DHS chief Napolitano to testify before Senate committee next week

In other defense-related hearings, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz will defend the president’s budget request for the Air Force before the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Gen. John R. Allen, commander of International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, will give the committee an update on the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan. 

In Senate committees next week:

{mosads}Armed Services

Tuesday, “Hearings to examine the Department of the Air Force in review of the Defense Authorization request for fiscal year 2013 and the Future Years Defense Program; with the possibility of a closed session in SVC-217 following the open session”

9:30 a.m., G50 Dirksen Senate Office Building   

Key witness:

Gen. Norton Schwartz, chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

Wednesday, “Hearings to examine retooling government for the 21st century, focusing on the President’s reorganization plan and reducing duplication”

10 a.m., 342 Dirksen Senate Office Building        

Judiciary

Mar. 21, “Hearings to examine convicting the guilty and exonerating the innocent”

10 a.m., 226 Dirksen Senate Office Building        

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

Mar. 21, “Hearings to examine the President’s proposed budget request for fiscal year 2013 for the Department of Homeland Security”

2:30 p.m., 342 Dirksen Senate Office Building 

Key witness: 

Janet A. Napolitano, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Armed Services

Mar. 22, “Hearings to examine the situation in Afghanistan; with the possibility of a closed session in SVC-217 following the open session”

9:30 a.m., G50 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Key witness: John R. Allen, commander of the International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces Afghanistan

Environment and Public Works

Mar. 22, “Hearings to examine the President’s proposed budget request for fiscal year 2013 for the Environmental Protection Agency”

10 a.m., 406 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

Mar. 22, “Hearings to examine stay-at-work and back-to-work strategies, focusing on lessons from the private sector”

10 a.m.,430 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Small Business and Entrepreneurship

Mar. 22, “Hearings to examine small business investment companies and their role in the entrepreneurship ecosystem”

10 a.m., 428A Russell Senate Office Building    

Indian Affairs

Mar. 22, “Hearings to examine S.1684, to amend the Indian Tribal Energy Development and Self-Determination Act of 2005, S.1898, to provide for the conveyance of certain property from the United States to the Maniilaq Association located in Kotzebue, Alaska, and H.R.1560, to amend the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama and Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas Restoration Act to allow the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Tribe to determine blood quantum requirement for membership in that tribe”

2:15 p.m., 628 Dirksen Senate Office Building