Congressional Week Ahead
Sat Jun 25, 2005 at 01:25:53 PM PDT
CONGRESSIONAL WEEK AHEAD
[ Abstracted from the
Congressional Record Daily Digest, June 24, 2005]
Week of June 27 through July 2, 2005
Senate Chamber
On Monday, at 3 p.m., Senate will resume consideration of H.R. 2361, Interior Appropriations.
On Tuesday, Senate will resume consideration of H.R. 6,
Energy Policy Act, with a vote on final passage of the bill to occur at 9:45 a.m. Also, Senate will continue consideration of H.R. 2361, Interior Appropriations.
During the balance of the week, Senate expects to complete action on H.R. 2361, Interior Appropriations, and begin consideration of H.R.
2360, Homeland Security Appropriations, and will consider any other cleared legislative and executive business, including any other
appropriation bills, when available.
[Committee Meetings of interest below the fold]
Senate Committees
(Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
Committee on Appropriations:
June 28, Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans' Affairs and Related Agencies, to hold hearings to examine the Commission on the Review of Overseas Military Facility Structure of the United States (Overseas Basing Commission) Report on the U.S. overseas military basing posture, 4 p.m., SD-138.
June 30, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the status of the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps in fighting the global war on terrorism, 9:30 a.m., SR-325.
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation:
June 29, to hold hearings to examine Spectrum-DTV, 10 a.m., SR-253.
Committee on Foreign Relations:
June 30, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine challenges of the Middle East road map, 9:30 a.m., SD-419.
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions:
June 29, business meeting to consider S. 681, to amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a National Cord Blood Stem Cell Bank Network to prepare, store, and distribute human umbilical cord blood stem cells for the treatment of patients and to support peer-reviewed research using such cells, and any nominations cleared for
action, 9:50 a.m., SD-430.
June 30, Subcommittee on Education and Early Childhood Development, to hold hearings to examine issues relating to American history [...the hell?], 3 p.m., SD-430.
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs:
June 29, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine vulnerabilities in the United States passport system, 9:30 a.m., SD-562.
Committee on Indian Affairs:
June 28, to hold an oversight hearing to examine regulation of Indian gaming, 10 a.m., SD-106.
June 29, Full Committee, business meeting to consider S.J. Res. 15, to acknowledge a long history of official depredations and ill-conceived policies by the United States Government regarding Indian tribes and offer an apology to all Native Peoples on behalf of the United States, [etc.]
Select Committee on Intelligence:
June 29, to hold a closed briefing regarding certain intelligence matters [oh, to be a fly on THAT wall], 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
House Committees
Committee on Armed Services:
June 28, Subcommittee on Military Personnel, hearing on the religious climate at the U.S. Air Force Academy, 2 p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
Committee on Education and the Workforce:
June 29, full Committee, to mark up H.R. 2830, Pension Protection Act of 2005, 10:30 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
Committee on Energy and Commerce:
June 28, Subcommittee on Health, hearing on H.R. 2355, Health Care Choice Act of 2005, 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
Committee on Financial Services:
June 30, Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity, hearing on H.R. 3043, Zero Downpayment Pilot Program Act of 2005, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
Committee on Government Reform:
June 28, hearing entitled "Under Fire: Does the District of Columbia's Gun Ban Help or Hurt the Fight Against Crime?" 2:30 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
June 29, full Committee, hearing entitled "To Lead or To Follow: The Next Generation Internet and the Transition to IPv6," 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
June 29, Subcommittee on Federal Workforce and Agency Organization, hearing entitled "Yucca Mountain Project: Digging for the Truth," 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
June 30, full Committee, hearing entitled "The Next Flu Pandemic: Evaluating U.S. Readiness," 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
Committee on Homeland Security:
June 28, Subcommittee on Prevention of Nuclear and Biological Attack, hearing entitled "Pathways to the Bomb: Security of Fissile Materials Abroad," 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
June 29, Subcommittee on Economic Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Cybersecurity, hearing entitled "Improving Pre-Screening of Aviation Passengers against Terrorist and Other Watch Lists," 10 a.m., room to be announced.
Committee on International Relations:
June 29, Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia, hearing on Iraq's Transition to Democracy, 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
Committee on the Judiciary:
June 30, Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims, oversight hearing entitled "Immigration Removal Procedures Implemented in the Aftermath of the September 11th Attacks," 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
Committee on Science:
June 28, hearing on The Future of NASA, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
Committee on Small Business:
June 28, Subcommittee on Workforce, Empowerment and Government Programs, hearing entitled "How the Clean Air Act Affects Auto Repair," 2 p.m., 311 Cannon. [You KNOW the thrust of this one will be "Environmentalism destroys small business!"]
June 29, Subcommittee on Rural Enterprises, Agriculture and Technology, hearing entitled "Different Applications for Genetically Modified Crops," 2 p.m., 311 Cannon. [Just in case you're not actually going to EAT the stuff]
Committee on Veterans' Affairs:
June 30, full Committee, oversight hearing on the Department of Veterans Affairs' necessity to reprogram $1 billion to the medical services account in Fiscal Years 2005 and its implication for Fiscal Year 2006,, 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.
Committee on Ways and Means:
June 28, Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures, hearing on Funding Rules for Multiemployer Defined Benefit Plans in H.R. 2830, Pension Protection Act of 2005, 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
June 29, Subcommittee on Oversight, hearing to Examine Tax Fraud Committed by Prison Inmates [whaaaa...?], 2 p.m., 1100 Longworth.
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