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AP WASHINGTON DAYBOOK, Wednesday, April 9
CONGRESS-SENATE
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1:30 p.m. REPUBLICANS - BENGHAZI — U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), Kelly Ayotte (R-New Hampshire) and John McCain (R-Arizona), along with Congressman Trey Gowdy (R-South Carolina), will detail some of the "unanswered questions" about the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the United States mission in Benghazi, Libya.
Location: Senate Radio-TV Gallery, S-325.
Contacts: Lorcan Connick (Sen. Graham), 202-224-5972
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2 p.m. DEMOCRATIC WOMEN - PAYCHECK FAIRNESS ACT — Senators Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Patty Murray (D-WA), and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), along with Senate Democratic leaders and Democratic women Senators will hold a media availability to urge their Republican colleagues to join them in giving America's women "a fair shot at equal pay for equal work."
Location: Senate Radio/Television Gallery.
Contacts: Matt Jorgenson (Sen. Mikulski), 202-228-1122
6 p.m. KIDS FOR CASH — Viewing and Panel Discussion of "Kids for Cash. "Kids for Cash is a documentary regarding a scandal that began in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. A local judge sentenced more than 3,000 children to prison for years, after they were found guilty of crimes as petty as creating a fake MySpace page. Following parental inquiries, it was revealed that the judge had received millions of dollars in payments from the privately-owned juvenile detention centers where the kids, many in their early teens, were incarcerated. Participants: Rep. Tony Caadenas; U.S. Sen. Robert Casey with be joined on the discussion panel by Marsha Levick of the Juvenile Law Center; Director Robert May, who directed "Kids for Cash and two children from the film, Hillary Transue and Justin Bodnar.
Location: U.S. Capitol Visitor Center North Orientation Theater.
Contacts: Paul Kincaid Paul.kincaid@mail.house.gov (202-225-6131)
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COMMITTEE MEETINGS
9:15 a.m. APPROPRIATIONS — Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies hearing on The Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Request for The Environmental Protection Agency. Witness: Gina McCarthy, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency. ttp://www.appropriations.senate.gov/event/interior-environment-subcommittee-hearing-epa-fy15-budget
Location: 124 Dirksen.
9:15 a.m. ARMED SERVICES — Subcommittee on Airland meets To receive testimony on Army modernization in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2015 and the Future Years Defense Program.. Witnesses: General John F. Campbell, USA, Vice Chief of Staff, United States Army; Lieutenant General James O. Barclay III, USA, Deputy Chief of Staff, G-8, United States Army; Major General (P) Michael E. Williamson, USA, Military Deputy and Director, Army Acquisition Corps, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology. http://www.armed-services.senate.gov/hearings/14-04-09-army-modernization
Location: 232A Russell.
9:45 a.m. APPROPRIATIONS — Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Hearing: Railway Safety Subcommittee hearing on an assessment on how to keep our railways safe for passengers and communities. Witnesses: Panel I: Anthony Foxx, Secretary, Department of Transportation; Deborah Hersman, Chairman, National Transportation Safety Board. Panel II: Barb Graff, Director, City of Seattle Office of Emergency Management; Tim Pellerin, Fire Chief, Town of Rangeley, Maine, Fire Department. http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/event/transportation-housing-and-urban-development-hearing-railway-safety
Location: 138 Dirksen.
10 a.m. APPROPRIATIONS — Defense Subcommittee hearing on Defense Health Programs; Lieutenant General Patricia Horoho, Surgeon General of the United States Army; Vice Admiral Matthew L. Nathan, Surgeon General of the United States Navy; Lieutenant General Thomas W. Travis, Surgeon General of the United States Air Force; Christopher Miller, Program Executive Officer for Defense Healthcare Management System. http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/event/defense-subcommittee-hearing-defense-health-programs
Location: 106 Dirksen.
10 a.m. APPROPRIATIONS — Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies hearing on The Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Request for the Department of Labor. Witnesses: Thomas E. Perez, Secretary, United States Department of Labor. http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/event/laborhhs-subcommittee-hearing-department-labor-fy15-budget
Location: 192 Dirksen.
10 a.m. ARMED SERVICES — Subcommittee on Personnel hearing on Active, Guard, Reserve, and Civilian Personnel Programs. Panel I: Lieutenant General Howard B. Bromberg, USA, Deputy Chief of Staff (G-1) United States Army, Vice Admiral William F. Moran, USN, Chief of Naval Personnel/Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Manpower, Personnel, Training and Education (N-1) United States Navy; Lieutenant General Samuel D. Cox, USAF, Deputy Chief of Staff for Manpower, Personnel and Services (A-1) United States Air Force; Lieutenant General Robert E. Milstead Jr., USMC, Deputy Commandant, Manpower and Reserve Affairs United State Marine Corps. Panel II: Sergeant Major of the Army Raymond F. Chandler III, United States Army; Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Michael D. Stevens, United States Navy; Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force James A. Cody, United States Air Force; Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Micheal P. Barrett, United States Marine Corps. http://www.armed-services.senate.gov/hearings/14-04-09-active-guard-reserve-and-civilian-personnel-programs
Location: 222 Russell.
10 a.m. COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND TRANSPORTATION — Subcommittee on Science and Space hearing to examine from here to Mars. Witnesses: William H. Gerstenmaier, Associate Administrator, Human Exploration and Operations, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); Susan Eisenhower, Chairman Emeritus, the Eisenhower Institute, President, the Eisenhower Group, Inc.; Dr. Leroy Chiao, Former NASA NASA Astronaut; Commander, International Space Station Expedition 10 , Special Advisor for Human Spaceflight, the Space Foundation; and Chairman, National Space Biomedical Research Institute User Panel 11: Jeffrey Manber, Managing Director, NanoRacks, LLC. http://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Hearings&ContentRecord\_id=1267a193-67e5-48be-b877-b5591cbd908b&ContentType\_id14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group\_idb06c39af-e033-4cba-9221-de668ca1978a
Location: 253 Russell.
10 a.m. HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR, AND PENSIONS — Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging hearings to examine addressing primary care access and workforce challenges, focusing on voices from the field. Panel I: Rebecca Spitzgo , Associate Administrator, Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD. Panel II: Gary Wiltz, MD, Executive Director and Clinical Director, Teche Action Clinic, Franklin, LA; Stan Brock, Founder and President, Remote Area Medical, Rockford, TN; Joseph Nichols, MD, MPH , Family Medicine Resident, MedStar Franklin Square Family Health Center, Baltimore, MD; Margaret Flinter, APRN, PhD , Senior Vice President and Clinical Director, Community Health Center, Inc., Middletown, CT; Deborah Edberg, MD , Program Director, McGaw Northwestern Family Medicine Residency Program, Erie Family Health Center; Assistant Professor of Clinical Family and Community Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL; Allen Dobson Jr., MD , President and CEO, Community Care of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC; Linda Kohn, PhD , Director of Health Care, Government Accountability Office, Washington, DC; James Hotz, MD , Clinical Services Director, Albany Area Primary Care, Albany, GA. http://www.help.senate.gov/hearings/hearing/?id=5ab814ee-5056-a032-5231-08baebc7c8cf
Location: 430 Dirksen.
10 a.m. JUDICARY — Hearing on "Examining the Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger and the Impact on Consumers." Witnesses: David Cohen, Executive Vice President, Comcast Corporation, Philadelphia, PA; Arthur T. Minson, Jr., Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Time Warner Cable Inc., New York, NY; Gene Kimmelman, President and CEO, Public Knowledge, Washington, DC; James L. Bosworth, Jr., Chairman and CEO, Back9Network, Hartford, CT; Richard Sherwin, Chief Executive Officer, Spot On Networks, New Haven, CT; Christopher S. Yoo, John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science, University of Pennsylvania Law, Philadelphia, PA. http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/examining-the-comcast-time-warner-cable-merger-and-the-impact-on-consumers
Location: Room changed to 216 Hart.
10 a.m. RULES AND ADMINISTRATION — Hearings to examine election administration, focusing on making voter rolls more complete and more accurate. http://www.rules.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=CommitteeHearings&ContentRecord\_id=176559be-4fb9-46ab-9445-47cd0eda136c&ContentType\_id14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group\_id1983a2a8-4fc3-4062-a50e-7997351c154b
Location: 301 Russell.
10 a.m. U.S. HELSINKI COMMISSION HEARING — The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission) hearing on Ukraine: Confronting Internal Challenges and External Threats. Victoria Nuland, Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State.
Location: 215 Dirksen.
Contacts: Shelly.Han@mail.house.gov ((202) 225-1901)
10:30 a.m. RULES AND ADMINISTRATION — Business meeting to consider S.1728, to amend the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to improve ballot accessibility to uniformed services voters and overseas voters, S.1937, to amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require States to develop contingency plans to address unexpected emergencies or natural disasters that may threaten to disrupt the administration of an election for Federal office, S.1947, to rename the Government Printing Office the Government Publishing Office, S.2197, to repeal certain requirements regarding newspaper advertising of Senate stationery contracts, and the nominations of Thomas Hicks, of Virginia, and Myrna Perez, of Texas, both to be a Member of the Election Assistance Commission.
Location: 301 Russell.
11 a.m. SMALL BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP — Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2015 for the Small Business Administration. http://www.sbc.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Hearings&ContentRecord\_id=1f7e5245-71a2-4787-a8c7-f00ed1b5d9d7&ContentType\_id14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group\_id43eb5e02-e987-4077-b9a7-1e5a9cf28964
Location: 428A Russell.
Notes: Time changed to 11:00 a.m.
2:30 p.m. APPROPRIATIONS — Military Construction, Veteran Affairs, and Related Agencies subcommittee hearing on Witnesses: Panel I: Dennis McGinn, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy, Installations and Environment, Department of the Navy; Vice Admiral William French, Commander, Navy Installations Command, Department of the Navy; Major General Juan Ayala, Commander, Marine Corps Installations Command, Assistant Deputy Commandant, Installations and Logistics, United States Marine Corps. Panel II: Kathleen I. Ferguson, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Performing Duties as, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Installations, Environment, and Logistics), United States Air Force; Major General Maryanne Miller, Deputy Chief, United States Air Force Reserve; Brigadier General James Witham, Deputy Director, United States Air National Guard. http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/event/military-construction-and-veterans-affairs-subcommittee-fy15-navy-air-force-budgets
Location: 124 Dirksen.
2:30 p.m. APPROPRIATIONS — Energy and Water Development subcommittee hearing on review of the Presidents Fiscal Year 2015 funding request and budget justification for the U.S. Department of Energy. Speakers: Ernie Moniz, Ph.D., Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy; Daniel B. Poneman, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy. http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/event/energy-and-water-development-subcommittee-hearing-department-energy-fy15-budget
Location: 192 Dirksen.
2:30 p.m. ARMED SERVICES — Subcommittee on Strategic Forces hearing on National Nuclear Security Administration Management of its National Security Laboratories and the Status of the Nuclear Security Enterprise. Panel I: Dr. Charles F. McMillan, Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Dr. Paul J. Hommert, Director, Sandia National Laboratories; Dr. William H. Goldstein, Deputy Director for Science and Technology, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Panel II: Norman R. Augustine, Co-chair of the Congressional Advisory Panel on the Governance of the Nuclear Security Enterprise, Institute for Defense Analyses; Admiral Richard W. Mies, USN (Ret.), Co-chair of the Congressional Advisory Panel on the Governance of the Nuclear Security Enterprise. http://www.armed-services.senate.gov/hearings/14-04-09-national-nuclear-security-administration-management-of-its-national-security-laboratories-and-the-status-of-the-nuclear-security-enterprise
Location: 222 Russell.
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2:30 p.m. COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND TRANSPORTATION — Full committee executive session. 1. S. 429, Concrete Masonry Products Research, Education and Promotion Act of 2013; 2. S. 1014, Youth Sports Concussion Act; 3. S. 1406, Prevent All Soring Tactics Act (PAST Act) ; 4. S. 1275, Revitalizing the Economy of Fisheries in the Pacific Act; 5. S. 1468, Revitalize American Manufacturing and Innovation Act of 2013; 6. S. 1793, Nicholas and Zachary Burt Memorial Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Prevention Act of 2013; 7. S. 1925, Driver Privacy Act; 8. S. 2022, Forensic Science and Standards Act of 2014; 9. S. 2028, Sport Fish Restoration and Recreational Boating Safety Act of 2014; 10. S. 2076, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Board of Visitors Enhancement Act; 11. S. 2086, Reliable Home Heating Act; 12. S. 2140, To improve the transition between experimental permits and commercial licenses for commercial reusable launch vehicles; 13. H.R. 2052, Global Investment in American Jobs Act; 14. Nomination of Mr. David Arroyo, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; 15. Nomination of Mr. William Doyle, to be a Member of the Federal Maritime Commission (Reappointment); 16. Nominations for Promotion in the United States Coast Guard.
Location: 253 Russell.
2:30 p.m. INDIAN AFFAIRS — An oversight hearing to examine Indian education, focusing on Indian students in public schools, and cultivating the next generation. Witnesses: Panel 1: William Mendoza, Executive Director-White House Initiative on American Indian and Alaska Native Education, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC. Panel 3: Mandy Smoker Broaddus, Director of Indian Education-Montana Office of Public Instruction, Helena, MT; Daniel Hudson, Chairman-Wyoming State Impact Aid, Lander, WY, and Secretary, National Indian Impacted School Association, Lander, WY; Dr. Alberto Siqueiros, Superintendent-Baboquivari Unified School District No. 40, Sells, AZ; Brent Gish, Executive Director-National Indian Impacted Schools Association, Naytahwaush, MN. http://www.indian.senate.gov/hearing/oversight-hearing-receive-testimony-indian-education-series-indian-students-public-schools
Location: 628 Dirksen.
2:30 p.m. JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE — Hearings to examine the economic impact of increased natural gas production. Witnesses: John Larson, Vice President and Global Leader, Big Data Analytics, IHS, Washington, DC; Jim Bruce, Vice President of Corporate Public Affairs, United Parcel Service, Washington, DC; Mark Brownstein, Associate Vice President and Chief Counsel for U. S. Climate and Energy, Environmental Defense Fund, New York, NY; Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Director of Economics21 and Senior, Fellow, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, New York, NY; J. Roe Buckley, Chairman US Oil and Gas Association Tyler, Texas. http://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Hearings&ContentRecord\_id=8ed91d60-2eee-4762-b037-b168e2db0599&ContentType\_id14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group\_idcb5dcfe4-afee-419f-94ee-e51eb07de989
Location: 216 Hart.
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