“SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS” published by Congressional Record on May 17, 2010

Volume 156, No. 74 covering the 2nd Session of the 111th Congress (2009 - 2010) was published by the Congressional Record.

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“SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Extensions of Remarks section on pages E855-E857 on May 17, 2010.

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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, May 18, 2010 may be found in the Daily Digest of today's Record.

MEETINGS SCHEDULED

MAY 199:30 a.m.

Energy and Natural Resources

To hold hearings to examine the proposed Constitution of the U.S. Virgin Islands, S. 2941, to provide supplemental ex gratia compensation to the Republic of the Marshall Islands for impacts of the nuclear testing program of the United States, H.R. 3940, to amend

Public Law 96-597 to clarify the authority of the

Secretary of the Interior to extend grants and other assistance to facilitate political status public education programs for the peoples of the non-self-

governing territories of the United States, and H.R.

2499, to provide for a federally sanctioned self-

determination process for the people of Puerto Rico.

SD-366

Veterans' Affairs

To hold hearings to examine S. 1780, to amend title 38,

United States Code, to deem certain service in the reserve components as active service for purposes of laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs,

S. 1866, to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the eligibility of parents of certain deceased veterans for interment in national cemeteries,

S. 1939, to amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify presumptions relating to the exposure of certain veterans who served in the vicinity of the

Republic of Vietnam, S. 1940, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a study on the effects on children of exposure of their parents to herbicides used in support of the United States and allied military operations in the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam era, S. 2751, to designate the Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Big Spring,

Texas, as the George H. O'Brien, Jr., Department of

Veterans Medical Center, S. 3035, to require a report on the establishment of a Polytrauma Rehabilitation

Center or Polytrauma Network Site of the Department of

Veterans Affairs in the northern Rockies or Dakotas, S.

3107, to amend title 38 , United States Code, to provide for an increase, effective December 1, 2010, in the rates of compensation for veterans with service-

connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans, S. 3192, to amend title 38, United

States Code, to provide for the tolling of the timing of review for appeals of final decisions of the Board of Veterans' Appeals, S. 3234, to improve employment, training, and placement services furnished to veterans, especially those serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom and

Operation Enduring Freedom, S. 3286, to require the

Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a pilot program on the award of grants to State and local government agencies and nonprofit organizations to provide assistance to veterans with their submittal of claims to the Veterans Benefits Administration, S.

3314, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the Appalachian Regional Commission to carry out a program of outreach for veterans who reside in

Appalachia, S. 3325, to amend title 38, United States

Code, to authorize the waiver of the collection of copayments for telehealth and telemedicine visits of veterans, S. 3330, to amend title 38, United States

Code, to make certain improvements in the administration of medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs, S. 3348, to amend title 38, United

States Code, to provide for the treatment of documents that express disagreement with decisions of the Board of Veterans' Appeals and that are misfiled with the

Board within 120 days of such decisions as motions for reconsideration of such decisions, S. 3352, to amend title 38, United States Code, to exempt reimbursements of expenses related to accident, theft, loss, or casualty loss from determinations of annual income with respect to pensions for veterans and surviving spouses and children of veterans, S. 3355, to provide for an

Internet website for information on benefits, resource, services, and opportunities for veterans and their families and caregivers, S. 3367, to amend title 38,

United States Code, to increase the rate of pension for disabled veterans who are married to one another and both of whom require regular aid and attendance, S.

3368, to amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize certain individuals to sign claims filed with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs on behalf of claimants, and S. 3370, to amend title 38, United

States Code, to improve the process by which an individual files jointly for social security and dependency and indemnity compensation.

SR-41810 a.m.

Foreign Relations

To hold hearings to examine empowering Haiti to rebuild better.

SD-419

Judiciary

To hold hearings to examine renewing America's commitment to the refugee convention, focusing on the Refugee

Protection Act of 2010.

SD-226

Rules and Administration

To resume hearings to examine the filibuster, focusing on the filibuster today and its consequences.

SR-301

Small Business and Entrepreneurship

To hold hearings to examine the nomination of Marie

Collins Johns, of the District of Columbia, to be

Deputy Administrator of the Small Business

Administration.

SR-428A11 a.m.

Small Business and Entrepreneurship

To hold hearings to examine the Small Business

Administration (SBA) Disaster Assistance Program and the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on small businesses.

SR-428A2:30 p.m.

Commerce, Science, and Transportation

To hold hearings to examine S. 3302, to amend title 49,

United States Code, to establish new automobile safety standards, make better motor vehicle safety information available to the National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration and the public.

SR-253

Foreign Relations

To hold hearings to examine the history and lessons of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).

SD-419

Energy and Natural Resources

National Parks Subcommittee

To hold hearings to examine S. 349, to establish the

Susquehanna Gateway National Heritage Area in the State of Pennsylvania, S. 1596, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire the Gold Hill Ranch in Coloma,

California, S. 1651, to modify a land grant patent issued by the Secretary of the Interior, S. 1750, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the General of the Army

George Catlett Marshall National Historic Site at

Dodona Manor in Leesburg, Virginia, S. 1801, to establish the First State National Historical Park in the State of Delaware, S. 1802 and H.R. 685, bills to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study regarding the proposed United

States Civil Rights Trail, S. 2953 and H.R. 3388, bills to modify the boundary of Petersburg National

Battlefield in the Commonwealth of Virginia, S. 2976, to designate as wilderness certain land and inland water within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in the State of Michigan, S. 3159 and H.R. 4395, bills to revise the boundaries of the Gettysburg National

Military Park to include the Gettysburg Train Station,

S. 3168, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire certain non-Federal land in the State of Pennsylvania for inclusion in the Fort Necessity National

Battlefield, and S. 3303, to establish the Chimney Rock

National Monument in the State of Colorado.

SD-3663:30 p.m.

Appropriations

Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related

Agencies Subcommittee

To hold hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2011 for the Washington

Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro).

SD-138

MAY 209:30 a.m.

Energy and Natural Resources

To hold hearings to examine S. 2921, to provide for the conservation, enhanced recreation opportunities, and development of renewable energy in the California

Desert Conservation Area, to require the Secretary of the Interior to designate certain offices to serve as

Renewable Energy Coordination Offices for coordination of Federal permits for renewable energy projects and transmission lines to integrate renewable energy development.

SD-366

Environment and Public Works

Business meeting to consider S. 3362, to amend the Clean

Air Act to direct the Administrator of the

Environmental Protection Agency to provide competitive grants to publicly funded schools to implement effective technologies to reduce air pollutants (as defined in section 302 of the Clean Air Act), including greenhouse gas emissions, in accordance with that Act,

S. 3250, to provide for the training of Federal building personnel, S. 3372, to modify the date on which the Administrator of the Environmental Protection

Agency and applicable States may require permits for discharges from certain vessels, S. 3363, to amend the

Water Resources Research Act of 1984 to reauthorize grants for and require applied water supply research regarding the water resources research and technology institutes established under that Act, S. 3374, to amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response,

Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to establish a grant program to revitalize brownfield sites for the purpose of locating renewable electricity generation facilities on those sites, S. 3373, to address the health and economic development impacts of nonattainment of federally mandated air quality standards in the San Joaquin Valley, California, by designating air quality empowerment zones, H.R. 4275, to designate the annex building under construction for the Elbert P. Tuttle United States Court of Appeals

Building in Atlanta, Georgia, as the ``John C. Godbold

Federal Building'', S. 3248, to designate the

Department of the Interior Building in Washington,

District of Columbia, as the ``Stewart Lee Udall

Department of the Interior Building'', an original bill entitled, ``Pollution and Costs Reduction Act'', and a proposed resolution relating to the General Services

Administration.

SD-406

Foreign Relations

To hold hearings to examine the North Atlantic Treaty

Organization (NATO), focusing on a report of the group of experts.

SD-41910 a.m.

Judiciary

Business meeting to consider S. 193, to create and extend certain temporary district court judgeships, H.R. 4506, to authorize the appointment of additional bankruptcy judges, H.R. 1933, to direct the Attorney General to make an annual grant to the A Child Is Missing Alert and Recovery Center to assist law enforcement agencies in the rapid recovery of missing children, and the nominations of Robert Neil Chatigny, of Connecticut, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit,

John A. Gibney, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, and Stephanie A.

Finley, to be United States Attorney for the Western

District of Louisiana, Scott Jerome Parker, to be

United States Marshal for the Eastern District of North

Carolina, and Darryl Keith McPherson, to be United

States Marshal for the Northern District of Illinois, all of the Department of Justice.

SD-226

Appropriations

Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related

Agencies Subcommittee

Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related

Agencies Subcommittee

To hold joint hearings to examine the progress in ending veterans' homelessness.

SD-124

Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

Securities, Insurance and Investment Subcommittee

To hold hearings to examine the causes and lessons of the

May 6th market plunge.

SD-53810:30 a.m.

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

Contracting Oversight Subcommittee

To hold hearings to examine counternarcotics contracts in

Latin America.

SD-3422 p.m.

Appropriations

Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related

Agencies Subcommittee

To hold hearings to examine investing in mine safety, focusing on preventing another disaster.

SD-1062:30 p.m.

Commerce, Science, and Transportation

To hold hearings to examine the nomination of Carl

Wieman, of Colorado, to be an Associate Director of the

Office of Science and Technology Policy.

SR-253

Finance

Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure Subcommittee

To hold hearings to examine clean technology manufacturing competitiveness, focusing on the role of tax incentives.

SD-215

Appropriations

Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee

To hold hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2011 for the Federal

Trade Commission.

SD-192

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia Subcommittee

To hold hearings to examine efforts to right-size the

Federal employee-to-contractor mix.

SD-342

Intelligence

To hold closed hearings to consider certain intelligence matters.

SH-219

MAY 259 a.m.

Armed Services

Airland Subcommittee

Closed business meeting to markup those provisions which fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2011.

SR-22210:30 a.m.

Armed Services

Readiness and Management Support Subcommittee

Closed business meeting to markup those provisions which fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2011.

SR-2222 p.m.

Armed Services

Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee

Closed business meeting to markup those provisions which fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2011.

SR-2222:30 p.m.

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe

To hold hearings to examine Holocaust era assets after the Prague conference.

SR-428A3 p.m.

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness and

Integration Subcommittee

To hold hearings to examine assessing the effects of the

Deepwater Horizon oil spill on states, localities and the private sector.

SD-3423:30 p.m.

Armed Services

Strategic Forces Subcommittee

Closed business meeting to markup those provisions which fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2011.

SR-2225 p.m.

Armed Services

Personnel Subcommittee

Closed business meeting to markup those provisions which fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2011.

SR-222

MAY 269:30 a.m.

Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Elisabeth

Ann Hagen, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary for Food

Safety, and Catherine E. Woteki, of the District of

Columbia, to be Under Secretary for Research,

Education, and Economics, both of the Department of

Agriculture, and Sara Louise Faivre-Davis, of Texas,

Lowell Lee Junkins, of Iowa, and Myles J. Watts, of

Montana, all to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation, Farm

Credit Administration.

SR-328A

Armed Services

SeaPower Subcommittee

Closed business meeting to markup those provisions which fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2011.

SR-22210 a.m.

Indian Affairs

To hold hearings to examine the nomination of Tracie

Stevens, of Washington, to be Chairman of the National

Indian Gaming Commission.

SD-6282:30 p.m.

Armed Services

Closed business meeting to markup the proposed National

Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2011.

SR-222

MAY 279:30 a.m.

Armed Services