PRESIDENT BUSH
At the Bush ranch in Crawford, Texas.
ECONOMIC REPORTS
8:30 a.m. — Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the producer price indexes for July. Location: 200 Constitution Ave. NW. Contact: 202/606-5902.
8:30 a.m. — Bureau of the Census and Bureau of Economic Analysis release the U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services for June. Location: 1401 Constitution Ave. NW. Contact: 202/482-2235.
FEDERAL AGENCIES
9 a.m. — Energy Department holds a meeting of the Office of Science, DOE/Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee. Location: American Geophysical Union, 2000 Florida Ave. NW. Contact: 301/903-7486.
10 a.m. — Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services holds a meeting of the Interagency Committee on Disability Research. Location: Holiday Inn on the Hill, 415 New Jersey Ave. NW. Contact: 202/245-7630.
SUPREME COURT
No oral arguments are scheduled. Contact: 202/479-3211.
SENATE
Not in session. Contact: Republican Cloakroom, 202/224-8601, or Democratic Cloakroom, 202/224-8541.
SENATE COMMITTEES
9:30 a.m. — Energy and Natural Resources Committee holds a field hearing on the Bureau of Reclamation’s implementation of the Rural Water Supply Act of 2006. David Sabo, assistant director of the Upper Colorado Region for the Bureau of Reclamation, and David Lansford and Orlando Ortega of the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water Authority testify. Location: Clovis-Carver Library, North Annex, 701 North Main St. Clovis, N.M. Contact: 202/224-4971.
11 a.m. — Environment and Public Works Committee holds a field hearing on “Green Job Growth and Global Warming.” Barry Cinnamon, chief executive officer of Akeena Solar, and Michael Hanemann, chancellor’s professor in the Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of California at Berkeley, testify. Location: Santa Clara County Building, 70 West Hedding St, first floor, Isaac Newton Senter Auditorium, San Jose, Calif. Contact: 202/224-8832.
HOUSE
Not in session. Contact: Republican Cloakroom, 202/225-2020, or Democratic Cloakroom, 202/225-1600.
GENERAL AGENDA
NASA research — all day — The National Academies’ Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences holds a meeting of the Committee for the Assessment of NASA’s Aeronautics Research Program. Events begin at 8 a.m.
Highlights — 8:15 a.m. — Carl Meade and Don Richardson, co-chairmen of the committee, deliver remarks.
8:30 a.m. — Steven Miley of the NASA Office of Infrastructure & Administration delivers remarks (via teleconference).
9:30 a.m. — Closed session
Location: National Academies’ Keck Center, 500 Fifth St. NW. Contact: 202/334-3827.
NAFTA hearing — 9 a.m. — The International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes administers a North American Free Trade Agreement tribunal in the case, Glamis Gold Ltd. v. United States of America. Glamis Gold, a publicly held Canadian precious-metals mining corporation, filed a $50 million claim against the United States for profits it says it lost as a result of the environmental actions taken by the state of California and the federal government. Location: 600 H St. NW, Room H1-200. Contact: 202/458-1534.
Social Security crossroads — 10 a.m. — The 60 Plus Association holds a forum titled, “Social Security at a Crossroads.” Nancy Altman, lawyer and author of “The Battle for Social Security: From FDR’s Vision to Bush’s Gamble”, participates. Location: National Press Club, 14th and F streets Northwest, Murrow Room. Contact: 703/806-2070.
God’s image — 10 a.m. — The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (WWC) holds a discussion on “In the Image of God: Missionaries and the Mapping of Angolan Politics.” Kate Burlingham, candidate in the History Department at Rutgers University, and Paul Hare, executive director of the U.S.-Angola Chamber of Commerce, participate. Location: WWC, One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Contact: 202/691-4000.
Book discussion — 11 a.m. — The Heritage Foundation holds a book discussion on “Sabotage: America’s Enemies Within the CIA.” Author Rowan Scarborough and John Edward Hilboldt, director of lectures and seminars at the Heritage Foundation, participate. Location: Heritage Foundation, 214 Massachusetts Ave. NE, Lehrman Auditorium. Contact: 202/675-1752.
Book forum — noon — The Cato Institute holds a book forum on “Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don’t.” Author John Lott Jr., senior research scientist at the University of Maryland, and Jared Bernstein, director of the Living Standards Program at the Economic Policy Institute, participate. Location: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Ave. NW, F.A. Hayek Auditorium. Contact: 202/789-5200.
• Compiled by FIND/AFP and The Washington Times
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