[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 16 (Tuesday, February 15, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D91-D92]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY BUDGET
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
priorities and plans for the atomic energy defense activities of the 
Department of Energy (DOE) and to review the President's budget request 
for fiscal year 2006 for atomic energy defense activities of the 
Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration, 
focusing on the Administration's priorities for nuclear weapons, threat 
reduction programs, and DOE's environmental clean-up program, after 
receiving testimony from Samuel W. Bodman, Secretary of Energy.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of John Paul Woodley, Jr., of Virginia, to be an 
Assistant Secretary of the Army, Buddie J. Penn, of Virginia, to be an 
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, who was introduced by former Senator 
Symms, and the following named officer for appointment in the United

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States Navy to the grade indicated while assigned to a position of 
importance and responsibility under title 10, U.S.C., section 601: Adm. 
William J. Fallon, to be Admiral, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
BUDGET: TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the President's proposed budget for fiscal year 
2006 for the Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security 
Administration and related program, after receiving testimony from 
David M. Stone, Assistant Secretary of Transportation Security 
Administration, Department of Homeland Security; and Cathleen Ann 
Berrick, Director, Homeland Security and Justice, Government 
Accountability Office.
LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy 
concluded a hearing to examine the future of liquefied natural gas, 
focusing on the prospects for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the United 
States and to discuss the safety and security issues related to LNG 
developments, after receiving testimony from J. Mark Robinson, 
Director, Office of Energy Projects, Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission, Captain David L. Scott, Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard, 
Department of Homeland Security; Mike Hightower, Technical Staff 
Member, Sandia National Laboratories; Michael R. Peevey, California 
Public Utilities Commission, Los Angeles; William Kramer, Jr., New 
Jersey Division of Fire Safety, Trenton, on behalf of the National 
Association of State Fire Marshals; Mayor David N. Cicilline, 
Providence, Rhode Island; Thomas E. Giles, Mitsubishi, Long Beach, 
California; and Richard L. Grant, Tractebel North America, and 
Distrigas of Massachusetts, Boston.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of Robert B. Zoellick, to be Deputy Secretary of 
State, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Grassley and 
Baucus, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS BUDGET
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2006, 
after receiving testimony from R. James Nicholson, Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs; Peter S. Gaytan, The American Legion, Dennis M. 
Cullinan, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, Joseph A. 
Violante, Disabled American Veterans, and Richard B. Fuller, Paralyzed 
Veterans of America, all of Washington, D.C.; and Richard Jones, 
AMVETS, Lanham, Maryland.