Congressional Hearings – Week of 10-17-11

The House will be working at home this week with two pro-forma sessions; one on Tuesday and one on Friday; this leaves only the Senate to be holding real hearings (though the House Homeland Security Committee is holding a couple of Field Hearings). There is only one hearing on the Senate side that is of potential interest to the chemical security community and that deals with pipeline safety.

On Tuesday the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation will hold a hearing on “on the findings of the National Transportation Safety Board’s investigation into the San Bruno accident and pending pipeline safety legislation”. While the Committee web site doesn’t explain what legislation that they will be looking at, there are only three bills pending in the Senate; S 234, S 275, and S 1502; that deal with pipeline safety. S 275 has already been reported by the Committee and S 1502 deals with river leaks; so I expect that S 234 is the one that will looked at.