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Daily Digest Committee Meetings/Hearings Schedule

This document provides a brief description of each committee meeting and hearing scheduled to take place today, and on days thereafter. The time and location of each meeting/hearing is identified. Meetings that have been canceled or postponed are also noted.

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Today, Nov. 23, 2009

    
        No committee hearings scheduled
        
    

Tuesday, Dec. 01, 2009

10:15 am
    Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security
         Hearings to examine aviation safety, focusing on pilot fatigue.
SR-253        
    

Wednesday, Dec. 02, 2009

9:30 am
    Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
         Hearings to examine over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives reform and addressing systemic risk.
SH-216        
    
10:00 am
    Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         Hearings to examine transportation security challenges post-9/11.
SR-253        
    
10:00 am
    Energy and Natural Resources
         Hearings to examine policy options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
SD-366        
    
10:00 am
    Judiciary
         Hearings to examine the Supreme Court, focusing on Americans' access to courts.
SD-226        
    
2:30 pm
    Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics and Environmental Health
         An oversight hearing to examine the Federal Toxic and Substances Control Act.
SD-406        
    
2:30 pm
    Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery
         Hearings to examine disaster case management, focusing on developing a comprehensive national program focused on outcomes.
SD-342        
    

Thursday, Dec. 03, 2009

10:00 am
    Energy and Natural Resources
         Hearings to examine H.R.3276, to promote the production of molybdenum-99 in the United States for medical isotope production, and to condition and phase out the export of highly enriched uranium for the production of medical isotopes.
SD-366        
    
10:00 am
    Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
         Hearings to examine the nomination of Caryn A. Wagner, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis.
SD-342        
    
10:00 am
    Judiciary
         Business meeting to consider S.448, to maintain the free flow of information to the public by providing conditions for the federally compelled disclosure of information by certain persons connected with the news media, S.714, to establish the National Criminal Justice Commission, S.1624, to amend title 11 of the United States Code, to provide protection for medical debt homeowners, to restore bankruptcy protections for individuals experiencing economic distress as caregivers to ill, injured, or disabled family members, and to exempt from means testing debtors whose financial problems were caused by serious medical problems, S.1765, to amend the Hate Crime Statistics Act to include crimes against the homeless, S.1353, to amend title 1 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1986 to include nonprofit and volunteer ground and air ambulance crew members and first responders for certain benefits, S.678, to reauthorize and improve the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, and the nominations of Thomas I. Vanaskie, of Pennsylvania, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, and Louis B. Butler, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Wisconsin.
SD-226        
    
2:30 pm
    Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National Parks
         Hearings to examine S.760, to designate the Liberty Memorial at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, as the "National World War I Memorial", S.1838, to establish a commission to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War, S.2097, to authorize the rededication of the District of Columbia War Memorial as a National and District of Columbia World War I Memorial to honor the sacrifices made by American veterans of World War I, S.2722, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study to determine the suitability and feasibility of adding the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, in the State of Wyoming, as a unit of the National Park System, S.2726, to modify the boundary of the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site in the State of South Dakota, S.2738, to authorize National Mall Liberty Fund D.C. to establish a memorial on Federal land in the District of Columbia to honor free persons and slaves who fought for independence, liberty, and justice for all during the American Revolution, H.R.1849, to designate the Liberty Memorial at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, as the National World War I Memorial, to establish the World War I centennial commission to ensure a suitable observance of the centennial of World War I, and H.R.3689, to provide for an extension of the legislative authority of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Inc. to establish a Vietnam Veterans Memorial visitor center.
SD-366        
    

Wednesday, Dec. 09, 2009

10:00 am
    Judiciary
         An oversight hearing to examine the Department of Homeland Security.
SD-216        
    

Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009

10:00 am
    Energy and Natural Resources
         Hearings to examine the role of grid-scale energy storage in meeting our energy and climate goals.
SD-366        
    

Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009

10:00 am
    Energy and Natural Resources
         Hearings to examine S.2052, to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require the Secretary of Energy to carry out a research and development and demonstration program to reduce manufacturing and construction costs relating to nuclear reactors, and S.2812, to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require the Secretary of Energy to carry out programs to develop and demonstrate 2 small modular nuclear reactor designs.
SD-366        
    
 
  

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