• On Tuesday, March 20, the full committee will meet to consider the nomination of Stephen Jeffery Isakowitz to be chief financial officer of the Department of Energy.  Dirksen 366, 10:00 a.m.

• On Tuesday, March 20, the Subcommittee on National Parks will meet to consider testimony on several bills:  S. 126, to modify the boundary of Mesa Verde National Park; S. 257, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of establishing the Columbia-Pacific National Heritage Area in the states of Washington and Oregon; S. 289, to establish the Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area; S. 443, to establish the Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area in the State of Colorado; S. 444, to establish the South Park National Heritage Area in the State of Colorado; S. 500 and H.R. 512,  to establish the Commission to Study the Potential Creation of the National Museum of the American Latino, to develop a plan of action for the establishment and maintenance of a National Museum of the American Latino in Washington, D.C.; S. 637, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of establishing the Chattahoochee Trace National Heritage Corridor in Alabama and Georgia; S. 817, to amend the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to provide additional authorizations for certain National Heritage Areas; and S. Con. Res. 6, expressing the sense of Congress that the National Museum of Wildlife Art, located in Jackson, Wyo., should be designated as the “National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States.”   Dirksen 366, 2:30 p.m.

• On Thursday, March 22, the full committee will meet to review the findings and recommendations of a new study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on “The Future of Coal – Options for a Carbon-Constrained World.”  The hearing will focus on major topics addressed in the report: the role of coal in energy growth and CO₂ emissions; coal-based electricity generation; geological carbon sequestration; coal use in China and India; analysis, research, development and demonstration; and public attitudes toward energy, global warming and carbon taxes.  Witnesses are Professor John Deutch, Department of Chemistry, MIT; Professor Ernest Moniz, Department of Physics, MIT; Dave Hawkins, National Resources Defense Council; and Bryan Hannegan, Electric Power Research Institute.  Dirksen 366, 2:30 p.m.

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