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Committee Assignments for the 111th Congress
Committee Hearings & Meetings Scheduled


  
 
 

Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009

10:00 am
    Budget
         Hearings to examine the global economy, focusing on outlook, risks, and implications for policy.
SD-608        
    
2:00 pm
    Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
         Hearings to examine quality in health reform.
SD-430        
    
2:30 pm
    Intelligence
         Closed hearings to examine certain intelligence matters.
SH-219        
    

Tuesday, Feb. 03, 2009

9:30 am
    Veterans' Affairs
         Hearings to examine veterans' disability compensation, focusing on the appeals process.
SR-418        
    
10:00 am
    Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
         Hearings to examine modernizing the United States financial regulatory system.
SD-538        
    

Thursday, Feb. 05, 2009

12:00 am
    Foreign Relations
         Organizational business meeting to consider committee's rules of procedure, and subcommittee membership and jurisdiction for the 111th Congress.
S-116        
    
10:00 am
    Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
         Hearings to examine implementing best patient care practices.
SD-430        
    
10:00 am
    Judiciary
         Hearings to examine the nomination of David W. Ogden, of Virginia, to be Deputy Attorney General.
SD-226        
    
11:00 am
    Indian Affairs
         Organizational business meeting to consider committee's rules of procedure for the 111th Congress; to be followed by an oversight hearing to examine advancing Indian health care.
SD-628        
    
 
  

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