Nuclear Calendar

FCNL Nuclear Calendar

Nuclear Calendar Jan. 5-19 Senate recess Jan. 5-23 House of Representatives recess Jan. 18 9 a.m., Senate Foreign Relations Committee, hearing on the nomination of Condoleeza Rice to be Secretary of State. 216 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington. Broadcast and webcast on C-SPAN or C-SPAN2, and webcast on CapitolHearings.org. Jan. 19 9 a.m., Senate Foreign Relations Committee, continued hearing on the nomination of Condoleeza Rice to be Secretary of State, followed by a confirmation vote. 216 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington. Broadcast and webcast on C-SPAN or C-SPAN2, and webcast on CapitolHearings.org. Jan. 19 2:30 p.m., Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, hearing on the nomination of Samuel Bodman to be Energy Secretary. 366 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Possibly broadcast and webcast on one of the C-SPAN channels. Webcast on CapitolHearings.org. Jan. 19 Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima, addresses the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament on the Mayors for Peace Campaign and the NPT Review Conference. Brussels, Belgium Jan. 20 Inauguration Day (federal holiday in Washington) Jan. 20 3 p.m., Senate floor vote on the nomination of Condoleezza Rice to be Secretary of State (tentative). Broadcast and webcast on C-SPAN2. Jan. 24-April 1 Conference on Disarmament, first session. Geneva Jan. 26 9:30 a.m., Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, confirmation vote on Samuel Bodman to be Energy Secretary. 366 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on CapitolHearings.org. Jan. 27 2-4 p.m., Grigorii Pasko, former Russian naval captain, "Prospects for Russian Nuclear-Powered Submarine Dismantlement: A Discussion of Current Progress and Challenges." Global Green USA, 1717 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Suite 600. RSVP by Jan. 24 to Janina de Guzman at jdeguzman@globalgreen.org or (202) 222-0700. Jan. 28 Noon-1:30 p.m., Michael Nacht, University of California at Berkeley, "U.S. Counterproliferation Policy." Woodrow Wilson Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Fifth Floor Conference Room, Washington. RSVP to dis@wwic.si.edu. Jan. 31 President reports to Congress on a plan to coordinate and integrate nonproliferation activities (22 U.S. Code Sec. 5952 note). (Annual report. The report for 2004 was due Jan. 31, 2004 and is overdue.) Jan. 31 National Nuclear Security Administration reports to Congress on the requirements for the Modern Pit Facility (Public Law 108-375, Sec. 3111). Jan. 31-Feb. 2 Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission meeting. Cairo, Egypt Jan. 31-Feb. 4 International Atomic Energy Agency, Forum on Experience of Possible Relevance to the Creation of a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone (NWFZ) in the Middle East. Vienna, Austria Feb. 2 2:30-4 p.m., Pavel Podvig, "Russian Perspectives on the Bush Administration's Military Space Policies and Programs." Stimson Center, 11 Dupont Circle, N.W., Ninth Floor, Washington. RSVP to Michael Katz-Hyman at mkatzhyman@stimson.org or (202) 223-5956, ext. 3472. Feb. 2 9 p.m. EST, President Bush delivers the State of the Union address to Congress. Feb. 3 9:30-11:30 a.m., Arms Control Association, "Fulfilling the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty's Promise" with Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control Stephen Rademaker; Roberto Abdenur, Brazilian Ambassador to the United States; Joseph Cirincione, Carnegie Endowment; and Daryl Kimball, Arms Control Association. At the Carnegie Endowment, 1779 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington. RSVP by Jan. 26 online. Feb. 3 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m., Rep. David Hobson (OH), "U.S. Nuclear Security in the 21st Century." Sponsored by the Arms Control Association. At the Carnegie Endowment, 1779 Massachusetts Ave. N.W., Washington. RSVP by Jan. 26 online. Feb. 7 President submits the federal budget to Congress Feb. 7 Central Intelligence Agency reports to Congress on the number of Russian strategic nuclear warheads dismantled under the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT), or "Moscow Treaty" (Public Law 108-136, Sec. 1033). (Annual report. The report for 2004 was due Feb. 2, 2004 and is overdue.)

The Nuclear Calendar is published every Monday morning when Congress is in session. Subscribe on FCNL's web site, or send an email to nuclearcalendar-subscribe@fcnl.org with "subscribe NuclearCalendar" (without the quotation marks) in the message body. Unsubscribe on FCNL's web site, or send an email to nuclearcalendar-unsubscribe@fcnl.org with "unsubscribe NuclearCalendar" (without the quotation marks) in the message body. Published by the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) and the FCNL Education Fund. Address: 245 Second Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002-5795. Phone: (202) 547-6000. Fax: (202) 547-6019. E-mail: fcnl@fcnl.org. Web site: http://www.fcnl.org. The editor is David Culp. The publication is made possible by generous contributions from the Colombe Foundation, the Compton Foundation, the Educational Foundation of America, the Steven and Michele Kirsch Foundation, the Ploughshares Fund, the Lydia B. Stokes Foundation, the Town Creek Foundation, and the individual contributors and supporters of the Friends Committee on National Legislation and the FCNL Education Fund. We encourage readers to copy and distribute the Nuclear Calendar. When doing so, please include the following credit: "Reprinted from the Nuclear Calendar, published by the Friends Committee on National Legislation and the FCNL Education Fund."