[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 48 (Wednesday, April 20, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D374-D376]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: NATIONAL GUARD & RESERVE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded a 
hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2006 for 
the National Guard

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and Reserve, after receiving testimony from Lieutenant General H. 
Steven Blum, Chief, National Guard Bureau; Lieutenant General Roger 
Schultz, Director, Army National Guard; Lieutenant General Daniel James 
III, Director, Air National Guard; Lieutenant General James R. Helmly, 
Chief and Commander, Army Reserve; Vice Admiral John G. Cotton, Chief 
of Naval Reserve; Lieutenant General Dennis M. McCarthy, Commander, 
Marine Forces Reserve; and Lieutenant General John A. Bradley, Chief of 
Air Force Reserve.
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Homeland Security 
concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2006 for the Department of Homeland Security, after receiving 
testimony from Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Security.
APPROPRIATIONS: DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURTS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on District of Columbia 
concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2006 for the government of the District of Columbia, after 
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities 
from Annice Wagner, Chief Judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals, 
and Chair, Joint Committee on Judicial Administration; Rufus King III, 
Chief Judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia; Paul Quander, 
Jr., Director, Court Service and Offender Supervision Agency; and Avis 
Buchanan, Director, Defender Service for the District of Columbia.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support concluded a hearing to examine the readiness of military units 
deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring 
Freedom in review of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 
2006, after receiving testimony from Lieutenant General Thomas F. Metz, 
USA, Commander, III Corps and Fort Hood; Lieutenant General John F. 
Sattler, USMC, Commanding General, I Marine Expeditionary Force, U.S. 
Marine Corps; Lieutenant General Walter E. Buchanan III, USAF, 
Commander, U.S. Central Command, Air Forces; Major General Lloyd J. 
Austin III, USA, Commander, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) and 
Fort Drum; and Rear Admiral Barry McCullough, USN, Commander, Carrier 
Strike Group Six.
HOUSING GOVERNMENT SPONSORED ENTERPRISES
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine proposals to improve the regulation of Housing 
Government-Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs), focusing on ensuring that GSEs 
have a regulator with the necessary authority to enable GSEs to fulfill 
their important mission in a safe and sound fashion, after receiving 
testimony from Raymond R. Christman, Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta, 
Atlanta, Georgia; and Daniel H. Mudd, Fannie Mae, and Richard F. Syron, 
Freddie Mac, both of Washington, D.C.
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science and Space concluded a hearing to examine International Space 
Station research benefits, focusing on research and technology 
development efforts on areas that best contribute to the vision for 
space exploration, specifically using the space station to study human 
endurance in space and to test new technologies and techniques to 
prepare NASA for longer journeys to the moon and Mars, after receiving 
testimony from William F. Readdy, Associate Administrator, Space 
Operations Mission Directorate, Howard Ross, Deputy Chief Scientist, 
and Lieutenant Colonel Mike Fincke, Active Duty Astronaut, all of the 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Marcia S. Smith, 
Specialist in Aerospace and Telecommunications Policy, Resources, 
Science, and Industry Division, Congressional Research Service, Library 
of Congress; Jeffrey Sutton, National Space Biomedical Research 
Institute, Houston, Texas; and Mary Ellen Weber, University of Texas 
Southwest Medical Center, Austin.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Gregory B. Jaczko, of the 
District of Columbia, and Peter B. Lyons, of Virginia, each to be a 
Member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
TERRORISM PROHIBITION IMPROVEMENTS ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and 
Homeland Security concluded a hearing to examine a review of the 
material support to Terrorism Prohibition Improvements Act, focusing on 
the need to strengthen statutory arsenal that enables law enforcement 
to stop terrorist attacks at an early stage, before they endanger 
Americans, and the need to recognize the threat posed by paramilitary 
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Barry Sabin, Chief, Counterterrorism Section, Criminal Division, and 
Daniel Meron, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil 
Division, both of the Department of Justice; and Andrew C. McCarthy, 
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Washington, D.C.
SMALL BUSINESS HEALTH CARE
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the small business health care crisis, focusing on 
alternatives for lowering costs and covering the uninsured, including 
related provisions of S. 406, Small Business Health Fairness Act of 
2005, after receiving testimony from Elaine L. Chao, Secretary of 
Labor; Hector V. Barreto, Administrator, Small Business Administration; 
Montana State Auditor John Morrison, Commissioner for Insurance and 
Securities, Helena, on behalf of the National Association of Insurance 
Commissioners; Doug Newman, Newman Concrete Services, Inc., Hallowell, 
Maine, on behalf of the National Federation of Independent Business; Al 
Mansell, National Association of Realtors, and Len Nichols, The New 
America Foundation, both of Washington, D.C.; W. Thomas Haynes, The 
Coca-Cola Bottlers' Association, Atlanta, Georgia, on behalf of the 
Association Healthcare Coalition; and William N. Lindsay III, Denver, 
Colorado.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
consider pending intelligence matters.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.