Today At TRNS

Our Washington, D. C. Bureau will covering the following events:

-Discussion on “Resolving the Honduras Crisis: Options and Actions.”
-Speaker Pelosi weekly news conference
-Full committee hearing on “The Rise of the Mexican Drug Cartels and U.S. National Security.”

-Full committee hearing on H.R.3068, the “TARP (Troubled Assets Relief Program) for Main St. Act of 2009.”
-Full committee hearing on “Commercial Real Estate: Do Rising Defaults Pose Systemic Threat?”

-The Congressional Healthcare Caucus: Event with remarks by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., on the “Patients’ Choice Act.”
-The Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee Staff led roundtable discussion on “Healthcare Reform: The Concerns and Priorities from the Perspective of Small Businesses.”
-Clean Air and Nuclear Safety Subcommittee hearing on “Oversight: EPA’s Clean Air Regulations – One Year after the CAIR (Clean Air Interstate Rule) and CAMR (Clean Air Mercury Role) Federal Court Decisions.”
-Discussion on “North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and
Afghanistan: Equitable Burden Sharing.”

-Conference call with House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) to respond to Vice President Biden’s “stimulus progress report” in Cincinnati, Ohio.
-Domestic Monetary Policy Subcommittee hearing on “Regulatory Restructuring: Balancing the Independence of the Federal Reserve in Monetary Policy with Systemic Risk Regulation.”

-Conference call: Voting Rights Groups Sue to Force States to Register Low-Income Voters
Suits filed against Indiana and New Mexico for violating the National
Voter Registration Act.