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“SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the Extensions of Remarks section on pages E1547-E1548 on Sept. 17, 2012.
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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 18, 2012 may be found in the Daily Digest of today's Record.
MEETINGS SCHEDULED
SEPTEMBER 199:30 a.m.
Foreign Relations
To hold hearings to examine the nomination of Robert
Stephen Beecroft, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Iraq, Department of State.
SD-419
Energy and Natural Resources
Water and Power Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine S. 3265, to amend the Federal
Power Act to remove the authority of the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission to collect land use fees for land that has been sold, exchanged, or otherwise transferred from Federal ownership but that is subject to a power site reservation, H.R. 2842, to authorize all Bureau of
Reclamation conduit facilities for hydropower development under Federal Reclamation law, S. 3464, to amend the Mni Wiconi Project Act of 1988 to facilitate completion of the Mni Wiconi Rural Water Supply System, and S. 3483, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to adjust the Crooked River boundary, to provide water certainty for the City of Prineville, Oregon.
SD-36610 a.m.
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Business meeting to consider S. 3391, to amend section
353 of the Public Health Service Act with respect to suspension, revocation, and limitation of laboratory certification, an original bill entitled,
``Recalcitrant Cancer Research Act of 2012'', S. 1440, to reduce preterm labor and delivery and the risk of pregnancy-related deaths and complications due to pregnancy, and to reduce infant mortality caused by prematurity, and nomination lists in the Public Health
Service.
SD-430
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
To hold hearings to examine homeland threats and agency responses.
SD-342
Judiciary
To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Katherine
Polk Failla, to be United States District Judge for the
Southern District of New York, Pamela Ki Mai Chen, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern
District of New York, Troy L. Nunley, to be United
States District Judge for the Eastern District of
California, Sheri Polster Chappell, to be United States
District Judge for the Middle District of Florida, and
Mark A. Barnett, of Virginia, to be a Judge of the
United States Court of International Trade.
SD-2262:15 p.m.
Foreign Relations
Business meeting to consider S. 2215, to create jobs in the United States by increasing United States exports to Africa by at least 200 percent in real dollar value within 10 years, S. 2318, to authorize the Secretary of
State to pay a reward to combat transnational organized crime and for information concerning foreign nationals wanted by international criminal tribunals, S. 3310, to direct the President, in consultation with the
Department of State, United States Agency for
International Development, Millennium Challenge
Corporation, and the Department of Defense, to establish guidelines for United States foreign assistance programs, S. 3331, to provide for universal intercountry adoption accreditation standards, S. 3341, to require a quadrennial diplomacy and development review, S. Con. Res. 50, expressing the sense of
Congress regarding actions to preserve and advance the multistakeholder governance model under which the
Internet has thrived, S. Res. 516, expressing the sense of the Senate on the restitution of or compensation for property seized during the Nazi and Communist eras, S.
Res. 466, calling for the release from prison of former
Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko, S. Res.
543, to express the sense of the Senate on international parental child abduction, the nominations of Richard G. Olson, of New Mexico, to be Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Joseph E. Macmanus, of New York, to be Representative of the United States of America to the International Atomic Energy Agency, with the rank of Ambassador, and to be Representative of the United States of America to the Vienna Office of the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, Walter
North, of Washington, to be Ambassador to Papua New
Guinea, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Solomon
Islands and Ambassador to the Republic of Vanuatu,
Sharon English Woods Villarosa, of Texas, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Mauritius, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as
Ambassador to the Republic of Seychelles, Dawn M.
Liberi, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Burundi, and Stephen D. Mull, of Virginia, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Poland, all of the
Department of State, and John Hardy Isakson, of
Georgia, and Patrick J. Leahy, of Vermont, both to be a
Representative of the United States of America to the
Sixty-seventh Session of the General Assembly of the
United Nations, and lists in the Foreign Service.
S-116, Capitol2:30 p.m.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
To hold hearings to examine five years of the ``America
COMPETES Act'', focusing on progress, challenges, and next steps.
SR-253
Judiciary
Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine hate crimes and the threat of domestic extremism.
SH-216
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine investing in an effective
Federal workforce.
SD-342
Aging
To hold hearings to examine eliminating waste and fraud in Medicare, focusing on an examination of prior authorization requirements for power mobility devices.
SD-562
SEPTEMBER 208:30 a.m.
Foreign Relations
To receive a closed briefing on the security of United
States diplomatic and consular missions.
SVC-21710 a.m.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
To hold hearings to examine business practices in the household goods moving industry.
SR-253
Environment and Public Works
To hold hearings to examine the ``Water Resources
Development Act'', focusing on growing the economy and protecting public safety.
SD-406
Finance
To hold a joint hearing with the House Committee on Ways and Means to examine tax reform and the tax treatment of capital gains.
HVC-210
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
To hold hearings to examine pension modernization for a
21st century workforce.
SD-430
Judiciary
Business meeting to consider H.R. 2471, to amend section
2710 of title 18, United States Code, to clarify that a video tape service provider may obtain a consumer's informed, written consent on an ongoing basis and that consent may be obtained through the Internet, S. 3486, to implement the provisions of the Hague Agreement and the Patent Law
Treaty, S. 1894, to deter terrorism, provide justice for victims, S. 3250, to amend the DNA Analysis Backlog
Elimination Act of 2000 to provide for Debbie Smith grants for auditing sexual assault evidence backlogs and to establish a Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence
Registry, S. 3523, Innovative Design Protection Act, and the nomination of William Joseph Baer, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Attorney General, Department of
Justice.
SD-226
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Securities, Insurance and Investment Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine computerized trading.
SD-5382 p.m.
Foreign Relations
East Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine maritime territorial disputes and sovereignty issues in Asia.
SD-419
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Investigations Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine offshore profit shifting and the U.S. tax code.
SD-G502:15 p.m.
Indian Affairs
Business meeting to consider S. 65, to reauthorize the programs of the Department of Housing and Urban
Development for housing assistance for Native
Hawaiians, S. 2024, to make technical amendment to the
T'uf Shur Bien Preservation Trust Area Act, S. 3546, to amend the Native American Programs Act of 1974 to reauthorize a provision to ensure the survival and continuing vitality of Native American languages, S.
3548, to clarify certain provisions of the Native
American Veterans' Memorial Establishment Act of 1994,
H.R. 2467, to take certain Federal lands in Mono
County, California, into trust for the benefit of the
Bridgeport Indian Colony, to be immediately followed by an oversight hearing to examine advancing the Federal-
tribal relationship through self-governance and self-
determination.
SD-6282:30 p.m.
Intelligence
To hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence matters.
SH-219
SEPTEMBER 252 p.m.
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Federal Financial Management, Government Information,
Federal Services, and International Security
Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine improving financial accountability at the Department of Defense.
SD-342
