[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 27 (Wednesday, March 9, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D206-D207]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: ARMY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded a 
hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2006 for 
the Army, after receiving testimony from Francis J. Harvey, Secretary, 
and General Peter J. Schoomaker, Chief of Staff, both of the Army.
DEFENSE: AIR FORCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and 
Capabilities concluded a hearing to examine the Department of Defense 
science and technology budget and strategy, after receiving testimony 
from Ronald M. Sega, Director, Defense Research and Engineering; Thomas 
H. Killion, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and 
Technology, Chief Scientist; Rear Admiral Jay M. Cohen, USN, Chief of 
Naval Research; James B. Engle, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air 
Force for Science, Technology, and Engineering; and Anthony J. Tether, 
Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
SECURITIES INDUSTRY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the state of the securities industry, focusing on 
recent initiatives regarding market structure, credit rating agencies, 
mutual funds and the implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, 
after receiving testimony from William H. Donaldson, Chairman, 
Securities and Exchange Commission.
NOMINATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nomination of Ronald Rosenfeld, of Oklahoma, to 
be a Director of the Federal Housing Finance Board.
2006 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee met to mark up a proposed concurrent 
resolution setting forth the fiscal year 2006 budget for the Federal 
Government, but did not complete consideration thereon, and will meet 
again tomorrow.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Patricia Lynn Scarlett, of 
California, to be Deputy Secretary of the Interior, and Jeffrey Clay 
Sell, of Texas, to be Deputy Secretary of Energy, who was introduced by 
Senator Hutchison, after the nominees testified and answered questions 
in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee completed its 
markup of S. 131, to amend the Clean Air Act to reduce air pollution 
through expansion of cap and trade programs, to provide an alternative 
regulatory classification for units subject to the cap and trade 
program, following which a tie vote occurred, therefore the committee 
was unable to report the bill.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  An original bill entitled the ``Personal Responsibility and 
Individual Development for Everyone (PRIDE) Act''; and
  The nominations of Harold Damelin, of Virginia, to be Inspector 
General, Department of the Treasury, and Raymond Thomas Wagner, Jr., of 
Missouri, to be a Member of the Internal Revenue Service Oversight 
Board.
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY BUDGET
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the President's proposed budget request 
for fiscal year 2006 for the Department of Homeland Security, after 
receiving testimony from Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland 
Security.
NOMINATION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the nomination of Michael Jackson, of 
Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following bills:

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  S. 250, to amend the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical 
Education Act of 1998 to improve the Act, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 525, to amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 
1990 to reauthorize the Act, to improve early learning opportunities 
and promote school preparedness;
  S. 172, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide 
for the regulation of all contact lenses as medical devices; and
  S. 544, to amend title IX of the Public Health Service Act to provide 
for the improvement of patient safety and to reduce the incidence of 
events that adversely effect patient safety.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  S. 147, to express the policy of the United States regarding the 
United States relationship with Native Hawaiians and to provide a 
process for the recognition by the United States of the Native Hawaiian 
governing entity, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  S. 536, to make technical corrections to laws relating to Native 
Americans.
INDIAN TRUST REFORM
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine trust management reform within the Department of the 
Interior, after receiving testimony from James Cason, Acting Assistant 
Secretary for Indian Affairs, and Ross O. Swimmer, Special Trustee for 
American Indians, both of the Department of the Interior; Tex G. Hall, 
National Congress of American Indians, and Keith Harper, Native 
American Rights Fund, both of Washington, D.C.; Jim Gray, Intertribal 
Monitoring Association on Indian Trust funds, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 
Charles C. Colombe, Rosebud Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, Rosebud; and 
Darrell Hillaire, Lummi Indian Nation, Bellingham, Washington, on 
behalf of the California Tribal Trust Reform Consortium.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.