LegiStorm

Location : SD-366
Business meeting to consider H.R.1275, to direct the exchange of certain land in Grand, San Juan, and Uintah Counties, Utah, H.R.2938, to extend the deadline for commencement of construction of a hydroelectric project, and the nominations of James J. Markowsky, of Massachusetts, to be Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, Warren F. Miller, Jr., of New Mexico, to be Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, and to be Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, all of the Department of Energy, and Anthony Marion Babauta, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary, and Jonathan B. Jarvis, of California, to be Director of the National Park Service, both of the Department of the Interior.

Location : SD-538
Hearings to examine rail modernization, focusing on transit funding.

Location : SD-226
Hearings to examine the Performance Rights Act and parity among music delivery platforms.

Location : SD-419
Hearings to examine Georgia one year after the August war.

Location : SD-430
Hearings to examine S.540, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to liability under State and local requirements respecting devices.

Location : S-116
Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled "The NATO-Western Balkans Support Act of 2009", and the nominations of Matthew Winthrop Barzun, of Kentucky, to be Ambassador to Sweden, Bruce J. Oreck, of Colorado, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Finland, James B. Foley, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Croatia, Philip D. Murphy, of New Jersey, to be Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, Douglas W. Kmiec, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Malta, William Carlton Eacho III, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Austria, Judith Gail Garber, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Latvia, John R. Bass, of New York, to be Ambassador to Georgia, Kerri-Ann Jones, of Maine, to be Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, Ertharin Cousin, of Illinois, for the rank of Ambassador during her tenure of service as U.S. Representative to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture, David Killion, of the District of Columbia, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Glyn T. Davies, of the District of Columbia, to be Representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency, with the rank of Ambassador, and to be Representative to the Vienna Office of the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, John Victor Roos, of California, to be Ambassador to Japan, Jonathan S. Addleton, of Georgia, to be Ambassador to Mongolia, Teddy Bernard Taylor, of Maryland, 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, Martha Larzelere Campbell, of Michigan, to be Ambassador to the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Kenneth E. Gross, Jr., of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Tajikistan, Michael Anthony Battle, Sr., of Georgia, to be Representative to the African Union, with the rank and status of Ambassador, James Knight, of Alabama, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Benin, and Karen Kornbluh, of New York, to be Representative to the Organization for Econimic Cooperation and Development, with the rank of Ambassador, all of the Department of State, and Aaron S. Williams, of Virginia, to be Director of the Peace Corps.

Location : TBA
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Francis S. Collins, of Maryland, to be Director of the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Raymond M. Jefferson, of Hawaii, to be Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans' Employment and Training, and Rocco Landesman, of New York, to be Chairperson for the Arts and James A. Leach, of Iowa, to be Chairperson for the Humanities, both of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities.

Location : S-407
To receive a closed briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of the intelligence community.

Location : S-216
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Francis S. Collins, of Maryland, to be Director of the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Raymond M. Jefferson, of Hawaii, to be Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans' Employment and Training, and Rocco Landesman, of New York, to be Chairperson for the Arts and James A. Leach, of Iowa, to be Chairperson for the Humanities, both of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities.

Location : SD-342
Hearings to examine children in disasters, focusing on evacuation planning and mental health recovery.