Hearings for this week.

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I don't think there are as many as last week. But there are a few that are specific to this group.

[TayTay]

1. Finance Committee

There is a listing for a Finance Committee meeting for today to vote on the nomination of Susan Schwab to be United States Trade Representative. It is probably vote by proxy and done later on in the day.

[TayTay]

2. Finance: Long term debt reduction, Tuesday, May 23rd 2:30 pm

Subcommittee on Long-Term Growth and Debt Reduction

Encouraging Economic Self-Determination in Indian Country

May 23, 2006, at 2:30 p.m., in 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building


Member Statements:
Gordon Smith, OR
John F. Kerry, MA

Charles Grassley, IA

Witness Statements:

Panel

Okay, not the most exciting topic, but damn if ignoring it doesn't have disasterous consequences.

[TayTay]

8. Witnesses for this hearing

Witness Statements:

Panel

Mr. Raymond C. Etcitty, Esq., Chief Legislative Counsel, Navajo Nation Office of Legislative Counsel, Window Rock, AZ

Ms. Lenor A. Scheffler, Esq., Best & Flanagan LLP, Minneapolis, MN

Dr. Gavin Clarkson, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, School of Information, School of Law, Native American Studies, Ann Arbor, MI

Mr. Scott Schickli, Esq., Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Portland, OR

Mr. Wayne A. Shammel, Esq., General Counsel, Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, Roseburg, OR


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BTW there are only two people on this sub-committee
Gordon Smith
John Kerry

He might have to show.

[TayTay]

9. This is going on now.

But I don't think Sen. Kerry is there. Just Sen. Smith from OR. Sigh! It's only a two person committee.

[TayTay]

3. SFRC: UN update, Bolton testilies, May 25th 9:30 AM

A Status Report on
United Nations Reform
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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, May 25, 2006

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

Witness:
The Honorable John R. Bolton
U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
Department of State
New York, NY

Sen. Coleman: Can I come and live in the crawl space beneath your mustache and your upper lip MR. Bolton. I think you're great and amazing.
Sen. Allen: I was going to say that. (What's a crawlspace?)

[whometense]

6. - snerk -

I'll watch this one on the off chance I might get to see JK make that hideous excuse for a human being sweat under the hot lights.

Plus, it's fun to watch Barfbag try (and of course fail) to look intelligent when he has to follow JK in the lineup...

[TayTay]

7. That is true!

If this was a drinking game, we could establish rules like:

Drink whenever a Rethug Sen says, "What a great job you are doing at the UN"
Drink whenever Coleman says, "Food for Oil" program
Drink whenever a Dem brings up the fact that Bolton was actually confirmed.

Good thing I'm mostly a tea-totaller. I'm be blotto about an hour into the hearing.

[TayTay]

4. Commerce Comm. Price Gouging: May 23rd, 10:00 am

Price Gouging
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
10:00 AM

SD - 562

Senate Commerce Committee Chairmenr Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) and Co-Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) will hold a Full Committee hearing to examine Price Gouging. The hearing will be held on Tuesday, May 23, 2006 at 10 a.m. in room 562 of the Dirksen Building.
Witnesses will be announced wehn available.

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Wow oh wow! Maybe Sen. Stevens will swear in the Gas company executives and make them talk about the obscene amount of money they are making and how they are using it to fund moronic commercials about the joys of carbon dioxide. Maybe we will hear about 'golden parachutes' for retiring oil co execs that are worth more than the GDP of a few small 3rd world countries. Maybe,

What am I saying? Ted Stevens will chair this meeting. Nobody will be sworn in, and the butt kissing from the Rethugs will be amazing. Sigh!

[TayTay]

5. Commcerce Comm.: Telecom Bill final hearings, May 25th, 10:00 am

S. 2686, Communications Reform Bill Hearing II
Thursday, May 25, 2006
10:00 AM

SD - 106

Second of three hearings to review the revised substitute version of S. 2686, the Communications, Consumers' Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006.
Witnesses will be announced when available.