Hearings This Week: Busy week 3/14 - 3/16/06

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Tuesday, March 14, 2006 FINANCE COMMITTEE

Administrative Challenges Facing the Social Security Administration

March 14, 2006, at 10:00 a.m. in 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Member Statements:
Charles Grassley, IA
Max Baucus, MT

Witness Statements:

Panel

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Obviously a work-in-progress. I will check back and see if this one came together or got cancelled. BTW, the taller Sen. from MA is on the Social SEcurity sub-committee. Ahm, he might show.

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1. Bolton testifies on Tuesday, March 14th

A Status Report on United Nations Reform
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HEARING
before the

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE
ONE HUNDRED NINTH CONGRESS
SECOND SESSION

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Tuesday, March 14, 2006

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Time: 9:30 AM
Place: 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Presiding: Senator Lugar

Witness:
The Honorable John R. Bolton
U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
Department of State
New York, New York
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The bastard returns. Sigh! Ahm, yeah, the whole gang will be here. In fact, this may very well be 'The Rapture' for Sen. Coleman, given how much he adores the UN Reform issue. I am sure that Bolton has been warned to not let Sen. Coleman too near him. The sloppy, wet kisses are a little hard to take that early in the morning.

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2. SFRC On a roll: ME after the Palestinian Elections

Post-Palestinian Election Challenges
in the Middle East
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HEARING
before the

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

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Wednesday, March 15, 2006

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Time: 9:30 AM
Place: 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Presiding: Senator Lugar

Witnesses:
Panel I
Mr. James Wolfensohn
Quartet Special Envoy for Gaza Disengagement
Department of State
Washington, DC

Panel II
Lieutenant General Keith W. Dayton
U.S. Security Coordinator
Department of State
Washington, DC


Panel III
The Honorable Dennis Ross
Counselor and Ziegler Distinguished Fellow
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Washington, DC
Mr. Robert Malley
Middle East and North Africa Program Director
International Crisis Group
Washington, DC
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Ahm, those election results were not a good thing for the ME. However, due to someone's complete and utter misunderstanding of what a democracy actually is, we are stuck with them. Making silk purses out of cow's ear, version 3.4. I hope Sen. Kerry shows, as well as Sens. Feingold, Boxer, Dodd and Biden. Someone needs to point out to the Admin that having a former terrorist group voted into office is a bit of a ticklish situation. (Like they care, sigh!)

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3. Commerce Committee: Innovation and Competition

Innovation and Competitiveness Legislation
Full Committee Hearing
Wednesday, March 15 2006 - 2:30 PM - D-562


Webcast: Click here to view a live webcast of this hearing. http://commerce.senate.gov/hearings/witnesslist.cfm?id=1781
Description: The Senate Commerce Committee has scheduled a Full Committee hearnig on Innovation and Competitiveness Legislation for Wednesday, March 15 at 2:30p.m. in room 562 of the Dirksen Building. This hearing will discuss innovation and competitiveness challenges facing the United States and explore legislative action that can be taken by the Commerce Committee to address these challenges.

Senator John Ensign (R-Nev.) will preside. (Senator John Kerry is Dem Ranking Member of this sub-committee.)

The scheduled witnesses are:

Panel 1:

Dr. Craig Barrett
Chairman of Board, Intel Corporation

Mr. Norman Augustine
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer (Retired), Lockheed Martin Corporation

Dr. John E. Kelly, III
Senior Vice President of Technology and Intellectual Property, IBM Corporation

Ms. Deborah Wince-Smith
President, Council on Competitiveness

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This is about getting some legislation out of that sub-committee on Innovation and Competition. Sen. Kerry is Ranking Member on the sub-committee and this is sort of a signature issue for him. I bet he shows.

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4. There was a SBA committee hearing last week, but

no video or audio has yet been released. The ahm, Honorable Hector Barreto came up and testilied about what a great job his agency is doing denying loans to anyone who comes before it and asks for money. (Well, that what the Bushies want. Little peons can't have any money, that is just wrong. Only Halliburton gets money, didn't you guys get the memo?)

Anyway, as this was Hector vs. Kerry and thus probably highly watchable stuff. I will let you know if a video of the hearing ever gets posted. The last Barreto v. Kerry hearing was a small masterpiece. Seriously http://sbc.senate.gov/hearings/109hrgs.html Check out that Nov 8th hearing. Small masterpiece. (Best hearings on Cap Hill.)