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Horario de la Cámara de Representantes

Horario del Senado

The House meets at 10:00 a.m.

Horario de los Comités de la Cámara

Horario de los Comités del Senado

10 a.m.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation, To hold an oversight hearing to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2009 for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA),
Location: in Russell Senate Office Building, Room 253.

10 a.m.
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
To hold hearings to examine the impacts of climate change on the reliability, security, economics, and design of critical energy infrastructure in coastal regions.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 366

10 a.m.
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
To hold hearings to examine proposed legislation on mercury.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 406

10 a.m.
Senate Committee on Finance
To hold hearings to examine cracking the code, focusing on tax reform for individuals.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 215

10:15 a.m.
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
To receive a closed briefing on United States policy towards Sudan.
Location: Capitol Building, Room S-407

2:30 p.m.
Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
To hold an oversight hearing to examine the successes and shortfalls of Title IV of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, focusing on twenty years of self-governance.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 562

2:30 p.m.
Senate Committee on Intelligence
To hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence matters.
Location: Hart Senate Office Building, Room 219

Wednesday, May. 14, 2008
9:30 a.m.
Senate Committee on Appropriations
Defense Subcommittee To hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2009 for the United States National Guard and Reserve.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 192

9:30 a.m.
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
To hold hearings to examine responding to the global food crisis.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 419

9:30 a.m.
Joint Economic Committee
To hold hearings to examine United States credit crisis, focusing on how the federal government can prevent unnecessary systemic risk in the future.
Location: Hart Senate Office Building, Room 216

10 a.m.
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Consumer Affairs, Insurance, and Automotive Safety Subcommittee To hold hearings to examine plastic additives in consumer products.
Location: Russell Senate Office Building, Room 253

10 a.m.
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
To hold hearings to examine the nomination of Paul A. Schneider, of Maryland, to be Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 342

10:30 a.m.
Senate Committee on Aging
To hold hearings to examine the future of Alzheimer's disease, focusing on current breakthroughs and challenges.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 106

2:30 p.m.
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Children and Families Subcommittee To hold hearings to examine addressing the challenge of children with food allergies.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 430

3 p.m.
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security Subcommittee To hold an oversight hearing to examine the National Archives, focusing on protecting our nation’s history for future generations.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 342

3 p.m.
Senate Committee on Appropriations
Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee To hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2009 for the Federal Trade Commission.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 192

Thursday, May. 15, 2008
9:30 a.m.
Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
To hold hearings to examine S. 1080, to develop a program to acquire interests in land from eligible individuals within the Crow Reservation in the State of Montana, H.R. 2120, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to proclaim as reservation for the benefit of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians a parcel of land now held in trust by the United States for that Indian tribe, S. 2494, to provide for equitable compensation to the Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation for the use of tribal land for the production of hydropower by the Grand Coulee Dam, H.R. 2963, to transfer certain land in Riverside County, California, andSan Diego County, California, from the Bureau of Land Management to the United States to be held in trust for the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians, and S. 531, to repeal section 10(f) of Public Law 93-531, commonly known as the "Bennett Freeze".
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 562

10 a.m.
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Business meeting to consider H.R. 634, to require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of veterans who became disabled for life while serving in the Armed Forces of the United States, S. 1100, to address the regulation of secondary mortgage market enterprises, and an original bill to make technical corrections to Title III of SAFETEA-LU.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 538

10 a.m.
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Business meeting to consider pending calendar business.
Location: Russell Senate Office Building, Room 253

10 a.m.
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
To hold hearings to examine nuclear terrorism, focusing on providing medical care and meeting basic needs in an aftermath.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 342

10 a.m.
Senate Committee on Judiciary
To hold hearings to examine S. 2913, to provide a limitation on judicial remedies in copyright infringement cases involving orphan works, S. 2511, to amend the grant program for law enforcement armor vests to provide for a waiver of or reduction in the matching funds requirement in the case of fiscal hardship, S. 2565, to establish an awards mechanism to honor exceptional acts of bravery in the line of duty by Federal law enforcement officers, H.R. 4056, to establish an awards mechanism to honor Federal law enforcement officers injured in the line of duty, S. 2774, to provide for the appointment of additional Federal circuit and district judges, S. 1738, to establish a Special Counsel for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction within the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, to improve the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, to increase resources for regional computer forensic labs, and to make other improvements to increase the ability of law enforcement agencies to investigate and prosecute predators, S. 2756, to amend the National Child Protection Act of 1993 to establish a permanent background check system, S. 1515, to establish a domestic violence volunteer attorney network to represent domestic violence victims, S. 2942, to authorize funding for the National Advocacy Center, S. 2982, to amend the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act to authorize appropriations, and the nomination of G. Steven Agee, of Virginia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 226

2 p.m.
Senate Committee on Appropriations
Business meeting to markup the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Bill for fiscal year 2008.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 106

2 p.m.
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
To hold hearings to examine United States-China relations in the era of globalization.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 419

2 p.m.
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia Subcommittee To hold hearings to examine the organizational structures of the State Department responsible for arms control, counterproliferation, and nonproliferation, focusing on the processes they have in place for optimizing national efforts, and how responsive those structures and processes are to the Executive Branch's nonproliferation and counterproliferation polices.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 342

2:30 p.m.
Senate Committee on Armed Services
Business meeting to consider pending military nominations.
Location: Russell Senate Office Building, Room 222

2:30 p.m.
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
To hold hearings to examine development of oil shale resources.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 366

Tuesday, May. 20, 2008
10 a.m.
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
To hold hearings to examine the nomination of Steven C. Preston, of Illinois, to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 538

10 a.m.
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
To hold hearings to examine energy and related economic effects of global climate change legislation.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 366

10 a.m.
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
To hold hearings to examine plant closings, focusing on workers rights and the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN)(Public Law 100-379) Act's 20th anniversary.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 430

10 a.m.
Senate Committee on Judiciary
To hold hearings to examine global internet freedom, focusing on corporate responsibility and the rule of law.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 226

10:30 a.m.
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
To hold hearings to examine agreement on Extradition between the United States of America and the European Union (EU), signed on June 25, 2003 at Washington, together with twenty-two bilateral instruments which subsequently were signed between the United States and each European Union Member State in order to implement the Agreement with the EU. The Agreement includes an explanatory note which is an integral part of the Agreement (Treaty Doc.109-14), extradition Treaty between the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Latvia, signed on December 7, 2005, at Riga (Treaty Doc.109-15), extradition Treaty between the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Estonia, signed on February 8, 2006, at Tallinn (Treaty Doc.109-16), extradition Treaty between the United States of America and the Government of Malta, signed on May 18, 2006, at Valletta, that includes an exchange of letters that is an integral part of the treaty (Treaty Doc.109-17), extradition Treaty between the United States of America and Romania (the "Extradition Treaty" or the "Treaty") and the Protocol to the Treaty between the United States of America and Romania on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters (the "Protocol"), both signed at Bucharest on September 10, 2007 (Treaty Doc.110-11), extradition Treaty between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Bulgaria (the "Extradition Treaty" or the "Treaty") and the Agreement on Certain Aspects of Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Bulgaria (the "MLA Agreement"), both signed at Sofia on September 19, 2007 (Treaty Doc.110-12), treaty Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Kingdom of Sweden on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters, signed at Stockholm on December 17, 2001 (Treaty Doc.107-12), mutual Legal Assistance between the United States of America and the European Union (EU), signed on June 25, 2003, at Washington, together with 25 bilateral instruments that subsequently were signed between the United States and each European Union Member State in order to implement the Agreement with the EU, and an explanatory note that is an integral part of the Agreement (Treaty Doc.109-13), and treaty between the United States of America and Malaysia on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters, signed on July 28, 2006, at Kuala Lumpur (Treaty Doc.109-22).
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 419

10:30 a.m.
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
To hold hearings to examine financial speculation in commodity markets, focusing on institutional investors and hedge funds contributing to food and energy price inflation.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 342

2:15 p.m.
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Business meeting to consider pending calendar business.
Location: Capitol Building, Room S-116

2:30 p.m.
Senate Committee on Judiciary
To hold hearings to examine protecting the constitutional right to vote for all Americans.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 226

2:45 p.m.
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs Subcommittee To hold hearings to examine Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) challenge, focusing on securing one of the worlds most dangerous areas.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 419

Wednesday, May. 21, 2008
9:15 a.m.
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
To hold hearings to examine treaty Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Concerning Defense Trade Cooperation, done at Washington and London on June 21 and 26, 2007 (Treaty Doc.110-07), and treaty Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of Australia Concerning Defense Trade Cooperation, done at Sydney, September 5, 2007 (Treaty Doc.110-10).
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 419

9:30 a.m.
Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
To hold hearings to examine pending health care legislation.
Location: Russell Senate Office Building, Room 418

10 a.m.
Senate Committee on Judiciary
To hold hearings to examine the skyrocketing price of oil.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 226

Thursday, May. 22, 2008
2 p.m.
Senate Committee on Judiciary
To hold hearings to examine closing the justice gap, focusing on providing civil legal assistance to low-income Americans.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 226

Tuesday, Jun. 3, 2008
9:30 a.m.
Senate Committee on Armed Services
To hold hearings to examine the acquisition of major weapons systems by the Department of Defense.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 106

Wednesday, Jun. 4, 2008
9:30 a.m.
Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
To hold an oversight hearing to examine veterans disability compensation, focusing on undue delay in claims processing.
Location: Russell Senate Office Building, Room 418

Thursday, Jun. 5, 2008
9:30 a.m.
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
To hold hearings to examine off-highway vehicle management on public lands.
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 366

Thursday, Jun. 26, 2008
9:30 a.m.
Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Business meeting to markup pending calendar business.
Location: Russell Senate Office Building, Room 418