This Week's Senate Committee Schedule

Hearings of Note: Armed Services will have a hearing on Tuesday to examine the horrible conditions found at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Witnesses will include General Richard A. Cody, Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army and Lieutenant General Kevin C. Kiley, the Army's Surgeon General.

Judiciary will hold a hearing on Tuesday to explore the question "Is the Department of Justice Politicizing the Hiring and Firing of U.S. Attorneys?"

Here's the full Senate Committee schedule for the week:

Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

Mar 6, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. To hold hearings to examine child nutrition and the school setting.

Mar 7, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. To hold hearings to examine investing in our nation's future through agricultural research.

Appropriations

Mar 7, 2007 at 10 a.m. To hold hearings to examine Department of Defense medical programs. (Defense Subcommittee)

Mar 7, 2007 at 2 p.m. To hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2008 for the Department of Energy. (Energy and Water Development Subcommittee)

Mar 8, 2007 at 9:15 a.m. To hold hearings to examine cross-border trucking with Mexico. (Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee)

Mar 8, 2007 at 10 a.m. To hold hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2008 for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Science Foundation. (Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee)

Mar 8, 2007 at 2:30 p.m. To hold hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2008 for the Department of Homeland Security. (Homeland Security Subcommittee)

Mar 9, 2007 at 9 a.m. To hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2008 for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Small Business Administration. (Financial Services and General Government
Subcommittee)

Armed Services

Mar 6, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. To hold hearings to examine the care, living conditions, and administration of outpatients at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Mar 8, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. To hold hearings to examine the following nominations:

Admiral Timothy J. Keating, USN, for reappointment to the grade of admiral and to be Commander, United States Pacific Command

Lieutenant General Victor E. Renuart, Jr., USAF, for appointment to be general and to be Commander, United States Northern Command/Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command

Lieutenant General Robert L. Van Antwerp, USA, for reappointment to the grade of lieutenant general and to be Chief of Engineers/Commanding General, United States Army Corps of Engineers.

Commerce, Science, and Transportation

Mar 6, 2007 at 10 a.m. To hold oversight hearings to examine the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Program.

Mar 7, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. To hold hearings to examine policy implications of pharmaceutical importation for U.S. consumers. (Interstate Commerce, Trade, and Tourism Subcommittee)

Mar 7, 2007 at 2:30 p.m. To hold hearings to examine national imperatives for Earth Science research. (Space, Aeronautics, and Related Agencies Subcommittee)

Mar 8, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. To hold hearings to examine the Administration's proposal to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration Part II. (Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security Subcommittee)

Energy and Natural Resources

Mar 7, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. To hold hearings to examine market constraints on large investments in advanced energy technologies and investigate ways to stimulate additional private-sector investment in the deployment of these technologies.

Environment and Public Works

Mar 7, 2007 at 3 p.m. To hold hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2008 for the Environmental Protection Agency.

Finance

Mar 8, 2007 at 10 a.m. To hold hearings to examine perspectives on the 2007 trade agenda.

Foreign Relations

Mar 6, 2007 at 2:15 p.m. Business meeting to consider committee rules of procedure for the 110th Congress.

S.377, to establish a United States-Poland parliamentary youth exchange program.
S.494, to endorse further enlargement of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and to facilitate the timely admission of new members to NATO.
S.676, to provide that the Executive Director of the Inter-American Development Bank or the Alternate Executive Director of the Inter-American Development Bank may serve on the Board of Directors of the Inter-American Foundation.
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.

The nominations of Ryan C. Crocker, of Washington, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Iraq, and William B. Wood, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.

Mar 8, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. To hold hearings to examine time for a new strategy relating to Afghanistan.

Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

Mar 6, 2007 at 10 a.m. To hold hearings to examine strategies for attracting, supporting, and retaining high quality educators relating to No Child Left Behind Reauthorization.

Mar 7, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. To hold hearings to examine strengthening American competitiveness for the 21st Century.

Mar 8, 2007 at 10 a.m. To hold hearings to examine follow-on biologics.

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

Mar 5, 2007 at 2:30 p.m. To hold an oversight hearing to examine the Transportation Security Administration Personnel System, focusing on proposed legislation relating to the personnel system. (Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia Subcommittee)

Mar 7, 2007 at 10 a.m. To hold hearings to examine fees, interests rates and grace periods relating to credit card practices, focusing on high fees charged for late payments, over-the-limit charges, including how those fees are assessed, how they add to interest costs, and how they contribute to consumer debt, and an industry practice requiring consumer payments to be applied first to balances with the lowest interest rates instead of to balances with the highest interest rates. (Investigations Subcommittee)

Indian Affairs

Mar 8, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. To hold hearings to examine the Indian Health Care Improvement Act Amendments of 2007.

Intelligence

Mar 6, 2007 at 2:30 p.m. Closed Hearing: Iraq

Mar 8, 2007 at 2:30 p.m. Closed Business Meeting

Mar 8, 2007 at 2:30 p.m. Closed Hearing: Defense Department Programs

Judiciary

Mar 6, 2007 at 10 a.m. A hearing on “Part II–Preserving Prosecutorial Independence: Is the Department of Justice Politicizing the Hiring and Firing of U.S. Attorneys?”

Mar 7, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. To hold hearings to examine the McCarran-Ferguson Act and Antitrust Immunity.

Mar 7, 2007 at 2 p.m. To hold an oversight hearing to examine the enforcement of the antitrust laws. (Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights Subcommittee)

Mar 8, 2007 at 10 a.m. Business meeting to consider the nominations of Thomas M. Hardiman, of Pennsylvania, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, and Vanessa Lynne Bryant, to be United States District Judge for the District of Connecticut.

S.236, to require reports to Congress on Federal agency use of data mining.
S.261, to amend title 18, United States Code, to strengthen prohibitions against animal fighting.
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.231, to authorize the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program at fiscal year 2006 levels through 2012.
S.368, to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to enhance the COPS ON THE BEAT grant program.
S.655, to amend the Congressional Charter of The American National Red Cross to modernize its governance structure, to enhance the ability of the board of governors of The American National Red Cross to support the critical mission of The American Red Cross in the 21st century.
S.627, to amend the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to improve the health and well-being of maltreated infants and toddlers through the creation of a National Court Teams Resource Center, to assist local Court Teams, S.Res.88, honoring the extraordinary achievements of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick.
S.Con.Res.14, commemorating the 85th anniversary of the founding of the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association, a leading association for the 1,300,000 United States citizens of Greek ancestry and Philhellenes in the United States.

Small Business and Entrepreneurship

Mar 8, 2007 at 10 a.m. To hold hearings to examine small business solutions for combating climate change.

Veterans' Affairs

Mar 6, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. To hold joint hearings with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to examine the legislative presentation of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Mar 7, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. To hold an oversight hearing to examine the Veterans Administration adjudication process.

Mar 8, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. To hold joint hearings with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to examine the legislative presentation of the Paralyzed Veterans of America, Jewish War Veterans, and Blinded Veterans Association.