08/05/09 4:00 PMLocation : SVC-217
To receive a closed briefing to examine civil nuclear cooperation agreement between the United States and the United Arab
Emirates.
08/05/09 2:30 PMLocation : SD-342
Hearings to examine S.736, to provide for improvements in the Federal hiring
process.
08/05/09 2:15 PMLocation : S-116
Business meeting to consider pending calendar
business.
08/05/09 2:00 PMLocation : SR-253
Business meeting to consider S.1078, to authorize a comprehensive national cooperative geospatial imagery mapping program through the United States Geological Survey, to promote use of the program for education, workforce training and development,
and applied research, and to support Federal, State, tribal, and local government programs, S.30, to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit manipulation of caller identification information, S.251, to amend the Communications Act of 1934
to permit targeted interference with mobile radio services within prison facilities, S.952, to develop and promote a comprehensive plan for a national strategy to address harmful algal blooms and hypoxia through baseline research, forecasting and
monitoring, and mitigation and control while helping communities detect, control, and mitigate coastal and Great Lakes harmful algal blooms and hypoxia events, S.1538, to establish a black carbon and other aerosols research program in the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that supports observations, monitoring, modeling, S.1539, to authorize the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to establish a comprehensive greenhouse gas observation and analysis system, and the
nominations of Christopher P. Bertram, of the District of Columbia, and Susan L. Kurland, of Illinois, both to be Assistant Secretary, and Daniel R. Elliott, III, of Ohio, to be a Member of the Surface Transportation Board, all of the Department of
Transportation, Patricia D. Cahill, of Missouri, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Christopher A. Hart, of Colorado, to be a Member of the National Transportation Safety Board, Dennis F. Hightower,
of the District of Columbia, to be Deputy Secretary of Commerce, and Robert S. Adler, of North Carolina, to be a Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
08/05/09 12:00 PMLocation : S-216
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Alexander G. Garza, of Missouri, to be Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security and Chief Medical Officer, Ernest W. Dubester, of Virginia, to be a Member, and Julia Akins Clark, of Maryland, to be
General Counsel, both of the Federal Labor Relations
Authority.
08/05/09 10:00 AMLocation : SD-419
Hearings to examine the nomination of David C. Jacobson, of Illinois, to be Ambassador to Canada, Department of
State.
Location : SD-342
Hearings to examine the nomination of Kelvin J. Cochran, to be Administrator, United States Fire Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland
Security.
Location : SR-253
Hearings to examine the nominations of Dennis F. Hightower, of the District of Columbia, to be Deputy Secretary of Commerce, and Robert S. Adler, of North Carolina, and Anne M. Northup, both to be a Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
Location : SD-138
Hearings to examine autism research, treatments and
interventions.
08/05/09 9:30 AMLocation : SD-538
Hearings to examine proposals to enhance the regulation of credit rating
agencies.
