Congressional Hearings Week of 9-28-09

There are currently two congressional hearings that slated for this week that might be of interest to the chemical security community. One hearing looks at the evolution of counterterrorism efforts while the other looks at new regulations for security measures. HR 2868/HR 3258 The House Energy and Commerce Committee web site lists the sub-committee hearing that will be looking and both HR 2868 and HR 3258, the two chemical security bills that are being looked at to replace the current CFATS program. This hearing has been some time in coming (and may yet be canceled again). There is no information on the web site indicating who will be appearing as witnesses, so I’ll stand on my previous guesses. The hearing is currently scheduled for October 1st at 10:00 am EDT. Confronting the Terrorist Threat The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will be holding a hearing on September 30th at 10:00 am EDT. Secretary Napolitano (DHS), Director Mueller (FBI), and Director Leiter (NCC) have been asked to address “Eight Years After 9/11: Confronting the Terrorist Threat to the Homeland”. This hearing might be particularly interesting after last week when three separate potential terror attacks on the United States were publicly foiled. We might hear some additional details that have not been completely digested in the news.