Mark Your Calendar

The Senate Armed Services Committee today announced several hearings scheduled to take place before the August recess.

On Tuesday, July 27 at 3:00 p.m., the committee will consider the nomination of Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis to become head of U.S. Central Command. Mattis is currently the head of U.S. Joint Forces Command. If confirmed, he would replace Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who is retiring today under a cloud of controversy following remarks he made in a Rolling Stone magazine article.

Earlier that day, the committee will continue its series of hearings on the follow-on Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with testimony from Steven Pifer, a senior fellow and director of The Brookings Institution's Arms Control Initiative; independent consultants Franklin Miller and John Foster; and Keith Payne, chief executive officer and president of the National Institute for Public Policy.

On Aug. 3 at 9:30 a.m., the committee will hold a hearing on the Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Panel's report featuring testimony from panel co-chairs William Perry and Stephen Hadley.