[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 122 (Tuesday, September 27, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D969-D970]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEFENSE ACQUISITION PROCESSES
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held a hearing to examine needed 
improvements to defense acquisition processes and organizations, 
receiving testimony from Gordon R. England, Acting Deputy Secretary, 
Kenneth J. Krieg, Under Secretary for Acquisition, Technology and 
Logistics, Admiral Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr., USN, Vice Chairman, 
Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Lieutenant General Ronald T. Kadish, USAF 
(Ret.), Chairman, Defense Acquisition Performance Assessment Project, 
all of the Department of Defense.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call.
ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine S. 1701, to amend the Surface Mining Control and 
Reclamation Act of 1977 to improve the reclamation of abandoned mines, 
and S. 961, to amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 
1977 to reauthorize and reform the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program, 
after receiving testimony from Thomas D. Shope, Chief of Staff, Office 
of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, Department of the 
Interior; Evan J. Green, Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, 
Cheyenne; Steve Hohmann, Kentucky Department for Natural Resources, 
Frankfort, on behalf of the Interstate Mining Compact Commission; Joe 
Shirley, Jr., The Navajo Nation, Window Rock, Arizona; Andrew 
McElwaine, Pennsylvania Environmental Council, Harrisburg, on behalf of 
the Pennsylvania Abandoned Mine Land Campaign; Charles Gauvin, Trout 
Unlimited, Arlington, Virginia; Daniel J. Kane, United Mine Workers of 
America, Fairfax, Virginia; and Lorraine Lewis, UMWA Health and 
Retirement Funds, and David Finkenbinder, National Mining Association, 
both of Washington, D.C.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of John J. Danilovich, of California, to be 
Chief Executive Officer, Millennium Challenge Corporation, after the 
nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
U.S. ENERGY SECURITY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic 
Policy, Export and Trade Promotion concluded a hearing to examine 
energy supplies in Eurasia and implications for U.S. energy security, 
including the region's potential to uncover additional reserves and 
expand production in coming years with the participation of U.S. energy 
companies, after receiving testimony from Paul E. Simons, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of State for Energy, Sanctions and Commodities; 
Karen Harbert, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Policy and 
International Affairs; Alastair Ferguson, TNK-BP, Moscow, Russia; J. 
Robinson West, PFC Energy, and Zeyno Baran, The Nixon Center, both of 
Washington, D.C.; and Michael T. Klare, Hampshire College, Amherst, 
Massachusetts.
ALTERNATIVE PERSONNEL SYSTEMS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the 
District of Columbia concluded a hearing to examine assessing progress 
in the Federal government regarding alternative personnel systems, 
focusing on systems to learn where personnel systems have been 
successfully employed and what steps have been taken in their 
development to ensure effective implementation and

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operation, after receiving testimony from Dan G. Blair, Deputy 
Director, Office of Personnel Management; David M. Walker, Comptroller 
General of the United States, Government Accountability Office; Jeffery 
K. Nulf, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Administration, and Hratch G. 
Semerjian, Deputy Director, National Institute of Standards and 
Technology, Technology Administration, both of the Department of 
Commerce; Arleas Upton Kea, Director, Division of Administration, 
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; and C. Morgan Kinghorn, Jr., 
National Academy of Public Administration, Colleen M. Kelley, National 
Treasury Employees Union, and John Gage, American Federation of 
Government Employees (AFL-CIO), all of Washington, D.C.
HOUSING ASSISTANCE
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and 
International Security concluded an oversight hearing to examine 
housing-related programs for the poor, focusing on existing challenges 
in measuring improper rent subsidy payments in housing assistance 
programs at HUD, as well as Federal oversight of the Low-Income Home 
Energy Assistance Program, after receiving testimony from James M. 
Martin, Assistant Chief Financial Officer for Financial Management, 
Department of Housing and Urban Development; David G. Wood, Director, 
Financial Markets and Community Investment, and Jim Wells, Director, 
Natural Resources and Environment, both of the Government 
Accountability Office; and Josephine Bias Robinson, Director, Office of 
Community Services, Administration for Children and Families, 
Department of Health and Human Services.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.