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“COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR 2005-06-16” mentioning the U.S. Dept of Labor was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D614-D615 on June 15, 2005.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,
JUNE 16, 2005
(Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
Senate
Committee on Appropriations: business meeting to mark up H.R. 2360, making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, and H.R. 2419, making appropriations for energy and water development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, 2 p.m., SD-106.
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: to hold hearings to examine S. 705, to establish the Interagency Council on Meeting the Housing and Service Needs of Seniors, 10 a.m., SD-538.
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold hearings to examine Federal legislative solutions to data breach and identity theft, 10 a.m., SR-253.
Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the nominations of William Alan Jeffrey, of Virginia, to be Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and Israel Hernandez, of Texas, to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Director General of the United States and Foreign Commercial Service, both of the Department of Commerce, Ashok G. Kaveeshwar, of Maryland, to be Administrator of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Department of Transportation, and Edmund S. Hawley, of California, to be Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Transportation Security Administration, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.
Committee on Finance: business meeting to mark up an original bill entitled, ``Energy Policy Tax Incentives Act of 2005,'' 10:30 a.m., SD-628.
Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine stabilization and reconstruction regarding building peace in a hostile environment, 9:30 a.m., SD-419.
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, to resume hearings to examine tax delinquency problems with Federal contractors, 9:30 a.m., SD-562.
Committee on Indian Affairs: to hold an oversight hearing to examine Indian education, 9:30 a.m., SR-485.
Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider S. 491, to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to expand the definition of firefighter to include apprentices and trainees, regardless of age or duty limitations, and the nominations of Terrence W. Boyle, of North Carolina, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit, Brett M. Kavanaugh, of Maryland, to be United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Rachel Brand, of Iowa, to be Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy, and Alice S. Fisher, of Virginia, to be Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, both of the Department of Justice, and committee's rules of procedure for the 109th Congress, 9:30 a.m., SD-226.
Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold hearings to examine the nomination of Janice B. Gardner, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Intelligence and Analysis, 3 p.m., SDG-50.
House
Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Specialty Crops and Foreign Agriculture Programs, hearing to Review Food Aid Programs, 10 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
Committee on Appropriations, to mark up the following appropriations for Fiscal Year 2006: Legislative Branch; and the Department of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies. 1:30 p.m., 2359 Rayburn.
Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs, to mark up Fiscal Year 2006 appropriations, 9 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on Select Education, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 509, International Studies in Higher Education Act of 2005; and H.R. 510, Graduate Opportunities in Higher Education Act of 2005, 10:30 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises, hearing entitled
``SMART Insurance Reform,'' 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology, hearing entitled ``The US-EU Economic Relationship: What Comes Next?'' 2 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
Committee on Government Reform, to consider the following measures: H.R. 2829, Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 2005; H.R. 994, To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow Federal civilian and military retirees to pay health insurance premiums on a pretax basis and to allow a deduction for TRICARE supplemental premiums; H.R. 1283, To provide that transit pass transportation fringe benefits be made available to all qualified Federal employees in the National Capital Region; to allow passenger carriers which are owned or leased by the Government to be used to transport Government employees between their place of employment and mass transit facilities; H.R. 1317, Federal; Employee Protection of Disclosures Act; H.R. 1765 , Generating Opportunity by Forgiving Educational Debt for Service Act of 2005; H.R. 2385, To make permanent the authority of the Secretary of Commerce to conduct the quarterly financial report program; a Committee report on National Drug Control Strategy; H. Con. Res 71, Expressing the sense of Congress that there should be established a Caribbean-American Heritage Month; H. Con. Res. 160, Recognizing the historical significance of Juneteenth Independence Day, and expressing the sense of Congress that history should be regarded as a means for understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future; H.R. 2113, To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2000 McDonough Street in Joliet, Illinois, as the
``John F. Whiteside Joliet Post Office Building;'' H.R. 2183, To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 567 Tompkins Avenue in Staten Island, New York, as the ``Vincent Palladino Post Office;'' H.R. 2346, To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 105 NW Railroad Avenue in Hammond, Louisiana, as the ``John J. Hainkel Post Office Building;'' H.R. 2490, To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 442 West Hamilton Street, Allentown, Pennsylvania, as the ``Mayor Joseph S. Daddona Memorial Post Office;'' and H.R. 2630, To redesignate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1927 Sangamon Avenue in Springfield, Illinois, as the ``J.M. Dietrich Northeast Annex,'' 10:30 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Economic Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Cybersecurity, hearing entitled ``The Promise of Registered Traveler, Part II,'' 1 p.m., 210 Cannon.
Subcommittee on Management, Integration, and Oversight, hearing entitled ``Mismanagement of the Border Surveillance System and Lessons for the New America's Shield Initiative,'' 10 a.m., 2212 Rayburn.
Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, oversight hearing entitled ``Impacts of Environmental Regulations on Energy and Mineral Development: The Wildlands Project,'' 10 a.m., 1334 Longworth.
Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Energy, hearing on Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing,10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, to mark up H.R. 2864, Water Resources Development Act of 2005, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs, hearing to consider the following: a measure to amend the Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance (SGLI) program; a measure regarding the Traumatic Injury Protection provisions of Public Law 109-13; and H.R. 1618, Wounded Warrior Servicemembers Group Disability Insurance Act of 2005, 1 p.m., 334 Cannon.
Committee on Ways and Means, June 16, Subcommittee on Health, hearing on Post-Acute Care, 1 p.m., 1100 Longworth.
Subcommittee on Social Security, to continue hearings on Protecting and Strengthening Social Security, 10 a.m., B-318 Rayburn.
