11/19/09 10:00 AMLocation : SD-366
Hearings to examine environmental stewardship policies related to offshore energy
production.
Location : SD-430
Hearings to examine nominations for Commissioner and for General Counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission.
Location : SR-325
Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled "Restoring American Financial Stability Act of
2009".
Location : SD-342
Hearings to examine the Fort Hood Attack, focusing on a preliminary
assessment.
Location : SR-253
Business meeting to consider S.592, to implement the recommendations of the Federal Communications Commission report to the Congress regarding low-power FM service, S.850, to amend the High Seas Driftnet Fishing Moratorium Protection Act and the
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to improve the conservation of sharks, S.1224, to reauthorize the Chesapeake Bay Office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, S.2764, to reauthorize the Satellite Home Viewer
Extension and Reuathorization Act of 2004, and S.2768, to amend title 49, United States Code, to authorize appropriations for the National Transportation Safety Board for fiscal years 2010 through
2014.
Location : SD-215
Hearings to examine United States preference programs, focusing on options for
reform.
Location : SD-226
Business meeting to consider S.448, to maintain the free flow of information to the public by providing conditions for the federally compelled disclosure of information by certain persons connected with the news media, S.714, to establish the
National Criminal Justice Commission, S.1624, to amend title 11 of the United States Code, to provide protection for medical debt homeowners, to restore bankruptcy protections for individuals experiencing economic distress as caregivers to ill,
injured, or disabled family members, and to exempt from means testing debtors whose financial problems were caused by serious medical problems, S.1147, to prevent tobacco smuggling, to ensure the collection of all tobacco taxes, S.1765, to amend the
Hate Crime Statistics Act to include crimes against the homeless, S.1353, to amend title 1 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1986 to include nonprofit and volunteer ground and air ambulance crew members and first responders for
certain benefits, S.678, to reauthorize and improve the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, and the nominations of Jane Branstetter Stranch, of Tennessee, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit, Thomas I.
Vanaskie, of Pennsylvania, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, Christina Reiss, to be United States District Judge for the District of Vermont, Louis B. Butler, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the Western District of
Wisconsin, Abdul K. Kallon, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama, Victoria Angelica Espinel, of the District of Columbia, to be Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, and Benjamin B. Tucker, of New York, to
be Deputy Director for State, Local, and Tribal Affairs, Office of National Drug Control
Policy.
11/19/09 9:30 AMLocation : SH-216
Hearings to examine the nominations of Clifford L. Stanley, of Pennsylvania, to be Under Secretary for Personnel and Readiness, and Erin C. Conaton, of the District of Columbia, to be Under Secretary of the Air Force, both of the Department of
Defense, and Lawrence G. Romo, of Texas, to be Director of the Selective
Service.