Constitutional Law

Selected Congressional Hearings: Week of 1/28/08

Here is a comprehensive list of House and Senate hearings. The following links are to the daily calendars for the House and Senate. Here is the weekly House whip information (majority/minority) and the Senate floor schedule. Below the fold is a short list of Congressional hearings.

On Monday, the President will give the State of the Union address, and the Senate will examine the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance bill. On Thursday, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs will focus on foreclosure and neighborhood preservation, and the Senate Committee on Judiciary will consider adjustments to federal judicial salaries, media coverage of Federal court proceedings, and several nominees for Department of Justice positions.

Monday, Jan. 28, 2008

The Senate will resume consideration of S. 2248, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance bill.

The President will give the State of the Union address in the House of Representatives.

Wednesday Jan. 30, 2008

The Senate Committee on the Judiciary will conduct oversight hearings of the Department of Justice.

Thursday Jan. 31, 2008

The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs will hold hearings on foreclosure and neighborhood preservation.

The Senate Committee on the Judiciary will hold a business meeting to consider S. 1638, to adjust the salaries of Federal justices and judges, S. 352, to provide for media coverage of Federal court proceedings, S. 2450, to amend the Federal Rules of Evidence to address the waiver of the attorney-client privilege and the work product doctrine, S. 2304, to amend title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide grants for the improved mental health treatment and services provided to offenders with mental illnesses, and the nominations of Mark R. Filip, of Illinois, to be Deputy Attorney General, Ondray T. Harris, of Virginia, to be Director, Community Relations Service, and David W. Hagy, of Texas, to be Director of the National Institute of Justice, Department of Justice.

Full post as published by ACS Blog on January 28, 2008 (boomark / email).