[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 32 (Wednesday, March 16, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D250-D252]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: NAVY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded a 
hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2006 for 
the Navy, after receiving testimony from Gordon R. England, Secretary 
of the Navy, Admiral Vern Clark, USN, Chief of Naval Operations, and 
General Michael W. Hagee, Commandant of Marine Corps, all of the 
Department of Defense.
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget 
estimates for fiscal year 2006 for the Department of Health and Human 
Services, after receiving testimony from Michael O. Leavitt, Secretary 
of Health and Human Services.
APPROPRIATIONS: ARMY AND AIR FORCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction and 
Veterans Affairs concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget 
estimates for fiscal year 2006 for the Army and Air Force, after 
receiving testimony from Geoffrey G. Prosch, Principal Deputy Assistant 
Secretary for Installations and Environment, Major General Geoffrey D. 
Miller, Assistant Chief of Staff, Installation Management, Major 
General Walter F. Pudlowski, Special Assistant to the Director, Army 
National Guard, and Brigadier General Gary M. Profit, Deputy Chief, 
Army Reserve, all of the Department of the Army;

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and Fred W. Kuhn, Acting Assistant Secretary for Installations, 
Logistics, and Environment, and Major General L. Dean Fox, The Air 
Force Civil Engineer, Deputy Chief of Staff for Installations and 
Logistics, both of the Department of the Air Force.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION: ARMY TRANSFORMATION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland concluded a 
hearing to examine Army Transformation and the Future Combat System in 
review of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2006, after 
receiving testimony from Claude M. Bolton, Jr., Assistant Secretary of 
the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology; General Richard A. 
Cody, USA, Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army; Paul L. Francis, Director, 
Acquisition and Sourcing Management, Government Accountability Office; 
David R. Graham, Institute for Defense Analyses, Alexandria, Virginia; 
and Kenneth F. Boehm, National Legal and Policy Center, Falls Church, 
Virginia.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST: NATIONAL SECURITY SPACE POLICY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
national security space policy and programs in review of the Defense 
Authorization request for fiscal year 2006, after receiving testimony 
from Peter B. Teets, Acting Secretary of the Air Force; General James 
E. Cartwright, USMC, Commander, United States Strategic Command; 
General Lance W. Lord, USAF, Commander, United States Air Force Space 
Command; Lieutenant General Larry J. Dodgen, USA, Commanding General, 
United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command, and United States 
Army Forces Strategic Command; and Vice Admiral Joseph A. Sestak, Jr., 
USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, Warfare Requirements and 
Programs.
IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICES
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive 
a briefing on Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) and the evolving IED 
threat and the Department of Defense's approach to addressing this 
issue from General Richard A. Cody, USA, Vice Chief of Staff, United 
States Army, Brigadier General Joseph L. Votel, USA, Director, Joint 
IED Task Force, and Robert Buhrkuhi, Director, Joint Rapid Acquisition 
Cell, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, 
Technology, and Logistics).
IDENTITY THEFT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On March 15, 2005, 
Committee concluded hearings to examine identity theft, focusing on 
recent developments involving the security of sensitive consumer 
information, after receiving testimony from Don McGuffey, ChoicePoint, 
Inc., Alexandria, Virginia; Evan Hendricks, Privacy Times, Cabin John, 
Maryland; and Barbara J. Desoer, Bank of America Corporate Center, 
Charlotte, North Carolina.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the nominations of Jeffrey Clay Sell, of Texas, to be Deputy 
Secretary of Energy, and Patricia Lynn Scarlett, of California, to be 
Deputy Secretary of the Interior.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following bills:
  S. 606, to amend the Clean Air Act to eliminate methyl tertiary butyl 
ether from the United States fuel supply, to increase production and 
use of renewable fuel, and to increase the Nation's energy 
independence, with amendments; and
  The Safe, Accountable, Flexible and Efficient Transportation Equity 
Act of 2005, with amendments.
EXPIRING TAX PROVISIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine expiring tax 
provisions, focusing on the Administration's proposals to extend 
expiring tax provisions, receiving testimony from Robert J. Carroll, 
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Analysis; Hy L. 
Dubowsky, New York State Department of Labor, Albany; Daniel L. 
Doctoroff, New York Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and 
Rebuilding, New York; Donald C. Alexander, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer, 
and Feld LLP, Washington, D.C.; David E. Martin, M-CAM, 
Charlottesville, Virginia; David Hernandez, EDS, Plano, Texas, on 
behalf of the R&D Credit Coalition; and Dale Giovengo, Giant Eagle 
Markets, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  Hearings recessed subject to the call of the Chair.
ARMS EMBARGO ON CHINA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the lifting of the European Union (EU) arms embargo on China, 
focusing on United States-EU-China relations, trans-Atlantic 
differences, the emergence of China as a more powerful global and 
regional player, Chinese military modernization, and the future 
security and stability in East Asia, after receiving testimony from 
Richard F. Grimmett, Specialist in National Defense, Congressional 
Research Service, Library of Congress; Peter T.R. Brookes, Heritage 
Foundation, and Bates Gill,

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Center for Strategic and International Studies, both of Washington, 
D.C.
OBSCENITY PROSECUTION AND THE CONSTITUTION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil 
Rights and Property Rights concluded a hearing to examine obscenity 
prosecution and the constitution, focusing on prostitution, child 
prostitution, and human trafficking, after receiving testimony from 
Robert A. Destro, Catholic University of America Columbus School of 
Law, and Patrick A. Trueman, Family Research Council, both of 
Washington, D.C.; and Frederick Schauer, Harvard University John F. 
Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.