[Daily Digest]
[Pages D119-D121]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                           FEBRUARY 16, 2011

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: To hold 
hearings to examine safeguarding our future, focusing on building a 
nationwide network for first responders, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: To hold hearings to 
examine the U.S. Department of Energy's budget for fiscal year 2012; 
to be immediately followed by an organizational business meeting to 
examine subcommittee assignments, revise recusal policy for 
executive nominees, and an original resolution authorizing 
expenditures by the

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committee during the 112th Congress, 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: To hold hearings to 
examine national leaders' call to action on transportation, 10 a.m., 
SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: Organizational business meeting to consider 
committee rules, and an original resolution authorizing expenditures 
by the committee during the 112th Congress, Time to be announced, 
SD-215.
  Full Committee, to continue hearings to examine the President's 
proposed budget request for fiscal year 2012, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: 
Organizational business meeting to consider committee rules, an 
original resolution authorizing expenditures by the committee during 
the 112th Congress, Public Health Service nominations, and an 
original bill entitled Technical Amendment to the Education Sciences 
Reform Act, 10:30 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: To hold 
hearings to examine saving the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, 
9:15 a.m., SD-342.
  Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal 
Workforce, and the District of Columbia, to hold hearings to examine 
improving Federal employment of people with disabilities, 2:30 p.m., 
SD-342.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: Organizational business meeting to 
consider electing Chairman and Vice Chairman, committee rules, and 
any other organizational business items during the 112th Congress, 
11:30 a.m., SD-628.
  Committee on the Judiciary: To hold hearings to examine targeting 
Web sites dedicated to stealing American intellectual property, 10 
a.m., SD-226.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the nominations of 
Jimmie V. Reyna, of Maryland, to be United States Circuit Judge for 
the Federal Circuit, John A. Kronstadt, to be United States District 
Judge for the Central District of California, Vincent L. Briccetti, 
to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of New 
York, Arenda L. Wright Allen, to be United States District Judge for 
the Eastern District of Virginia, and Michael Francis Urbanski, to 
be United States District Judge for the Western District of 
Virginia, 3 p.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Organizational 
business meeting to consider committee rules, and an original 
resolution authorizing expenditures by the committee during the 
112th Congress, Time to be announced, Room to be announced.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: To hold hearings to examine the 
worldwide threat, 10 a.m., SH-216.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Nutrition and 
Horticulture and the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment 
of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, joint hearing 
to consider reducing the regulatory burdens posed by the case 
National Cotton Council v. EPA (6th Cir. 2009) and to review related 
draft legislation, 1 p.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Armed Services, hearing on the Fiscal Year 2012 
National Defense Authorization Budget request from the Department of 
Defense, 10 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Budget, hearing on the Department of the Treasury 
Fiscal Year 2012 Budget, 2 p.m., 210 Cannon.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, hearing on Policies and 
Priorities at the U.S. Department of Labor, 10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Communications 
and Technology hearing entitled ``Network Neutrality and Internet 
Regulation: Warranted or More Economic Harm Than Good?'' 9:30 a.m., 
2123 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing entitled 
``Health Care Issues Involving the Center for Consumer Information 
and Insurance Oversight,'' 9:30 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, hearing entitled ``The Final 
Report of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission,'' 10 a.m., 2128 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity 
hearing entitled ``Are There Government Barriers to the Housing 
Market Recovery?'' 2 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, hearing on the Constitutionality of 
the Individual Mandate, 9:30 a.m., and to continue mark-up of H.R. 
5, Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) 
Act of 2011, 1 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on 
Government Organizations, Efficiency and Financial Management, 
hearing on Making Sense of the Numbers: Improving the Federal 
Financial Reporting Model, 1:30 p.m., 2203 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and 
Government Spending, hearing on the Stimulus: Two Years Later, 9:30 
a.m., 210-HVC.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Subcommittee on Space 
and Aeronautics hearing on a review of the Federal Aviation 
Administration's Research and Development Budget for Fiscal Year 
2012, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, hearing entitled ``Putting Americans 
Back to Work: The State of the Small Business Economy,'' 1 p.m., 
2360 Rayburn,
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, to mark up the 
following: a measure to reduce facility costs by consolidating 
National Gallery of Art and Federal Trade Commission operations in 
the District of Columbia; H.R. 690, Federal Trade Commission and 
National Gallery of Art Facility Consolidation, Savings, and 
Efficiency Act of 2011; H.R. 362, to redesignate the Federal 
building and United States Courthouse located at 200 East Wall 
Street in Midland, Texas, as the ``George H.W. Bush and George W. 
Bush United States Courthouse and George Mahon Federal Building''; 
H.R. 658, to amend title 49, United States Code, to authorize 
appropriations for the Federal Aviation Administration for fiscal 
years 2011 through 2014, to streamline programs, create 
efficiencies, reduce waste, and improve aviation safety and 
capacity, to provide stable funding for the national aviation 
system,

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and for other purposes; and H.R. 662, to provide an extension of 
Federal-aid highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, transit, 
and other programs funded out of the Highway Trust Fund pending 
enactment of a multiyear law reauthorizing such programs, 10 a.m., 
2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, to continue hearings on the 
President's Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Proposal, 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., 
1100 Longworth.


                             Joint Meetings

  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: To hold hearings 
to examine Lithuania's leadership of the Organization for Security 
and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), focusing on the challenges that 
the Lithuanian chairmanship faces, 3:30 p.m., SD-562.