This Week's Senate Committee Schedule

Here are the United States Senate committee meetings scheduled for this week:

Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

Feb 7, 2007 at 9:45 a.m. To hold hearings to examine the United States Department of Agriculture farm bill proposal.

Appropriations

Feb 8, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. To hold hearings to examine the President's budget request for Fiscal Year 2008 for the Department of Transportation. (Transportation, Treasury, the Judiciary, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Subcomittee)

Armed Services

Feb 6, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. To hold hearings to examine the President's budget request for fiscal year 2008 and the fiscal years 2007 and 2008 war supplemental requests in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2008 and the Future Years Defense Program.

Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

Feb 7, 2007 at 10 a.m. To hold hearings to examine predatory lending practices and home foreclosures.

Budget

Feb 6, 2007 at 10 a.m. To hold hearings to examine war costs.

Feb 7, 2007 at 10 a.m. To hold hearings to examine the President's Fiscal Year 2008 budget proposal.

Feb 8, 2007 at 10 a.m. To hold hearings to examine the President's Fiscal Year 2008 budget and revenue proposals.

Commerce, Science, and Transportation

Feb 7, 2007 at 10 a.m. To hold hearings to examine climate change research and scientific integrity.

Feb 8, 2007 at 10 a.m. To hold hearings to examine the present and future of public safety communications.

Energy and Natural Resources

Feb 7, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. To hold hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2008 for the Department of Energy.

Feb 8, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. To hold hearings to examine issues relating to labor, immigration, law enforcement, and economic conditions in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Environment and Public Works

Feb 6, 2007 at 10 a.m. Hearing on oversight of recent Environmental Protection Agency decisions.

Feb 7, 2007 at 10 a.m. Hearing on Global Warming and Wildlife (Private Sector and Consumer Solutions to Global Warming and Wildlife Protection Subcommittee)

Finance

Feb 6, 2007 at 2:45 p.m. To hold hearings to examine the President's Fiscal Year 2008 budget proposal.

Feb 7, 2007 at 10 a.m. To hold hearings to examine the President's Fiscal Year 2008 budget proposal.

Foreign Relations

Feb 6, 2007 at 10 a.m. To hold hearings to examine a comprehensive stabilization, reconstruction and counter-terrorism strategy for Somalia.

Feb 8, 2007 at 9 a.m. To hold hearings to examine the President's foreign affairs budget.

Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

Feb 8, 2007 at 10 a.m. To hold hearings to examine No Child Left Behind reauthorization, focusing on strategies that promote school improvement.

Indian Affairs

Feb 8, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. Business meeting to consider pending calendar business; to be followed by an oversight hearing on diabetes in Indian Country, focusing on the Special Diabetes Program for Indians.

Intelligence

Feb 6, 2007 at 2:30 p.m. To hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence matters - Iran.

Feb 7, 2007 at 2:30 p.m. To hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence matters - Iraq..

Feb 8, 2007 at 2:30 p.m. To hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence matters - Saudi Arabia.

Judiciary

Feb 5, 2007 at 3 p.m. To hold hearings to examine genocide and the rule of law. (Human Rights and the Law Subcomittee)

Feb 6, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. To hold hearings to examine if the Department of Justice is politicizing the hiring and firing of U.S. attorneys relating to preserving prosecutorial independence.

Feb 6, 2007 at 2:30 p.m. To hold hearings to examine the nominations of John Preston Bailey, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of West Virginia, and Otis D. Wright II, and George H. Wu, each to be United States District Judge for the Central District of California.

Feb 8, 2007 at 10 a.m. Business meeting to consider the nominations of Norman Randy Smith, of Idaho, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Marcia Morales Howard, of Florida, to be United States District Judge for the Middle District of Florida, and John Alfred Jarvey, of Iowa, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Iowa.

S.188, to revise the short title of the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006.
S.214, to amend chapter 35 of title 28, United States Code, to preserve the independence of United States attorneys.
S.316, to prohibit brand name drug companies from compensating generic drug companies to delay the entry of a generic drug into the market.
S.236, to require reports to Congress on Federal agency use of data mining.
S.Res.23, designating the week of February 5 through February 9, 2007, as National School Counseling Week.
S.Res.36, honoring women's health advocate Cynthia Boles Dailard.
S.Res.37, designating March 26, 2007 as National Support the Troops Day and encouraging the people of the United States to participate in a moment of silence to reflect upon the service and sacrifice of members of the Armed Forces both at home and abroad.
S.Con.Res.5, honoring the life of Percy Lavon Julian, a pioneer in the field of organic chemistry and the first and only African-American chemist to be inducted into the National Academy of Sciences.
S. 188: A bill to revise the short title of the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006
S. 214: Preserving United States Attorney Independence Act of 2007
S. 316: Preserve Access to Affordable Generics Act
S. 236: Federal Agency Data Mining Reporting Act of 2007
S. Res. 23: A resolution designating the week of February 5 through February 9, 2007, as "National School Counseling Week"
S. Res. 36: A resolution honoring women's health advocate Cynthia Boles Dailard
S. Res. 37: A resolution designating March 26, 2007 as "National Support the Troops Day" and encouraging the people of the United States to participate in a moment of silence to reflect upon the service and sacrifice of members of the Armed Forces both at home and abroad
S. Con. Res. 5: A concurrent resolution honoring the life of Percy Lavon Julian, a pioneer in the field of organic chemistry and the first and only African-American chemist to be inducted into the National Academy of Sciences

Rules and Administration

Feb 7, 2007 at 10 a.m. To hold hearings to examine the hazards of electronic voting, focusing on the machinery of democracy.