Senate Foreign Relations Comm Hearings: Full Slate this week

[TayTay]

Okay, I post these hearings schedules and I can only hope that someone reads them and then watches (fragments?) of the hearings I mention. I know, I know, there is a chance of a George Allen sighting at these hearings and that is enough to put anyone off their lunch and induce nausea. But sometimes you have to do things for the good of democracy and the American Republic. And there are some really good hearings this week in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. (Honest, I read about this and my little geeky heart went all pit-a-pat, pit-a-pat.

So, watch some of them already. (I have a test all made up and this does count towards your final grade, you know.)

For Sen. Barfbag, cuz he just is the most awful and dumbest member of the Senate, (except for Santorium.)

We don't need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.



(Does anyone read my postings here at all? I can't be the only geek here. It's so lonely.)

[TayTay]

1. NATO: Common Defense: Hearing: Tuesday, 2/7/06

NATO: From Common Defense
to Common Security
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HEARING
before the

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE
ONE HUNDRED NINTH CONGRESS
SECOND SESSION

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Tuesday, February 7, 2006

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Time: 9:30 AM
Place: 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Presiding: Senator Lugar

Witness:
General James L. Jones, Jr., USMC
Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR)
Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers Europe
Mons, Belgium

This is the same day as Coretta Scott King's funeral in suburban Atlanta. Not sure of a JK showing here.

[TayTay]

2. Iraq Stabilization & Reconstruction: Wed. 2/8/06

For the love of Gawd, this one is tailor made for a really, really good Senator to show up and ask some really really good questions about where this Admin has dropped the ball. (Unless that someone is at the King funeral, but I don't know about that.)

Iraq Stabilization & Reconstruction
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HEARING
before the

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE
ONE HUNDRED NINTH CONGRESS
SECOND SESSION

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Wednesday, February 8, 2006

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Time: 9:30 AM
Place: 216 Hart Senate Office Building
Presiding: Senator Lugar

Witnesses:
Stuart W. Bowen, Jr.
Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction
(SIGIR)
Office of the SIGIR
Arlington, VA
The Honorable James Jeffrey
Senior Advisor to the Secretary and Coordinator for
Iraq Policy
Department of State
Washington, DC
The Honorable James R. Kunder
Assistant Administrator for Asia and the Near East
U.S. Agency for International Development
Washington, DC
Joseph A. Christoff
Director
International Affairs and Trade
Government Accountability Office
Washington, DC

Oy! Just Oy! Senator, this has got to be like shooting fish in a barrel. I'm taping this damn hearing. Just go ask them what the hell they are doing and where the hell the money went. I want fireworks at this hearing.

[karynnj]

8. Has anyone found a link that works for this one.?

[Mass]

9. Here - Click on the link at the top of the page

http://foreign.senate.gov/

[karynnj]

11. Thanks

[TayTay]

3. Threat Reduction hearing: Thurs., 2/9/06

New Initiatives in Cooperative Threat Reduction: Oh my Goodness, I wonder if those warrant-less searches by the NSA will come up. That is just a tad controversial. Gee, that might be good for a question or two.

New Initiatives in
Cooperative Threat Reduction
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HEARING
before the

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE
ONE HUNDRED NINTH CONGRESS
SECOND SESSION

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Thursday, February 9, 2006

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Time: 9:30 AM
Place: 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Presiding: Senator Lugar

Witness:
The Honorable Robert Joseph
Under Secretary for Arms Control and
International Security
Department of State
Washington, DC

Oy! Oy! Oy! I'm having a frickin heart attack over here. You should go and watch this. It'll give you indigestion. (And Sen. Barfbag has no idea what this hearing is about, but somehow he will use his time to bring up football. Sigh!)

[MH1]

4. I read, but these "upcoming committee hearings" usually bum me out

because I have to work and usually can't watch them, and there will almost never be a video available, and I don't have a PVR set up yet (one day...)

But I do like to read the highlights when you or others post them!

[TayTay]

5. Replayed tonight on CSpan 1

Also, you can get the live feed on C-Span's web site and at the Senate Judiciary site.

This is the good stuff! This is where you get to see 'our Senator' shine and take out the bad guys! What more could you ask for. (I'm getting the vapors just writing about it.)

[TayTay]

6. Kick! Iraq Stabilization and Reconstruction hearing Wed. 2/8

Please come and watch. I can't do this alone. Not with Allen and Coleman there. It's too much to ask of one frail, weak and mousy little woman. I need help here.

Please watch and I won't write any more bad poetry. Please!

[TayTay]

7. Commerce Comm hearing. TSA stuff

Admittedly, this is not as sexy as talking about Iraq, but still....

TSA's Secure Flight and Registered Traveler Programs
Full Committee Hearing
Thursday, February 9 2006 - 10:00 AM - SD-562


Webcast: Click here to view a live webcast of this hearing.
Description: Washington, D.C. – Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) and Co-Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) have scheduled a Full Committee oversight hearing on commercial aviation security for Thursday, February 9, 2006, at 10:00 a.m. in Room 562 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The Committee expects to examine two of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)'s aviation passenger screening programs, Secure Flight and Registered Traveler, to discuss the issues that have prevented these programs from being launched, and to determine their future. The witnesses are.

Panel 1:

The Honorable Edmund Hawley
Assistant Secretary, Transportation Security Administration

Ms. Cathleen A. Berrick
Director, Homeland Security and Justice, U.S. Government Accountability Office


Panel 2:

Mr. Jim May
President & CEO, Air Transport Association (ATA)

Mr. Chip Barclay
President, American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE)

Mr. Tim Sparapani
Legislative Counself for Privacy Rights, American Civil Liberties Union

Mr. Bill Connors
Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, National Business Travel Association

[whometense]

10. Watching.

Better late than never, right?

I read them, and please do keep posting. I just haven't felt like commenting much the past week or so.

Did I miss any JK? Just came on in time for Biden's apology.

[TayTay]

12. I just got in myself

Had a tooth filled. Am watching now.

Damn these people lie a lot. I wonder if they get payed by the falsehood by Georgie!

[karynnj]

13. Not sure if Kerry is there

He hasn't spoke yet. I was listening rather than watching because I was moving some posts over to support Prosense's Clean campaign thread ("amazing" here) over in the big forum.

[whometense]

14. I've got the video up,

but am not really watching (working!) I certainly haven't heard JK, but if he's there I probably would have missed the camera scan.

[TayTay]

15. Haven't seen or heard JK yet

But some people are habitually late or working in the office and come over only when necesary. (He can watch this in his office, same as we can, and go over to the hearings at need.)

[TayTay]

16. Sigh, no JK

But a lot of good points were made, that some Sens have made before. Iraq needs security in order to rebuild. Iraq needs to get jobs and basic services up in order to attract donors, etc. Round and round and round it goes, where it stops nobody knows. Sigh!

[whometense]

17. Lots of hemming and hawing

over that last question about missing money.

[FreedomAngel82]

18. I come here everyday!

:loveya:

[_dynamicdems]

19. I use the mute function on my remote frequently when watching C-Span, but

I'd really like to have black dot option on my television: a feature that would allow the viewer to push a button and put a large black dot over a selected area of the screen (say, Allen's mouth). A feature where you can play with a control that lets you distort the screen in selected areas (the face of Allen, Stevens, Frist, etc.)would be nice also. It would sure make watching C-Span a whole lot more fun. It would also be less stressful than screaming at the television screen, not that I do that...often. O8)

[TayTay]

20. GAO Report out now on Stablizing and Reconstruction in Iraq

Sigh!

Read 'em and weep: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06428t.pdf