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Daily Digest Committee Meetings/Hearings Schedule

This document provides a brief description of each committee meeting and hearing scheduled to take place today, and on days thereafter. The time and location of each meeting/hearing is identified. Meetings that have been canceled or postponed are also noted.

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Today, Jan. 11, 2009

    
        No committee hearings scheduled
        
    

Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009

9:00 am
    Budget
         Hearings to examine the nominations of Peter R. Orszag, of Massachusetts, to be Director, and Robert L. Nabors II, of New Jersey, to be Deputy Director, both of the Office of Management and Budget.
SD-608        
    
9:30 am
    Foreign Relations
         Hearings to examine the nomination of Hillary R. Clinton, to be Secretary of State.
SH-216        
    
10:00 am
    Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
         Hearings to examine the nomination of Shaun Donovan, of New York, to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
SD-538        
    
10:00 am
    Energy and Natural Resources
         Hearings to examine the nomination of Steven Chu, to be Secretary of Energy.
SD-366        
    
10:00 am
    Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
         Hearings to examine the nomination of Arne Duncan to be Secretary of Education.
SD-430        
    

Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009

10:00 am
    Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
         Hearings to examine the nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack, to be Secretary of Agriculture.
SD-G50        
    
10:00 am
    Environment and Public Works
         Hearings to examine the nominations of Lisa P. Jackson, to be Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and Nancy Helen Sutley, to be Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality.
SD-406        
    
10:00 am
    Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
         Business meeting to consider pending calendar business.
SD-430        
    
10:00 am
    Veterans' Affairs
         Hearings to examine the nomination of Eric Shinseki, to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
SD-106        
    
2:00 pm
    Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         Hearings to examine the nominations of Peter R. Orszag, of Massachusetts, to be Director, and Robert L. Nabors II, of New Jersey, to be Deputy Director, both of the Office of Management and Budget.
SD-342        
    
2:30 pm
    Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         Hearings to examine the nomination of Ray LaHood, to be Secretary of Transportation.
SR-253        
    

Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009

9:30 am
    Armed Services
         Hearings to examine the nominations of William J. Lynn III, to be Deputy Secretary, Robert F. Hale, to be Under Secretary (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer, Michele Flournoy, to be Under Secretary for Policy, and Jeh Charles Johnson, to be General Counsel, all of the Department of Defense.
SD-106        
    
9:30 am
    Energy and Natural Resources
         Hearings to examine the nomination of Ken Salazar to be Secretary of the Interior.
SD-366        
    
9:30 am
    Foreign Relations
         Business meeting to consider the nomination of Hillary R. Clinton, to be Secretary of State; to be followed by a hearing to examine the nomination of Susan E. Rice, to be Representative to the United Nations, with the rank and status of Ambassador, and the Representative in the Security Council of the United Nations, and to be Representative to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations during her tenure of service as Representative to the United Nations.
SH-216        
    
9:30 am
    Judiciary
         Hearings to examine the nomination of Eric H. Holder, to be Attorney General of the United States.
SR-325        
    
10:00 am
    Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
         Hearings to examine the nominations of Mary Schapiro, of New York, to be Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Christina Romer, of California, to be Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, Austan Goolsbee, of Illinois, and Cecilia Rouse, of New Jersey, each to be a Member of the Council of Economic Advisors, and Daniel Tarullo, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
SD-538        
    
10:00 am
    Budget
         Hearings to examine the debt outlook and its implications for policy.
SD-608        
    
10:00 am
    Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         Hearings to examine the nomination of Janet A. Napolitano, to be Secretary of Homeland Security.
SD-342        
    
10:00 am
    Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
         Hearings to examine investing in health information technology (IT), focusing on stimulus for a healthier America.
SD-430        
    
2:30 pm
    Indian Affairs
         Hearings to examine job creation and economic stimulus in Indian country.
SD-628        
    

Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009

9:30 am
    Armed Services
         Hearings to examine challenges facing the Department of Defense.
SD-106        
    
 
  

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