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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, May. 10, 2008

    
        No committee hearings scheduled
        
    

Tuesday, May. 13, 2008

10:00 am
    Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         An oversight hearing to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2009 for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
SR-253        
    
10:00 am
    Energy and Natural Resources
         Hearings to examine the impacts of climate change on the reliability, security, economics, and design of critical energy infrastructure in coastal regions.
SD-366        
    
10:00 am
    Environment and Public Works
         Hearings to examine proposed legislation on mercury.
SD-406        
    
10:00 am
    Finance
         Hearings to examine cracking the code, focusing on tax reform for individuals.
SD-215        
    
10:00 am
    Judiciary
         Hearings to examine the Bulletproof Vest Partnership program, focusing on protecting our nation's law enforcement officers.
SD-226        
    
2:30 pm
    Indian Affairs
         An oversight hearing to examine the successes and shortfalls of Title IV of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, focusing on twenty years of self-governance.
SD-562        
    
2:30 pm
    Intelligence
         Closed hearings to examine certain intelligence matters.
SH-219        
    

Wednesday, May. 14, 2008

9:30 am
    Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense
         Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2009 for the United States National Guard and Reserve.
SD-192        
    
9:30 am
    Foreign Relations
         Hearings to examine responding to the global food crisis.
SD-419        
    
10:00 am
    Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Insurance, and Automotive Safety
         Hearings to examine plastic additives in consumer products.
SR-253        
    
10:00 am
    Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         Hearings to examine the nomination of Paul A. Schneider, of Maryland, to be Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security.
SD-342        
    
10:30 am
    Aging
         Hearings to examine the future of Alzheimer's disease, focusing on current breakthroughs and challenges.
SD-106        
    
2:30 pm
    Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on Children and Families
         Hearings to examine addressing the challenge of children with food allergies.
SD-430        
    
3:00 pm
    Appropriations: Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government
         Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2009 for the Federal Trade Commission.
SD-192        
    
3:00 pm
    Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security
         An oversight hearing to examine the National Archives, focusing on protecting our nation?s history for future generations.
SD-342        
    

Thursday, May. 15, 2008

9:30 am
    Indian Affairs
         Hearings to examine S.1080, to develop a program to acquire interests in land from eligible individuals within the Crow Reservation in the State of Montana, H.R.2120, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to proclaim as reservation for the benefit of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians a parcel of land now held in trust by the United States for that Indian tribe, S.2494, to provide for equitable compensation to the Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation for the use of tribal land for the production of hydropower by the Grand Coulee Dam, H.R.2963, to transfer certain land in Riverside County, California, andSan Diego County, California, from the Bureau of Land Management to the United States to be held in trust for the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians, and S.531, to repeal section 10(f) of Public Law 93-531, commonly known as the "Bennett Freeze".
SD-562        
    
9:30 am
    Armed Services
         Business meeting to consider pending military nominations.
SR-222        
    
10:00 am
    Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
         Hearings to examine the condition of our nation's infrastructure, focusing on perspectives from our nation's mayors.
SD-538        
    
10:00 am
    Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         Hearings to examine nuclear terrorism, focusing on providing medical care and meeting basic needs in an aftermath.
SD-342        
    
2:00 pm
    Appropriations
         Business meeting to markup the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Bill for fiscal year 2008.
SD-106        
    
2:00 pm
    Foreign Relations
         Hearings to examine United States-China relations in the era of globalization.
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 the organizational structures of the State Department responsible for arms control, counterproliferation, and nonproliferation, focusing on the processes they have in place for optimizing national efforts, and how responsive those structures and processes are to the Executive Branch's nonproliferation and counterproliferation polices.
SD-342        
    
2:30 pm
    Energy and Natural Resources
         Hearings to examine development of oil shale resources.
SD-366        
    
2:30 pm
    Intelligence
         Closed hearings to examine certain intelligence matters.
SH-219        
    
3:30 pm
    Judiciary
         Hearings to examine S.2913, to provide a limitation on judicial remedies in copyright infringement cases involving orphan works, S.2511, to amend the grant program for law enforcement armor vests to provide for a waiver of or reduction in the matching funds requirement in the case of fiscal hardship, S.2565, to establish an awards mechanism to honor exceptional acts of bravery in the line of duty by Federal law enforcement officers, H.R.4056, to establish an awards mechanism to honor Federal law enforcement officers injured in the line of duty, S.2774, to provide for the appointment of additional Federal circuit and district judges, S.1738, to establish a Special Counsel for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction within the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, to improve the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, to increase resources for regional computer forensic labs, and to make other improvements to increase the ability of law enforcement agencies to investigate and prosecute predators, S.2756, to amend the National Child Protection Act of 1993 to establish a permanent background check system, S.1515, to establish a domestic violence volunteer attorney network to represent domestic violence victims, S.2942, to authorize funding for the National Advocacy Center, S.2982, to amend the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act to authorize appropriations, and the nomination of G. Steven Agee, of Virginia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit.
SD-226        
    

Tuesday, May. 20, 2008

10:00 am
    Energy and Natural Resources
         Hearings to examine the Territorial Energy Assessment as updated pursuant to the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-58).
SD-366        
    

Wednesday, May. 21, 2008

9:30 am
    Veterans' Affairs
         Hearings to examine pending health care legislation.
SR-418        
    
10:00 am
    Judiciary
         Hearings to examine the skyrocketing price of oil.
SD-226        
    

Tuesday, Jun. 03, 2008

9:30 am
    Armed Services
         Hearings to examine the acquisition of major weapons systems by the Department of Defense.
SD-106        
    

Thursday, Jun. 05, 2008

9:30 am
    Energy and Natural Resources
         Hearings to examine off-highway vehicle management on public lands.
SD-366        
    
 
  

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