Hearings for the Week of Feb 23-27, 2009

[TayTay]

I have the list of hearings, as of now, that are going on in the Foreign Relations Committee, the Finance Committee and the Commerce Committee. (Nothing in Small Biz for this week.)

Enjoy!

[TayTay]

1. SFRC, Feb 24, 2:30 pm on Sri Lanka

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
IN SRI LANKA
HEARING
before the

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE
ONE HUNDRED ELEVENTH CONGRESS
FIRST SESSION
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Time: 2:30 P.M.
Place: 419 Dirksen Senate Building
Presiding: Senator Casey


Witnesses:

+The Honorable Jeffrey J. Lunstead
Former U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka
Middlebury, VT

+Ms. Anna Neistat
Senior Researcher
Human Rights Watch
Washington, DC

+Mr. Bob Dietz
Asia Program Coordinator
Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, NY

[karynnj]

6. Still no working link on the SFRC website

http://foreign.senate.gov/hearings/2009/hrg090224p.html

[karynnj]

7. Up now

[TayTay]

2. Finance Comm. Feb 25th 10 am Health Care and Comm organization biz

Open Executive Session to organize for the 111th Congress.

February 25 , 2009 ,TBD, in 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Member Statements:
Max Baucus, MT
Charles Grassley, IA


The Committee will meet in Open Executive Session on Wednesday, February 25, 2009, at a time to be determined during the hearing entitled, Scoring Healthcare Reform: CBO’s Budget Options, in 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building, to organize for the 111th Congress.

Scoring Health Care Reform: CBO’s Budget Options

February 25 , 2009 , at 10:00 a.m., in 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Member Statements:
Max Baucus, MT
Charles Grassley, IA

Witness Statements:

Douglas Elmendorf, Ph.D, Director, Congressional Budget Office

[TayTay]

3. Commerce Committee, Feb 26, 10 AM Consumer Protection and the Credit Crisis

Consumer Protection and the Credit Crisis
Full Committee

Thursday, February 26, 2009
10:00 AM
SR - 253

The Committee will examine Consumer Protection and the Credit Crisis and enforcement against fraudulent credit repair schemes under the Credit Repair Organization Act (CROA).

Specifically, the Committee will examine consumer protection in credit counseling, debt management, and foreclosure rescue programs and fraud. The Committee will also examine oversight of the federal authorities, protecting distressed consumers from mortgage fraud scams, and steering families away from these fraudulent schemes toward a path of financial stability.

Witnesses

Opening Remarks

Panel 1
The Honorable Pamela Jones Harbour
Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission

Panel 2
Mr. Prentiss Cox
Associate Clinical Professor of Law
University of Minnesota Law School

Mr. Travis Plunkett
Legislative Director
Consumer Federation of America

Mrs. Nancy Dix
Consumer

Mr. Bill Himpler
Executive Vice President, Federal Government Affairs
American Financial Services Association

[TayTay]

4. SFRC: Feb 26, 2:30 pm Engaging with the Muslim World

ENGAGING WITH MUSLIM COMMUNITIES
AROUND THE WORLD

HEARING
before the

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE
ONE HUNDRED ELEVENTH CONGRESS
FIRST SESSION

Thursday, February 26, 2009
Time: 2:30 P.M.
Place: 419 Dirksen Senate Building

Presiding: Senator Kerry

Witnesses:

Panel 1:
+The Honorable Madeleine K. Albright
Former Secretary of State
Washington, DC

+Admiral William J. Fallon, USN (ret.)
Former Commander of U.S. Central Command
Cambridge, MA

Panel 2:
+Dalia Mogahed
Executive Director
Gallup Center for Muslim Studies
Washington, DC

+Eboo Patel
Executive Director
Interfaith Youth Core
Chicago, IL

+Jim Sciutto
Senior Foreign Correspondent
ABC News
London, UK

[YvonneCa]

5. Like the BOLD...

...:7 Should be a good hearing. I like Madeline Albright.

[TayTay]

8. Hearing accessible here:

http://foreign.senate.gov/index.html

[ProSense]

9. Awesome

opening statement

[karynnj]

10. You're not kidding (though no surprise - he has been speaking of this for years)

Beautiful explanation and fantastic ideas of how to start.

[karynnj]

11. Intersting hearing

Both panels, in their own ways, were very good. Kerry spoke of wanting to continue pursuing this - telling the second panel that he wanted to have a round table on this.

(Near the end, he had to leave to go to the White House on Iraq.