[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 114 (Tuesday, September 13, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D905-D906]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
BROWNFIELDS PROGRAMS
Committee on Government Reform: Subcommittee on Federalism and the 
Census held a hearing entitled ``Brownfields and the Fifty States: Are 
State Incentive Programs Capable of Solving America's Brownfields 
Problem?'' Testimony was heard from Kathleen McGinty, Secretary, 
Department of Environmental Protection, State of Pennsylvania; John 
Magill, Director, Office of Urban Development, Department of 
Development, State of Ohio; Douglas P. Scott, Director, Environmental 
Protection Agency, State of Illinois; Andrew Hogarth, Chief, 
Remediation and Redevelopment Division, Department of Environmental 
Quality, State of Michigan; and public witnesses.
TERRORISM/VISA VULNERABILITY
Committee on Government Reform: Subcommittee on National Security, 
Emerging Threats, and International Relations held a hearing entitled 
``Combating Terrorism: Visas Still Vulnerable.'' Testimony was heard 
from Jess T. Ford, Director, International Affairs and Trade Division, 
GAO; the following officials of the Department of State: Ambassador 
John E. Lange, Deputy Inspector General; and Tony Edson, Acting Deputy 
Assistant Secretary, Visa Services, Bureau of Consular Affairs; Elaine 
Dezenski, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Policy Border

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and Transportation Security, Department of Homeland Security; Susan 
Ginsberg, former Senior Counsel, National Commission on Terrorist 
Attacks Upon the United States; and public witnesses.
PROTECTING STREET CHILDREN
Committee on International Relations: Subcommittee on Africa, Global 
Human Rights and International Operations held a hearing entitled 
``Protecting Street Children: Vigilantes or the Rule of Law?'' 
Testimony was heard from the following officials of the Department of 
State: David Denehy, Director, Strategic Planning and External Affairs, 
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor; and Lloyd Feinberg, 
Manager, Displaced Children and Orphans Fund, U.S. Agency for 
International Development; Lord David Alton, House of Lords, United 
Kingdom and Great Britain and Northern Ireland; and public witnesses.
CHILDREN'S SAFETY ACT
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, a modified open rule 
providing 1 hour of general debate on H.R. 3132, Children's Safety Act 
of 2005, equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking 
minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary. The rule waives all 
points of order against consideration of the bill. The rule provides 
that the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the 
Committee on the Judiciary now printed in the bill shall be considered 
as an original bill for the purpose of amendment. The rule provides 
that the bill shall be considered for amendment under the five-minute 
rule and that it shall be read by title. The rule makes in order only 
those amendments to the bill that are pre-printed in the Congressional 
Record or are pro forma amendments for the purpose of debate. The rule 
provides that each amendment printed in the Congressional Record may be 
offered only by the Member who caused it to be printed or a designee, 
and that each amendment shall be considered as read. Finally, the rule 
provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions. Testimony 
was heard from Chairman Sensenbrenner and Representative Scott of 
Virginia.