Date Time (EST) Hearing   [Current] [110] [109] [108] [107] [106] [105] [104] [103] [102] [101] [100] [99] [98] [97] [96] [95] [94] [93] [92] [91] [90] [89] 11/16/04 10:30 AM Oversight Hearing on Insurance Brokerage Practices, Including Potential Conflicts of Interest and the Adequacy of the Current Regulatory Framework 11/15/04 12:00 PM How Saddam Hussein Abused the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program 10/05/04 10:00 AM Nominations Hearing 9/30/04 10:30 AM Oversight Hearing on Section 529 College Savings Plans: High Fees, Inadequate Disclosure, Disparate State Tax Treatment and Questionable Broker Sales Practices 9/22/04 10:00 AM Business Meeting 9/21/04 10:00 AM Business Meeting 9/14/04 9:30 AM The 9/11 Commission Human Capital Recommendations: A Critical Element of Reform 9/13/04 9:30 AM Ensuring the U.S. Intelligence Community Supports Homeland Defense and Departmental Needs 9/08/04 10:30 AM Building an Agile Intelligence Community to Fight Terrorism and Emerging Threats 8/26/04 9:30 AM CLOSED HEARING- Reorganizing the Intelligence Community: to What Extent Should the National Intelligence Director Have Budget Authority and the National Counterterrorism Center Play a Role in Operational Planning? 8/17/04 9:00 AM Voicing a Need for Reform: The Families of 9/11 8/16/04 9:30 AM Reorganizing America's Intelligence Community: A View from the Inside 8/03/04 10:00 AM Assessing America's Counterterrorism Capabilities 7/30/04 11:00 AM Making America Safer: Examining the Recommendations of the 9-11 Commission 7/22/04 3:30 PM Nominations Hearing for Allen Weinstein to be Archivist of the United States 7/22/04 9:00 AM Buyer Beware: The Danger of Purchasing Pharmaceuticals over the Internet - Day 2 Federal and Private Sector Responses 7/21/04 10:00 AM Business Meeting 7/20/04 9:00 AM Building the 21st Century Federal Workforce: Assessing Progress in Human Capital Management 7/19/04 2:30 PM Nomination Hearing for Neil McPhie and Barbara Sapin 7/15/04 9:00 AM Money Laundering and Foreign Corruption: Enforcement and Effectiveness of the Patriot Act 7/08/04 10:30 AM The Federal Government's Financial Statement and Accountability of Taxpayer Dollars at the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security 7/07/04 10:00 AM Juvenile Detention Centers: Are They Warehousing Children with Mental Illness 7/06/04 6:05 PM Business Meeting 6/23/04 4:00 PM International Smuggling Networks: Weapons of Mass Destruction Counterproliferation Initiatives 6/23/04 11:30 AM Nomination Hearing for David M. Stone to be Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration 6/17/04 9:00 AM Buyer Beware: The Danger of Purchasing Pharmaceuticals Over The Internet 6/15/04 10:30 AM An Assessment of Current Efforts to Combat Terrorism Financing 6/09/04 10:00 AM Going Nowhere: DOD Wastes Millions of Dollars on Unused Airline Tickets 6/08/04 2:30 PM Dietary Supplement Safety Act: How is FDA Doing 10 Years Later? 6/02/04 10:00 AM Executive Business Meeting 5/12/04 10:00 AM Bogus Degrees and Unmet Expectations: Are Taxpayer Dollars Subsidizing Diploma Mills? (Day 2) 5/11/04 10:30 AM Bogus Degrees and Unmet Expectations: Are Taxpayer Dollars Subsidizing Diploma Mills? 5/06/04 10:00 AM Trimming the Fat: Examining Duplicative and Outdated Federal Programs and Functions 4/29/04 10:45 AM Nomination Hearing for Mr. David Safavian 4/29/04 10:00 AM Nomination Hearing for Mr. Dawn Tisdale 4/28/04 10:00 AM Government Purchase Cards: Smarter Use Can Save Taxpayers Hundreds of Millions of Dollars 4/20/04 2:30 PM Oversight Hearing on Expensing Stock Options: Supporting and Strengthening the Independence of the Financial Accounting Standards Board 4/20/04 9:30 AM Pirates of the 21st Century: The Curse of the Black Market 4/08/04 9:30 AM Does CMS Have the Right Prescription? Implementing the Medicare Prescription Drug Program 4/07/04 2:00 PM Legislative Hearing on S. 346, a Bill to Amend the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to Establish a Governmentwide Policy Requiring Competition in Certain Procurements from Federal Prison Industries 4/07/04 10:00 AM Postal Reform: The Chairmen’s Perspectives on Governance and Rate-Setting 3/30/04 2:30 PM The Federal Government’s Role In Empowering Americans To Make Informed Financial Decisions 3/29/04 9:00 AM The Road to Recovery: Solving the Social Security Disability Backlog 3/24/04 9:00 AM Profiteering in a Non-profit Industry: Abusive Practices in Credit Counseling 3/23/04 2:30 PM The Postal Service in Crisis: A Joint Senate-House Hearing on Principles for Meaningful Reform 3/11/04 9:30 AM Postal Reform: Sustaining the 9 Million Jobs in the $900 Billion Mailing Industry (Day 2) 3/09/04 10:00 AM Postal Reform: Sustaining the 9 Million Jobs in the $900 Billion Mailing Industry (Day 1) 3/01/04 11:00 AM Oversight of the Thrift Savings Plan: Ensuring the Integrity of Federal Employee Retirement Savings 2/25/04 10:00 AM JOINT HEARING: The Key to Homeland Security: the New Human Resources System 2/24/04 10:00 AM Preserving a Strong United States Postal Service: Worforce Issues, Day 1 2/12/04 9:30 AM DOD Contractors that Cheat on their Taxes and What Should Be Done About It 2/09/04 10:00 AM Department of Homeland Security's budget for FY05 2/04/04 2:00 PM Preserving a Strong United States Postal Service: Workforce Issues, Day 2 1/27/04 10:00 AM Oversight Hearing on Mutual Funds: Hidden Fees, Misgovernance and Other Practices that Harm Investors 12/09/03 10:00 AM Fair or Foul: The Challenge of Negotiating, Monitoring, and Enforcing U.S. Trade Laws 11/21/03 11:15 AM Executive Business Meeting 11/20/03 10:00 AM Keeping the Lights On: The Federal Role in Managing the Nation's Electricity, Part Two 11/20/03 9:00 AM U. S. Tax Shelter Industry: The Role of Accountants, Lawyers and Financial Professionals, Day 2 11/19/03 9:30 AM Agroterrorism: The Threat to America's Breadbasket 11/18/03 2:30 PM Nominations Hearing 11/18/03 9:00 AM U. S. Tax Shelter Industry: The Role of Accountants, Lawyers and Financial Professionals, Day 1 11/12/03 3:30 PM S. 1358, the Federal Employee Protection of Disclosures Act: Amendments to the Whistleblower Protection Act 11/12/03 2:00 PM Nominations Hearing 11/06/03 2:00 PM DOD’s Improper Use of First and Business Class Airline Travel 11/05/03 2:00 PM The Report of the Presidential Commission on the U.S. Postal Service: Preserving Access and Affordability. 11/03/03 10:30 AM Mutual Funds: Trading Practices and Abuses that Harm Investors 10/22/03 10:30 AM Executive Business Meeting 10/08/03 10:00 AM SARS: Is Minnesota Prepared? 10/02/03 4:10 PM Executive Business Meeting 10/01/03 9:30 AM Deteriorating Buildings and Wasted Opportunities: The Need for Federal Real Property Reform 9/30/03 10:00 AM Privacy & Piracy: The Paradox of Illegal File Sharing on Peer-to-Peer Networks and the Impact of Technology on the Entertainment Industry 9/30/03 9:00 AM Nominations Hearing 9/24/03 9:30 AM Penalty for Public Service: Do the Social Security Government Pension Offset and Windfall Elimination Provisions Unfairly Discriminate Against Employees and Retirees? 9/23/03 9:30 AM CLOSED HEARING: Combating Terrorist Financing: Are We on the Right Track? 9/17/03 10:00 AM U.S. Postal Service: What Can Be Done to Ensure Its Future Viability? 9/16/03 11:00 AM Nomination Hearing, Department of Homeland Security 9/16/03 9:30 AM Oversight of GAO: What Lies Ahead for Congress' Watchdog? 9/15/03 2:30 PM Safeguarding America's Retirement Security: An Examination of Defined Benefit Pension Plans and the Pension Benefits Guaranty Corporation 9/10/03 9:00 AM Keeping the Lights On : The Federal Role in Managing the Nation's Electricity 8/06/03 10:00 AM Legal Drugs, Illegal Purposes: The Escalating Abuse of Prescription Medications 7/31/03 10:00 AM Terrorism Financing: Origination, Organization, and Prevention 7/30/03 1:50 PM Executive Business Meeting 7/30/03 9:00 AM SARS: Best Practices for Identifying And Caring for New Cases. 7/29/03 10:15 AM Nominations Hearing to Consider Joel D. Kaplan to be Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget 7/29/03 9:30 AM Department of Homeland Security Nominations hearing for Joe D. Whitley to be General Counsel and Penrose C. Albright to be Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Plans, Programs, and Budget). 7/24/03 9:30 AM Then and Now: An Update on the Administration's Competitive Sourcing Initiative 7/22/03 3:30 PM Nominations Hearing for Allen Weinstein to be Archivist of the United States 7/21/03 2:00 PM Oversight Hearing on Government Sponsored Enterprises: The Risks and Benefits to Consumers 7/17/03 9:30 AM Nowhere to Turn: Must Parents Relinquish Custody in Order to Secure Mental Health Services for Their Children?, Part 2: Government Response. 7/16/03 10:00 AM Great Lakes Restoration Management: No Direction, Unknown Progress. 7/15/03 9:30 AM Nowhere to Turn: Must Parents Relinquish Custody in Order to Secure Mental Health Services for Their Children?, Part 1: Families and Advocates. 6/26/03 12:50 PM Executive Business Meeting 6/25/03 9:30 AM Nomination of Joshua B. Bolten to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget 6/24/03 10:00 AM Juvenile Diabetes: Examining the Personal Toll on Families, Financial Costs to the Federal Health Care System, and Research Progress Toward a Cure 6/19/03 10:00 AM Self-Dealing and Breach of Duty: A Review of the ULLICO Matter 6/18/03 9:30 AM Superior Court of the District of Columbia Nominations 6/17/03 10:00 AM Executive Business Meeting 6/11/03 9:00 AM Patient Safety: Instilling Hospitals with a Culture of Continuous Improvement 6/05/03 10:30 AM Department of Homeland Security Nominations 6/04/03 9:30 AM Transforming the Department of Defense Personnel System: Finding the Right Approach. 5/21/03 9:00 AM SARS: How Effective Is The State And Local Response? 5/20/03 2:00 PM Drugs, Counterfeiting, and Weapons Proliferation: The North Korea Connection 5/15/03 2:00 PM Nominations 5/15/03 9:30 AM "Investing in Homeland Security: Challenges Facing State and Local Governments" 5/14/03 9:30 AM Tissue Banks: The Dangers of Tainted Tissue and the Need for Federal Regulation 5/12/03 12:30 PM An Overlooked Asset: the Defense Civilian Workforce 5/12/03 8:30 AM Border Security: How are State and Local Officials Coping With The New Levels of Threat? 5/01/03 10:00 AM Investing in Homeland Security: Streamlining and Enhancing Homeland Security Grant Programs 4/10/03 11:00 AM Prosecuting Iraqi War Crimes; A Consideration of the Different Forum Options 4/10/03 9:30 AM Nomination of Peter Eide to be General Counsel of the Federal Labor Relations Authority 4/09/03 9:30 AM Investing in Homeland Security, Challenges on the Front Line 4/08/03 9:30 AM The Human Capital Challenge: Offering Solutions and Delivering Results 4/02/03 10:00 AM Nominations 3/20/03 9:30 AM Cargo Containers: The Next Terrorist Target? 3/06/03 9:30 AM Evaluating Human Capital at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 3/05/03 10:00 AM Business Meeting 2/27/03 11:00 AM Nominations 2/26/03 10:00 AM Consolidating Intelligence Analysis: A Review of the President's Proposal to Create a Terrorist Threat Integration Center--Day 2 2/14/03 9:30 AM Consolidating Intelligence Analysis: A Review of the President's Proposal to Create a Terrorist Threat Integration Center 2/05/03 2:20 PM Business Meeting 1/24/03 9:30 AM The nomination of The Honorable Gordon England to be Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security 1/17/03 9:00 AM The nomination of The Honorable Tom Ridge to be Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 340 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510