This Week's Senate Committee Schedule
It's a somewhat slow week in Senate committees with all the action occurring on the floor with the Employee Free Choice Act and the Immigration bill. The Aging Committee will hold an important hearing on Wednesday called "Paid to Prescribe?" which will look at the conflict of interest engendered by the relationship between physicians and the pharmaceutical industry.Here's the full Senate Committee schedule for the week:
Aging
Jun 27, 2007 at 10:30 a.m. To hold hearings to examine the relationship between doctors and the drug industry.
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Jun 27, 2007 at 2 p.m. To hold hearings to examine the following nominations:
- Jill E. Sommers, of Kansas, to be a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for the remainder of the term expiring April 13, 2009
- Bartholomew H. Chilton, of Delaware, to be a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for the remainder of the term expiring April 13, 2008.
Jun 26, 2007 at 2:30 p.m. Business meeting to markup proposed legislation making appropriations for Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008. (Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee)
Jun 26, 2007 at 3 p.m. Business meeting to markup proposed legislation making appropriations for Energy and Water Development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008. (Energy and Water Development Subcommittee)
Jun 28, 2007 at 2 p.m. Business meeting to markup proposed legislation making appropriations for State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, and Energy and Water Development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008.
Armed Services
Jun 26, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. To receive a closed briefing from the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Jun 26, 2007 at 2:30 p.m. To hold hearings to examine ending mortgage abuse, focusing on safeguarding homebuyers. (Housing, Transportation and Community Development Subcommittee)
Budget
Jun 26, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. To continue hearings to examine health care and the budget, focusing on the Healthy Americans Act and other options for reform.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Jun 26, 2007 at 10 a.m. To hold hearings to examine the impact of media violence on children.
Jun 27, 2007 at 2:30 p.m. Business meeting to consider the following legislation:
- S.704, to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit manipulation of caller identification information
- S.950, to develop and maintain an integrated system of coastal and ocean observations for the Nation's coasts, oceans, and Great Lakes, to improve warnings of tsunami, hurricanes, El Nino events, and other natural hazards, to enhance homeland security, to support maritime operations, to improve management of coastal and marine resources.
- S.1650, to establish a digital and wireless network technology program.
- S.1661, to communicate United States travel policies and improve marketing and other activities designed to increase travel in the United States from abroad, and promotion lists in the United States Coast Guard.
Energy and Natural Resources
Jun 26, 2007 at 10 a.m. To hold an oversight hearing to examine the preparedness of the federal land management agencies for the 2007 wildfire season and efforts to contain the costs of wildfire management activities.
Jun 27, 2007 at 2:30 p.m. To hold hearings to examine the following legislation:
- S.1171, to amend the Colorado River Storage Project Act and Public Law 87-483 to authorize the construction and rehabilitation of water infrastructure in Northwestern New Mexico, to authorize the use of the reclamation fund to fund the Reclamation Water Settlements Fund, to authorize the conveyance of certain Reclamation land and infrastructure, to authorize the Commissioner of Reclamation to provide for the delivery of water.
Jun 27, 2007 at 10 a.m. To hold hearings to examine protecting water quality at America's beaches. (Transportation Safety, Infrastructure Security, and Water Quality Subcommittee)
Jun 28, 2007 at 10 a.m. To hold hearings to examine global warming issues in the power plant sector.
Finance
Jun 27, 2007 at 10 a.m. To hold hearings to examine the Stealth Tax, focusing on how to stop the alternative minimum tax from sneaking up on unsuspecting taxpayers.
Foreign Relations
Jun 27, 2007 at 11:15 a.m. Business meeting to consider pending calendar business.
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Jun 27, 2007 at 10 a.m. Business meeting to consider the following legislation:
- S.793, to provide for the expansion and improvement of traumatic brain injury programs.
- S.1011, to change the name of the National Institute on Drug Abuse to the National Institute on Diseases of Addiction and to change the name of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to the National Institute on Alcohol Disorders and Health, original bills entitled, "Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act", "Wired for Health Care Quality Act", and other pending calendar business.
Jun 25, 2007 at 11 a.m. To hold hearings to examine excessive speculation in the natural gas market. (Investigations Subcommittee)
Jun 27, 2007 at 10 a.m. To continue hearings to examine violent Islamist extremism, focusing on the European experience.
Jun 28, 2007 at 3 p.m. To hold hearings to examine financial management systems modernization at the Department of Homeland Security, focusing on systems and processes needed to support the Department's mission and operations. (Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security Subcommittee)
Indian Affairs
Jun 28, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. To hold hearings to examine draft legislation regarding the regulation of class III gaming.
Intelligence
Jun 26, 2007 at 1:30 p.m. Closed business meeting to perform markup on the following bills:
- S.1547, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year.
- S.1548, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year.
Jun 28, 2007 at 2:30 p.m. To hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence matters.
Judiciary
Jun 27, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. To hold an oversight hearing to examine the federal death penalty. (Constitution Subcommittee)
Jun 28, 2007 at 10 a.m. Business meeting to consider the following legislation:
- S.1145, to amend title 35, United States Code, to provide for patent reform.
- S.1060, to reauthorize the grant program for reentry of offenders into the community in the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, to improve reentry planning and implementation.
Jun 26, 2007 at 10 a.m. To hold hearings to examine Smithsonian Institution governance reform, focusing on a report by the Smithsonian's Independent Review Committee.
Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Jun 26, 2007 at 10 a.m. Business meeting to consider original bills entitled, "Entrepreneurial Development Act of 2007", "Small Business Venture Capital Act of 2007", and other pending calendar business.
Veterans' Affairs
Jun 27, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. Business meeting to markup pending legislation; to be immediately followed by a full committee hearing to examine the nomination of Charles L. Hopkins, of Massachusetts, to be an Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs (Operations, Preparedness, Security and Law Enforcement Subcommittee)
posted by Bob Geiger at 6/25/2007 10:19:00 AM
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