[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 98 (Tuesday, July 19, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D775-D776]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: MILITARY CONSTRUCTION/VA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction and 
Veterans' Affairs and Related Agencies approved for full Committee 
consideration H.R. 2528, making appropriations for military quality of 
life functions of the Department of Defense, military construction, the 
Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2006, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute.
APPROPRIATIONS: DOT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation, Treasury, 
The Judiciary, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies 
approved for full Committee consideration H.R. 3058, making 
appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, Treasury, and 
Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, District of Columbia, and 
independent agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY REORGANIZATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine modifications to the organizational structure and 
operations of the Department of Homeland Security as part of an effort 
to make it more efficient and effective, focusing on preparedness, 
borders and immigration, transportation security, and information 
sharing, after receiving testimony from Michael Chertoff, Secretary of 
Homeland Security.
FAA's AGE 60 RULE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Aviation concluded a hearing to examine the Federal Aviation 
Administration's Age-60 Rule, which provides that a pilot may not 
engage in what are known as part 121 operations if the pilot has 
reached his 60th birthday, including operations of large commercial 
passenger aircraft, smaller propeller aircraft with 10 or more 
passenger seats, and common carriage operations of all-cargo aircraft 
with a payload capacity of 7500 pounds, after receiving

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testimony from Senator Inhofe and Representative Gibbons; Jon L. 
Jordan, Federal Air Surgeon, Federal Aviation Administration, 
Department of Transportation; Russell B. Rayman, Aerospace Medical 
Association, Alexandria, Virginia; Duane E. Woerth, Air Line Pilots 
Association, International, Washington, D.C.; Joseph Eichelkraut, 
Southwest Airlines Pilots' Association, Dallas, Texas; Ralph Hunter, 
Allied Pilots Association, Fort Worth, Texas; and Al Spain, Jet Blue 
Airways Corporation, Salt Lake City, Utah.
NUCLEAR TESTING ON MARSHALL ISLANDS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine the effects of the United States nuclear 
testing program on the Marshall Islands, focusing on the development of 
baseline cancer and radiation-related illness rates relating to the 
testing, after receiving testimony from American Samoa Delegate 
Faleomavaega; Howard M. Krawitz, Acting Assistant Secretary of State 
for East Asia and Pacific Affairs; Thomas Lum, Specialist in Asian 
Affairs, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; Kiyohiko 
Mabuchi, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer 
Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and 
Human Services; Gerald M. Zackios, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and 
James H. Plasman, Nuclear Claims Tribunal, both of Republic of the 
Marshall Islands, Majuro; Neal A. Palafox, University of Hawaii John A. 
Burns School of Medicine, Manoa; and Steven L. Simon, Washington, D.C.
IRAQI POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine advancing Iraqi political development, focusing on the 
development of a constitution, after receiving testimony from Phebe 
Marr, United States Institute of Peace, and Judy Van Rest, 
International Republican Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; and Noah 
Feldman, New York University School of Law, New York.
SECURING CYBERSPACE
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and 
International Security concluded a hearing to examine efforts to 
protect national information infrastructures, focusing on challenges in 
protecting United States critical infrastructures from cybersecurity 
threats, after receiving testimony from Donald Purdy, Jr., Acting 
Director, National Cyber Security Division, Department of Homeland 
Security; David A. Powner, Director, Information Technology, Management 
Issues, Government Accountability Office; Thomas M. Jarrett, Delaware 
Department of Technology and Information, Dover; and Paul M. Skare, 
Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution, Inc., Minnetonka, 
Minnesota.
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT REAUTHORIZATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine S. 
1197, to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act of 1994, focusing 
on the Family Justice Center Initiative, the sexual assault forensic 
exam protocol, and other efforts to eradicate crimes of domestic 
violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, after 
receiving testimony from Diane M. Stuart, Director, Office on Violence 
Against Women, Department of Justice; Sheriff Edmund M. Sexton, Sr., 
Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, on behalf of the National Sheriffs' 
Association; Lynn Rosenthal, National Network to End Domestic Violence, 
and Mary Lou Leary, National Center for Victims of Crime, both of 
Washington, D.C.; M.L. Carr, WARM2Kids, San Francisco, California, on 
behalf of the Family Violence Prevention Fund; and Salma Hayek, Avon 
Foundation, New York, New York.
FEDERAL CONSENT DECREE FAIRNESS ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight 
and the Courts concluded a hearing to conduct a review of Federal 
consent decrees, focusing on S. 489, to amend chapter 111 of title 28, 
United States Code, to limit the duration of Federal consent decrees to 
which State and local governments are a party, after receiving 
testimony from Senator Alexander; Representative Berman; Lois J. 
Schiffer, Baach, Robinson, and Lewis, PLLC, former Assistant Attorney 
General, Department of Justice, and Michael S. Greve, American 
Enterprise Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; Alabama Attorney 
General Troy King, Montgomery; Judge Nathaniel R. Jones (Ret.), Blank 
and Rome, LLP, Cincinnati, Ohio; Ross Sandler, New York University 
School of Law, New York, New York; and Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, 
Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, Virginia.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of Benjamin A. Powell, of Florida, to be General 
Counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, after 
the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Martinez, testified and 
answered questions in his own behalf.