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APPROPRIATIONS OVERSIGHT HEARING SCHEDULE FOR 3/6/06-3/10/06
 
March 6th, 2006 - -
All Hearings in 2359 Rayburn will be webcasted on the committee’s website
 
Agriculture
2362A Rayburn
Wednesday, 3/8/06
9:30 am                 Food and Safety Inspection Service
Witnesses:             Richard A. Raymond, Under Secretary for Food Safety; Barbara J. Masters, Administrator, Food Safety and Inspection Service
Thursday, 3/9/06
9:30 am                 Farm and Foreign Agricultural Service
Witnesses:             J. B. Penn, Under Secretary Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services; A. Ellen Terpstra, Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service, Teresa Lasseter; Administrator, Farm Service Agency, Eldon Gould, Administrator, Risk Management Agency
Defense
H-140, U.S. Capitol
Wednesday, 3/8/06
10 am                    Air Force Budget and Acquisition Overview (CLOSED)
Witnesses:             Michael Wynne, Secretary of the Air Force; General T. Michael Mosely, Chief of Staff
Thursday, 3/9/06
10:30 am               Army Budget and Acquisition Overview (CLOSED)
Witnesses:             Francis Harvey, Secretary of the Army; General Peter Schoonmaker, Chief of Staff; Claude Bolton, Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology)
Homeland Security
2360 Rayburn
Thursday, 3/9/06
2 pm                     United States Coast Guard
Witness:                Admiral Thomas H. Collins, Commandant
Energy and Water
2362B Rayburn
Wednesday, 3/8/06
10 am                    Department of Energy
Witness:                Secretary Samuel Bodman
2 pm                     Bureau of Reclamation
Witnesses:             Gale Norton, Secretary of Interior; John Keys, Commissioner of Reclamation
Thursday, 3/9/06
10 am                    DOE, Environmental Management
Witnesses:             James Rispoli, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management
Foreign Operations
2359 Rayburn
Thursday, 3/9/06
10:30 am               HIV/AIDS International Assistance Programs (Webcast)
Witness:                Dr. Mark Dybul, Deputy U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Chief Medical Officer, Department of State
Interior and Environment
B-308 Rayburn
Wednesday, 3/8/06
10 am                    Indian Health Service
Witness:                Dr. Charles Grimm, Administrator
Thursday, 3/9/06
10 am                    Forest Service
Witness:                Dale N. Bosworth, Chief, U.S. Forest Service
Labor-HHS
2358 Rayburn
Wednesday, 3/8/06
10:15 am               Department of Health and Human Services
Witnesses:             Secretary Michael Leavitt
Thursday, 3/9/06
9:30 am                 Department of Education
Witness:                Secretary Margaret Spellings
Legislative Branch (Full Committee)
Friday, 3/10/06
10 am                    Government Printing Office (GPO), Library of Congress, Open World Leadership Center, Government Accountability Office (GAO), Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Witnesses:             Bruce James, Public Printer, GPO; James Billington, Librarian of Congress; David Walker, Comptroller General, GAO; Donald Marron, Acting Director, CBO
Military Quality of Life
H-143, U.S. Capitol
Tuesday, 3/7/06
1:30 pm                 Air Force Budget
Witness:                General Michael T. Moseley, Chief of Staff
Wednesday, 3/8/06
10 am                    Navy/Marine Corps Budget
Witnesses:             Admiral Michael G. Mullen, Chief of Naval Operations and General Michael W. Hagee, Commandant of the Marine Corps
1:30 pm                 Pacific Command
Witnesses:             Admiral Thomas B. Fargo, Commander, U.S. Pacific Command and General B.B. Bell, Commander, Republic of Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command, and Commander, U.S. Forces Korea
Thursday, 3/9/06
9:30 am                 Veterans Administration and Defense Health Program Information Technology
Witnesses:             Robert N. McFarland, Assistant Secretary for Information Technology, Department of Veterans Affairs and Carl Hendricks, Chief Information Officer, Department of Defense Military Health System
Science-State-Justice
H-309, U.S. Capitol
Wednesday, 3/8/06
1 pm                     National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration
Witness:                Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Administrator
Thursday, 3/9/06
2359 Rayburn
2 pm                    Department of State (Webcast)
Witness:                Secretary Condoleezza Rice
Transportation-Treasury-Housing and Urban Development
2359 Rayburn
Tuesday, 3/7/06
9:30 am                 Department of Transportation (Webcast)
Witness:      Secretary Norman Mineta
 
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