Senate Calendar
Monday, Oct. 29, 2007
4 p.m.
Commission on Security and Cooperation in
Europe
To hold hearings to examine the Organization for
Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and
simmering tensions with Russia before
parliamentary and presidential elections.
1539-LHOB
Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2007
9:30 a.m.
Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs
To hold hearings to examine the role of local law
enforcement in countering violent Islamist
extremism.
SD-342
10 a.m.
Health, Education, Labor, and
Pensions
To hold hearings to examine ways to protect the
United States from drug-resistant tuberculosis,
focusing on reinvesting in control and new tools
research.
SD-430
2:30 p.m.
Commerce, Science, and
Transportation
Business meeting to consider S.2096, to amend the
Do-Not-Call Implementation Act to eliminate the
automatic removal of telephone numbers registered
on the Federal “do-not-call” registry, S.1580, to
reauthorize the Coral Reef Conservation Act of
2000, S.2045, to reform the Consumer Product
Safety Commission to provide greater protection
for children's products, to improve the screening
of noncompliant consumer products, to improve the
effectiveness of consumer product recall
programs, S.1853, to promote competition, to
preserve the ability of local governments to
provide broadband capability and services,
S.1675, to implement the recommendations of the
Federal Communications Commission report to the
Congress regarding low-power FM service,
H.Con.Res.225, honoring the 50th anniversary of
the dawn of the Space Age, and the ensuing 50
years of productive and peaceful space
activities, and the nominations of Todd J.
Zinser, of Virginia, to be Inspector General,
Department of Commerce, Robert Clarke Brown, of
Ohio, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of
the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority,
and promotions lists in the United States Coast
Guard, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration.
SR-253
2:30 p.m.
Foreign Relations
To hold hearings to examine the nominations of
Sean R. Mulvaney, of Illinois, to be an Assistant
Administrator of the
United States Agency for
International Development, and Daniel D. Heath,
of New Hampshire, to be United States Alternate
Executive Director of the International Monetary
Fund.
SD-419
2:30 p.m.
Select Committee on Intelligence
To hold closed hearings to examine certain
intelligence matters.
SH-219
Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2007
9 a.m.
Budget
To hold hearings to examine S.2063, to establish
a Bipartisan Task Force for Responsible Fiscal
Action, to assure the economic security of the
United States, and to expand future prosperity
and growth for all Americans.
SD-608
9:30 a.m.
Veterans' Affairs
To hold an oversight hearing to examine the
Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment
Rights Act (USERRA).
SD-562
10 a.m.
Environment and Public Works
To hold hearings to examine the licensing process
for the Yucca Mountain Repository.
SD-406
10 a.m.
Judiciary
To hold hearings to examine Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA) amendments, focusing on
ways to protect Americans' security and privacy
while preserving the rule of law and government
accountability.
SD-226
10:30 a.m.
Foreign Relations
Business meeting to consider S.Res.334,
expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the
degradation of the Jordan River and the Dead Sea
and welcoming cooperation between the peoples of
Israel, Jordan, and Palestine, United Nations
Convention on the Law of the Sea, with Annexes,
done at Montego Bay, December 10, 1982 (the
“Convention”), and the Agreement Relating to the
Implementation of Part XI of the United Nations
Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December
1982, with Annex, adopted at New York, July 28,
1994 (the Agreement”), and signed by the United
States, subject to ratification, on July 29, 1994
(Treaty Doc.103-39), Convention Between the
Government of the United States of America and
the Government of the Kingdom of Belgium for the
Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention
of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income
and accompanying Protocol, signed on November 27,
2006, at Brussels (the “proposed Treaty”) (Treaty
Doc.110-03), Protocol Amending the Convention
Between the Government of the United States of
America and the Government of the Kingdom of
Denmark for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and
the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to
Taxes on Income signed at Copenhagen May 2, 2006
(the “Protocol”) (Treaty Doc.109-19), Protocol
Amending the Convention Between the Government of
the United States of America and the Government
of the Republic of Finland for the Avoidance of
Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal
Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income and on
Capital, signed at Helsinki May 31, 2006 (the
“Protocol”) (Treaty Doc.109-18), and Protocol
Amending the Convention Between the United States
of America and the Federal Republic of Germany
for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the
Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to
Taxes on Income and Capital and to Certain Other
Taxes, Signed on August 29, 1989, signed at
Berlin June 1, 2006 (the “Protocol”), along with
a related Joint Declaration (Treaty Doc.109-20).
SD-419
2:30 p.m.
Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs
Disaster Recovery Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine post-catastrophe
crisis, focusing on addressing the dramatic need
and scant availability of mental health care in
the Gulf Coast.
SD-342
2:30 p.m.
Banking, Housing, and Urban
Affairs
Securities, Insurance and Investment Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine climate disclosure,
focusing on measuring financial risks and
opportunities.
SD-538
Thursday,
Nov. 1, 2007
9:30 a.m.
Indian Affairs
To hold an oversight hearing to examine the
impact of the Flood Control Act of 1944 on Indian
Tribes along the Missouri river.
SD-628
10 a.m.
Health, Education, Labor, and
Pensions
To hold hearings to examine the nominations of
Gregory F. Jacob, of New Jersey, to be Solicitor,
and Howard Radzely, of Maryland, to be Deputy
Secretary, both of the Department of Labor.
SD-430
10 a.m.
Judiciary
Business meeting to consider S.1946, to help
Federal prosecutors and investigators combat
public corruption by strengthening and clarifying
the law, S.2168, to amend title 18, United States
Code, to enable increased federal prosecution of
identity theft crimes and to allow for
restitution to
victims of identity theft, S.352,
to provide for media coverage of Federal court
proceedings, and the nominations of John Daniel
Tinder, of Indiana, to be United States Circuit
Judge for the Seventh Circuit, and Julie L.
Myers, of Kansas, to be Assistant Secretary of
Homeland Security.
SD-226
10 a.m.
Select Committee on Intelligence
Meeting of conferees on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal year 2008 for the
intelligence community.
S-407, Capitol
2 p.m.
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Federal Financial
Management, Government Information,
Federal Services, and
International Security Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine the Small Business
Administration, focusing on the efficacy of the
7(a) loan program.
SD-342
2:30 p.m.
Select Committee on Intelligence
To hold closed
hearings to examine certain
intelligence matters.
SH-219
Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007
9:30 a.m.
Veterans' Affairs
To hold an oversight hearing to examine the
performance and structure of the United States
Court of Appeals for Veterans.
SD-562
10 a.m.
Rules and Administration
To hold hearings to examine the Government
Accountability Office report focusing on funding
challenges and facilities maintenance at the
Smithsonian Institution.
SR-301
1:30 p.m.
Banking, Housing, and Urban
Affairs
To hold hearings to examine sovereign wealth fund
acquisitions and other foreign government
investments in the United States, focusing on
economic and national security implications.
SD-538
Thursday, Nov. 8, 2007
2:30 p.m.
Energy and Natural Resources
National Parks
Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine S.86, to designate
segments of Fossil Creek, a tributary to the
Verde River in the State of Arizona, as wild and
scenic rivers, S.1365, to amend the Omnibus Parks
and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter
into cooperative agreements with any of the
management partners of the Boston Harbor Islands
National Recreation Area, S.1449, to establish
the Rocky Mountain Science Collections Center to
assist in preserving the archeological,
anthropological, paleontological, zoological, and
geologic artifacts and archival documentation
from the Rocky Mountain region through the
construction of an on-site, secure collections
facility for the Denver Museum of Nature and
Science in Denver, Colorado, S.1921, to amend the
American Battlefield Protection Act of 1996 to
extend the authorization for that Act, S.1941, to
direct the Secretary of the Interior to study the
suitability and feasibility of designating the
Wolf House, located in Norfolk, Arkansas, as a
unit of the National Park System, S.1961, to
expand the boundaries of the Little River Canyon
National Preserve in the State of Alabama,
S.1991, to authorize the Secretary of the
Interior to conduct a study to determine the
suitability and feasibility of extending the
Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail to
include additional sites associated with the
preparation and return phases of the expedition,
S.2098, to establish the Northern Plains Heritage
Area in the State of North Dakota, S.2220, to
amend the Outdoor Recreation Act of 1963 to
authorize certain appropriations, and H.R.1191,
to authorize the National Park Service to pay for
services rendered by subcontractors under a
General Services Administration Indefinite
Deliver Indefinite Quantity Contract issued for
work to be completed at the Grand Canyon National
Park.
SD-366
