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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 09:10 AM
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US Senate Committee Hearings Schedule March 26-30, 2007
Edited on Mon Mar-26-07 09:11 AM by Solly Mack
Monday, Mar. 26, 2007


2 p.m.
Armed Services
Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee
To receive a briefing on the reorganization of
the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for
Policy.
SR-232A

2 p.m.
Energy and Natural Resources
To hold hearings to examine the progress of the
European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme and to
receive information on lessons learned for
policymakers who want to better understand how a
market-based trading program could operate
efficiently and effectively in the United States.
SD-G50

2:30 p.m.
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Oversight of Government Management, the Federal
Workforce, and the District of Columbia Subcommittee

To hold hearings to examine a review of the Real
ID Act of 2005 and the proposed regulations
released by the Department of Homeland Security
on March 1, 2006, implementing Act, focusing on
efforts to secure drivers' licenses and
identification cards.
SD-342

3 p.m.
Judiciary
Human Rights and the Law Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine the problem of human
trafficking and the legal options to stop the
problem.
SD-226

3:30 p.m.
Appropriations
Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and
Related Agencies Subcommittee

To hold hearings to examine proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 2008 for mind, brain
and behavioral research at the National
Institutes of Health.
SD-116

Tuesday, Mar. 27, 2007


9:30 a.m.
Armed Services
To hold hearings to examine the nominations of
James R. Clapper, Jr., of Virginia, to be Under
Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Claude M.
Kicklighter, of Georgia, to be Inspector General,
Department of Defense, S. Ward Casscells, of
Texas, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense,
and William Charles Ostendorff, of Virginia, to
be Principal Deputy Administrator, National
Nuclear Security Administration.
SH-216

9:30 a.m.
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
To hold hearings to examine the Employee Free
Choice Act, focusing on restoring economic
opportunity for working families.
SD-430

9:30 a.m.
Judiciary
To hold oversight hearings to examine the Federal
Bureau of Investigation.
SD-106

9:30 a.m.
Veterans' Affairs
To hold an oversight hearing to examine
Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of
Defense cooperation and collaboration, focusing
on health care issues.
SR-418

10 a.m.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
To hold hearings to examine competition and
consumer choice relating to exclusive sports
programming.
SR-253

10 a.m.
Finance
To hold hearings to examine opportunities and
challenges in the U.S.-China economic
relationship.
SD-215

1 p.m.
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
To hold hearings to examine ensuring safe
medicines and medical devices for children.
SD-430

2:30 p.m.
Intelligence
To hold closed hearings to examine intelligence
matters.
SH-219

3:30 p.m.
Armed Services
Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee
To receive a closed briefing on Special
Operations Command's global operation.
S-407, Capitol

Wednesday, Mar. 28, 2007

9:30 a.m.
Armed Services
Strategic Forces Subcommittee

To hold hearings to examine the Strategic Forces
Program in review of the Defense Authorization
Request for fiscal year 2008 and the future years
Defense Program.
SR-232A

9:30 a.m.
Joint Economic Committee
To hold hearings to examine the current economic
outlook.
SH-216

9:45 a.m.
Appropriations
Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and
Related Agencies Subcommittee

To hold hearings to examine proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 2008 for the Department
of Labor.
SD-124

10 a.m.
Environment and Public Works
To hold hearings to examine reducing government
building operational costs through innovation and
efficiency, focusing on legislative solutions.
SD-406

10 a.m.
Finance
To hold hearings to examine risks and reform,
focusing on the role of currency in the
U.S.-China relationship.
SD-215

10 a.m.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard
Subcommittee

To hold hearings to examine the future of the
Coast Guard Dive Program.
SR-253

10 a.m.
Rules and Administration
Business meeting to consider S.223, to require
Senate candidates to file designations,
statements, and reports in electronic form.
SR-301

10 a.m.
Appropriations
State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs
Subcommittee

To hold hearings to examine the proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 2008 for the United
States Agency for International Development and
foreign assistance programs.
SD-138

10:30 a.m.
Appropriations
Defense Subcommittee

To hold hearings to examine the proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 2008 for the United
States Navy.
SD-192

10:30 a.m.
Aging
To hold hearings to examine affordable drug
coverage that works for Wisconsin, focusing on
preserving senior care.
SD-562

11:45 a.m.
Foreign Relations
Business meeting to consider S.193, to increase
cooperation on energy issues between the United
States Government and foreign governments and
entities in order to secure the strategic and
economic interests of the United States, S.613,
to enhance the overseas stabilization and
reconstruction capabilities of the United States
Government, H.R.1003, to amend the Foreign
Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 to
reauthorize the United States Advisory Commission
on Public Diplomacy, S.Res.30, expressing the
sense of the Senate regarding the need for the
United States to address global climate change
through the negotiation of fair and effective
international commitments, S.Res.65, condemning
the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist and
human rights advocate Hrant Dink and urging the
people of Turkey to honor his legacy of
tolerance, S.Res.76, calling on the United States
Government and the international community to
promptly develop, fund, and implement a
comprehensive regional strategy in Africa to
protect civilians, facilitate humanitarian
operations, contain and reduce violence, and
contribute to conditions for sustainable peace in
eastern Chad, and Central African Republic, and
Darfur, Sudan, and the nominations of Katherine
Almquist, of Virginia, to be an Assistant
Administrator of the United States Agency for
International Development, Paul J. Bonicelli, of
Virginia, to be an Assistant Administrator of the
United States Agency for International
Development, Curtis S. Chin, of New York, to be
United States Director of the Asian Development
Bank, with the rank of Ambassador, Eli Whitney
Debevoise II, of Maryland, to be United States
Executive Director of the International Bank for
Reconstruction and Development, Sam Fox, of
Missouri, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary of the United States of America
to Belgium, Zalmay Khalilzad, of Maryland, to be
the Representative of the United States of
America to the United Nations, with the rank and
status of Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary, and the Representative of the
United States of America in the Security Council
of the United Nations, Margrethe Lundsager, of
Virginia, to be United States Executive Director
of the International Monetary Fund, and Douglas
Menarchik, of Texas, to be an Assistant
Administrator of the United States Agency for
International Development. (Reappointment).
SD-419

2:30 p.m.
Appropriations
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
Subcommittee

To hold hearings to examine proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 2008 for United States
Forest Service.
SD-124

2:30 p.m.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Space, Aeronautics, and Related Agencies Subcommittee

To hold hearings to examine transitioning to a
next generation Human Space Flight System.
SR-253

3 p.m.
Appropriations
Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee

To hold hearings to examine the proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 2008 for the Department
of the Treasury.
SD-192

3 p.m.
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
To hold hearings to examine No Child Left Behind
Reauthorization, focusing on effective strategies
for engaging parents and communities in schools.
SD-430

3:30 p.m.
Armed Services
Personnel Subcommittee

To hold hearings to examine active component,
reserve component, and civilian personnel
programs in review of the Defense Authorization
Request for fiscal year 2008 and the future years
Defense Program.
SR-232A

Thursday, Mar. 29, 2007

9:15 a.m.
Indian Affairs
To hold an oversight hearing to examine Indian
trust fund litigation.
SR-485

9:30 a.m.
Armed Services
To hold hearings to examine the Department of the
Navy in review of the Defense Authorization
Request for fiscal year 2008 and the future years
Defense Program.
SH-216

9:30 a.m.
Foreign Relations
To hold hearings to examine an update on Iran;
may be followed by a business meeting to consider
pending calendar business.
SD-419

9:30 a.m.
Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Business meeting to markup S.163, to improve the
disaster loan program of the Small Business
Administration.
SR-428A

9:30 a.m.
Veterans' Affairs
To hold joint hearings with the House Committee
on Veterans' Affairs to examine the legislative
presentation of AMVETS, American Ex-Prisoners of
War, Military Order of the Purple Heart, Gold
Star Wives of America, Fleet Reserve Association,
the Retired Enlisted Association, Military
Officers Association of America, and the National
Association of State Directors of Veterans
Affairs.
SD-106

10 a.m.
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Federal Financial Management, Government Information,
Federal Services, and International Security Subcommittee

To hold hearings to examine eliminating and
recovering improper payments, focusing on the
Office of Management and Budget report entitled
“Improving the Accuracy and Integrity of Improper
Payments”.
SD-342

10 a.m.
Finance
To hold hearings to examine clean energy from the
margins to the mainstream.
SD-215

10 a.m.
Judiciary
To continue hearings to examine Department of
Justice hiring and firing of United States
Attorneys, focusing on preserving prosecutorial
independence.

SD-226

2 p.m.
Judiciary
Business meeting to consider S.236, to require
reports to Congress on Federal agency use of data
mining, S.376, to amend title 18, United States
Code, to improve the provisions relating to the
carrying of concealed weapons by law enforcement
officers, S.849, to promote accessibility,
accountability, and openness in Government by
strengthening section 552 of title 5, United
States Code (commonly referred to as the Freedom
of Information Act), S.119, to prohibit
profiteering and fraud relating to military
action, relief, and reconstruction efforts,
S.621, to establish commissions to review the
facts and circumstances surrounding injustices
suffered by European Americans, European Latin
Americans, and Jewish refugees during World War
II, and S.Res.108, designating the first week of
April 2007 as “National Asbestos Awareness Week”
and to discuss the possibility of the issuance of
certain subpoenas in connection with
investigation into replacement of United States
Attorneys.
SD-226

2:30 p.m.
Intelligence
Closed business meeting and hearing regarding
certain intelligence matters.
SH-219

Friday, Mar. 30, 2007

10 a.m.
Appropriations
Legislative Branch Subcommittee

To hold hearings to examine proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 2008 for the Office of
the Senate Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, and
the United States Capitol police.
SD-138


Senate Committee Hearings


In addition

House Committee List for March 26, 2007

House Committee Offices


In case anyone wants to know what is coming up this week.

Also as a reminder that on Thursday - March 29, 2007 at 10 AM (East Coast)Senate Judiciary Committee hearings continue on the DOJ hiring and firing practices, where Kyle Sampson will be testifying.

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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 09:38 AM
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1. thanks Solly!
K & R
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 09:40 AM
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2. Welcome!
I tuned in late to a couple of hearings last week and didn't want that to happen again. I needed the reminder myself! :)
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 08:06 AM
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3. kick
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 08:14 AM
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4. Thanks Solly.
More committees to request Sibel be heard.
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 02:09 PM
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5. kick
:kick:
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-29-07 04:41 AM
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6. Don't forget!!! Sampson testifies today!!!
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Gabi Hayes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-29-07 05:28 AM
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7. live on CSPAN 3. does anybody get that? it's online, at least
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-29-07 05:34 AM
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8. I'm sure someone will start a thread directed people to the best viewing
link available

Thanks for letting people know it's C-SPAN3!!!

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