Today At TRNS

The Washington D.C Bureau will also be covering the following:
- House ways and Means Committee hearing on “Health Reform in the 21st Century: Proposals to Reform the Health System.”
- Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on “Type 1 Diabetes Research: Real Progress and Real Hope for a Cure.”
- News conference on “Why a Robust Public Plan Option Like Medicare is Essential to Effective Health Care Reform for All Americans.”
News conference to urge preservation of the Dornan Amendment, legislation to maintain restrictions on taxpayer funding for abortion in the District of Columbia.
- News conference on the “Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade.”
- Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on “Iran at a Crossroads?”
- Cato Institute policy forum on “Bringing TRansparency t the Federal Reserve
- Congressional Oversight Panel of the Troubled Asset relief Program hearing with Testimony by Assistant Treasure Secretary for Financial Stability Herbert Allison Jr.
- Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the nominations of Capricia Marshall to be chief of protocol at the State Department; and Daniel Rooney to be ambassador to Ireland.
- House Energy and Commerce Committee Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection Subcommittee and Communications, Technology and the Internet Subcommittee and House Foreign Affairs Committee Africa and Global Health Subcommittee joint hearing on “U.S.-Africa Trade Relations: Creating a Platform for Economic Growth.”