Tuesday, Jun. 24, 2008
10 a.m.
Finance,
To hold an oversight hearing to examine trade
functions, focusing on customs and other trade
agencies,
in SD-215.
10 a.m.
Judiciary,
Human Rights and the Law Subcommittee,
To hold hearings to examine from Nuremberg to
Darfur, focusing on accountability for crimes
against humanity,
in SD-226.
10:30 a.m.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
To hold hearings to examine climate change
impacts on the transportation sector.
SR-253
10:30 a.m.
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
To hold hearings to examine the emergence of the
superbug, focusing on antimicrobial resistance in
the United States.
SD-430
10:30 a.m.
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
To hold hearings to examine ending excessive
speculation in commodity markets, focusing on
legislative options.
SD-342
11:30 a.m.
Appropriations
Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee
Business meeting to markup proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 2009 for Labor, Health
and Human Services, Education, and related
agencies.
SD-138
2:15 p.m.
Foreign Relations
Business meeting to consider H.R.176, to
authorize the establishment of educational
exchange and development programs for member
countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM),
H.R.2553, to amend the State Department Basic
Authorities Act of 1956 to provide for the
establishment and maintenance of existing
libraries and resource centers at United States
diplomatic and consular missions to provide
information about American culture, society, and
history, S.2120, to authorize the establishment
of a Social Investment and Economic Development
Fund for the Americas to provide assistance to
reduce poverty, expand the middle class, and
foster increased economic opportunity in the
countries of the Western Hemisphere, S.2166, to
provide for greater responsibility in lending and
expanded cancellation of debts owed to the United
States and the international financial
institutions by low-income countries, S.3097, to
amend the Vietnam Education Foundation Act of
2000, S.3168, to authorize United States
participation in the replenishment of resources
of the International Development Association,
S.3169, to authorize United States participation
in, and appropriations for the United States
contribution to, the eleventh replenishment of
the resources of the African Development Fund,
and international Convention Against Doping in
Sport, adopted by the United Nations Educational,
Scientific, and Cultural Organization on October
19, 2005 (Treaty Doc.110-14), certain pending
nominations, and promotion lists in the Foreign
Service.
S-116, Capitol
2:30 p.m.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Business meeting to consider S.2907, to establish
uniform administrative and enforcement procedures
and penalties for the enforcement of the High
Seas Driftnet Fishing Moratorium Protection Act
and similar statutes, an original bill entitled,
"The National Aeronautics and Space
Administration Authorization Act of 2008",
an original bill entitled, "The National Sea
Grant College Program Amendments Act of
2008", and promotion lists in the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the
United States Coast Guard.
SR-253
Wednesday, Jun. 25, 2008
9 a.m.
Judiciary
Constitution Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine laptop searches and
other violations of privacy faced by Americans
returning from overseas travel.
SD-226
9:30 a.m.
Energy and Natural Resources
To hold hearings to examine the increased global
energy demand, focusing on the challenges for
meeting future energy needs, while developing new
technologies to address the current and future
global climate change.
SD-366
9:30 a.m.
Foreign Relations
To hold hearings to examine a new strategy for an
enhanced partnership with Pakistan.
SD-419
9:30 a.m.
Joint Economic Committee
To hold hearings to examine the United States
economy, focusing on the skyrocketing oil prices.
SD-106
10 a.m.
Environment and Public Works
To hold hearings to examine the future federal
role for surface transportation.
SD-406
10 a.m.
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Business meeting to consider S.2583, to amend the
Improper Payments Information Act of 2002 (31
U.S.C. 3321 note) in order to prevent the loss of
billions in taxpayer dollars, S.1924, to amend
chapter 81 of title 5, United States Code, to
create a presumption that a disability or death
of a Federal employee in fire protection
activities caused by any of certain diseases is
the result of the performance of such employee's
duty, H.R.5683, to make certain reforms with
respect to the Government Accountability Office,
S.3013, to provide for retirement equity for
Federal employees in nonforeign areas outside the
48 contiguous States and the District of
Columbia, S.3175, to amend the Robert T. Stafford
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to
reauthorize the predisaster hazard mitigation
program, to make technical corrections to that
Act, S.2382, to require the Administrator of the
Federal Emergency Management Agency to quickly
and fairly address the abundance of surplus
manufactured housing units stored by the Federal
Government around the country at taxpayer
expense, S.2148, to provide for greater diversity
within, and to improve policy direction and
oversight of, the Senior Executive Service,
S.2816, to provide for the appointment of the
Chief Human Capital Officer of the Department of
Homeland Security by the Secretary of Homeland
Security, S.3015, to designate the facility of
the United States Postal Service located at 18 S.
G Street, Lakeview, Oregon, as the "Dr.
Bernard Daly Post Office Building", H.R.5395
and S.2622, bills to designate the facility of
the United States Postal Service located at 11001
Dunklin Drive in St. Louis, Missouri, as the
"William 'Bill" Clay Post Office
Building', H.R.5479, to designate the facility of
the United States Postal Service located at 117
North Kidd Street in Ionia, Michigan, as the
"Alonzo Woodruff Post Office Building",
H.R.4185, to designate the facility of the United
States Postal Service located at 11151 Valley
Boulevard in El Monte, California, as the
"Marisol Heredia Post Office Building",
H.R.5528, to designate the facility of the United
States Postal Service located at 120 Commercial
Street in Brockton, Massachusetts, as the
"Rocky Marciano Post Office Building",
H.R.3721, to designate the facility of the United
States Postal Service located at 1190 Lorena Road
in Lorena, Texas, as the "Marine Gunnery
Sgt. John D. Fry Post Office Building",
H.R.5517, to designate the facility of the United
States Postal Service located at 7231 FM 1960 in
Humble, Texas, as the "Texas Military
Veterans Post Office", H.R.5168, to
designate the facility of the United States
Postal Service located at 19101 Cortez Boulevard
in Brooksville, Florida, as the "Cody Grater
Post Office Building", S.3082, to designate
the facility of the United States Postal Service
located at 1700 Cleveland Avenue in Kansas City,
Missouri, as the "Reverend Earl Abel Post
Office Building", and the nomination of
Elaine C. Duke, of Virginia, to be Under
Secretary for Management, Department of Homeland
Security.
SD-342
10 a.m.
Small Business and Entrepreneurship
To hold hearings to examine solutions to cope
with the rise in home heating oil prices.
SR-428A
11 a.m.
Appropriations
Energy and Water Development Subcommittee
Business meeting to markup proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 2009 for the Energy
Information Administration, focusing on forecasts
for oil and gasoline prices.
SD-192
2:30 p.m.
Armed Services
To hold closed hearings to examine the current
situation in Afghanistan.
SR-222
2:30 p.m.
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Business meeting to consider the nominations of
Neel T. Kashkari, of California, to be an
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Christopher
R. Wall, of Virginia, to be an Assistant
Secretary of Commerce, Sheila McNamara Greenwood,
of Louisiana, to be an Assistant Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development, Susan D. Peppler,
of California, to be an Assistant Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development, Joseph J. Murin,
of Pennsylvania, to be President, Government
National Mortgage Association, Luis Aguilar, of
Georgia, Troy A. Paredes, of Missouri, and Elisse
Walter, of Maryland, all to be Members of the
Securities and Exchange Commission, Donald B.
Marron, of Maryland, to be a Member of the
Council of Economic Advisers, and Michael E.
Fryzel, of Illinois, to be a Member of the
National Credit Union Administration Board.
SD-538
Thursday, Jun. 26, 2008
9:30 a.m.
Armed Services
To hold hearings to examine the nominations of
Nelson M. Ford, of Virginia, to be Under
Secretary of the Army, Joseph A. Benkert, of
Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary, Sean
Joseph Stackley, of Virginia, to be an Assistant
Secretary of the Navy, and Frederick S. Celec, of
Virginia, to be Assistant to the Secretary for
Nuclear and Chemical and Biological Defense
Programs, all of the Department of Defense.
SD-106
9:30 a.m.
Veterans' Affairs
Business meeting to markup S.2969, to amend title
38, United States Code, to enhance the capacity
of the Department of Veterans Affairs to recruit
and retain nurses and other critical health-care
professionals, S.2309, to amend title 38, United
States Code, to clarify the service treatable as
service engaged in combat with the enemy for
utilization of non-official evidence for proof of
service-connection in a combat-related disease or
injury, S.22, to amend title 38, United States
Code, to establish a program of educational
assistance for members of the Armed Forces who
serve in the Armed Forces after September 11,
2001, S.2617, to increase, effective as of
December 1, 2008, 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, and an original bill to
provide technical corrections to S.22, the Post
9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2007;
to be immediately followed by a hearing to
examine the nomination of Christine O. Hill, to
be Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs for
Congressional Affairs.
SR-418
10 a.m.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine the outlook for
summer air travel, focusing on addressing
congestion and delay.
SR-253
10 a.m.
Finance
To hold hearings to examine the foundation of
international tax reform, focusing on worldwide,
territorial, and other related issues.
SD-215
10 a.m.
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
To hold hearings to examine nuclear terrorism,
focusing on the federal response for providing
medical care and meeting basic needs in the
aftermath of an attack.
SD-342
10 a.m.
Indian Affairs
To hold an oversight hearing to examine access to
contract health services in Indian country.
SD-562
10 a.m.
Judiciary
Business meeting to consider S.2979, to exempt
the African National Congress from treatment as a
terrorist organization, H.R.5690, to remove the
African National Congress from treatment as a
terrorist organization for certain acts or
events, provide relief for certain members of the
African National Congress regarding
admissibility, S.2892, to promote the prosecution
and enforcement of frauds against the United
States by suspending the statute of limitations
during times when Congress has authorized the use
of military force, S.1211, to amend the
Controlled Substances Act to provide enhanced
penalties for marketing controlled substances to
minors, S.3155, to reauthorize and improve the
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act
of 1974, S.2746, to amend section 552(b)(3) of
title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to
as the Freedom of Information Act) to provide
that statutory exemptions to the disclosure
requirements of that Act shall specifically cite
to the provision of that Act authorizing such
exemptions, to ensure an open and deliberative
process in Congress by providing for related
legislative proposals to explicitly state such
required citations, S.3061, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal years 2008 through 2011
for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of
2000, to enhance measures to combat trafficking
in persons, S.Res.594, designating September 2008
as "Tay-Sachs Awareness Month", and the
nominations of Paul G. Gardephe, to be United
States District Judge for the Southern District
of New York, Kiyo A. Matsumoto, to be United
States District Judge for the Eastern District of
New York, Cathy Seibel, to be United States
District Judge for the Southern District of New
York, Glenn T. Suddaby, to be United States
District Judge for the Northern District of New
York, Kelly Harrison Rankin, to be United States
Attorney for the District of Wyoming, and Clyde
R. Cook, Jr., to be United States Marshal for the
Eastern District of North Carolina.
SD-226
2 p.m.
Appropriations
Business meeting to markup proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 2009 for Labor, Health
and Human Services, Education, and related
agencies.
SD-106
2 p.m.
Judiciary
Crime and Drugs Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine effective ways to
catch fugitives in the 21st century.
SD-226
2:30 p.m.
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Children and Families Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine reauthorization of
the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act
(CAPTA)(Public Law 93-247), focusing on
protecting children and strengthening families.
SD-430
2:30 p.m.
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine addressing the
nation's financial challenges.
SD-342
Wednesday, Jul. 9, 2008
2:30 p.m.
Energy and Natural Resources
Public Lands and Forests Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine S.2443 and H.R.2246,
bills to provide for the release of any
revisionary interest of the United States in and
to certain lands in Reno, Nevada, S.2779, to
amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation
Act of 1977 to clarify that uncertified States
and Indian tribes have the authority to use
certain payments for certain noncoal reclamation
projects, S.2875, to authorize the Secretary of
the Interior to provide grants to designated
States and tribes to carry out programs to reduce
the risk of livestock loss due to predation by
gray wolves and other predator species or to
compensate landowners for livestock loss due to
predation, S.2898 and H.R.816, bills to provide
for the release of certain land from the Sunrise
Mountain Instant Study Area in the State of
Nevada, S.3088, to designate certain land in the
State of Oregon as wilderness, S. 3089, to
designate certain land in the State of Oregon as
wilderness, to provide for the exchange of
certain Federal land and non-Federal land, and
S.3157, to provide for the exchange and
conveyance of certain National Forest System land
and other land in southeast Arizona.
SD-366
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