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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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Tuesday, Feb. 09, 2010

10:00 am
    Budget
         Hearings to examine the economic outlook and risks for the Federal budget and debt.
SD-608        
    
10:00 am
    Environment and Public Works
         Hearings to examine the nominations of William D. Magwood, IV, of Maryland, William Charles Ostendorff, of Virginia, and George Apostolakis, of Massachusetts, all to be a Member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
SD-406        
    
2:30 pm
    Environment and Public Works
         Hearings to examine the nominations of Arthur Allen Elkins, Jr., of Maryland, to be Inspector General, Environmental Protection Agency, Earl F. Gohl, Jr., of the District of Columbia, to be Federal Cochairman of the Appalachian Regional Commission, and Sandford Blitz, of Maine, to be Federal Cochairperson of the Northern Border Regional Commission.
SD-406        
    

Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010

9:30 am
    Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Security and International Trade and Finance
         Hearings to examine equipping financial regulators with the tools necessary to monitor systemic risk.
SD-538        
    
9:30 am
    Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         Hearings to examine the proposed budget request for fiscal year 2011 for the Department of Homeland Security.
SD-342        
    
10:00 am
    Budget
         Hearings to examine setting and meeting an appropriate target for fiscal sustainability.
SD-608        
    
10:00 am
    Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife
         Hearings to examine collaborative solutions to wildlife and habitat management.
SD-406        
    
10:00 am
    Judiciary
         Hearings to examine combating cyber crime and identity theft in the digital age.
SD-226        
    
2:30 pm
    Armed Services
         To receive a closed briefing on the status of the Nuclear Posture Review.
SVC-217        
    
2:30 pm
    Environment and Public Works
         Hearings to examine the nominations of Marilyn A. Brown, of Georgia, Barbara Short Haskew, of Tennessee, Neil G. McBride, of Tennessee, and William B. Sansom, of Tennessee, all to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
SD-406        
    
2:30 pm
    Foreign Relations
         Hearings to examine foreign policy priorities in the fiscal year 2011 International Affairs budget.
SH-216        
    
4:00 pm
    Judiciary
         Hearings to examine certain nominations.
SD-226        
    

Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010

9:30 am
    Armed Services
         To resume hearings to examine the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.
SD-G50        
    
10:00 am
    Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         Hearings to examine aviation security, focusing on passenger screening technology and advanced screening methods.
SR-253        
    
10:00 am
    Environment and Public Works
         Hearings to examine global warming impacts, including public health, in the United States.
SD-406        
    
10:00 am
    Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Operations and Organizations, Human Rights, Democracy and Global Women's Issues
         Hearings to examine the future of U.S. public diplomacy.
SD-419        
    
10:00 am
    Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         Hearings to examine the lessons and implications of the Christmas day attack, focusing on watchlisting and pre-screening.
SD-342        
    
10:00 am
    Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
         Hearings to examine a stronger workforce investment system for a stronger economy.
SD-430        
    
10:00 am
    Judiciary
         Business meeting to consider S.1789, to restore fairness to Federal cocaine sentencing, S.1624, to amend title 11 of the United States Code, to provide protection for medical debt homeowners, to restore bankruptcy protections for individuals experiencing economic distress as caregivers to ill, injured, or disabled family members, and to exempt from means testing debtors whose financial problems were caused by serious medical problems, S.1765, to amend the Hate Crime Statistics Act to include crimes against the homeless, S.1554, to amend the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to prevent later delinquency and improve the health and well-being of maltreated infants and toddlers through the development of local Court Teams for Maltreated Infants and Toddlers and the creation of a National Court Teams Resource Center to assist such Court Teams, H.R.1741, to require the Attorney General to make competitive grants to eligible State, tribal, and local governments to establish and maintain certain protection and witness assistance programs, S.1132, to amend title 18, United States Code, to improve the provisions relating to the carrying of concealed weapons by law enforcement officers, S.2772, to establish a criminal justice reinvestment grant program to help States and local jurisdictions reduce spending on corrections, control growth in the prison and jail populations, and increase public safety, and the nominations of Dawn Elizabeth Johnsen, of Indiana, to be an Assistant Attorney General, Genevieve Lynn May, to be United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Louisiana, and James P. Lynch, of the District of Columbia, to be Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, all of the Department of Justice, and Nancy D. Freudenthal, to be United States District Judge for the District of Wyoming, Denzil Price Marshall Jr., to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Benita Y. Pearson, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, and Timothy S. Black, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio.
SD-226        
    
10:00 am
    Joint Economic Committee
         Hearings to examine the economic outlook.
SH-216        
    
2:15 pm
    Indian Affairs
         Business meeting to consider pending calendar business; to be immediately followed by an oversight hearing to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2011 for tribal programs and initiatives.
SD-628        
    
2:30 pm
    Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security
         Hearings to examine the census, focusing on a progress report on the Census Bureau's preparedness for the enumeration.
SD-342        
    
2:30 pm
    Intelligence
         Closed hearings to consider certain intelligence matters.
SH-219        
    

Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010

9:30 am
    Armed Services
         Hearings to examine proposed defense authorization request for fiscal year 2011 for the Future Years Defense Program.
SDG-50        
    

Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010

9:30 am
    Armed Services
         Hearings to examine the Department of the Navy in review of the Defense Authorization request for fiscal year 2011 and the Future Years Defense Program; with the possibility of a closed session in SVC-217 following the open session.
SD-G50        
    

Tuesday, Mar. 02, 2010

2:00 pm
    Veterans' Affairs
         Hearings to examine a legislative presentation from Disabled Veterans of America.
CHOB-345        
    

Thursday, Mar. 04, 2010

9:30 am
    Veterans' Affairs
         Hearings to examine legislative presentations from the Paralyzed Veterans of America, Jewish War Veterans, Military Order of the Purple Heart, Ex-Prisoners of War, Blinded Veterans Association, Military Officers Association of America, Air Force Sergeants Association, and the Wounded Warrior Project.
CHOB-345        
    

Tuesday, Mar. 09, 2010

9:30 am
    Armed Services
         Hearings to examine U.S. European Command and U.S. Africa Command in review of the Defense Authorization request for fiscal year 2011 and the Future Years Defense Program; with the possibility of a closed session in SR-222 following the open session.
SH-216        
    
9:30 am
    Veterans' Affairs
         Hearings to examine a legislative presentation from Veterans of Foreign Wars.
SDG-50        
    

Thursday, Mar. 11, 2010

9:30 am
    Armed Services
         Hearings to examine U.S. Northern Command and U.S. Southern Command in review of the Defense Authorization request for fiscal year 2011 and the Future Years Defense Program; with the possibility of a closed session in SR-222 following the open session.
SD-G50        
    

Thursday, Mar. 18, 2010

9:30 am
    Veterans' Affairs
         Hearings to examine legislative presentations from AMVETS, National Association of State Directors of Veterans Affairs, Non Commissioned Officers Association, Gold Star Wives, The Retired Enlisted Association, Fleet Reserve Association, Vietnam Veterans of America, and Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.
SDG-50        
    
 
  

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