Nuclear Calendar: March 5 - 23 , 2007

March 5	Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte meets with South Korea officials. Seoul, South Korea
Week of March 5	Senate floor action continues on "Improving America's Security by Implementing Unfinished Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007," S. 4. Sen. Joe Biden (DE) is expected to offer a nuclear nonproliferation amendment to the bill. Broadcast and webcast on C-SPAN2.
Week of March 5	UN Security Council debates further sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program. United Nations. Webcast on the United Nations website.
March 5-6	North Korean Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Kim Kye-gwan meets with Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill. New York
March 5-9	International Atomic Energy Agency, board of governors meeting. Vienna, Austria. The nuclear programs of Iran and North Korea are on the agenda.
March 6	10:00 a.m., House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water, hearing on the Energy Department budget with Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman. 2362-B Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Not webcast.
March 6	10:00 a.m., House Budget Committee, hearing on the Defense Department budget with Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England. 210 Cannon House Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website.
March 6	2:00 p.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee, hearing on "The Iranian Challenge" with Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns. 2172 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website.
March 7	6:00-8:00 p.m., Harvard University, public forum on "U.S. and Iran: is Conflict Inevitable?" with Graham Allison, Vali Nasr, and Ray Takeyh, Harvard University; and David Ignatius, Washington Post. Harvard University, Belfer Center, 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA
March 7 or 8	Time TBA, House Appropriations Committee, markup of the supplemental appropriations bill. 2359 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website.
March 8	3:00 p.m., House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, hearing on the posture of the U.S. Strategic Command with Gen. James Cartwright, Commander, U.S. Strategic Command. 2118 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website.
March 9	12:30-2:00 p.m., Dafna Linzer, Washington Post, and Joe Cirincione, author of Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons and Center for American Progress, discussion of Bomb Scare. Center for American Progress, 1333 H St. N.W., 10th Floor, Washington. RSVP online.
March 9-12	Ecumenical Advocacy Days. Doubletree Hotel Crystal City, Arlington, VA (March 9-11) and Lutheran Church of the Reformation, Washington (March 12). Register online.
March 10	Region conference on Iraq's security. Baghdad, Iraq. U.S. and Iran may meet on the sidelines.
Week of March 12	House Budget Committee, markup of the budget resolution. 210 Cannon House Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website.
Week of March 12	Senate Budget Committee, markup of the budget resolution. 608 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. Webcast on the committee website and CapitolHearings.org.
Week of March 12	House of Representatives floor action on the supplemental appropriations bill. Broadcast and webcast on C-SPAN.
March 13-14	Mohamed ElBaradei, International Atomic Energy Agency director general, meets with North Korean officials on its nuclear program. Pyongyang, North Korea
March 14	12:40-7:00 p.m. local time, British parliament debates and votes on replacing the Trident nuclear missile system.
March 19	1:00-5:00 p.m., Energy Department, public meeting on the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership PEIS (Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement). Hotel Washington, 15th St. and Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington
March 19	Six-party talks on implementing the recent agreement on North Korea's nuclear program. Beijing
Week of March 19	Senate Appropriations Committee, markup of the supplemental appropriations bill
Week of March 19	House floor action on the budget resolution. Broadcast and webcast on C-SPAN.
Week of March 19	Senate floor action on the budget resolution. Broadcast and webcast on C-SPAN2.
March 19-23	Stanley Foundation, "Realistic Solutions for Resolving the Iranian Nuclear Crisis." Multiple cities TBA