Constitutional Law

Congressional Activities: Week of 3/31/08

Here is a comprehensive list of the House and Senate schedule and hearings. The following links are to the daily calendars for the House and Senate. Here is the weekly House whip information (majority/minority) and the Senate floor schedule.

Of note: On Thursday, the Senate Committee on Judiciary will consider whether to statutorily define the state secrets privilege, five federal judicial nominations and a nomination for Assistant Attorney General.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Senate Committee on Judiciary (Human Rights and the Law Subcommittee) hearings to examine rape as a weapon of war, focusing on accountability for sexual violence in conflict.

House Committee on Judiciary (Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law) joint hearing on “Paying With Their Lives: The Status of Compensation for 9/11 Health Effects.”

House Armed Services Committee (House Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee) will meet to hear testimony on the Holistic Approaches to Cybersecurity Enabling Network Centric Operations

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Senate Committee on Judiciary oversight hearings to examine the Department of Homeland Security.

Senate Committee on Appropriations (Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee) hearings to examine National Labor Relations Board Representation elections and initial collective bargaining agreements, focusing on safeguarding workers' rights.

Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation business meeting to consider S.J.Res. 28, disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission with respect to broadcast media ownership.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearings to examine Iraq 2012, focusing on what can it look like and how to get there.

Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs hearings to examine turmoil in U.S. credit markets, focusing on the recent actions of federal financing regulators.

Senate Committee on Judiciary business meeting to consider S. 2136, to address the treatment of primary mortgages in bankruptcy, S. 2133, to authorize bankruptcy courts to take certain actions with respect to mortgage loans in bankruptcy, S. 2041, to amend the False Claims Act, S. 2533, to enact a safe, fair, and responsible state secrets privilege Act, S. 702, to authorize the Attorney General to award grants to State courts to develop and implement State courts interpreter programs, and the nominations of Catharina Haynes, of Texas, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, and Rebecca A. Gregory, to be United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas.

Senate Committee on Judiciary hearings to examine the nominations of Mark S. Davis, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, David Gregory Kays, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Missouri, David J. Novak, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri, and Elisebeth C. Cook, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Attorney General.

House Appropriations Committee (Commerce, Justice, Science Subcommittee) hearing: Attorney General.

House Appropriations Committee (Select Intelligence Oversight Panel) hearing on the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative.

House Appropriations Committee (Commerce, Justice, Science Subcommittee) hearing: Legal Services Corporation.

Full post as published by ACS Blog on December 31, 1969 (boomark / email).