12/03/09 2:30 PMLocation : SD-366
Hearings to examine S.760, to designate the Liberty Memorial at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, as the "National World War I Memorial", S.1838, to establish a commission to commemorate the sesquicentennial
of the American Civil War, S.2097, to authorize the rededication of the District of Columbia War Memorial as a National and District of Columbia World War I Memorial to honor the sacrifices made by American veterans of World War I, S.2722, to
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study to determine the suitability and feasibility of adding the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, in the State of Wyoming, as a unit of the National Park System, S.2726, to
modify the boundary of the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site in the State of South Dakota, S.2738, to authorize National Mall Liberty Fund D.C. to establish a memorial on Federal land in the District of Columbia to honor free persons and
slaves who fought for independence, liberty, and justice for all during the American Revolution, H.R.1849, to designate the Liberty Memorial at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, as the National World War I Memorial, to
establish the World War I centennial commission to ensure a suitable observance of the centennial of World War I, and H.R.3689, to provide for an extension of the legislative authority of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Inc. to establish a
Vietnam Veterans Memorial visitor center.
Location : S-407
Closed hearings to consider certain intelligence
matters.
12/03/09 2:15 PMLocation : SD-628
Business meeting to consider S.1790, to amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to revise and extend that Act, S.1635, to establish an Indian Youth telemental health demonstration project, to enhance the provision of mental health care services
to Indian youth, to encourage Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and other mental health care providers serving residents of Indian country to obtain the services of predoctoral psychology and psychiatry interns, and S.633, to establish a program
for tribal colleges and universities within the Department of Health and Human Services and to amend the Native American Programs Act of 1974 to authorize the provision of grants and cooperative agreements to tribal colleges and
universities.
12/03/09 2:00 PMLocation : SD-406
Hearings to examine S.373, to amend title 18, United States Code, to include constrictor snakes of the species Python genera as an injurious animal, S.1519, to provide for the eradication and control of nutria in Maryland, Louisiana, and other
coastal States, S.1421, to amend section 42 of title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the importation and shipment of certain species of carp, S.1965, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide financial assistance to the State of
Louisiana for a pilot program to develop measures to eradicate or control feral swine and to assess and restore wetlands damaged by feral swine, H.R.2188, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, through the United States Fish and Wildlife
Service, to conduct a Joint Venture Program to protect, restore, enhance, and manage migratory bird populations, their habitats, and the ecosystems they rely on, through voluntary actions on public and private lands, S.1214, to conserve fish and
aquatic communities in the United States through partnerships that foster fish habitat conservation, to improve the quality of life for the people of the United States, H.R.3537, to amend and reauthorize the Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design
Program Act of 1994, H.R.3433, to amend the North American Wetlands Conservation Act to establish requirements regarding payment of the non-Federal share of the costs of wetlands conservation projects in Canada that are funded under that Act, and
H.R.509, to reauthorize the Marine Turtle Conservation Act of
2004.
12/03/09 11:45 AMLocation : S-216
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Mark R. Rosekind, of California, to be a Member of the National Transportation Safety Board, Scott Boyer Quehl, of Pennsylvania, to be Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary, and Suresh Kumar,
of New Jersey, to be Assistant Secretary and Director General of the United States and Foreign Commercial Service, both of the Department of Commerce, Philip E. Coyle, III, of California, to be an Associate Director of the Office of Science and
Technology Policy, and Anthony R. Coscia, of New Jersey, and Albert DiClemente, of Delaware, both to be a Director of the Amtrak Board of Directors for the remainder of the term expiring July 26,
2011.
12/03/09 10:00 AMLocation : 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.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 Thomas I. Vanaskie, of Pennsylvania, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, Louis B. Butler, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Wisconsin,
Denny Chin, of New York, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, Rosanna Malouf Peterson, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Washington, and William M. Conley, to be United States District Judge for the
Western District of Wisconsin, and Susan B. Carbon, of New Hampshire, to be Director of the Violence Against Women Office, John H. Laub, of the District of Columbia, to be Director of the National Institute of Justice, Sharon Jeanette Lubinski, to
be United States Marshal for the District of Minnesota, Mary Elizabeth Phillips, to be United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, Sanford C. Coats, to be United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, and Stephen
James Smith, to be United States Marshal for the Southern District of Georgia, all of the Department of
Justice.
Location : SD-106
Hearings to examine the nomination of Ben S. Bernanke, of New Jersey, to be Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System.
Location : SD-342
Hearings to examine the nomination of Caryn A. Wagner, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and
Analysis.
Location : SD-366
Hearings to examine H.R.3276, to promote the production of molybdenum-99 in the United States for medical isotope production, and to condition and phase out the export of highly enriched uranium for the production of medical
isotopes.
12/03/09 9:00 AMLocation : SH-216
Hearings to examine Afghanistan, focusing on assessing the road
ahead.