The Committee on Environment and Public Works will hold a Business
Meeting to consider the following items:
- General Services Administration Resolutions.
- Army Corps of Engineers Resolutions.
- S. 2766, the Clean Boating Act of 2008.
- S. 1499, the Marine Vessel Emissions Reduction Act of 2007.
- S. 2555, the Reducing Global Warming Pollution from Vehicles Act of
2008.
- S. 2844, the Beach Protection Act of 2008.
- S. 2707, the Chesapeake Bay Gateways and Watertrails Network
Continuing Authorization Act.
- H.R. 3891, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Establishment Act
Amendment of 2008.
- S. 1566, a bill to amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to improve that
Act.
- S. 2700, a bill to amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to double the
liability limits for single-hull tankers and tank barges for 2009.
- S. 2728, a bill to establish the Twenty-First Century Water Commission
to study and develop recommendations for a comprehensive water
strategy to address future water needs.
- H.R. 3248, SAFETEA-LU Technical Corrections
Act of 2007 (Boxer Substitute Amendment is Attached).
- H.R. 3986, John F. Kennedy Center Reauthorization Act of 2007 (Boxer
Substitute Amendment is Attached).
- S. 2403, a bill to designate the new Federal Courthouse, located in
the 700 block of East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, as the
“Spottswood W. Robinson, III and Robert R.
Merhige, Jr. Federal Courthouse.”
- S. 2837, a bill to designate the United States courthouse located at
225 Cadman Plaza East, Brooklyn, NY as the “Theodore Roosevelt United
States Courthouse.”
- S. 3009, a bill to designate the Federal Bureau of Investigation
building under construction in Omaha, NE as the “J. James Exon Federal
Bureau of Investigation Building.”
- H.R. 1019, a bill to designate the United States customhouse building
located at 31 Gonzalez Clemente Ave., in Mayaguez, PR as the “Rafael
Martinez Nadal United States Customhouse Building.”
- H.R. 4140, a bill to designate the Port Angeles Federal Building in
Port Angeles, Washington as the “Richard B. Anderson Federal
Building.”
- H.R. 781, a bill to redesignate Lock and Dam No. 5 of the
McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System near Redfield,
Arkansas, as the “Colonel Charles D. Maynard Lock and Dam.”
David R. Hill, of Virginia, to be Assistant Administrator and General
Counsel of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
406 Dirksen
05/21/2008 at 10:00AM
The hearing, originally scheduled for May
8, will examine the new
ozone national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) and the process the
Environmental Protection Agency used in setting them.
On March 12, 2008, EPA Administrator Stephen
L. Johnson finalized updated NAAQS for
ozone,
a primary component of smog. The new ozone
NAAQS are comprised of a revised primary
standard to protect health and a revised secondary standard to protect
the environment. In setting both standards,
EPA Administrator Johnson did not accept the
recommendations provided to him by EPA’s
independent scientific review committee, the Clean Air Scientific
Advisory Committee (CASAC). With regard to the secondary standard,
Administrator Johnson’s efforts to set a new standard were overruled by
the White House.
In light of new information obtained by the
Committee,
questions are also expected regarding the White House’s role in
EPA’s action to block California’s program to
regulate greenhouse gases from
automobiles.
Witnesses
Panel I
- Stephen L. Johnson, Administrator of the Environmental Protection
Agency
- Susan E. Dudley, Administrator of OMB’s
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
- Dr. Rogene Henderson, Chair, Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee
Panel II
- Dr. Francesca Grifo, Senior Scientist, Union Of Concerned Scientists
- Michael Goo, Climate Legislative Director, Natural Resources Defense
Council
- Dr. Roger O. McClellan, Advisor, Toxicology and Human Heath Risk
Analysis
- Alan Charles Raul, Partner, Sidley Austin,
LLP
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
2154 Rayburn
05/20/2008 at 01:00PM
Witnesses
- Jeffrey H. Harris, Chief Economist, Commodity Futures Trading
Commission
- Michael W. Masters, Managing Member and Portfolio Manager, Masters
Capital Management, LLC
- Michael D. Walter, President, Commodity Markets Council
- Benn Steil, Ph.D., Senior Fellow and Director of International
Economics, Council on Foreign Relations
- Tom Buis, President, National Farmers Union
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
342 Dirksen
05/20/2008 at 10:30AM
Witnesses
- Nikolao Pula, Director of the Office of Insular Affairs, U.S.
Department of the Interior
- Anthony Neil, Executive Director, Pacific Power Association
- Herbert Wade, Consultant, Pacific Renewable Energy
- Utu Abe Malae, President, Development Bank of American Samoa
- Howard Snow, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Installations and
Facilities, U.S. Navy
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
366 Dirksen
05/20/2008 at 10:00AM
Representatives from CRS, EIA,
EPA, and CBO discuss
their economic analyses of Lieberman-Warner (S. 2191) and other
emissions-controlling climate legislative proposals.
Witnesses
- Brent Yacobucci, Congressional Research Service
- Dr. Larry Parker, Congressional Research Service
- Dr. Howard Gruenspecht, Deputy Administrator, Energy Information
Administration
- Dr. Brian McLean, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Dr. Peter Orszag, Congressional Budget Office
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
366 Dirksen
05/20/2008 at 10:00AM
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
366 Dirksen
05/15/2008 at 02:30PM
The House Committee on Ways and Means today passed bipartisan
legislation to extend vital tax relief to millions of families,
strengthen investment opportunities for American businesses and
encourage the production and use of renewable energy. The legislation,
H.R. 6049, the Energy and Tax Extenders Act of 2008, was introduced by
Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) and could be considered by
the full House of Representatives as early as next week. H.R. 6049
passed the Committee by a vote of 25-12.
Information.
H.R. 6049 Energy and Tax Extenders Act of 2008
Summary: H.R. 6049, the Energy and Tax Extenders Act of 2008, will
provide almost $20 billion of tax incentives for investment in renewable
energy, carbon capture and sequestration demonstration projects, energy
efficiency and conservation. The bill will also extends $27 billion of
expiring temporary tax provisions, including the research and
development credit, special rules for active financing income, the State
and local sales tax deduction, the deduction for out-of-pocket expenses
for teachers, and the deduction for qualified tuition expenses. In
addition, the bill provides almost $10 billion of additional tax relief
for individuals through an expansion of the refundable child tax credit
and a new standard deduction for property taxes. The bill would be
primarily offset by closing a tax loophole that allows individuals that
work for certain offshore corporations, such as hedge fund managers, to
defer tax on their compensation and would delay the effective date of a
tax benefit that has not yet taken effect for multinational corporations
operating overseas.
House Ways and Means Committee
1100 Longworth
05/15/2008 at 10:30AM
Live audio and video will be available at the start of the hearing, and
can be accessed at http://agriculture.house.gov/hearings/audio.html
The Committee on Agriculture seeks to make its facilities accessible to
persons with disabilities. If in need of special accommodations, please
call (202) 225-2171 at least four business days in advance of the event,
whenever practicable. Questions with regard to special accommodations in
general (including availability of Committee materials in alternative
formats and listening devices) may be directed to the Committee as noted
above.
House Agriculture Committee
General Farm Commodities and Risk Management Subcommittee
1300 Longworth
05/15/2008 at 10:00AM