[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 94 (Wednesday, July 13, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D743-D744]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
GUANTANAMO BAY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed 
hearings to examine the investigation into Federal Bureau of 
Investigations allegations of detainee abuse at the Guantanamo Bay, 
Cuba Detention Facility, after receiving testimony from General Bantz 
J. Craddock, USA, Commander, U.S. Southern Command; Lieutenant General 
Randall M. Schmidt, USAF, Senior Investigating Officer; and Brigadier 
General John T. Furlow, USA, Investigating Officer.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of General Peter Pace, USMC, for reappointment to the grade 
of general and to be Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Edmund P. 
Giambastiani, Jr., USN, for reappointment to the grade of admiral and 
to be Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and 8 nominations in the 
Army, Navy, and Air Force.
TERRORIST FINANCING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held a 
hearing to examine money laundering and terror financing issues in the 
Middle East, focusing on the Financial Action Task Force, the use of 
charities to fund terrorism, and the Presidential Executive Order 
(13224) which allows the United States to freeze the assets of certain 
organizations, after receiving testimony from Stuart Levey, Under 
Secretary of the Treasury, Office of Terrorism and Financial 
Intelligence; E. Anthony Wayne, Assistant Secretary for Economic and 
Business Affairs, and Nancy Powell, Acting Assistant Secretary for 
International Narcotics and Law Enforcement, both of the Department of 
State; Dennis M. Lormel, Corporate Risk International, Fairfax, 
Virginia; Steven Emerson, The Investigative Project on Terrorism, 
Washington, D.C.; and Mahmoud A. El-Gamal, Rice University, Houston, 
Texas.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call.
AIRLINE FINANCIAL STABILITY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Aviation concluded a hearing to examine the financial stability of 
airlines, focusing on the continued financial difficulties faced by 
legacy airlines, the effect of bankruptcy on the industry and 
competitors, and the effect of airline pension underfunding on 
employees, airlines and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, after 
receiving testimony

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from JayEtta Z. Hecker, Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues, 
Government Accountability Office; James C. May, Air Transport 
Association of America, Inc., Washington, D.C.; Jamie N. Baker, J.P. 
Morgan Securities Inc., New York, New York; and Robert Roach, Jr., 
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Upper 
Marlboro, Maryland.
ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT: PRIVATE LANDOWNER INCENTIVES
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Fisheries, 
Wildlife, and Water concluded a hearing to examine the Endangered 
Species Act and incentives for private landowners, focusing on existing 
Federal incentives for private landowners to protect threatened and 
endangered species, as well as new and innovative ways for 
incentivizing species protection on private lands, after receiving 
testimony from Marshall P. Jones, Deputy Director, Fish and Wildlife 
Service, Department of the Interior; Sara Braasch, Regional Assistant 
Chief, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Department of 
Agriculture; Michael J. Bean, Environmental Defense, and Laurence D. 
Wiseman, on behalf of the American Forest Foundation and the American 
Tree Farm System, both of Washington, D.C.; Paul Campos, Home Builders 
Association of Northern California, Contra Costa County, on behalf of 
the National Association of Home Builders; Alan Foutz, Colorado Farm 
Bureau, Akron, on behalf of the American Farm Bureau Federation; and 
Robert J. Olszewski, Plum Creek Timber Company, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia.
CHEMICAL FACILITY SECURITY
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
resumed hearings to examine the Federal role regarding chemical 
facility security, receiving testimony from Martin J. Durbin, American 
Chemistry Council, Arlington, Virginia; Matthew Barmasse, ISOCHEM, 
Inc., Lockport, New York, on behalf of Synthetic Organic Chemical 
Manufacturers Association; Bob Slaughter, National Petrochemical and 
Refiners Association, and Gerald V. Poje, National Academy of Science, 
both of Washington, D.C.; Glenn Erwin, United Steel Workers 
International Union, Washburn, Missouri; and Carol L. Andress, 
Environmental Defense Fund, New York, New York.
  Hearings will continue on Wednesday, July 27, 2005.
STREAMLINED PROCEDURES ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
current habeas corpus proceedings and issues of actual innocence, 
focusing on S. 1088, to establish streamlined procedures for collateral 
review of mixed petitions, amendments, and defaulted claims, after 
receiving testimony from Seth P. Waxman, Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, 
Hale and Dorr, Washington, D.C., former Solicitor General of the United 
States; Thomas Dolgenos, Office of Philadelphia District Attorney, 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; John Pressley Todd and Kent E. Cattani, 
both of the Office of Arizona Attorney General, Phoenix; and Barry C. 
Scheck, Yeshiva University Cardozo School of Law, and Bryan A. 
Stevenson, New York University School of Law, both of New York, New 
York.
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