Featured Senate hearings: Senate has hands full with financial reform, energy, intelligence reform

The Senate returns next week to a busy hearing schedule, including a series of hearings in the Senate Banking Committee to review the financial crisis and review the Wall Street reform bill. The latter hearing on Thursday will feature testimony from top-line financial regulators, including Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, Deputy Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin and several others.

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing Tuesday on new oil-and-gas technologies, as Republicans and Democrats continue to spar over how to lower the price of oil and gas. The Senate Finance Committee on Thursday holds its own hearing on rising energy prices.

Also on Thursday, the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee holds a hearing to assess how reforming U.S. intelligence services has improved in the 10 years since 9/11.

A list of featured full committee hearings to be held next week follows:

Senate Banking

May 10, "Reviewing the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission's Final Report," Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Chairman Phil Angelides testifies

10 a.m., 538 Dirksen Senate Office Building

May 12, "Oversight of Dodd-Frank Implementation: Monitoring Systemic Risk and Promoting Financial Stability," Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, Deputy Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin, FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair, SEC Chairwoman Mary Schapiro testify

10 a.m., 538 Dirksen Senate Office Building

May 12, "The Need for National Mortgage Servicing Standards"

2 p.m., 538 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation

May 11, "Manufacturing Our Way to a Stronger Economy"

2:30 p.m., 253 Russell Senate Office Building

May 12, "Economic Ramifications of Cyber Threats and Vulnerabilities to the Private Sector"

10 a.m., 253 Russell Senate Office Building

Senate Energy and Natural Resources

May 10, to hear testimony on new upstream oil and gas technologies

10 a.m., 366 Dirksen Senate Office Building

May 12, to hear testimony on carbon capture and sequestration legislation, S. 699 and S. 757

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

Senate Finance

May 10, "Perspectives on Deficit Reduction: Social Security"

10 a.m., 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building

May 11, "The U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement"

215 Dirksen Senate Office Building

May 12, "Oil and Gas Tax Incentives and Rising Energy Prices"

10 a.m., 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs

May 12, "Ten Years After 9/11: Is Intelligence Reform Working?"

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

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