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GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO TOYOTA RECALLS

3/2 - 10:00am, 253 Russell Senate Office Bldg. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee Full committee hearing on ?Toyota's Recalls and Government's Response.? Witnesses: Hon. Raymond LaHood, Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation; Hon. David Strickland, Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; Shinichi Sasaki, Executive Vice President, Toyota Motor Corporation; Yoshimi Inaba, President and Chief Executive Officer, Toyota Motor North America; Clarence Ditlow, Executive Director, Center for Auto Safety.

GLOBAL INTERNET FREEDOM AND THE RULE OF LAW

3/2 - 10:00am, 226 Dirksen Senate Office Bldg. Senate Judiciary Committee Human Rights and Law Subcommittee hearing on "Global Internet Freedom and the Rule of Law, Part II." Witnesses: Michael H. Posner, Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department of State; Daniel J. Weitzner, Associate Administrator for the Office of Policy Analysis and Development, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce; Nicole Wong, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Google; Louis Riley, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, McAfee; Rebecca MacKinnon, Visiting Fellow at the Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University.

EAST ASIA-PACIFIC REGIONAL OVERVIEW

3/3 - 2:30pm, 2172 Rayburn House Office Bldg. House Foreign Affairs Committee Asia, the Pacific and the Global Environment Subcommittee hearing on "Regional Overview of East Asia and the Pacific." Witness: Hon. Kurt M. Campbell, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State.

RESTORING AMERICA'S INTERNATIONAL REPUTATION

3/4 - 2:00pm, 2172 Rayburn House Office Bldg. House Foreign Affairs Committee International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight Subcommittee hearing on "Restoring America's Reputation in the World: Why it Matters." Witnesses: Andrew Kohut, President, Pew Research Center; Joseph Nye, Ph.D., University Distinguished Service Professor, Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; J. Michael Waller, Ph.D., Vice President for Information Operations, Center for Security Policy.

- Congressional Hearings This Week
Click on links to view hearing or read testimony. TSUNAMI GENERATED MARINE DEBRIS5/17 ? 10:30am, 253 Russell Senate Office Building. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard Subcommittee hearing...

- This Week In Washington
BREAKING NORTH KOREA'S PROVOCATION CYCLE3/1 - 10:00am, 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Full committee hearing on "Breaking the Cycle of North Korean Provocations." Witnesses: Assistant Secretary of State for...

- China's Currency
This week's big discussion in Washington is China?s currency. There will be two hearings held by the House Ways & Means Committee and one at the Senate Finance Committee. Prior to the hearings, the Heritage Foundation held a seminar examining...

- Hearings On The Hill
JAPAN'S RECENT SECURITY DEVELOPMENTS7/27 ? 10:00am, 2118 Rayburn House Office Bldg., House Armed Services Committee Full committee hearing on "Japan: Recent Security Developments." Witnesses: Kurt Campbell, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian...

- Congressional Hearing On Us-japan Relations
U.S.-JAPAN RELATIONS: ENDURING TIES, RECENT DEVELOPMENTS3/17 ? 2:30pm, 2172 Rayburn House Office Building. House Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and the Global Environment hearing on ?.? Witnesses: Mr. Joseph R. Donovan, Jr., Principal...

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