Hearings this week

[TayTay]

Big doings on Iran in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and hearings on the Budget of the US, the big, big, big bill that Pres Obama has submitted. Stay tuned, interesting things going on.

[TayTay]

1. Senate Finance, Wed March 4th, 10 AM The Budget

The President’s Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Proposal: Part One

March 4, 2009, at 10:00 a.m., in 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Member Statements:
Max Baucus, MT
Charles Grassley, IA


Witness Statements:

Timothy F. Geithner, Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, DC


http://finance.senate.gov/sitepages/hearings.htm

The Budget of the United States is not subject to filibuster rules and needs a simply majority to pass. And the budget framework or resolution has to pass first. Passing the budget itself will happen in the early summer.

BTW, the Repubs will try to work around not being able to filibuster the budget by filibustering the resolution raising the debt ceiling of the US. Hypocrite. That ceiling was raised about 5 times during the reign of Bush the Deceiver.

[YvonneCa]

4. This is good...

..."the reign of Bush the Deceiver." :7

[TayTay]

2. SFRC: Tuesday, March 3rd, 10 am Iran and Nukes and the US. Oh my!

IRANIAN POLITICAL
AND NUCLEAR REALITIES
AND U.S. POLICY OPTIONS
HEARING
before the

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE
ONE HUNDRED ELEVENTH CONGRESS
FIRST SESSION
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Time: 10:00 A.M.
Place: 419 Dirksen Senate Building
Presiding: Senator Kerry


Witnesses:
+The Honorable Frank G. Wisner, II
Former U.S. Ambassador to Zambia,
Egypt, the Philippines, and India
New York, NY

+The Honorable Richard N. Haass
President
Council on Foreign Relations
New York, NY

+Mr. Mark Fitzpatrick
Senior Fellow for Non-Proliferation
International Institute for Strategic Studies
London, United Kingdom

+Mr. Karim Sadjadpour
Associate
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Washington, DC

[TayTay]

3. SFRC, Thurs, March 5th 10AM Iran again, naturally.

U.S. STRATEGY REGARDING IRAN
HEARING
before the

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE
ONE HUNDRED ELEVENTH CONGRESS
FIRST SESSION
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Time: 10:30 A.M.
Place: 419 Dirksen Senate Building
Presiding: Senator Kerry


Witnesses:
+Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski
CSIS Counselor and Trustee
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Washington, DC

+General Brent Scowcroft, USAF (Ret.)
President
The Scowcroft Group
Washington, DC

I love Zbigniew. He really insulted Joe Scarborough last Dec and called him an ignorant moran. More people should do that.