[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 54 (Thursday, April 28, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D422-D423]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BIOTERRORISM & PROJECT BIOSHIELD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Homeland Security 
concluded a hearing to examine bioterrorism and Project BioShield, 
which is a comprehensive effort to develop and make available modern, 
effective drugs and vaccines to protect against attack by biological 
and chemical weapons or other dangerous pathogens, after receiving 
testimony from Penrose Albright, Assistant Secretary of Homeland 
Security for Science and Technology Directorate; Stewart Simonson, 
Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Public Health 
Emergency Preparedness; David Franz, Midwest Research Institute, Kansas 
City, Missouri; Leighton Read, Alloy Ventures, Palo Alto, California; 
and John Clerici, McKenna Long and Aldridge, Washington, D.C.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed 
hearings to examine defense intelligence in review of the Defense 
Authorization Request for fiscal year 2006, after receiving testimony 
from Stephen A. Cambone, Under Secretary for Intelligence, and Vice 
Admiral Lowell E. Jacoby, USN, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency, 
both of the Department of Defense.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 741 
nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
PARKS BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks concluded a hearing to examine S. 242, to establish 4 memorials 
to the Space Shuttle Columbia in the State of Texas, S. 262, to 
authorize appropriations to the Secretary of the Interior for the 
restoration of the Angel Island Immigration Station in the State of 
California, S. 336, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to carry 
out a study of the feasibility of designating the Captain John Smith 
Chesapeake National Historic Watertrail as a national historic trail, 
S. 670, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special 
resource study of sites associated with the life of Cesar Estrada 
Chavez and the farm labor movement, S. 777, to designate Catoctin 
Mountain Park in the State of Maryland as the ``Catoctin Mountain 
National Recreation Area'', and H.R. 126, to amend Public Law 89-366 to 
allow for an adjustment in the number of free roaming horses permitted 
in Cape Lookout National Seashore, after receiving testimony from 
Senator Sarbanes; Representative Walter B. Jones; Michael Soukup, 
Associate Director, Natural Resource Stewardship and Science, National 
Park Service, Department of the Interior; Felicia Lowe, Angel Island 
Immigration Station Board, San Francisco, California; and Patrick F. 
Noonan, The Conservation Fund, Arlington, Virginia.
BUILDING ASSETS AMONG LOW-INCOME FAMILIES
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy 
held a hearing to examine building assets for low-income families, 
including the Institute for Social and Economic Development (ISED), 
using the private pension system and Individual Retirement Accounts 
(IRA's), and increasing savings, receiving testimony from Michelle 
Simmons, Norristown, Pennsylvania, and Dorothy Beale, Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania, both of the Women's Opportunity Resource Center; Charles 
M. Palmer, Institute for Social and Economic Development, Des Moines, 
Iowa; Victoria Gonzalez-Rubio, Delmar-Harvard Elementary School, 
University City, Missouri; Ric Edelman, Edelman Financial Services, 
Inc., Fairfax, Virginia; Bernard M. Wilson, H&R Block, Kansas City, 
Missouri, on behalf of the Outreach and Business Development; Michael 
Sherraden, Washington University Center for Social Development, St. 
Louis, Missouri; Trina R. Williams Shanks, University of Michigan 
School of Social Work, Ann Arbor; Fred T. Goldberg, Jr., Skadden, Arps, 
Slate, Meagher and Flom, LLP, Ray Boshara, New America Foundation, 
David C. John, The Heritage Foundation, and J. Mark Iwry, The Brookings 
Institution, all of Washington, D.C.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call.
DEFENSE MANAGEMENT
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Oversight of Government

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Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia 
concluded a hearing to examine Department of Defense business 
practices, focusing on fiscal trends that prompt questions about the 
affordability and sustainability of the rate of growth in defense 
spending, business management challenges that DOD needs to address to 
successfully transform its business operations, and key elements for 
achievements of reforms, after receiving testimony from David M. 
Walker, Comptroller General of the United States, Government 
Accountability Office; Clay Johnson III, Deputy Director for 
Management, Office of Management and Budget; and Bradley M. Berkson, 
Acting Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Logistics and Materiel 
Readiness.
POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine access and accountability relating to 
providing quality post-secondary education, focusing on the Federal 
government's role in making post-secondary education financially 
available for Americans, after receiving testimony from Kati Haycock, 
Education Trust, Washington, D.C.; Brian Bosworth, FutureWorks, 
Arlington, Massachusetts; Robert M. Shireman, The Institute for College 
Access and Success, Inc., Berkeley, California; Phillip F. Van Horn, 
Wyoming Student Loan Corporation, and Western States Learning 
Corporation, Cheyenne; and Trinity Thorpe, Malibu, California.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee began markup of S. 852, to create 
a fair and efficient system to resolve claims of victims for bodily 
injury caused by asbestos exposure, but did not complete consideration 
thereon, and recessed subject to call.
BORDER SECURITY
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration, Border 
Security and Citizenship concluded a joint hearing with the 
Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security to examine 
the use of technology to strengthen border security between the Ports 
of Entry, focusing on the operations and law enforcement initiatives of 
the Office of Border Patrol, after receiving testimony from David 
Aguilar, Chief, Office of Border Patrol, U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection, and Kirk Evans, Director, Mission Support Office, Homeland 
Security Advanced Research Projects Agency, Science and Technology 
Directorate, both of the Department of Homeland Security.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to call.