine the nomination of J.
Michael McConnell, of Virginia, to be Director of
National Intelligence.
SD-106
2:30 p.m.
Intelligence
To hold closed hearings to examine certain
intelligence matters.
SH-219
Monday, Feb. 5, 2007
2 p.m.
Judiciary
Human Rights and the Law Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine genocide and the rule
of law.
SD-226
Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2007
9:30 a.m.
Armed Services
To hold hearings to examine the President's
budget request for fiscal year 2008 and the
fiscal years 2007 and 2008 war supplemental
requests in review of the Defense Authorization
Request for Fiscal Year 2008 and the Future Years
Defense Program.
SH-216
9:30 a.m.
Judiciary
To hold hearings to examine if the Department of
Justice is politicizing the hiring and firing of
U.S. attorneys relating to preserving
prosecutorial independence.
SD-226
10 a.m.
Budget
To hold hearings to examine war costs.
SD-608
10 a.m.
Environment and Public Works
To hold an oversight hearing to examine recent
Environmental Protection Agency decisions,
focusing on EPA actions and documents, including
monitoring regulations related to perchlorate,
the process for setting National Ambient Air
Quality Standards (NAAQS), the lead NAAQS
process, air toxics control (the “once in always
in” policy), the Toxic Release Inventory, and EPA
library closures.
SD-406
2:45 p.m.
Finance
To hold hearings to examine the President's
Fiscal Year 2008 budget proposal.
SD-215
Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2007
9:30 a.m.
Energy and Natural Resources
To hold hearings to examine the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 2008 for
the Department of Energy.
SD-366
10 a.m.
Budget
To hold hearings to examine the President's
Fiscal Year 2008 budget proposal.
SD-608
10 a.m.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
To hold hearings to examine climate change
research and scientific integrity.
SR-253
10 a.m.
Rules and Administration
To hold hearings to examine the hazards of
electronic voting, focusing on the machinery of
democracy.
SR-301
Thursday, Feb. 8, 2007
9 a.m.
Foreign Relations
To hold hearings to examine the President's
foreign affairs budget.
SD-106
9:30 a.m.
Energy and Natural Resources
To hold hearings to examine issues relating to
labor, immigration, law enforcement, and economic
conditions in the Commonwealth of the Northern
Mariana Islands.
SD-366
10 a.m.
Budget
To hold hearings to examine the President's
Fiscal Year 2008 budget and revenue proposals.
SD-608
10 a.m.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
To hold hearings to examine the present and
future of public safety communications.
SR-253
10 a.m.
Judiciary
Business meeting to consider pending calendar
business.
SD-226
Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2007
10 a.m.
Energy and Natural Resources
To hold hearings to examine the “Stern
Review of the Economics of Climate Change”
examining the economic impacts of climate change
and stabilizing greenhouse gases in the
atmosphere.
SD-106
Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007
9:30 a.m.
Energy and Natural Resources
To hold hearings to examine the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 2008 for
the Department of the Interior.
SD-366
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