A busy week on and around the Hill. The Senate is wasting no time and will begin picking apart the House's version of the telecom bill on Tuesday. Other events touch RFID, Health IT, and those pesky patent trolls...
Monday 6/12
12:00 PM - Briefing on port security and cargo screening technologies. - Participants: Sen. Lincoln Chafee, R-R.I. Elaine Dezenski, former assistant secretary for policy, Homeland Security Department; David Schanzer, director of the Center for Homeland Security Studies, Duke University; Ray Shepherd, staff director and chief counsel for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations; Peter Kant, vice president of government affairs, Rapiscan Systems. Location: 188 Russell Senate Office Building.
Tuesday 6/13
10:00 AM - Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee - Full committee hearing on a revised substitute version of S.2686, the "Communications, Consumer's Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006." Location: 216 Hart Senate Office Building.
2:00 PM - House Government Reform Committee - Federal Workforce and Agency Organization Subcommittee hearing on "Healthier Feds and Families: Introducing Information Technology into the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, a Legislative Hearing on H.R.4859, Part II." Witnesses: TBA. Location: 2154 Rayburn House Office Building.
3:00 PM - House Judiciary Committee - Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee hearing on "State Taxation of Interstate Telecommunications Services." Witnesses: TBA. Location: 2141 Rayburn House Office Building.
Wednesday 6/14
9:30 AM - Senate Judiciary Committee - Full committee hearing on "Reconsidering Our Communications Laws: Ensuring Competition and Innovation." Witnesses: TBA Location: 226 Dirksen Senate Office Building.
2:00 PM - House Energy and Commerce Committee - Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection Subcommittee hearing on "Violent and Explicit Video Games: Informing Parents and Protecting Children."
Witnesses: TBA. Location: 2322 Rayburn House Office Building.
2:00 PM - House Veterans' Affairs Committee - Full committee hearing on the Veterans Affairs Department's cyber security. Witnesses: TBA. Location: 334 Cannon House Office Building.
Thursday 6/15
9:00 AM - House Judiciary Committee - Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property Subcommittee hearing on "Patent Trolls: Fact or Fiction?" The phrase "patent troll" is used to refer to any company that attempts to license and enforce patents, but does not itself perform research or produce products. Witnesses: TBA. Location: 2141 Rayburn House Office Building.
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