Preview: Congress This Week (Oct. 22-26, 2007)

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Here are the committee hearings scheduled for this week in Congress:

Hearings Schedules:

October 22, 2007

House

• House Rules
  To consider the following: H.R. 1483, To amend the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to extend the authorization for certain national heritage areas, and for other purposes; H.R. 1011, Virginia Ridge and Valley Act of 2007; and H.R. 505, Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2007 -- Oct 22 at 5 p.m.

October 23, 2007

Senate

• Senate Environment and Public Works
  To hold hearings to examine the human impacts of global warming. [SD-406] -- Oct 23, 2007 at 10 a.m.
• Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
  To hold hearings to examine the efficacy of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program, focusing on our Cold War heroes. [SD-430] -- Oct 23, 2007 at 10 a.m.
• Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
  To hold hearings to examine six years after the anthrax attacks, focusing on our preparedness to respond to bioterrorism. [SD-342] -- Oct 23, 2007 at 10 a.m.
• Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation -- Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety and Security
  To hold an oversight hearing to examine the Surface Transportation Board and regulation related to railroads. [SR-253] -- Oct 23, 2007 at 10 a.m.
• Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation
  To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Todd J. Zinser, of Virginia, to be Inspector General, Department of Commerce, Robert Clarke Brown, of Ohio, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, Carl B. Kress, of California, and A. Paul Anderson, of Florida, both to be a Federal Maritime Commissioner. [SR-253] -- Oct 23, 2007 at 2:30 p.m.
• Senate Intelligence (Select)
  To hold hearings to examine the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) strategic plan. [SDG-50] -- Oct 23, 2007 at 2:30 p.m.

House

• House Armed Services
  Hearing on Air Force Strategic initiatives -- Oct 23, 2007 at 9 a.m.
• House Natural Resources, October 23, to continue mark up of H.R. 2262, Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2007 -- Oct 23 at 9 a.m.
• House Science and Technology Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics
  Hearing on the Status of NASA Crew Exploration Vehicle and Crew Launch Vehicle Programs -- Oct 23, 2007 at 10 a.m.
• House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies
  On Broadband: Connecting Rural America -- Oct 23, 2007 at 10 a.m.
• House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection
  To mark up the following bills: H.R. 2601, To extend the authority of the Federal Trade Commission to collect fees to administer and enforce the provisions relating to the "Do-not-call" registry of the Telemarketing Sales Rule; H.R. 3461, Safeguarding America's Families by Enhancing and Reorganizing New and Efficient Technologies Act of 2007; and H.R. 3526, To include all banking agencies within the existing regulatory authority under the Federal Trade Commission Act with respect to despository institutions, and for other purposes -- Oct 23, 2007 at 10 a.m.
• House Foreign Affairs
  To markup the following bills: H.R. 1746, Holocaust Insurance Accountability Act of 2007; H.R. 2332, Syria Accountability and Liberation Act; H.R. 2705, Compacts of Free Association Amendments Act of 2007; H.R. 3320, Support for the Museum of the History of Policy Jews Act of 2007; H. Res. 435, Expressing concern relating to the threatening behavior of the Iranian regime and its leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the activities of terrorist organizations sponsored by that regime in Latin America; and H. Res. 550, Congratulating the people of Ethiopia on the second millennium of Ethiopia -- Oct 23 at 10 a.m.
• House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security and the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law
  Joint hearings on Allegations of Selective Prosecution: The Erosian of Public Confidence in Our Federal Justice System -- Oct 23 at 10 a.m.
• House Oversight and Government Reform
  Hearing on the Health and Environment Impacts of Uranium Contamination in the Navajo Nation; followed by a business meeting -- Oct 23 at 10 a.m.
• House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security Hearing on Genocide and the Rule of Law -- Oct 23, 2007 at 1 p.m.
• House Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands
  Hearing on the following bills: H.R. 816, Orchard Detention Basin Flood Control Act; H.R. 1311, Nevada Cancer Institute Expansion Act; H.R. 1922, Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area Act of 2007; and H.R. 2246, To validate certain conveyances made by the Union Pacific Railroad Company of lands located in Reno, Nevada, that originally conveyed by the United States to facilitate construction of transcontinental railroads -- Oct 23 at 2 p.m.
• House House Administration Subcommittee on Elections
  Hearing on Voter Registration and List Maintenance -- Oct 23, 2007 at 2 p.m.
• House Science and Technology Subcommittee on Energy and Environment
  Hearing on GAO's Report on the Status of NOAA's Geostationary Weather Satellite Program -- Oct 23 at 2 p.m.
• House Financial Services
  Hearing on H.R. 647, Market to Market Extension Act of 2007, Oct 23, 2007 at 2 p.m
• House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Information, Census, and National Archives
  Hearing on Cybersecurity: A Review of Public and Private Sector Efforts to Secure Our Nation's Internet Infrastructure -- Oct 23, 2007 at 2 p.m.
• House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Highways and Transit
  Hearing on Highway Bridge Inspection -- Oct 23 at 2 p.m.
• House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia
  Hearing on Iran Sanctions and Regional Security -- Oct 23, 2007 at 2 p.m.

October 24, 2007

Senate

• Senate Foreign Relations -- African Affairs
  To hold hearings to examine the United States role in consolidating peace and democracy in the Great Lakes region. [SD-419] -- Oct 24, 2007 at 9:30 a.m.
• Senate Veterans' Affairs
  To hold hearings to examine pending legislation. [SD-562] -- Oct 24, 2007 at 9:30 a.m.
• Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
  To hold hearings to examine ways to build an effective terrorist screening system. [SD-342] -- Oct 24, 2007 at 10 a.m.
• Senate Judiciary Commtte
  To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Ronald Jay Tenpas, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Attorney General, Joseph N. Laplante, to be United States District Judge for the District of New Hampshire, Reed Charles O'Connor, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas, Thomas D. Schroeder, to be United States District Judge for the Middle District of North Carolina, and Amul R. Thapar, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky. [SD-226] -- Oct 24, 2007 at 10 a.m.
• Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
  To hold hearings to examine the future of radio. [SR-253] -- Oct 24, 2007 at 10 a.m.
• Senate Committee on Aging
  To hold hearings to examine hidden 401K fees, focusing on ways that disclosure can increase retirement security. [SD-628] -- Oct 24, 2007 at 10:30 a.m.
• Senate Judiciary
  To hold hearings to examine the role of federally-funded university research in the patent system. [SD-226] -- Oct 24, 2007 at 1:30 p.m.
• Senate Foreign Relations
  Business meeting to consider the nominations of Henrietta Holsman Fore, of Nevada, to be Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, Robin Renee Sanders, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Barry Leon Wells, of Ohio, to be Ambassador to the Republic of The Gambia, Mark M. Boulware, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, James D. McGee, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Zimbabwe, Ronald K. McMullen, of Iowa, to be Ambassador to the State of Eritrea, P. Robert Fannin, of Arizona, to be Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Christopher Egan, of Massachusetts, to be Representative of the United States of America to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, with the rank of Ambassador, Louis John Nigro, Jr., of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Chad, David T. Johnson, of Georgia, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs), Paul E. Simons, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Chile, Gail Dennise Mathieu, of New Jersey, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Namibia, Dan Mozena, of Iowa, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Angola, Eunice S. Reddick, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Gabonese Republic, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, Daniel V. Speckhard, of Wisconsin, to be Ambassador to Greece, Thomas F. Stephenson, of California, to be Ambassador to the Portuguese Republic, Vincent Obsitnik, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Slovak Republic, William H. Frist, of Tennessee, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, George E. Pataki, of New York, to be a Representative of the United States of America to the Sixty-second Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations; to be immediately followed by an open hearing to examine issues relative to the global fight against HIV/AIDS. [SD-419] -- Oct 24, 2007 at 1:45 p.m.
• Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs -- Securities, Insurance and Investment
  To hold hearings to examine international accounting standards, focusing on opportunities, challenges, and global coverage issues. [SD-538] -- Oct 24, 2007 at 2 p.m.
• Senate Environment and Public Works -- Private Sector and Consumer Solutions to Global Warming and Wildlife Protection
  To hold hearings to examine S.2191, to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a program to decrease emissions of greenhouse gases. [SD-406] -- Oct 24, 2007 at 2:30 p.m.
  S. 2191: A bill to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a program to decrease emissions of greenhouse gases, and for other purposes

House

• House Foreign Affairs
  Full Committee, hearing on U.S. Policy in the Middle East -- Oct 24, 2007 at 9:30 a.m.
• Senate Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
  Hearing entitled "NASPER: Why Has the National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Act Not Been Implemented?" -- Oct 24, 2007 at 9:30 a.m.
• House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming
  Hearing on The Gas Is Greener on the Other Side: the Future of Biofuels -- Oct 24, 2007 at 9:30 a.m.
• House Financial Services
  Full Committee, hearing entitled "Legislative Proposals on Reforming Mortgage Practices," -- Oct 24 at 10 a.m.
• House Science and Technology
  Full Committee, to mark up the following: H.R. 1834, National Ocean Exploration Program Act; H.R. 2406, To authorize the National Institute of Standards and Technology to increase its efforts in support of the integration of the healthcare information enterprise in the United States; and H.R. 3877, Mine Communications Technology Innovation Act -- Oct 24, 2007 at 10 a.m.
  H.R. 1834: National Ocean Exploration Program Act
  H.R. 2406: To authorize the National Institute of Standards and Technology to increase its efforts in support of the integration of the healthcare information enterprise in the United States
  H.R. 3877: To require the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology to establish an initiative to promote the research, development, and demonstration of miner tracking and communications systems and to promote the establishment of standards regarding underground communications to protect miners in the United States
• House Budget
  Hearing on the Growing Costs of the Iraq War -- Oct 24, 2007 at 10 a.m.
• House Science and Technology Subcommittee on Finance and Tax
  Hearing on Pension Parity: Addressing the Inequities between Retirement Plan Options for Small and Large Businesses -- Oct 24, 2007 at 10 a.m.
• House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans
  Hearing on the following bills: H.R. 1187, Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries Boundary Modification and Protection Act; H.R. 1907, Coastal and Estuarine Land Protection Act; and H.R. 3352, Hydrographic Services Improvement Act Amendments of 2007 -- Oct 24, 2007 at 10 a.m.
  H.R. 1187: Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries Boundary Modification and Protection Act
  H.R. 1907: Coastal and Estuarine Land Protection Act
  H.R. 3352: Hydrographic Services Improvement Act Amendments of 2007
• House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation Hearing on Aviation and the Environment: Noise -- Oct 24, 2007 at 11 a.m.
• Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
  Hearing on Sharing Electronic Medical Records between Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs -- Oct 24, 2007 at 10 a.m.
• House House Administration
  Full Committee, oversight hearing on the Library of Congress: Current Issues in Library Management -- Oct 24, 2007 at 11 a.m.
• House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management
  Hearing to review reauthorization of the Commodity Futures Trading Commision -- Oct 24, 2007 at 1:30 p.m..
• House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power
  Hearing on the following bills: H.R. 496, Tumalo Water Conservation Project Act of 2007; H.R. 3323, Goleta Water Distribution System Conveyance Act of 2007; H.R. 3437, Jackson Gulch Rehabilitation Act of 2007; and H.R. 3739, To amend the Arizona Water Settlements Act to modify the requirements for the statement of findings -- Oct 24, 2007 at 2 p.m.
  H.R. 496: Tumalo Water Conservation Project Act of 2007
  H.R. 3323: Goleta Water Distribution System Conveyance Act of 2007
  H.R. 3437: Jackson Gulch Rehabilitation Act of 2007
  H.R. 3739: To amend the Arizona Water Settlements Act to modify the requirements for the statement of findings
• House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Domestic Policy
  Hearing on Upholding the Spirit of CRA: Do CRA Rating Accurately Reflect Bank Practices? -- Oct 24 at 2 p.m.
• House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism and the Subcommittee on Management, Investigations and Oversight
  Joint hearing entitled "The Future of Border Security: Can SBInet Succeed?" Oct 24, 2007 at 2 p.m.

October 25, 2007

Senate

• Senate Judiciary
  Business meeting to consider S.1946, to help Federal prosecutors and investigators combat public corruption by strengthening and clarifying the law, S.Res. 347, designating May 2008 as Month”, S.Res. 346, expressing heartfelt sympathy for the victims of the devastating thunderstorms that caused severe flooding during August 2007 in the States of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin, and the nomination of John Daniel Tinder, of Indiana, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit. [SD-226] -- Oct 25, 2007 at 10 a.m.
  S. 1946: Public Corruption Prosecution Improvements Act
  S. Res. 347: A resolution designating May 2008 as "National Be Bear Aware and Wildlife Stewardship Month"
  S. Res. 346: A resolution expressing heartfelt sympathy for the victims of the devastating thunderstorms that caused severe flooding during August 2007 in the States of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin, and for other purposes
• Senate Environment and Public Works -- Transportation Safety, Infrastructure Security, and Water Quality
  To hold an oversight hearing to examine the effectiveness of federal drunk driving programs. [SD-406] -- Oct 25, 2007 at 10 a.m.
• Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation -- Interstate Commerce, Trade, and Tourism
  To hold hearings to examine sweatshop conditions in the toy industry in China. [SR-253] -- Oct 25, 2007 at 10 a.m.
• Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
  To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Gregory F. Jacob, of New Jersey, to be Solicitor, and Howard Radzely, of Maryland, to be Deputy Secretary, both of the Department of Labor. [SD-430] -- Oct 25, 2007 at 10 a.m.
• Senate Finance
  To hold hearings to examine small business health insurance, focusing on building a gateway to coverage. [SD-215] -- Oct 25, 2007 at 10 a.m.
• Senate Intelligence (Select)
  To hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence matters. [SH-219] -- Oct 25, 2007 at 2:30 p.m.
• Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs -- Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security
  To hold hearings to examine single audits, focusing on a recent study on the potential impacts that implementing certain recommendations could have to help ensure that federal funds are safeguarded. [SD-342] -- Oct 25, 2007 at 2:30 p.m.

House

• House Science and Technology Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight
  Hearing on Radiological Response: Assessing Environmental and Clinical Laboratory Capabilities -- Oct 25, 2007 at 9:30 a.m.
• House Science and Technology
  Full Committee, hearing on Health Insurer Consolidations, The Impact on Small Business -- Oct 25, 2007 at 10 a.m.
• House Transportation and Infrastructure
  Full Committee, hearing on The Impact of Railroad Injury, Accident, and Discipline Policies on the Safety of America's Railroads -- Oct 25, 2007 at 10 a.m.
• House Oversight and Government Reform
  Full Committee, hearing on Iraq -- Oct 25, 2007 at 10 a.m.
• House Budget
  Hearing on Surface Transportation: Investment Needs and the Budget -- Oct 25, 2007 at 10 a.m.
• House Agriculture
  Full Committee, hearing to review agriculture disaster conditions across the nation -- Oct 25, 2007 at 10 a.m.
• House Education and Labor Subcommittee on Workforce Protections
  Hearing on H.R. 3582, Fair Home Health Care Act -- Oct 25, 2007 at 10 a.m
• House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security
  Hearing on Organized Retail Theft Prevention: Fostering a Comprehensive Public-Private Response -- Oct 25, 2007 at 10 a.m.
• House Financial Services
  Hearing entitled ``Transparency of Extractive Industries: High Stakes for Resource-Rich Countries, Citizens and International Business,'' -- Oct 25, 2007 at 10 a.m.
• House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere
  Hearing on U.S. Security Assistance to Mexico -- Oct 25, 2007 at 2 p.m.
• House Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity
  Oversight hearing on VETS DVOP/LVER Program -- Oct 25, 2007 at 2 p.m.
• House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law
  Hearing on H.R. 3010, Arbitration Fairness Act of 2007 -- Oct 25, 2007 at 2 p.m.
  H.R. 3010: Arbitration Fairness Act of 2007
• House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Environment, and the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade
  Hearing on The Six Party Process: Progress and Perils in North Korea's Denuclearization -- Oct 25, 2007 at 3 p.m.