Monday, May 12, 2008
(Pro Forma Session)
No meetings scheduled.
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Today, May. 9, 2008
No committee meetings scheduled
Tuesday, May. 13, 2008
10 a.m.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation,
To hold an oversight hearing to examine the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal
year 2009 for the Transportation Security
Administration (TSA),
Location: in Russell Senate Office Building, Room 253.
10 a.m.
Energy and Natural Resources,
To hold hearings to examine the impacts of
climate change on the reliability, security,
economics, and design of critical energy
infrastructure in coastal regions,
Location: in Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 366.
examine proposed legislation
on mercury.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 406
10 a.m.
Senate Committee on Finance
To hold hearings to examine cracking the code,
focusing on tax reform for individuals.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 215
10 a.m.
Senate Committee on Judiciary
To hold hearings to examine the Bulletproof Vest
Partnership program, focusing on protecting our
nation's law enforcement officers.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 226
2:30 p.m.
Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
To hold 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.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 562
2:30 p.m.
Senate Committee on Intelligence
To hold closed hearings to examine certain
intelligence matters.
Location: Hart Senate Office Building, Room 219
Wednesday, May. 14, 2008
9:30 a.m.
Senate Committee on Appropriations
Defense Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 2009 for the United
States National Guard and Reserve.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 192
9:30 a.m.
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
To hold hearings to examine responding to the
global food crisis.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 419
10 a.m.
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Consumer Affairs, Insurance, and Automotive Safety Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine plastic additives in
consumer products.
Location: Russell Senate Office Building, Room 253
10 a.m.
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
To hold hearings to examine the nomination of
Paul A. Schneider, of Maryland, to be Deputy
Secretary of Homeland Security.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 342
10:30 a.m.
Senate Committee on Aging
To hold hearings to examine the future of
Alzheimer's disease, focusing on current
breakthroughs and challenges.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 106
2:30 p.m.
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Children and Families Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine addressing the
challenge of children with food allergies.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 430
3 p.m.
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security Subcommittee
To hold an oversight hearing to examine the
National Archives, focusing on protecting our
nation’s history for future generations.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 342
3 p.m.
Senate Committee on Appropriations
Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 2009 for the Federal
Trade Commission.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 192
Thursday, May. 15, 2008
9:30 a.m.
Senate Committee on Armed Services
Business meeting to consider pending military
nominations.
Location: Russell Senate Office Building, Room 222
9:30 a.m.
Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
To hold 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".
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 562
10 a.m.
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
To hold hearings to examine the condition of our
nation's infrastructure, focusing on perspectives
from our nation's mayors.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 538
10 a.m.
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
To hold hearings to examine nuclear terrorism,
focusing on providing medical care and meeting
basic needs in an aftermath.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 342
2 p.m.
Senate Committee on Appropriations
Business meeting to markup the Emergency
Supplemental Appropriations Bill for fiscal year
2008.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 106
2 p.m.
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
To hold hearings to examine United States-China
relations in the era of globalization.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 419
2 p.m.
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia Subcommittee
To hold 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.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 342
2:30 p.m.
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
To hold hearings to examine development of oil
shale resources.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 366
2:30 p.m.
Senate Committee on Intelligence
To hold closed hearings to examine certain
intelligence matters.
Location: Hart Senate Office Building, Room 219
3:30 p.m.
Senate Committee on Judiciary
To hold 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.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 226
Tuesday, May. 20, 2008
10 a.m.
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
To hold hearings to examine the Territorial
Energy Assessment as updated pursuant to the
Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-58).
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 366
Wednesday, May. 21, 2008
9:30 a.m.
Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
To hold hearings to examine pending health care
legislation.
Location: Russell Senate Office Building, Room 418
10 a.m.
Senate Committee on Judiciary
To hold hearings to examine the skyrocketing
price of oil.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 226
Tuesday, Jun. 3, 2008
9:30 a.m.
Senate Committee on Armed Services
To hold hearings to examine the acquisition of
major weapons systems by the Department of
Defense.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 106
Thursday, Jun. 5, 2008
9:30 a.m.
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
To hold hearings to examine off-highway vehicle
management on public lands.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 366
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