House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan issued the following statement after the Budget Control Act of 2011 passed the House of Representatives:
“The Budget Control Act represents a victory for those committed to controlling government spending and growing our economy. I applaud Speaker Boehner’s leadership in stopping tax increases on job creators, rejecting President Obama’s demands for a blank check to keep borrowing, and advancing real spending cuts and controls. The agreement – while far from perfect – underscores the extent to which the new House majority has successfully changed Washington’s culture of spending. No longer can Washington endlessly spend money it does not have.
“While the immediate debt ceiling issue has been responsibly resolved, a spending-driven debt crisis remains a threat. To lift this crushing burden of debt and help spur job creation, policymakers must advance serious structural reforms to the largest driver of our debt: government spending on health care, including the President’s costly, partisan health-care overhaul.
“The Budget Control Act marks a positive step forward in getting government spending control, but much hard work remains.”
POSTPONED: Full Committee Mark Up – FY 2012 State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Appropriations Bill Wednesday, August 3, 2011 10:00 AM in 2359 Rayburn
State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs
The State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Full Committee Meeting scheduled for Wednesday, August 3, 2011, has been POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
To consider: State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Bill, FY 2012
Helping Small Businesses Compete: Challenges Within Programs Designed to Assist Small Contractors POSTPONED
This hearing has been postponed. The new date remains TBD. On Thursday, August 4 at 10:00 am, the House Small Business Committee Subcommittee on Contracting and Workforce will hold a hearing entitled Helping Small Businesses Compete: Challenges Within Programs Designed to Assist Small Contractors. The hearing will take place in Room 2360 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
This hearing will review three recent reports by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). These reports are (1) GAO-11-548R, Mentor-Protégé Programs Have Policies That Aim to Benefit Participants but Do Not Require Postagreement Tracking; (2) GAO-11-549R, Improvements Needed to Help Ensure Reliability of SBA’s Performance Data on Procurement Center Representatives; and (3) GAO-11-418, Small Business Contracting: Action Needed by Those Agencies Whose Advocates Do Not Report to Agency Heads as Required.
United States Senate
Daily Digest Committee Meetings/Hearings Schedule
This document provides a brief description of each committee meeting and hearing scheduled to take place today, and on days thereafter. The time and location of each meeting/hearing is identified. Meetings that have been canceled or postponed are also noted.
Hearings to examine S.1024, to designate the Organ Mountains and other public land as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System and the National Landscape Conservation System in the State of New Mexico, S.1090, to designate as wilderness certain public land in the Cherokee National Forest in the State of Tennessee, S.1144, to amend the Soda Ash Royalty Reduction Act of 2006 to extend the reduced royalty rate for soda ash, S.1149, to expand geothermal production, and S.1344, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to take immediate action to recover ecologically and economically from a catastrophic wildfire in the State of Arizona.
Business meeting to consider S.657, to encourage, enhance, and integrate Blue Alert plans throughout the United States in order to disseminate information when a law enforcement officer is seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and the nominations of Morgan Christen, of Alaska, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Scott Wesley Skavdahl, to be United States District Judge for the District of Wyoming, Sharon L. Gleason, to be United States District Judge for the District of Alaska, Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of California, and Richard G. Andrews, to be United States District Judge for the District of Delaware.
Hearings to examine the nominations of Michael W. Punke, of Montana, to be a Deputy United States Trade Representative, Executive Office of the President, with the Rank of Ambassador, Paul Piquado, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce, and David S. Johanson, of Texas, to be a Member of the United States International Trade Commission.
Business meeting to consider S.958, to amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the program of payments to children’s hospitals that operate graduate medical education programs, S.1094, to reauthorize the Combating Autism Act of 2006 (Public Law 109-416), and any pending nominations.
SD-106
Wednesday, Sep. 21, 2011
2:00 pm
Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights
Hearings to examine Google, focusing on consumers and competition.
