Congress
Today in Congress: April 1, 2008
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THE SENATE
Senate is in session
Committees
Senate (Select) Intelligence (2:30 p.m.): Holds a closed markup of pending calendar business. 219 Hart.
Senate Foreign Relations (2:30 p.m.): Holds a closed briefing on the situation in Iraq. S-407, U.S. Capitol.
Senate Appropriations (10 a.m.): Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee holds a hearing on proposed budget estimates for FY2009 for the U.S. Forest Service. Witnesses TBA. 124 Dirksen.
Senate Armed Services (9:30 a.m.): Airland Subcommittee holds a hearing on the Army's new doctrine (Field Manual 3-0, Operations) in review of the Defense Authorization Request for FY2009 and the Future Years Defense Program. Lt. Gen. William Caldwell IV, commanding general of the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth, testify. 222 Russell.
House Armed Services (2:30 p.m.): Readiness and Management Support Subcommittee holds a hearing on current readiness of the Armed Forces in review of the Defense Authorization Request for FY2009 and the Future Years Defense Program. Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Richard Cody; Assistant Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Robert Magnus; Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Patrick Walsh; Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Duncan McNabb, testify. 222 Russell.
Senate Armed Services (2:30 p.m.): Strategic Forces Subcommittee holds a hearing on ballistic missile defense programs in review of the Defense Authorization Request for FY2009 and the Future Years Defense Program. Defense Undersecretary for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics John Young Jr.; Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry Obering III, director of the Missile Defense Agency; Army Lt. Gen. Kevin Campbell, commanding general of the Army Space and Missile Defense Command; Charles McQueary, director of operational test and evaluation at the Defense Department; Paul Francis, director of acquisition and sourcing management at the Government Accountability Office, testify. 232-A Russell.
Senate Energy and Natural Resources (2:30 p.m.): Holds a hearing on S.2593, the “Forest Landscape Restoration Act of 2008,” to establish a program at the Forest Service and the Department of the Interior to carry out collaborative ecological restoration treatments for priority forest landscapes on public land. Witnesses TBA. 366 Dirksen.
Senate Finance (10 a.m.): Holds a hearing on “Anti-Terrorism Financing: Progress Made and the Challenges Ahead.” Treasury Undersecretary Stuart Levey, of the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, testifies. 215 Dirksen.
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (10 a.m.): Employment and Workplace Safety Subcommittee holds a hearing on “Serious OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) Violations: Strategies for Breaking Dangerous Problems.” Witnesses TBA. 430 Dirksen.
Senate Judiciary (10 a.m.): Human Rights and the Law Subcommittee holds a hearing on “Rape as a Weapon of War: Accountability for Sexual Violence in Conflict.” Witnesses TBA. 226 Dirksen.
THE HOUSE
House is in session
Committees
House Judiciary (10 a.m.): Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee and Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law Subcommittee hold a joint hearing on “Paying With Their Lives: The Status of Compensation for 9/11 Health Effects.” Kenneth Feinberg, former special master of the Victim Compensation Fund; James Melius, administrator of the New York State Laborer's Health and Safety Trust Fund; Mike Valentin, former N.Y. Police Department detective with severe 9/11-related health problems; Michael Cardozo, corporation counsel for the City of New York, testify. 2141 Rayburn.
House Rules (2:30 p.m.): Meets to formulate a rule on H.R.5501, the “Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008.” H-313, U.S. Capitol.
House Science and Technology (9:30 a.m.): Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee holds a hearing on “Toxic Trailers: Have the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Failed to Protect Public Health?” The hearing will focus on the CDC's testing of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) trailers used in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Heidi Sinclair, assistant professor of pediatrics at Louisiana State University, and medical director of the Baton Rouge Children's Health Program; Becky Gillette, formaldehyde campaign director for the Sierra Club Gulf Coast Environmental Restoration Task Force; Christopher De Rosa, former director of the Division of Toxicology and Environment Medicine at the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) of the Health and Human Services Department; Howard Frumkin, director of ATSDR's National Center for Environmental Health; Tom Sinks, deputy director of ATSDR's National Center for Environmental Health; Lindsay Huckabee, resident of a FEMA-provided mobile home in Kiln, Miss. from October 2005-to-present, along with her husband and five children; Meryl Karol, professor emerita at the University of Pittsburgh; and Deputy FEMA Administrator Harvey Johnson Jr., testify. 2318 Rayburn.
House Transportation and Infrastructure (10 a.m.): Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Subcommittee holds a hearing on “A Growing Capitol Complex and Visitor Center: Needs for Transportation, Security, Greening, Energy, and Maintenance.” Witnesses TBA. 2167 Rayburn.
House Ways and Means (10 a.m.): Health Subcommittee holds a hearing on the 2008 Medicare Trustees report on the current and projected financial condition of the Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI) and the Supplementary Medical Insurance (SMI) trust funds. Richard Foster, chief actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, testifies. 1100 Longworth.
House Energy and Commerce (9:30 a.m.): Telecommunications and the Internet Subcommittee holds a hearing on “Online Virtual Worlds: Applications and Avatars in a User-Generated Medium.” Witnesses TBA. 2123 Rayburn.
House Administration (2 p.m.): Elections Subcommittee holds a hearing on “National Voter Registration Act, section 7: The challenges that public assistance agencies face.” Witnesses TBA. 1310 Longworth.
House Appropriations (10 a.m.): Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee holds a hearing on “Funding for the Arts.” Robert Redford, Academy Award-winning director/actor; John Legend, five-time Grammy Award-winning R&B singer, songwriter and pianist; Brian Stokes Mitchell, Tony Award-winning stage, screen and television actor/singer; Jonathan Spector, CEO of The Conference Board; Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann; and Robert Lynch, president and CEO of Americans for the Arts, testify. 2359 Rayburn.
House Armed Services (1 p.m.): Air and Land Forces Subcommittee holds a hearing on the FY2009 National Defense Authorization Budget Request from the U.S. Transportation Command and Air Force Mobility Aircraft Programs. Air Force Gen. Arthur Lichte, commander of the Air Mobility Command; and Air Force Gen. Norton Schwartz, commander of the U.S. Transportation Command, testify. 2118 Rayburn.
House Armed Services (9 a.m.): Readiness Subcommittee holds a hearing on the FY2009 National Defense Authorization Budget Request on the readiness of the Army and Air Force Reserves and National Guard forces. Army Lt. Gen. Jack Stultz, chief of the Army Reserve; Air Force Lt. Gen. John Bradley, chief of the Air Force Reserve; Army Lt. Gen. Steven Blum, chief of the National Guard Bureau; Army Lt. Gen. Clyde Vaughn, director of the Army National Guard; and Air Force Lt. Gen. Craig McKinley, director of the Air National Guard, testify. 2118 Rayburn.
House Armed Services (3 p.m.): Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee holds a hearing on “Holistic Approaches to Cybersecurity Enabling Network Centric Operations.” Seymour Goodman, chairman of the National Research Council Committee on Improving Cybersecurity Research in the U.S.; James Lewis, director and senior fellow in the Technology and Public Policy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; and Franklin Kramer, distinguished research fellow at the Center for Technology and National Security Policy, testify. 2212 Rayburn.
House (Select) Energy Independence and Global Warming (noon): Holds a hearing on “Drilling for Answers: Oil Company Profits, Runaway Prices and the Pursuit of Alternatives,” focusing on the current state of oil and gas prices, oil company profits, and the need for clean, renewable fuels to ease demand for oil and cut global warming pollution. Representatives from BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, and Shell, testify. 1100 Longworth.
House Homeland Security (2 p.m.): Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology Subcommittee holds a hearing on “The Future of Science and Technology at the Department of Homeland Security.” Homeland Security Undersecretary for Science and Technology Jay Cohen, testify. 311 Cannon.
House Judiciary (2 p.m.): Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee holds a hearing on H.R.4044, to amend the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 to exempt from the means test in bankruptcy cases, for a limited period, qualifying reserve-component members who, after September 11, 2001, are called to active duty or to perform a homeland defense activity for not less than 60 days. Witnesses TBA. 2141 Rayburn.
House Veterans Affairs (10 a.m.): Health Subcommittee holds a hearing on “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Treatment and Research: Moving Ahead Toward Recovery.” Witnesses TBA. 334 Cannon.
House (Select) Intelligence (10 a.m.): Holds a closed briefing on cyber technology. H-405, U.S. Capitol.
