Sept. 10, 2012 sees Congressional Record publish “SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS”

Volume 158, No. 120 covering the 2nd Session of the 112th Congress (2011 - 2012) was published by the Congressional Record.

The Congressional Record is a unique source of public documentation. It started in 1873, documenting nearly all the major and minor policies being discussed and debated.

“SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the Extensions of Remarks section on pages E1468-E1469 on Sept. 10, 2012.

The publication is reproduced in full below:

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 Ccommittee--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 11, 2012 may be found in the Daily Digest of today's Record.

MEETINGS SCHEDULED

SEPTEMBER 129:30 a.m.

Energy and Natural Resources

To hold hearings to examine S. 3469, to establish a new organization to manage nuclear waste, provide a consensual process for siting nuclear waste facilities, ensure adequate funding for managing nuclear waste.

SD-36610 a.m.

Environment and Public Works

Clean Air and Nuclear Safety Subcommittee

To hold a joint oversight hearing to examine the Nuclear

Regulatory Commission's (NRC) implementation of recommendations for enhancing nuclear reactor safety in the 21st century.

SD-406

Foreign Relations

To receive a closed briefing on an intelligence update on

Syria and Iran.

SVC-217

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

To hold hearings to examine the future of the General

Services Administration.

SD-342

Judiciary

To hold hearings to examine the Citizens United court and the continuing importance of the ``Voting Rights Act''.

SD-226

Veterans' Affairs

Business meeting to consider pending calendar business.

SR-4182 p.m.

Commerce, Science, and Transportation

To hold hearings to examine the path from low-Earth orbit

(LEO) to Mars.

SR-2532:45 p.m.

Foreign Relations

To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Joseph E.

Macmanus, of New

York, to be Representative to the Vienna Office of the

United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, and to be

Representative to the International Atomic Energy

Agency, with the rank of Ambassador, 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, and 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, all of the

Department of State.

SD-419

SEPTEMBER 139:30 a.m.

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

Investigations Subcommittee

To hold hearings to examine issues related to the quality of disability benefit awards involving 300 case files of claimants under the Social Security Disability

Insurance (SSDI) and Supplement Security Income (SSI) programs involving initial applications and subsequent levels of appeal.

SD-34210 a.m.

Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

To hold hearings to examine holding the Consumer

Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) accountable, focusing on a review of the semi-annual report to

Congress.

SD-538

Judiciary

Business meeting to consider S. 645, to amend the

National Child Protection Act of 1993 to establish a permanent background check system, 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-22610:30 a.m.

Foreign Relations

To hold hearings to examine the nominations Stephen D.

Mull, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of

Poland, and Dawn M. Liberi, of Florida, to be

Ambassador to the Republic of Burundi, both of the

Department of State.

SD-419

Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

To hold hearings to examine improving college affordability, focusing on a view from the states.

SD-4302:15 p.m.

Indian Affairs

Business meeting to consider S. 675, to express the policy of the United States regarding the United States relationship with Native Hawaiians and to provide a process for the recognition by the United States of the

Native Hawaiian governing entity, S. 1345, to provide for equitable compensation to the Spokane Tribe of

Indians of the Spokane Reservation for the use of tribal land for the production of hydropower by the

Grand Coulee Dam, and S. 1684, to amend the Indian

Tribal Energy Development and Self-Determination Act of

2005, to be immediately followed by an oversight hearing to examine the impacts of the Carcieri and

Patchak decisions.

SD-6282:30 p.m.

Intelligence

To hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence matters.

SH-219

SEPTEMBER 142:30 p.m.

Indian Affairs

To hold hearings to examine the nomination of Kevin K.

Washburn, of New Mexico, to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs.

SD-628

SEPTEMBER 1910 a.m.

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

To hold hearings to examine homeland threats and agency responses.

SD-3422:15 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, the nominations of Richard G. Olson, of New Mexico, to be

Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan,

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.

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-628