09/10/08 3:00 PMLocation : SD-406
Hearings to examine the quality and environmental impacts of bottled
water.
09/10/08 2:30 PMLocation : SD-342
Hearings to examine managing the challenges of the federal government transition, focusing on assessing the readiness and planning for the transition and identifying critical needs for the new Administration to
address.
09/10/08 2:00 PMLocation : SD-419
Hearings to examine the nominations of Sung Y. Kim, of California, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as Special Envoy for the Six Party Talks, C. Steven McGann, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of the Fiji
Islands, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of Nauru, the Kingdom of Tonga, Tuvalu, and the Republic of Kiribati, and Carol Ann Rodley, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of
Cambodia.
09/10/08 1:30 PMLocation : HROB-2325
Hearings to examine Russia, Georgia, and the return of power
politics.
09/10/08 10:30 AMLocation : SD-419
Hearings to examine protocols to the North Atlantic Treaty of 1949 on the Accession of the Republic of Albania and the Republic of Croatia adopted at Brussels on July 9, 2008, and signed that day on behalf of the United States and the other Parties
to the North Atlantic Treaty (Treaty Doc.110-20).
09/10/08 10:00 AMLocation : SD-562
Hearings to examine new strategies for combating violent crime, focusing on drawing lessons from recent
experience.
Location : SD-215
Business meeting to consider S.3038, to amend part E of title IV of the Social Security Act to extend the adoption incentives program, to authorize States to establish a relative guardianship program, to promote the adoption of children with special
needs, S.1070, to amend the Social Security Act to enhance the social security of the Nation by ensuring adequate public-private infrastructure and to resolve to prevent, detect, treat, intervene in, and prosecute elder abuse, neglect, and
exploitation, and S.1577, to amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to require screening, including national criminal history background checks, of direct patient access employees of skilled nursing facilities, nursing facilities, and
other long-term care facilities and providers, and to provide for nationwide expansion of the pilot program for national and State background checks on direct patient access employees of long-term care facilities or
providers.
Location : SD-342
Hearings to examine audits at the Defense Contract Audit
Agency.
Location : SR-253
Hearings to examine ways to improve consumer protection in the prepaid calling card
market.
Location : SD-406
Hearings to examine improving the Federal Bridge Program, focusing on an assessment of S.3338, to amend title 23, United States Code, to improve the safety of Federal-aid highway bridges, to strengthen bridge inspection standards and processes, to
increase investment in the reconstruction of structurally deficient bridges on the National Highway System, and H.R.3999, to amend title 23, United States Code, to improve the safety of Federal-aid highway bridges, to strengthen bridge inspection
standards and processes, to increase investment in the reconstruction of structurally deficient bridges on the National Highway
System.
