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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 Committee—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 18, 2012 may be found in the 

Daily Digest of today’s RECORD. 

MEETINGS SCHEDULED 

SEPTEMBER 19 

9:30 a.m. 

Foreign Relations 

To hold hearings to examine the nomination of Robert Stephen Beecroft, of 

California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Iraq, Department of State. 

SD–419 

Energy and Natural Resources 

Water and Power Subcommittee 

To hold hearings to examine S. 3265, to 

amend the Federal Power Act to remove the authority of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to collect 

land use fees for land that has been 

sold, exchanged, or otherwise transferred from Federal ownership but that 

is subject to a power site reservation, 

H.R. 2842, to authorize all Bureau of 

Reclamation conduit facilities for hydropower development under Federal 

Reclamation law, S. 3464, to amend the 

Mni Wiconi Project Act of 1988 to facilitate completion of the Mni Wiconi 

Rural Water Supply System, and S. 

3483, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to adjust the Crooked River 

boundary, to provide water certainty 

for the City of Prineville, Oregon. 

SD–366 

10 a.m. 

Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions 

Business meeting to consider S. 3391, to 

amend section 353 of the Public Health 

Service Act with respect to suspension, 

revocation, and limitation of laboratory certification, an original bill entitled, ‘‘Recalcitrant Cancer Research 

Act of 2012’’, S. 1440, to reduce preterm 

labor and delivery and the risk of pregnancy-related deaths and complications due to pregnancy, and to reduce 

infant mortality caused by prematurity, and nomination lists in the 

Public Health Service. 

SD–430 

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 

To hold hearings to examine homeland 

threats and agency responses. 

SD–342 

Judiciary 

To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Katherine Polk Failla, to be 

United States District Judge for the 

Southern District of New York, Pamela 

Ki Mai Chen, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of 

New York, Troy L. Nunley, to be 

United States District Judge for the 

Eastern District of California, Sheri 

Polster Chappell, to be United States 

District Judge for the Middle District 

of Florida, and Mark A. Barnett, of 

Virginia, to be a Judge of the United 

States Court of International Trade. 

SD–226 

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, S. Res. 

466, calling for the release from prison 

of former Prime Minister of Ukraine 

Yulia Tymoshenko, S. Res. 543, to express the sense of the Senate on international parental child abduction, the 

nominations of Richard G. Olson, of 

New Mexico, to be Ambassador to the 

Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Joseph 

E. Macmanus, of New York, to be Representative of the United States of 

America to the International Atomic 

Energy Agency, with the rank of Ambassador, and to be Representative of 

the United States of America to the Vienna Office of the United Nations, with 

the rank of Ambassador, 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, 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, 

Dawn M. Liberi, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Burundi, 

and Stephen D. Mull, of Virginia, to be 

Ambassador to the Republic of Poland, 

all of the 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. 

Commerce, Science, and Transportation 

To hold hearings to examine five years of 

the ‘‘America COMPETES Act’’, focusing on progress, challenges, and next 

steps. 

SR–253 

Judiciary 

Constitution, Civil Rights and Human 

Rights Subcommittee 

To hold hearings to examine hate crimes 

and the threat of domestic extremism. 

SH–216 

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–342 

Aging 

To hold hearings to examine eliminating 

waste and fraud in Medicare, focusing 

on an examination of prior authorization requirements for power mobility 

devices. 

SD–562 

SEPTEMBER 20 

8:30 a.m. 

Foreign Relations 

To receive a closed briefing on the security of United States diplomatic and 

consular missions. 

SVC–217 

10 a.m. 

Commerce, Science, and Transportation 

To hold hearings to examine business 

practices in the household goods moving industry. 

SR–253 

Environment and Public Works 

To hold hearings to examine the ‘‘Water 

Resources Development Act’’, focusing 

on growing the economy and protecting public safety. 

SD–406 

Finance 

To hold a joint hearing with the House 

Committee on Ways and Means to examine tax reform and the tax treatment of capital gains. 

HVC–210 

Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions 

To hold hearings to examine pension 

modernization for a 21st century workforce. 

SD–430 

Judiciary 

Business meeting to consider H.R. 2471, 

to amend section 2710 of title 18, United 

States Code, to clarify that a video 

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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 

Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 

Securities, Insurance and Investment Subcommittee 

To hold hearings to examine computerized trading. 

SD–538 

2 p.m. 

Foreign Relations 

East Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee 

To hold hearings to examine maritime 

territorial disputes and sovereignty 

issues in Asia. 

SD–419 

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 

Investigations Subcommittee 

To hold hearings to examine offshore 

profit shifting and the U.S. tax code. 

SD–G50 

2:15 p.m. 

Indian Affairs 

Business meeting to consider S. 65, to reauthorize the programs of the Department of Housing and Urban Development for housing assistance for Native 

Hawaiians, S. 2024, to make technical 

amendment to the T’uf Shur Bien Preservation Trust Area Act, S. 3546, to 

amend the Native American Programs 

Act of 1974 to reauthorize a provision 

to ensure the survival and continuing 

vitality of Native American languages, 

S. 3548, to clarify certain provisions of 

the Native American Veterans’ Memorial Establishment Act of 1994, H.R. 

2467, to take certain Federal lands in 

Mono County, California, into trust for 

the benefit of the Bridgeport Indian 

Colony, to be immediately followed by 

an oversight hearing to examine advancing the Federal-tribal relationship 

through self-governance and self-determination. 

SD–628 

2:30 p.m. 

Intelligence 

To hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence matters. 

SH–219 

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 


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