[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 129 (Thursday, October 6, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1021-D1023]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MARRIAGE DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNTS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on District of Columbia 
concluded a hearing to examine the potential for Marriage Development 
Accounts, which would allow low-income singles and engaged and married 
couples in the District of Columbia to set up pre-marriage and marriage 
development accounts that would match $3 for every $1 invested to use 
toward buying a home, a child's college education or business start-up, 
with credit counseling and debt management counseling available to 
participants, after receiving testimony from District of Columbia 
Delegate Norton; Ron Haskins, Brookings Institution, Thabiti Anyabwile, 
Capitol Hill Baptist Church, Colleen Dailey, Capital Area Asset 
Building Corporation, Curtis Watkins, East Capitol Center for Change, 
Winston Graham, and Sandra Corley, all of Washington, D.C.; D. Malcolm 
Smith, Center for Fathers, Families and Workforce Development, 
Baltimore, Maryland; W. Bradford Wilcox, University of Virginia, 
Charlottesville; and George Williams, National Center on Fathering, 
Kansas City, Missouri.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Michael W. Wynne, of Florida, to be Secretary of the 
Air Force, and Donald C. Winter, of Virginia, to be Secretary of the 
Navy, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
DEFENSE TRADE: EXON-FLORIO
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the implementation of the Exon-Florio provision by 
the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which 
seeks to serve U.S. investment policy through reviews that protect 
national security while maintaining the credibility of open investment 
policy, after receiving testimony from Katherine Schinasi, Managing 
Director, Acquisition and Sourcing Management, and Ann Calvaresi Barr, 
Director, Industrial Base Issues, both of the Government Accountability 
Office.

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KATRINA'S EFFECTS ON ENERGY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine Hurricanes Katrina and Rita's effects on energy 
infrastructure and that status of recovery efforts in the Gulf Coast 
region, after receiving testimony from Red Cavaney, American Petroleum 
Institute, and Kevin S. Curtis, National Environmental Trust, both of 
Washington, D.C.; Andrew Liveris, Dow Chemical Company, Midland, 
Michigan, on behalf of the American Chemistry Council; Christopher A. 
Helms, NiSource Inc., Merrillville, Indiana, on behalf of the 
Interstate Natural Gas Association of America; and Curt Hebert, Jr., 
Entergy Corporation, New Orleans, Louisiana.
WATER BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power concluded a hearing to examine S. 1025, to amend the Act entitled 
``An Act to provide for the construction of the Cheney division, 
Wichita Federal reclamation project, Kansas'' to authorize the Equus 
Beds Division of the Wichita Project, S. 1498, to direct the Secretary 
of the Interior to convey certain water distribution facilities to the 
Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District, S. 1529, to provide for 
the conveyance of certain Federal land in the city of Yuma, Arizona, S. 
1578, to reauthorize the Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basin 
endangered fish recovery implementation programs, and S. 1760, to 
authorize early repayment of obligations to the Bureau of Reclamation 
within Rogue River Valley Irrigation District or within Medford 
Irrigation District, after receiving testimony from William Rinne, 
Deputy Commissioner of Reclamation, Department of the Interior; Mayor 
Larry Nelson, Yuma, Arizona; Jerry Blain, City of Wichita, Water and 
Sewer Department, Wichita, Kansas; James S. Witwer, Northern Colorado 
Water Conservancy District, Berthoud; and Tom Blickensderfer, Colorado 
Department of Natural Resources, Denver.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the nominations of Santanu K. Baruah, of Oregon, to be 
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development, George M. 
Gray, of Massachusetts, to be an Assistant Administrator of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, Lyons Gray, of North Carolina, to be 
Chief Financial Officer, Environmental Protection Agency, H. Dale Hall, 
of New Mexico, to be Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife 
Service, Department of the Interior, and Edward McGaffigan, Jr., of 
Virginia, to be a Member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
KATRINA RECOVERY
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine actions of the Environmental Protection Agency, the 
Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Highway Administration relating 
to Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts, after receiving testimony from 
J. Richard Capka, Acting Administrator, Federal Highway Administration, 
Department of Transportation; Lieutenant General Carl A. Strock, Chief 
of Engineers, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Marcus Peacock, Deputy 
Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; and John Paul Woodley, 
Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works.
TAX POLICY FOLLOWING DISASTERS
Committee on Finance: Committee held a hearing to examine the future of 
the Gulf Coast, focusing on the use of tax policy to help rebuild 
businesses and communities and support families after disasters, 
receiving testimony from former Representative Jack Kemp; John W. Snow, 
Secretary of the Treasury; Jane G. Gravelle, Senior Specialist in 
Economic Policy, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; 
Harry Connick, Jr., Habitat for Humanity International, Washington, 
D.C.; Mississippi State Treasurer Tate Reeves, and Dianne Bolen, 
Mississippi Home Corporation, both of Jackson; and James R. Kelly, 
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, New Orleans, 
Louisiana.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call.
U.S.-BAHRAIN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade held a 
hearing to examine the United States-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement, 
receiving testimony from Shaun E. Donnelly, Assistant United States 
Trade Representative for Europe and the Mediterranean, Office of the 
United States Trade Representative; Megan Aslaksen, Hewlett-Packard 
Company, Palo Alto, California; Lionel C. Johnson, Citigroup, Barbara 
R. Spangler, Wheat Export Trade Education Committee, on behalf of the 
National Association of Wheat Growers, and U.S. Wheat Associates, 
Robert C. Baugh, AFL-CIO Industrial Union Council, and David Hamod, 
National U.S.-Arab Chamber of Commerce, all of Washington, D.C.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Jennifer L. Dorn, of Nebraska, to be United 
States Alternate Executive Director of the International Bank for 
Reconstruction and Development, who was introduced by Senators Hagel 
and Dole, and Donald A. Gambatesa, of Virginia, to be Inspector 
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United States Agency for International Development, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of David B. Dunn, of California, to be 
Ambassador to the Togolese Republic, Carmen Maria Martinez, of Florida, 
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Zambia, and Michael R. Arietti, of 
Connecticut, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Rwanda, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
FEMA
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine Federal Emergency Management Agency 
(FEMA) status report on recovery efforts in the Gulf States, after 
receiving testimony from R. David Paulison, Acting Director, Federal 
Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security.
DOD LOGISTICS
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 the status of the 
Department of Defense supply chain and logistics, focusing on efforts 
to improve the Department's business transformation strategy and supply 
chain management, after receiving testimony from Kenneth J. Krieg, 
Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics; 
Clay Johnson III, Deputy Director for Management, Office of Management 
and Budget; and William M. Solis, Director, Defense Capabilities and 
Management, Government Accountability Office.
FEDERAL LEASED PROPERTY
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and 
International Security concluded a hearing to examine how the Federal 
government lease needed space, focusing on Federal real property as a 
high-risk area and specifically on the government's reliance on costly 
leased space, after receiving testimony from Mark L. Goldstein, 
Director, Government Accountability Office; William H. Matthews, 
Assistant Commissioner, Office of Real Property Asset Management, 
Public Buildings Service, General Services Administration; and Robert 
L. Neary, Jr., Acting Chief Facilities Management Officer, Department 
of Veterans Affairs.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed markup of S. 1088, to 
establish streamlined procedures for collateral review of mixed 
petitions, amendments, and defaulted claims, but did not complete 
action thereon, and recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Wan J. Kim, of Maryland, to be Assistant Attorney 
General, Civil Rights Division, who was introduced by Senators Hatch 
and Lautenberg, Steven G. Bradbury, of Maryland, to be Assistant 
Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, who was introduced by 
Senator Smith, Sue Ellen Wooldridge, of Virginia, to be Assistant 
Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, who was 
introduced by Representative Lungren, and Thomas O. Barnett, of 
Virginia, to be Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, who was 
introduced by Senator Allen, all of the Department of Justice, after 
the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.