Senate Hearings Schedule
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Congressional Hearings:
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Senate Hearing Schedule
Friday, Jul. 25, 2008
9:30 am
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Investigations
Hearings to examine financial institutions located in offshore tax havens, focusing on ways to strengthen United States domestic and international tax enforcement efforts.
SD-342
12:00 pm
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Hearings to examine the nomination of James A. Williams, of Virginia, to be Administrator of General Services Administration.
SD-342
Tuesday, Jul. 29, 2008
9:30 am
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Investigations
Hearings to examine the magnitude of outstanding payroll tax debt, focusing on the policies and procedures that are used to collect unpaid payroll taxes.
SD-342
10:00 am
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Hearings to examine the state of the insurance industry, focusing on the current regulatory and oversight structure.
SD-538
10:00 am
Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety
Hearings to examine the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR), focusing on a recent court decision and its implications.
SD-406
10:00 am
Finance
Hearings to examine the future of United States trade policy, focusing on perspectives from former United States trade representatives.
SD-215
10:00 am
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety
Hearings to examine the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), focusing on protecting workers from dangerous dust at the workplace.
SD-430
10:00 am
Judiciary
Hearings to examine music and radio in the 21st century, focusing on assuring fair rates and rules across the platforms.
SD-226
10:30 am
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Hearings to examine the nomination of John P. Hewko, of Michigan, to be an Assistant Secretary of Transportation.
SR-253
11:00 am
Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies : Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government
Joint hearings to examine food marketing to children, focusing on ways to make it safer.
SD-192
2:15 pm
Foreign Relations
Business meeting to consider pending calendar business.
S-116
2:30 pm
Select Committee on Intelligence
Closed business meeting to consider pending intelligence matters.
SH-219
3:00 pm
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Hearings to examine human rights and democratization in Azerbaijan, focusing on the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the Council of Europe's numerous concerns, including freedom of the media, political prisoners and the conduct of elections.
RHOB-B13
Wednesday, Jul. 30, 2008
10:00 am
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Hearings to examine ways to improve consumer protection in the prepaid calling card market.
SR-253
10:00 am
Judiciary
Hearings to examine hiring at the Department of Justice.
SD-226
10:00 am
Joint Economic Committee
Hearings to examine ways to solve the energy crisis.
SD-106
11:30 am
Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Business meeting to markup an orginal bill to reauthorize the Small Business Innovation Research Program.
SR-428A
12:00 pm
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery
Hearings to examine planning for post-catastrophe housing needs, focusing on if the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has developed an effective strategy for housing large numbers of citizens displaced by a disaster.
SD-562
1:00 pm
Judiciary
Hearings to examine S.J.Res.45, expressing the consent and approval of Congress to an inter-state compact regarding water resources in the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence River Basin.
SD-226
2:30 pm
Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National Parks
Hearings to examine S.1816, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to establish a commemorative trail in connection with the Women's Rights National Historical Park to link properties that are historically and thematically associated with the struggle for women's suffrage, S.2093, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a segment of the Missisquoi and Trout Rivers in the State of Vermont for study for potential addition to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, S.2535, to revise the boundary of the Martin Van Buren National Historic Site, S.2561, to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a theme study to identify sites and resources to commemorate and interpret the Cold War, S.3011, to amend the Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Site Act of 1991 to expand the boundaries of the historic site, S.3113, to reinstate the Interim Management Strategy governing off-road vehicle use in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, North Carolina, pending the issuance of a final rule for off-road vehicle use by the National Park Service, S.3148, to modify the boundary of the Oregon Caves National Monument, S.3158, to extend the authority for the Cape Cod National Seashore Advisory Commission, S.3226, to rename the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site in the State of Kentucky as the "Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park", S.3247, to provide for the designation of the River Raisin National Battlefield Park in the State of Michigan, and H.R.5137, to ensure that hunting remains a purpose of the New River Gorge National River.
SD-366
2:30 pm
Select Committee on Intelligence
Closed hearings to examine certain intelligence matters.
SH-219
Thursday, Jul. 31, 2008
9:30 am
Indian Affairs
Business meeting to consider pending calendar business; to be immediately followed by an oversight hearing to examine Indian health service management, focusing on lost property, wasteful spending and document fabrication.
SD-562
9:30 am
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security
Hearings to examine the state of information technology planning in the federal government.
SD-342
10:00 am
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Business meeting to consider S.3198, to amend title 46, United States Code, with respect to the navigation of submersible or semi-submersible vessels without nationality, S.3274, to reauthorize the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act, H.Con.Res.375, to honor the goal of the International Year of Astronomy, H.Con.Res.305, recognizing the importance of bicycling in transportation and recreation, an original bill entitled,"The Whaling Amendments Act of 2008", the nomination of John P. Hewko, of Michigan, to be an Assistant Secretary of Transportation, and a promotion list in the United States Coast Guard.
SR-253
10:00 am
Finance
Hearings to examine health benefits in the tax code.
SD-215
10:00 am
Judiciary
Business meeting to consider 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.2838, to amend chapter 1 of title 9 of United States Code with respect to arbitration, S.3136, to encourage the entry of felony warrants into the NCIC database by States and provide additional resources for extradition, S.1276, to establish a grant program to facilitate the creation of methamphetamine precursor electronic logbook systems, and S.3197, to amend title 11, United States Code, to exempt for a limited period, from the application of the means-test presumption of abuse under chapter 7, qualifying members of reserve components of the Armed Forces and members of the National Guard who, after September 11, 2001, are called to active duty or to perform a homeland defense activity for not less than 90 days.
SD-226
10:30 am
Special Committee on Aging
Hearings to examine aging in rural America, focusing on preserving elderly citizens access to health care.
SD-106
1:00 pm
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery
Joint hearings with the House Committee on Homeland Security Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness to examine ways to ensure the delivery of donated goods to survivors of catastrophes.
CHOB-311
2:00 pm
Foreign Relations
Hearings to examine ways to define the military's role towards foreign policy.
SD-419
2:00 pm
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia
Hearings to examine reliance on smart power, focusing on reforming the foreign assistance bureaucracy.
SD-342
2:00 pm
Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights
Hearings to examine consolidation in the Pennsylvania health insurance industry.
SD-226
2:30 pm
Select Committee on Intelligence
Closed hearings to examine certain intelligence matters.
SH-219
House Hearings
Committee on Agriculture
LW-1300
Committee on Appropriations
Rayburn-2359
Committee on Armed Service
Rayburn-2118
Committee on the Budget
Cannon-210
Committee on Education and Labor
Rayburn-2175
Committee on Energy and Commerce
Rayburn-2123
Committee on Finanical Services
Rayburn-2128
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Rayburn-2154
Committee on House Administration
Longworth-1310
Committee on International
Longworth-1310
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