Daybook

PRESIDENT BUSH

Meets with the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at Camp David.

ECONOMIC REPORTS

11 a.m. — Treasury Department releases results of weekly four-week T-bill auctions. Location: 1500 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Contact: 202/874-9890.

4 p.m. — Energy Information Administration releases its weekly on-highway diesel prices report. Location: 1000 Independence Ave. SW. Contact: 202/586-8800.

FEDERAL AGENCIES

8 a.m. — Veterans Affairs Department holds a meeting of the Veterans’ Advisory Committee on Environmental Hazards to discuss medical and scientific papers concerning the health effects of exposure to ionizing radiation. Location: 810 Vermont St. NW, Room 530. Contact: 202/461-9723.

10 a.m. — Environmental Protection Agency holds a meeting by teleconference of the Board of Scientific Counselors to finalize the subcommittee’s draft report and discussing the rating component for the eco-research program. Location: None given. Contact: 202/564-8239.

10 a.m. — Internal Revenue Service holds a public hearing on proposed regulations and to provide guidance relating to the determination of the amount of taxes paid for purposes of Section 901. Location: Internal Revenue Building, 1111 Constitution Ave. NW, auditorium. Contact: 202/622-7180.

SUPREME COURT

No oral arguments scheduled. Contact: 202/479-3211.

SENATE

Meets at 2 p.m. for morning business and 3 p.m. to resume consideration of the motion to proceed to the Small Business Tax Relief Act of 2007 (the vehicle for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program legislation). At 5:30 p.m., the Senate will proceed to a vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 976. Contact: Republican Cloakroom, 202/224-8601, or Democratic Cloakroom, 202/224-8541.

HOUSE

Meets at 10:30 a.m. for morning-hour debate and noon for legislative business. Contact: Republican Cloakroom, 202/225-2020, or Democratic Cloakroom, 202/225-1600.

GENERAL AGENDA

Conservative student conference — all day — The Young America’s Foundation holds a 2007 National Conservative Student Conference, July 30-Aug. 3. Events begin at 9 a.m.

Highlights — 10 a.m. — Timothy Carney, columnist for the Washington Examiner and author of “The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money,” delivers remarks, “College Tuition: How Government ’Help’ Only Drives Prices Up — The Real Reasons College Costs Have Exploded.”

7:30 p.m. — Fred Barnes, executive editor of the Weekly Standard, delivers remarks, “An Update Inside the Beltway” at a dinner banquet.

Location: George Washington University, 800 21st St. NW, Marvin Center. Contact: 800/872-1776.

Drug safety — 8 a.m. — The Food and Drug Administration’s Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee and the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee hold a joint meeting to discuss the cardiovascular ischemic/thrombotic risks of the thiazolidinediones, with focus on rosiglitazone (Avandia), as presented by FDA and GlaxoSmithKline. Location: Holiday Inn Gaithersburg, 2 Montgomery Village Avenue. Contact: 301/827-7001.

No Child Left Behind’s future — 10 a.m. — The National Press Club Newsmaker Program Committee holds a press conference, “The Future of No Child Left Behind,” with the House Education and Labor Committee’s chairman, Rep. George Miller, California Democrat. Location: National Press Club, 14th and F streets Northwest, Zenger Room. Contact: 202/550-4777.

Border security — 10 a.m. — The Heritage Foundation holds a discussion, “Border Security and Immigration Reform: What’s Next?” Rep. Lamar Smith, Texas Republican, and Matthew Spalding, director of the B. Kenneth Smith Center for American Studies at the Heritage Foundation, participate. Location: Heritage Foundation, 214 Massachusetts Ave. NE, Lehrman Auditorium. Contact: 202/675-1752.

c Compiled by FIND/AFP and The Washington Times