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Program For The Remainder Of The Week
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
The House meets at 10:00 a.m.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
The House meets at 10:00 a.m.
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Senate Floor Schedule
Thursday, Mar 11, 2010
9:30 a.m.: Convene and begin a period of morning business.
Thereafter, resume consideration of H.R.1586, the legislative vehicle for the Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization bill.
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Wednesday, Mar. 10, 2010
12:00 am
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Patrick K. Nakamura, of Alabama, to be a Member of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, Gwendolyn E. Boyd, of Maryland, and Peggy Goldwater-Clay, of California, both to be a Member of
the Board of Trustees of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, and Sharon L. Browne, of California, Charles Norman Wiltse Keckler, of Virginia, and Victor B. Maddox, of Kentucky, all to be a Member of the Board of
Directors of the Legal Services Corporation, and Gary Blumenthal, of Massachusetts, Chester Alonzo Finn, of New York, Sara A. Gelser, of Oregon, Ari Ne'eman, of Maryland, Dongwoo Joseph Pak, of California, Carol Jean Reynolds, of Colorado, Fernando
Torres-Gill, of California, and Jonathan M. Young, of Maryland, all to be a Member of the National Council on
Disability.
S-216
9:30 am
Energy and Natural Resources
Hearings to examine S. 1696, to require the Secretary of Energy to conduct a study of video game console energy efficiency, S. 2908, to amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to require the Secretary of Energy to publish a final rule that
establishes a uniform efficiency descriptor and accompanying test methods for covered water heaters, S. 3059, to improve energy efficiency of appliances, lighting, and buildings, and S. 3054, to amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to
establish efficiency standards for bottle-type water dispensers, commercial hot food holding cabinets, and portable electric
spas.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 366
9:30 am
Foreign Relations
Hearings to examine new directions in global
health.
Location: Hart Senate Office Building, Room 216
10:00 am
Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense
Hearings to examine Department of Defense health
programs.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 192
10:00 am
Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities
Hearings to examine U.S. government efforts to counter violent
extremism.
Location: Russell Senate Office Building, Room 222
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.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 342
10:00 am
Judiciary
Hearings to examine corporate spending in American elections after Citizens
United.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 226
10:15 am
Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2011 for the National Nuclear Security
Administration.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 116
10:30 am
Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel
Hearings to examine the Active, Guard, Reserve, and civilian personnel programs in review of the Defense Authorization request for fiscal year 2011 and the Future Years Defense
Program.
Location: Russell Senate Office Building, Room 232A
2:30 pm
Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces
Hearings to examine the military space programs in review of the Defense Authorization request for fiscal year 2011 and the Future Years Defense
Program.
Location: Russell Senate Office Building, Room 232A
2:30 pm
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Hearings to examine advancing American innovation and
competitiveness.
Location: Russell Senate Office Building, Room 253
2:30 pm
Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests
Hearings to examine S. 2895, to restore forest landscapes, protect old growth forests, and manage national forests in the eastside forests of the State of Oregon, S. 2907, to establish a coordinated avalanche protection program, S. 2966 and H.R. 4474,
bills to authorize the continued use of certain water diversions located on National Forest System land in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness and the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness in the State of Idaho, and S. 2791 and H.R. 3759, bills to
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant market-related contract extensions of certain timber contracts between the Secretary of the Interior and timber
purchasers.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 366
2:30 pm
Judiciary
Hearings to examine the nominations of Gary Scott Feinerman, and Sharon Johnson Coleman, both to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, and William Joseph Martinez, to be United States District Judge for the District
of Colorado.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 226
2:45 pm
Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2011 for the Department of Health and Human
Services.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 124
3:00 pm
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.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 430
Thursday, Mar. 11, 2010
9:00 am
Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2011 for the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of
Reclamation.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 192
9:00 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; to be immediately followed by a hearing to examine the Joint Strike
Fighter.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room G50
9:30 am
Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2011 for the Department of Housing and Urban
Development.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 138
10:00 am
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Hearings to examine consumers, competition, and consolidation in the video and broadband
market.
Location: Russell Senate Office Building, Room 253
10:00 am
Energy and Natural Resources
Hearings to examine legislative proposals designed to create jobs related to energy efficiency, including proposed legislation on energy efficient building
retrofits.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 366
10:00 am
Environment and Public Works
Hearings to examine Federal, state and local partnerships to accelerate transportation
benefits.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 406
10:00 am
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Hearings to examine pay equity in the new American
workplace.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 430
10:00 am
Judiciary
Business meeting to consider S. 1789, to restore fairness to Federal cocaine sentencing, 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, 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. 148, to restore the rule that agreements between manufacturers and retailers, distributors, or wholesalers to set the minimum price below which the manufacturer's product or service cannot be sold violates the Sherman Act, and the nominations of
Jane E. Magnus-Stinson, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Indiana, Josephine Staton Tucker, to be United States District Judge for the Central District of California, Mark A. Goldsmith, to be United States District
Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, Brian Anthony Jackson, to be United States District Judge for the Middle District of Louisiana, Elizabeth Erny Foote, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana, Marc T.
Treadwell, to be United States District Judge for the Middle District of Georgia, and Kelvin Corneilius Washington, to be United States Marshal for the District of South Carolina, and Christopher Tobias Hoye, to be United States Marshal for the
District of Nevada, both of the Department of
Justice.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 226
11:00 am
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness and Integration
Hearings to examine U.S. officials involved in drug
cartels.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 342
1:30 pm
Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2011 for military construction for the Department of
Defense.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 124
2:30 pm
Foreign Relations
Hearings to examine the nominations of Elizabeth L. Littlefield, of the District of Columbia, to be President of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Carolyn Hessler Radelet, of the District of Columbia, to be Deputy Director of the Peace
Corps, and Raul Yzaguirre, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, and Theodore Sedgwick, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Slovak Republic, both of the Department of
State.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 419
2:30 pm
Intelligence
Closed hearings to consider certain intelligence
matters.
Location: Hart Senate Office Building, Room 219
Tuesday, Mar. 16, 2010
9:30 am
Armed Services
Hearings to examine U.S. Special Operations Command and U.S. Central 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 SVC-217 following the
open session.
Location: Hart Senate Office Building, Room 216
9:30 am
Foreign Relations
Hearings to examine the nomination of Robert Stephen Ford, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Syrian Arab
Republic.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 419
10:00 am
Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and Power
An oversight hearing to examine the Bureau of Reclamation's implementation of the SECURE Water Act, (Title 9501 of Public Law 111-11) and the Bureau of Reclamation's WaterSMART program which includes the WaterSMART Grant Program, the Basin Study
Program and the Title XVI Program.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 366
10:00 am
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Hearings to examine Ukraine, focusing on the new challenges and prospects they face domestically and internationally and implications for U.S.
policy.
SVC-201/200
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 assessing foster care and family services in the District of Columbia, focusing on challenges and
solutions.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 342
2:30 pm
Intelligence
Closed business meeting to consider pending calendar
business.
Location: Hart Senate Office Building, Room 219
Wednesday, Mar. 17, 2010
9:30 am
Armed Services: Subcommittee on SeaPower
Hearings to examine Navy shipbuilding programs in review of the Defense Authorization request for fiscal year 2011 and the Future Years Defense
Program.
Location: Russell Senate Office Building, Room 222
9:30 am
Energy and Natural Resources
Hearings to examine the nomination of Jeffrey A. Lane, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of Energy for Congressional and Intergovernmental
Affairs.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 366
10:00 am
Environment and Public Works
Hearings to examine the Government Accountability Office's investigation of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) efforts to protect children's
health.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 406
10:00 am
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Hearings to examine the lessons and implications of the Christmas day attack, focusing on intelligence reform and interagency
integration.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 342
10:00 am
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Hearings to examine the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) reauthorization, focusing on the Obama Administration's ESEA reauthorization
priorities.
Location: Hart Senate Office Building, Room 216
10:00 am
Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts
Hearings to examine bankruptcy reform, focusing on small business
jobs.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 226
2:30 pm
Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces
Hearings to examine strategic forces programs 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.
Location: Russell Senate Office Building, Room 232A
2:30 pm
Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National Parks
Hearings to examine S. 553, to revise the authorized route of the North Country National Scenic Trail in northeastern Minnesota to include existing hiking trails along Lake Superior's north shore and in Superior National Forest and Chippewa National
Forest, S. 1017, to reauthorize the Cane River National Heritage Area Commission and expand the boundaries of the Cane River National Heritage Area in the State of Louisiana, S. 1018, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter into an
agreement with Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana, to construct a curatorial center for the use of Cane River Creole National Historical Park, the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, and the University,
S. 1537, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National Park Service, to designate the Dr. Norman E. Borlaug Birthplace and Childhood Home in Cresco, Iowa, as a National Historic Site and as a unit of the
National Park System, S. 1629, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the archeological site and surrounding land of the New Philadelphia town site in the state of Illinois, S. 2892, to establish the Alabama
Black Belt National Heritage Area, S. 2933, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study to determine the suitability and feasibility of designating the Colonel Charles Young Home in Xenia, Ohio, as a unit of the
National Park System, S. 2951, to authorize funding to protect and conserve lands contiguous with the Blue Ridge Parkway to serve the public, and H.R. 3804, to make technical corrections to various Acts affecting the National Park Service, to extend,
amend, or establish certain National Park Service
authorities.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 366
2:30 pm
Aging
Hearings to examine seniors, focusing on rising drug prices and the Part D
program.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 562
3:00 pm
Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance
Hearings to examine financial services and products, focusing on the role of the Federal Trade Commission in protecting consumers, part
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Senate Committee on
Location: Russell Senate Office Building, Room 253
Thursday, Mar. 18, 2010
9:30 am
Armed Services
To resume hearings to examine the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
policy.
Location: Hart Senate Office Building, Room 216
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
2:15 pm
Indian Affairs
An oversight hearing to examine Bureau of Indian Affairs and tribal police recruitment, training, hiring, and
retention.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 628
2:30 pm
Intelligence
Closed hearings to consider certain intelligence
matters.
Location: Hart Senate Office Building, Room 219
Tuesday, Mar. 23, 2010
9:30 am
Armed Services
Hearings to examine U.S. Pacific Command, U.S. Strategic Command, and U.S. Forces Korea 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.
Location: Hart Senate Office Building, Room 216
9:30 am
Judiciary
An oversight hearing to examine the Department of
Justice.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 226
Wednesday, Mar. 24, 2010
9:30 am
Veterans' Affairs
An oversight hearing to examine Veterans' Affairs plan for ending homelessness among
veterans.
Location: Russell Senate Office Building, Room 418
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