America Weakly :: Washington Daybook

September 7, 2007

Major Events

House Speaker Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Reid, House Majority Leader Murtha headline a press conference to discuss the Democrat Majority’s accomplishments blocking President Bush’s security agenda. Senate Triangle, 10:00 a.m.

Today’s Investigations:

9:00 a.m. – Day two of House Judiciary Committee Hearings on Presidential Impeachment. Testimony on President Bush’s Saudi connections is expected.

2:00 p.m. – House Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman continues his “12 Investigations in 12 Months” tour with the 9^th hearing, “Secrecy And Deception: Did Karl Rove Secretly Hide al-Zarqawi and Saddam Hussein for Political Gain?”

Committee Hearings:

9:00 a.m. – The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee markup of Chairman Ted Kennedy’s legislation entitled, “Leave Education For Teachers” or LEFT ACT of 2007. The legislation calls for “The complete repeal of unfair and unreachable standards for student achievement in No Child Left Behind.”

10:30a.m. – House Ways and Means Committee hearing entitled, “Undoing Tax Cuts.”

2:00 p.m. – House Government Reform Committee hearing entitled, “Keeping the Country as Safe as the Capital: Expanding the DC Gun Ban to the States.”

4:00 p.m. – Democrat moneyman George Soros testifies before the Senate Commerce Committee on the art of international investment.

5:00 p.m. – Small Business Committee Chairman John Kerry explores how more government investment and oversight – and less wasteful tax cuts – will help small businesses thrive.

Member Events:

1:00 p.m. – Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) appear with former University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill for a roundtable discussion with students entitled, “Who’s the Terrorist?”

1:30 p.m. – Senator Hillary Clinton speaks to the American Medical Association on “The Healthcare that America Deserves: Rethinking Our Aversion to Single-Payer Systems.”

4:00 p.m. – The French Ambassador and Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Joe Biden hold a joint press conference on “Mistakes Made in 2003; Why the U.S. Should Have Listened to the World.”

Off-the-Hill Events

10:00 a.m. – The Brookings Institute holds a seminar entitled, “Whose Congress is It After All: Competing Agendas in the Democrat Majority.”

10:00 a.m. – The Progressive Institute holds a seminar entitled, “It’s Our Congress: How to Continue Shaping a Progressive Agenda for the Democrat Majority.”

10:00 a.m. – The Blue-Dog Coalition holds a seminar entitled, “It’s Our Congress, Too: How to Work for a Moderate Agenda for the Democrat Majority.”

2:00 p.m. – MoveOn.org holds a press conference to release its report “Two Impeachments, One New America: How Nancy Pelosi Can Be in the White House in 90 Days.”

4:00 p.m. – ACLU holds a symposium: “A Government Without God: How Democrats Are Taking Action to Enforce the First Amendment.”

Political Events:

7:00 p.m. – Democrat National Committee Chairman Howard Dean holds a seminar at Yale entitled, “Dragging Democrats to Victory: How the 50-State Strategy Delivered Congress.”