LegiStorm: Transparency's Sidekick

05/05/09 03:30 PM

Location : S-407
Closed hearings to examine certain intelligence matters.

05/05/09 03:00 PM

Location : SR-253
Hearings to examine piracy on the high seas, focusing on protecting our ships, crews, and passengers.

05/05/09 02:30 PM

Location : S-407
Closed hearings to examine certain intelligence matters.

Location : SD-366
Hearings to examine the nominations of Daniel B. Poneman, to be Deputy Secretary, David B. Sandalow, to be Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Domestic Policy, both of the Department of Energy, Rhea S. Suh, to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior, and Michael L. Connor, to be Commissioner of Reclamation.

Location : SD-226
Hearings to examine the passport insurance process, focusing on ending fraud.

Location : SR-253
Hearings to examine piracy on the high seas, focusing on protecting our ships, crews, and passengers.

05/05/09 02:15 PM

Location : S-116
Business meeting to consider S.345, to reauthorize the Tropical Forest Conservation Act of 1998 through fiscal year 2012, to rename the Tropical Forest Conservation Act of 1998 as the "Tropical Forest and Coral Conservation Act of 2009", S.954, to authorize United States participation in the replenishment of resources of the International Development Association, S.955, to authorize United States participation in, and appropriations for the United States contribution to, the African Development Fund and the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative, to require budgetary disclosures by multilateral development banks, to encourage multilateral development banks to endorse the principles of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, S.838, to provide for the appointment of United States Science Envoys, S.Res.49, to express the sense of the Senate regarding the importance of public diplomacy, S.Res.84, urging the Government of Canada to end the commercial seal hunt, S.Con.Res.19, expressing the sense of Congress that the Shi'ite Personal Status Law in Afghanistan violates the fundamental human rights of women and should be repealed, and the nominations of Harold Hongju Koh, of Connecticut, to be Legal Adviser, and Johnnie Carson, of Illinois, to be Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, both of the Department of State, Ivo H. Daalder, of Virginia, to be United States Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Susan Flood Burk, of Virginia, to be Special Representative of the President for Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Luis C. de Baca, of Virginia, to be Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking, and routine lists in the Foreign Service.

05/05/09 12:00 PM

Location : SD-419
Hearings to examine the global implications of a warming arctic.

05/05/09 10:00 AM

Location : SH-216
Hearings to examine the economic outlook.

Location : SD-106
Hearings to examine expanding health care coverage; to be followed by a business meeting to consider the nominations of Alan B. Krueger, of New Jersey, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, William V. Corr, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Demetrios J. Marantis, of the District of Columbia, to be a Deputy United States Trade Representative.