[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1468-E1469]
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SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS

Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, agreed to by the Senate on February
4, 1977, calls for establishment of a system for a computerized
schedule of all meetings and hearings of Senate committees,
subcommittees, joint committees, and committees of conference. This
title requires all such committees to notify the Office of the Senate
Daily Digest--designated by the Rules Ccommittee--of the time, place,
and purpose of the meetings, when scheduled, and any cancellations or
changes in the meetings as they occur.
As an additional procedure along with the computerization of this
information, the Office of the Senate Daily Digest will prepare this
information for printing in the Extensions of Remarks section of the
Congressional Record on Monday and Wednesday of each week.
Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, September 11, 2012 may be found in
the Daily Digest of today's Record.

MEETINGS SCHEDULED

SEPTEMBER 12
9:30 a.m.
Energy and Natural Resources
To hold hearings to examine S. 3469, to establish a new
organization to manage nuclear waste, provide a
consensual process for siting nuclear waste facilities,
ensure adequate funding for managing nuclear waste.
SD-366
10 a.m.
Environment and Public Works
Clean Air and Nuclear Safety Subcommittee
To hold a joint oversight hearing to examine the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission's (NRC) implementation of
recommendations for enhancing nuclear reactor safety in
the 21st century.
SD-406
Foreign Relations
To receive a closed briefing on an intelligence update on
Syria and Iran.
SVC-217
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
To hold hearings to examine the future of the General
Services Administration.
SD-342
Judiciary
To hold hearings to examine the Citizens United court and
the continuing importance of the ``Voting Rights Act''.
SD-226
Veterans' Affairs
Business meeting to consider pending calendar business.
SR-418
2 p.m.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
To hold hearings to examine the path from low-Earth orbit
(LEO) to Mars.
SR-253
2:45 p.m.
Foreign Relations
To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Joseph E.
Macmanus, of New

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York, to be Representative to the Vienna Office of the
United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, and to be
Representative to the International Atomic Energy
Agency, with the rank of Ambassador, Sharon English
Woods Villarosa, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Mauritius, and to serve concurrently and
without additional compensation as Ambassador to the
Republic of Seychelles, and Walter North, of
Washington, to be Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, and
to serve concurrently and without additional
compensation as Ambassador to the Solomon Islands, and
Ambassador to the Republic of Vanuatu, all of the
Department of State.
SD-419

SEPTEMBER 13
9:30 a.m.
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Investigations Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine issues related to the quality
of disability benefit awards involving 300 case files
of claimants under the Social Security Disability
Insurance (SSDI) and Supplement Security Income (SSI)
programs involving initial applications and subsequent
levels of appeal.
SD-342
10 a.m.
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
To hold hearings to examine holding the Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) accountable,
focusing on a review of the semi-annual report to
Congress.
SD-538
Judiciary
Business meeting to consider S. 645, to amend the
National Child Protection Act of 1993 to establish a
permanent background check system, H.R. 2471, to amend
section 2710 of title 18, United States Code, to
clarify that a video tape service provider may obtain a
consumer's informed, written consent on an ongoing
basis and that consent may be obtained through the
Internet, S. 3486, to implement the provisions of the
Hague Agreement and the Patent Law Treaty, S. 1894, to
deter terrorism, provide justice for victims, S. 3250,
to amend the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of
2000 to provide for Debbie Smith grants for auditing
sexual assault evidence backlogs and to establish a
Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence Registry, S. 3523,
Innovative Design Protection Act, and the nomination of
William Joseph Baer, of Maryland, to be an Assistant
Attorney General, Department of Justice.
SD-226
10:30 a.m.
Foreign Relations
To hold hearings to examine the nominations Stephen D.
Mull, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Poland, and Dawn M. Liberi, of Florida, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Burundi, both of the
Department of State.
SD-419
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
To hold hearings to examine improving college
affordability, focusing on a view from the states.
SD-430
2:15 p.m.
Indian Affairs
Business meeting to consider S. 675, to express the
policy of the United States regarding the United States
relationship with Native Hawaiians and to provide a
process for the recognition by the United States of the
Native Hawaiian governing entity, S. 1345, to provide
for equitable compensation to the Spokane Tribe of
Indians of the Spokane Reservation for the use of
tribal land for the production of hydropower by the
Grand Coulee Dam, and S. 1684, to amend the Indian
Tribal Energy Development and Self-Determination Act of
2005, to be immediately followed by an oversight
hearing to examine the impacts of the Carcieri and
Patchak decisions.
SD-628
2:30 p.m.
Intelligence
To hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence
matters.
SH-219

SEPTEMBER 14
2:30 p.m.
Indian Affairs
To hold hearings to examine the nomination of Kevin K.
Washburn, of New Mexico, to be Assistant Secretary of
the Interior for Indian Affairs.
SD-628

SEPTEMBER 19
10 a.m.
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
To hold hearings to examine homeland threats and agency
responses.
SD-342
2:15 p.m.
Foreign Relations
Business meeting to consider S. 2215, to create jobs in
the United States by increasing United States exports
to Africa by at least 200 percent in real dollar value
within 10 years, S. 2318, to authorize the Secretary of
State to pay a reward to combat transnational organized
crime and for information concerning foreign nationals
wanted by international criminal tribunals, S. 3310, to
direct the President, in consultation with the
Department of State, United States Agency for
International Development, Millennium Challenge
Corporation, and the Department of Defense, to
establish guidelines for United States foreign
assistance programs, S. 3331, to provide for universal
intercountry adoption accreditation standards, S. 3341,
to require a quadrennial diplomacy and development
review, S. Con. Res. 50, expressing the sense of
Congress regarding actions to preserve and advance the
multistakeholder governance model under which the
Internet has thrived, S. Res. 516, expressing the sense
of the Senate on the restitution of or compensation for
property seized during the Nazi and Communist eras, the
nominations of Richard G. Olson, of New Mexico, to be
Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan,
Department of State, and John Hardy Isakson, of
Georgia, and Patrick J. Leahy, of Vermont, both to be a
Representative of the United States of America to the
Sixty-seventh Session of the General Assembly of the
United Nations, and lists in the Foreign Service.
S-116, Capitol
2:30 p.m.
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce,
and the District of Columbia Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine investing in an effective
Federal workforce.
SD-628

SEPTEMBER 20
2:15 p.m.
Indian Affairs
To hold an oversight hearing to examine advancing the
Federal-tribal relationship through self-governance and
self-determination.
SD-628

SEPTEMBER 25
2 p.m.
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Federal Financial Management, Government Information,
Federal Services, and International Security
Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine improving financial
accountability at the Department of Defense.
SD-342