Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee On National Legislation

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June 13 International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Vienna, Austria. The reappointment of Mohamed ElBaradei as director general is on the agenda.

Week of June 13 Senate floor vote on the nomination of John Bolton to be UN ambassador (possible). Broadcast and webcast on C-SPAN2.

June 13-24 Biological Weapons Convention meeting of experts. Geneva.

June 14 9:30 a.m., Senate Foreign Relations Committee, hearing on "North Korea: An Update on Six-Party Talks and Matters Related to the Resolution of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis" with Christopher Hill, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and Joseph DeTrani, Special Envoy for Six-Party Talks. 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on CapitolHearings.org.

June 14 2 p.m., House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations, hearing on "Elusive Antidotes: Progress Developing Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Countermeasures" with six witnesses. 2154 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee web site.

June 14 2:30 p.m., Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water, markup of the energy and water appropriations bill, H.R. 2419, which include the nuclear weapons programs of the Energy Department. 138 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on CapitolHearings.org.

June 14 Senate begins two weeks of floor action on the Energy Policy Act of 2005, S. 10. The bill does not contain funding for nuclear weapons, but there are nonproliferation issues in the bill. Broadcast and webcast on C-SPAN2.

June 15 9:30 a.m., Senate Foreign Relations Committee, hearing on the nomination of Gregory Schulte to be ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency. 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on CapitolHearings.org.

June 15 House floor action on the defense appropriations bill, H.R. 2863. Broadcast and webcast on C-SPAN.

June 16 8-9 a.m., Rear Adm. Charles Young, Director, Navy Strategic Systems Programs, "Navy Contributions to Strategic Deterrence." Part of the National Defense University Foundation Congressional Breakfast Seminar series. Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., S.E., Washington. RSVP to Elma Rhue at [email protected].

June 16 9 a.m., House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, markup of foreign operations appropriations bill. 2359 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington.

June 16 10 a.m., House Science Subcommittee on Energy, hearing on nuclear fuel reprocessing with Shane Johnson, Energy Department; Roger Hagengruber, University of New Mexico; Philip Finck, Argonne National Laboratory; and Matthew Bunn, Harvard University. 2318 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee web site.

June 16 2 p.m., Senate Appropriations Committee, markup of the energy and water appropriations bill, H.R. 2419, which include the nuclear weapons programs of the Energy Department. 106 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on CapitolHearings.org.

June 17 Iranian presidential election.

June 21-24 South Korea and North Korea hold cabinet-level talks. Seoul, South Korea.

June 23 8-9 a.m., Rep. John Hostettler (R-IN), "Missile Defense Perspectives." Part of the National Defense University Foundation Congressional Breakfast Seminar series. Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., S.E., Washington. RSVP to Elma Rhue at [email protected].

June 27 9:30-11:30 a.m., 9/11 Public Discourse Project, "Terrorism and WMD." Woodrow Wilson Center, Sixth Floor Auditorium, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington. (The 9/11 Public Discourse Project is the nonprofit organization founded by the former 9/11 Commissioners.

Week of June 27 Democratic Leadership’s National Security Advisory Group, lead by former Defense Secretary William Perry, releases a review of the Bush administration's policy on WMD (estimate)

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