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16 September 2007
Democratic Policy Committee - Sept 21, 2007
09/21/2007 13:25 Filed in: audio
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The Lack of Accountability in Private Security and Reconstruction Contracting in Iraq
Democratic Policy Committee - September 21, 2007
Witnesses: Panel 1
Kathryn Helvenston-Wettengel, Mother of Former Blackwater USA Employee
Jeremy Scahill, Investigative Reporter
Nick Bicanic, Documentary Filmmaker
Donald Vance, Former Private Security Contractor
Witnesses: Panel 2
Bunnatine Greenhouse, Former Top-Ranking Civilian Contracting Officer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Robert Isakson, Former Coalition Provisional Authority Contractor
Stephen Kohn, Executive Director, National Whistleblower Center
Alan Grayson, Attorney, Grayson & Kubli
Podcast, 47.6MB mp3
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Joint Economic Committee - Sept 19, 2007
09/19/2007 19:45 Filed in: audio
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Hearing to examine the evolution of an economic crisis, focusing on the subprime lending disaster and the threat to the broader economy.
Joint Economic Committee - September 19, 2007
press release
Witnesses:
Peter R. Orszag, Director, Congressional Budget Office
Robert J. Shiller, Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics, Yale University
Martin Eakes, Chief Executive Officer, Center for Responsible Lending
Alex J. Pollock, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Podcast, 41.3MB mp3 (note: charts & figures in artwork field)
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House Judiciary Committee - Sept 18, 2007
09/18/2007 17:32 Filed in: audio
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Hearing on Warrantless Surveillance and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: The Role of Checks and Balances in Protecting Americans’ Privacy Rights (Part II)
House Committee on the Judiciary - September 18, 2007
Witnesses:
Mike McConnell, Director of National Intelligence
Kenneth Wainstein, Assistant Attorney General for National Security US DOJ
part 1 - Podcast, 50.5MB mp3
part 2 - Podcast, 17.4MB mp3
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Congressional Hearings - Sept 17, 2007
09/16/2007 23:18 Filed in: weekly schedules
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It's a very busy week - lots of hearings in Congress. Here's my short list:
FISA:
Tuesday, 10 am - House Intelligence
Full Committee Hearing – FISA with Jim Dempsey, Jim Baker, and Kate Martin
Tuesday, 11 am - House Judiciary
Hearing on Warrantless Surveillance and the FISA: The Role of Checks and Balances in Protecting Americans’ Privacy Rights (Part II) with Mike McConnell and Kenneth Wainstein
Thursday, 9 am - House Intelligence
Full Committee Hearing – FISA with the DNI
Iraq:
Wedesday, 10:00 am - House Foreign Affairs
Assessment of the Administration's September Report on the Status of U.S. Political and Military Efforts in Iraq. Witnesses: Lindsey Graham and Richard C. Holbrooke
Corruption:
Thursday, 10 am - House Oversight and Government Reform
Hearing Assessing the State of Iraqi Corruption
Thursday, 11:30 am - House Armed Services
Preventing and Fighting Corruption in Contracting and Establishing and Maintaining Appropriate Controls on Materiel.
Economic:
Thursday, 10 am - House Financial Services
Legislative and Regulatory Options for Minimizing and Mitigating Mortgage Foreclosures
Human Rights:
Wednesday, 2:30 pm - Senate Judiciary
To examine the “material support to terrorist organizations” bar to admission to asylum and resettlement in the United States, focusing on the denial of refuge to the persecuted.
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It's a very busy week - lots of hearings in Congress. Here's my short list:
FISA:
Tuesday, 10 am - House Intelligence
Full Committee Hearing – FISA with Jim Dempsey, Jim Baker, and Kate Martin
Tuesday, 11 am - House Judiciary
Hearing on Warrantless Surveillance and the FISA: The Role of Checks and Balances in Protecting Americans’ Privacy Rights (Part II) with Mike McConnell and Kenneth Wainstein
Thursday, 9 am - House Intelligence
Full Committee Hearing – FISA with the DNI
Iraq:
Wedesday, 10:00 am - House Foreign Affairs
Assessment of the Administration's September Report on the Status of U.S. Political and Military Efforts in Iraq. Witnesses: Lindsey Graham and Richard C. Holbrooke
Corruption:
Thursday, 10 am - House Oversight and Government Reform
Hearing Assessing the State of Iraqi Corruption
Thursday, 11:30 am - House Armed Services
Preventing and Fighting Corruption in Contracting and Establishing and Maintaining Appropriate Controls on Materiel.
Economic:
Thursday, 10 am - House Financial Services
Legislative and Regulatory Options for Minimizing and Mitigating Mortgage Foreclosures
Human Rights:
Wednesday, 2:30 pm - Senate Judiciary
To examine the “material support to terrorist organizations” bar to admission to asylum and resettlement in the United States, focusing on the denial of refuge to the persecuted.
Please click the link to see the full list, the above is only a small sample, Read More...
