07/23/08 10:00 AMLocation : SD-419
Hearings to examine the nominations of James Christopher Swan, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Djibouti, Alan W. Eastham, Jr., of Arkansas, to be Ambassador to the Republic of the Congo, W. Stuart Symington, of Missouri, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Rwanda, and John A. Simon, of Maryland, to be Representative of the United States of America to the African Union, with the rank and status of Ambassador, all of the Department of
State.
Location : SD-342
Hearings to examine information sharing, focusing on connecting the dots at the Federal, State, and Local
levels.
Location : SD-215
Business meeting to consider S.J.Res.44, providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule set forth as requirements contained in the August 17, 2007, letter to State Health Officials from the
Director of the Center for Medicaid and State Operations in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the State Health Official Letter 08-003, dated May 7, 2008, from such Center, and S.J.Res.41, approving the renewal of import restrictions
contained in the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act of
2003.
Location : SD-226
Hearings to examine courting big business, focusing on the Supreme Court's recent decisions on corporate misconduct and laws regulating
corporations.
07/23/08 9:45 AMLocation : SD-366
Hearings to examine the status of existing federal programs targeted at reducing gasoline demand, focusing on additional proposals for near-term gasoline demand
reductions.
07/23/08 9:30 AMLocation : SR-418
An oversight hearing to examine the Department of Veterans Affairs, focusing on responding to the needs of returning United States National Guard and Reserve
members.
Location : SD-406
Hearings to examine the Midwest floods, focusing on ways to determine what happened and how to improve managing risk and responses in the
future.