hearing of the week

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Lots of interesting hearings this week! but really...this week it is all about Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Follow the live stream on www.cnn.com or keep up with the #Sotomayor tweets!

hearing of the week

The Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009

Thursday, June 25, 2009
Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 226
10:00 a.m.

http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/hearing.cfm?id=3943

hearing of the week

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U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
holds a business meeting!

They will discuss amendments on the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act, the Chesapeake Bay Initiative Act, and the Great Lakes Legacy Act of 2002.

Should be a good show.
Thursday 6/18
9:30 am
Dirksen 406.

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"The Legal, Moral, and National Security Consequences
of 'Prolonged Detention'"

Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 10:00 a.m.
Room 226 Dirksen

Chairman Feingold presiding

"The Continued Importance of the Violence Against Women Act"
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 10:00 a.m.
Room 226 Dirksen
Guest starring: Gabrielle Union

the committee on the judiciary is where it's at this week. http://judiciary.senate.gov/

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Challenges and opportunities for US-China cooperation on climate change
thursday june 4
10 am
419 Dirksen Senate building

hearing of the week: gulf war illness research

Source: U.S. House of Representatives

House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Oversight Subcommittee
will have a hearing on Gulf War Illness Research

May 19 at 10 a.m.
334 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515

The hearing will include two panels of witness testimony
and the hearing will be available on webcast.

hearing of the week

thanks to matt from arts and lit for bringing this to my attention --

Playwright Lynn Nottage will be hanging out on Capitol Hill today performing a monologue from her Pulitzer Prize winning work "Ruined." She will discuss her research and writing process for “Ruined,” a play which centers on a 'group of women who survived sexual and physical violence and now work and live in a canteen and brothel not far from the battle lines of the Congo civil war. The characters were based on real refugees Ms. Nottage interviewed after they had escaped the armed conflict.'

Confronting rape and other forms of violence
against women in conflict zones
Spotlight: DRC and Sudan

2:30pm
Room 419 in Dirksen Senate Building
Show up with ID by 2:15!

Can't make it to Dirksen? Supposedly being live-broadcast from here.

source: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/women-of-ruined-to-speak-in-washington-about-rape/