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“SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Extensions of Remarks section on pages E2901-E2902 on Dec. 7, 2009.
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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, December 8, 2009 may be found in the Daily Digest of today's Record.
MEETINGS SCHEDULED
DECEMBER 99:30 a.m.
Indian Affairs
Business meeting to consider pending calendar business; to be immediately followed by a hearing to examine S.
1690, to amend the Act of March 1, 1933, to transfer certain authority and resources to the Utah Dineh
Corporation; to be immediately followed by an oversight hearing to examine Department of the Interior backlogs.
SD-628
Veterans' Affairs
To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Robert A.
Petzel, of Minnesota, to be Under Secretary for Health, and Raul Perea-Henze, of New York, to be Assistant
Secretary for Policy and Planning, both of the
Department of Veterans Affairs.
SR-41810 a.m.
Foreign Relations
To hold hearings to examine the new Afghanistan strategy, focusing on the view from the ground.
SD-419
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Business meeting to consider the nominations of
Jacqueline A. Berrien, of New York, Victoria A. Lipnic, of Virginia, Chai Rachel Feldblum, of Maryland, all to be a Member of the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission, P. David Lopez, of Arizona, to be General
Counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,
Patrick Alfred Corvington, of Maryland, to be Chief
Executive Officer of the Corporation for National and
Community Service, Adele Logan Alexander, of the
District of Columbia, to be a Member of the National
Council on the Humanities, and Lynnae M. Ruttledge, of
Washington, to be Commissioner of the Rehabilitation
Services Administration, Department of Education.
SD-430
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
To hold hearings to examine five years after the
Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, focusing on stopping terrorist travel.
SD-342
Judiciary
To hold an oversight hearing to examine the Department of
Homeland Security.
SH-2162 p.m.
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Economic Policy Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine creating jobs in the recession.
SD-538
Judiciary
To hold hearings to examine mortgage fraud, securities fraud, and the financial meltdown, focusing on prosecuting those responsible.
SD-2262:30 p.m.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
To hold hearings to examine research parks and job creation, focusing on innovation through cooperation.
SR-253
Foreign Relations
European Affairs Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine strengthening the transatlantic economy.
SD-419
Finance
International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness
Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine exports' place on the path of economic recovery.
SD-215
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine the diplomat's shield, focusing on diplomatic security today.
SD-342
DECEMBER 109:30 a.m.
Environment and Public Works
Business meeting to consider S. 373, to amend title 18,
United States Code, to include constrictor snakes of the species Python genera as an injurious animal, S.
1214, to conserve fish and aquatic communities in the
United States through partnerships that foster fish habitat conservation, to improve the quality of life for the people of the United States, S. 1421, to amend section 42 of title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the importation and shipment of certain species of carp, S. 1519, to provide for the eradication and control of nutria in Maryland, Louisiana, and other coastal States, S. 1965, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide financial assistance to the
State of Louisiana for a pilot program to develop measures to eradicate or control feral swine and to assess and restore wetlands damaged by feral swine,
H.R. 509, to reauthorize the Marine Turtle Conservation
Act of 2004, H.R. 2188, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, through the United States Fish and
Wildlife Service, to conduct a Joint Venture Program to protect, restore, enhance, and manage migratory bird populations, their habitats, and the ecosystems they rely on, through voluntary actions on public and private lands, H.R. 3433, to amend the North American
Wetlands Conservation Act to establish requirements regarding payment of the non-Federal share of the costs of wetlands conservation projects in Canada that are funded under that Act, H.R. 3537, to amend and reauthorize the Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and
Design Program Act of 1994, S. 1397, to authorize the
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to award grants for electronic device recycling research, development, and demonstration projects, S. 1660, to amend the Toxic Substances Control Act to reduce the emissions of formaldehyde from composite wood products, a proposed resolution relating to Army Corps study for
Espanola Valley, and a proposed resolution relating to the General Services Administration.
SD-406
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Housing, Transportation and Community Development
Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine the Federal role in overseeing the safety of public transportation systems.
SD-53810 a.m.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security Subcommittee
To hold an oversight hearing to examine aviation safety, focusing on Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) safety initiatives.
SR-253
Budget
To hold hearings to examine data-driven performance, focusing on using technology to deliver results.
SD-608
Energy and Natural Resources
To hold hearings to examine the role of grid-scale energy storage in meeting our energy and climate goals.
SD-366
Foreign Relations
To hold hearings to examine Treaty Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland Concerning Defense Trade Cooperation, done at
Washington and London on June 21 and 26, 2007 (Treaty
Doc. 110-07), and Treaty Between the Government of the
United States of America and the Government of
Australia Concerning Defense Trade Cooperation, done at
Sydney, September 5, 2007 (Treaty Doc. 110-10).
SD-419
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Grayling
Grant Williams, of Maryland, to be Director of the
Office of Counternarcotics Enforcement, and Elizabeth
M. Harman, of Maryland, to be an Assistant
Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management
Agency, both of the Department of Homeland Security.
SD-342
Judiciary
Business meeting to consider S. 448, to maintain the free flow of information to the public by providing conditions for the federally compelled disclosure of information by certain persons connected with the news media, S. 714, to establish the National Criminal
Justice Commission, S. 1624, to amend title 11 of the
United States Code, to provide protection for medical debt homeowners, to restore bankruptcy protections for individuals experiencing economic distress as caregivers to ill, injured, or disabled family members, and to exempt from means testing debtors whose financial problems were caused by serious medical problems, S. 1765, to amend the Hate Crime Statistics
Act to include crimes against the homeless,
S. 678, to reauthorize and improve the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, S. 1554, to amend the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Act of 1974 to prevent later delinquency and improve the health and well-being of maltreated infants and toddlers through the development of local Court Teams for Maltreated Infants and Toddlers and the creation of a National Court Teams Resource Center to assist such
Court Teams, S. 1789, to restore fairness to Federal cocaine sentencing, and the nominations of Rosanna
Malouf Peterson, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Washington, William M. Conley, to be United States District Judge for the Western
District of Wisconsin, Denny Chin, of New York, to be
United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit,
Paul R. Verkuil, of Florida, to be Chairman of the
Administrative Conference of the United States, and
John Gibbons, to be United States Marshal for the
District of Massachusetts, Richard G. Callahan, to be
United States Attorney for the Eastern District of
Missouri, and John Leroy Kammerzell, to be United
States Marshal for the District of Colorado, all of the
Department of Justice.
SD-226
Joint Economic Committee
To hold hearings to examine the challenge of creating jobs in the aftermath of the recession.
210, Cannon Building2:30 p.m.
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Disaster Recovery Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine children and disasters, focusing on a progress report on addressing needs.
SD-342
Foreign Relations
East Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine principles for United States engagement in Asia.
SD-419
Intelligence
To hold closed hearings to consider certain intelligence matters.
S-407, Capitol
DECEMBER 1510 a.m.
Energy and Natural Resources
To hold hearings to examine S. 2052, to amend the Energy
Policy Act of 2005 to require the Secretary of Energy to carry out a research and development and demonstration program to reduce manufacturing and construction costs relating to nuclear reactors, and S.
2812, to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require the Secretary of Energy to carry out programs to develop and demonstrate 2 small modular nuclear reactor designs.
SD-3662:30 p.m.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
To hold hearings to examine certain nominations.
SR-253
DECEMBER 1710 a.m.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Business meeting to consider pending calendar business.
SR-2532:30 p.m.
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Contracting Oversight Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine an overview of Afghanistan contracts.
SD-342
Energy and Natural Resources
Public Lands and Forests Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine S. 1470, to sustain the economic development and recreational use of National
Forest System land and other public land in the State of Montana, to add certain land to the National
Wilderness Preservation System, to release certain wilderness study areas, to designate new areas for recreation, S. 1719, to provide for the conveyance of certain parcels of land to the town of Alta, Utah, S.
1787, to reauthorize the Federal Land Transaction
Facilitation Act, H.R. 762, to validate final patent number 27-2005-0081, and H.R. 934, to convey certain submerged lands to the Commonwealth of the Northern
Mariana Islands in order to give that territory the same benefits in its submerged lands as Guam, the
Virgin Islands, and American Samoa have in their submerged lands.
SD-366
