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“SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the Extensions of Remarks section on pages E1405-E1406 on July 25, 2011.
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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, July 26, 2011 may be found in the Daily Digest of today's Record.
MEETINGS SCHEDULED
JULY 2710 a.m.
Finance
To hold hearings to examine chief executive officer (CEO) perspectives on how the tax code affects hiring, businesses and economic growth.
SD-215
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
To hold hearings to examine ten years after 9/11, focusing on emergency communications.
SD-342
Judiciary
To hold hearings to examine fulfilling our treaty obligations and protecting Americans abroad.
SD-226
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 Department of Education.
SD-124
Veterans' Affairs
To hold hearings to examine the lifetime costs of supporting the newest generation of veterans.
SD-562
Joint Economic Committee
To hold hearings to examine maximizing America's prosperity, focusing on how fiscal rules can restrain
Federal overspending.
SH-21610:30 a.m.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine defending United States economic interests in the changing arctic, focusing on if there is a strategy.
SR-2532 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-232A2:30 p.m.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance
Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine improving highway and vehicle safety, focusing on reauthorization of the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
SR-253
Judiciary
To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Edgardo
Ramos, of Connecticut, Andrew L. Carter, Jr., and Jesse
M. Furman, all to be a United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, James Rodney
Gilstrap, to be United States District Judge for the
Eastern District of Texas, and Jennifer Guerin Zipps, to be United States District Judge for the District of
Arizona.
SD-226
JULY 289:30 a.m.
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
To hold hearings to examine the nomination of Brian T.
Baenig, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture; to be immediately followed by a hearing to examine opportunities for specialty crops and organics in the farm bill.
SD-G50
Armed Services
To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Admiral
Jonathan W. Greenert, USN for reappointment to the grade of admiral and to be Chief of Naval Operations, and Lieutenant General Charles H. Jacoby, Jr., USA to be general and to be Commander, United States Northern
Command, and Commander, North American Aerospace
Defense Command, both of the Department of Defense.
SD-1069:45 a.m.
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
To hold hearings to examine Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) user fees, focusing on advancing public health.
SD-43010 a.m.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine aviation fuels, focusing on needs, challenges, and alternatives.
SR-253
Energy and Natural Resources
To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Charles
DeWitt McConnell, of Ohio, to be Assistant Secretary of
Energy for Fossil Energy, and Rebecca R. Wodder, of
Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior for
Fish and Wildlife.
SD-366
Finance
To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Janice
Eberly, of Illinois, to be Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, and Juan F. Vasquez, of Texas, to be a Judge of the United States Tax Court.
SD-215
Judiciary
Business meeting to consider 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, Morgan Christen, of Alaska, to be United
States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Scott
Wesley Skavdahl, to be United States District Judge for the District of Wyoming, Sharon L. Gleason, to be
United States District Judge for the District of
Alaska, Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, to be United States
District Judge for the Northern District of California, and Richard G. Andrews, to be United States District
Judge for the District of Delaware.
SD-2261:30 p.m.
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
To hold hearings to examine United States policy and the
Organization for Co-oporation in Europe, focusing on making good on commitments and challenges, including unresolved conflicts, ethnic tension, corruption and lack of governance, racism and intolerance, and trafficking in persons.
210, Cannon Building2 p.m.
Appropriations
Financial Service and General Government Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine Federal disaster assistance budgeting, focusing on the role of the Federal government in mitigating the economic impact of severe weather events through long-term budgetary planning.
SD-1382:15 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-6282:30 p.m.
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Mark D.
Acton, of Kentucky, and Robert G. Taub, of New York, both to be a Commissioner of the Postal Regulatory
Commission.
SD-342
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, and S. 1134, to authorize the St. Croix River
Crossing Project with appropriate mitigation measures to promote river values.
SD-366
Intelligence
Closed business meeting to consider pending calendar business.
SH-219
AUGUST 210 a.m.
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
To hold hearings to examine health reform and health insurance premiums, focusing on empowering states to serve consumers.
SD-4302:30 p.m.
Foreign Relations
To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Francis
Joseph Ricciardone, Jr., of Massachusetts, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey, and Norman L.
Eisen, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Czech Republic, both of the Department of State.
SD-419
AUGUST 310 a.m.
Foreign Relations
To hold hearings to examine the nomination of Wendy Ruth
Sherman, of Maryland, to be Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.
SD-419
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-2262:30 p.m.
Energy and Natural Resources
Public Lands and Forests Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine S. 1024, to designate the
Organ Mountains and other public land as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System and the
National Landscape Conservation System in the State of
New Mexico, S. 1090, to designate as wilderness certain public land in the Cherokee National Forest in the
State of Tennessee, S. 1144, to amend the Soda Ash
Royalty Reduction Act of 2006 to extend the reduced royalty rate for soda ash, S. 1149, to expand geothermal production, and S. 1344, to direct the
Secretary of Agriculture to take immediate action to recover ecologically and economically from a catastrophic wildfire in the State of Arizona.
SD-366
