Senate to hear from FAA nominee Huerta

The Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing next week to talk with Michael Huerta, the Obama administration's nominee to lead the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Huerta is now Acting FAA Administrator, and has served in that role since last December, when former Administrator Randy Babbitt resigned after he was charged with drunken driving. Babbitt was found driving on the wrong side of the road in Virginia.

Huerta has worked in the Department of Transportation under President Clinton, but has also worked with GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney on the 2002 Olympic Games in Utah. Huerta testifies on Thursday.

Details on that hearing and other key Senate hearings for the week follow:

Senate Commerce

June 21, hearing on the nomination of Michael Huerta to be administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration
10 a.m., 253 Russell Senate Office Building

Senate Energy & Natural Resources

June 19, "Induced Seismicity Potential in Energy Technologies"
10 a.m., 366 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Senate Finance

June 19, "Confronting the Looming Fiscal Crisis"
10 a.m., 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building

June 21, "Russia's WTO Accession — Administration's Views on the Implications for the United States"
10 a.m., 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Senate Foreign Relations

June 21, "Implementation of the New START Treaty, and Related Matters," National Nuclear Security Administration Administrator Thomas D'Agostino testifies
10 a.m., 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions

June 19, "Forty Years and Counting: The Triumphs of Title IX"
10 a.m., 430 Dirksen Senate Office Building

June 21, "Olmstead Enforcement Update: Using the ADA to Promote Community Integration"
10 a.m., 430 Dirksen Senate Office Building

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