CONGRESSIONAL WEEK AHEAD

From the Congressional Record for Monday, July 11, 2005

Congressional Program Ahead

Week of July 12 through July 16, 2005

Senate Chamber

  On Tuesday, Senate will continue consideration of H.R. 2360, Homeland Security Appropriations.
  During the balance of the week, Senate will continue consideration of H.R. 2360, Homeland Security Appropriations, and 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:
  July 12, Subcommittee on Labor,  Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, to hold  hearings to examine alternative methods for deriving stem cells, focusing on a single cell technique without destruction of the  embryo, 9:30 a.m., SD-124.

Committee on Armed Services:
  July 14, Subcommittee on Personnel,  to hold hearings to examine military justice and detention policy in  the global war on terrorism, 9:30 a.m., SR-325.

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation:
  July 12, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine issues concerning Digital Television (DTV) transition, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  July 13, Subcommittee on Aviation, to hold hearings to examine the financial stability of airlines, 10 a.m., SR-253.

  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs:
  July 13, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the Federal role regarding chemical facility security, 9:30 a.m., SD-562.
  July 15, Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and International Security, to hold an oversight hearing to examine the United States' relationship with the World Trade Organization, focusing on the role of the World Trade Organization and its impact on national sovereignty and economic security, 9:30 a.m., SD-562.

  Committee on the Judiciary:
  July 12, Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, to hold hearings to examine music licensing reform, 2:30 p.m., SD-226.
  July 13, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine habeas corpus proceedings and issues of actual innocence, 9:30 a.m., SD-226.

House Committees

  Committee on Armed Services:
  July 12, Subcommittee on Strategies Forces, hearing on space acquisition, 1 p.m., 2212 Rayburn.
  July 13, full Committee, hearing on national security implications of the possible merger of the China National Offshore Oil Corporation with Unocal Corporation, 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.

  Committee on Financial Services:
  July 12, Subcommittee on Housing  and Community Opportunity, hearing entitled "Flood Map  Modernization and the Future of the National Flood Insurance  Program," 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  July 13, full Committee, hearing entitled "Treasury's Report to  Congress on the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA)," 2 p.m., 2128  Rayburn.

  Committee on Government Reform:
  July 12, Subcommittee on Criminal  Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources, hearing entitled "Threat  Convergence at the Border: How Can We Improve the Federal Effort to  Dismantle Criminal Smuggling Organizations?" 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  July 13, Subcommittee on Federal Workforce and Agency  Organization, hearing entitled "From Bureaucrats to Plutocrats: Can  Entrepreneurialism Work in the Federal Government?" 2 p.m., 2154  Rayburn.

  Committee on Homeland Security:
  July 12, Subcommittee on Emergency  Preparedness, Science, and Technology, hearing entitled "Project  BioShield: Linking Bioterrorism Threats and Countermeasure  Procurement to Enhance Terrorism Preparedness," 9:30 a.m., 2118  Rayburn.
  July 13, Subcommittee on Economic Security, Infrastructure  Protection, and Cybersecurity, hearing entitled "Leveraging Technology to Improve Aviation Security," 2 p.m., 2212 Rayburn.
  July 13, Subcommittee on Prevention of Nuclear and Biological  Attack, hearing entitled "Engineering Bio-Terror Agents: Lessons  from the Offensive U.S. and Russian Biological Weapons Programs," 10 a.m., room to be announced.
  July 14, full Committee, hearing entitled "The Secretary's  Second-Stage Review: Re-thinking the Department of Homeland  Security's Organization and Policy Direction," 10 a.m., 2128  Rayburn.

  Committee on International Relations:
  July 14, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, hearing entitled "North Korean Nuclear  Negotiations: Strategies and Prospects for Success", 10:30 a.m., 2172  Rayburn.

  Committee on Resources:
  July 13, Subcommittee on National Parks and the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, joint hearing  entitled "Motorized Recreational Use on Federal Lands," [a.k.a. The Snowmobile Hearing] 2 p.m.,  1324 Longworth.

  Committee on Science:
  July 12, Subcommittee on Energy, hearing on Economic Aspects of Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing, 2 p.m., 2318 Rayburn.

  Committee on Ways and Means:
  July 14, Subcommittee on Human  Resources, hearing on Welfare and Work Data, 10 a.m., B-318 Rayburn.

Joint Meetings

  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe:
  July 13, to  receive a briefing regarding the political and business implications  of the prosecution and imprisonment of Russian Yukos Oil Chairman  and CEO, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, 2 p.m., SD-192.

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