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AP WASHINGTON DAYBOOK, Tuesday, April 29
CONGRESS-SENATE
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9:30 a.m. ARMED SERVICES — Meets to receive testimony on the National Commission on the Structure of the Air Force in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2015 and the Future Years Defense Program. Panel I: Deborah Lee James, Secretary of the U.S. Air Force; General Mark A. Welsh III, USAF, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force. Panel II: Lieutenant General Dennis M. McCarthy, USMCR (Ret.), Chair, National Commission on the Structure of the Air Force; Erin C. Conaton, Vice Chair, National Commission on the Structure of the Air Force; R. L. (Les) Brownlee, Member, National Commission on the Structure of the Air Force; Dr. Janine A. Davidson, Member, National Commission on the Structure of the Air Force; Dr. Margaret C. Harrell, Member, National Commission on the Structure of the Air Force; General Raymond E. Johns, Jr., USAF (Ret.), Member, National Commission on the Structure of the Air Force. http://www.armed-services.senate.gov/hearings/14-04-29-national-commission-on-the-structure-of-the-air-force
Location: G50 Dirksen.
10 a.m. JUDICIARY — Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights entitled "Law Enforcement Responses to Disabled Americans: Promising Approaches for Protecting Public Safety. http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/law-enforcement-responses-to-disabled-americans\_promising-approaches-for-protecting-public-safety
Location: 226 Dirksen.
1:30 p.m. SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY — Markup of: H.R. 4412, the "National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2014.
Location: 2318 Rayburn.
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2:30 p.m. APPROPRIATIONS — Hearings to examine driving innovation through Federal investments. Witnesses: John P. Holdren, Ph.D., Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President of the United States; Ernest Moniz, Ph.D., Secretary, Department of Energy; Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., Director, National Institutes of Health; France A. Cordova, Ph.D., Director, National Science Foundation; Arati Prabhakar, Ph.D., Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Department of Defense. http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/event/full-committee-hearing-driving-innovation-through-federal-investments
Location: G50 Dirksen.
2:30 p.m. ARMED SERVICES — Subcommittee on emerging threats and capabilities and the select committee on intelligence CLOSED hearing to receive testimony on counterterrorism policy in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2015 and the Future Years Defense Program. Witnesses: Michael G. Vickers, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence; Michael D. Lumpkin, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict; Admiral James A. Winnefeld, Jr., USN, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Lieutenant General Joseph L. Votel, USA, Commander, Joint Special Operations Command; Additional witnesses to be invited by the Select Committee on Intelligence. http://www.armed-services.senate.gov/hearings/14-04-29-counterterrorism-policy
Location: SVC-217.
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