Congressional Hearings Week of 04-27-09

Not much on the schedule this week for hearings related to chemical security issues. As of this morning the House Homeland Security Committee website does not list a hearing schedule though there are three hearings reported in Friday’s Congressional Record Daily Digest. Wednesday the whole committee will receive a briefing on the TWIC. Two subcommittee hearings are scheduled that touch close to chemical security issues, combating violence on the US-Mexico border and interoperable emergency communications. The Senate Homeland Security and Government Operations Committee will be holding a hearing on cyber security measures, but there are no indications yet that it will look at the control systems issues. The 900-lb gorilla in the weekend’s news, the ‘swine flu emergency’, has not yet had a chance to make it into the committee schedules. I would be surprised if anyone is looking far enough ahead on this issue to look at security affects, but we can always hope.