[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 151 (Tuesday, November 15, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1208-D1209]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEFENSE ACQUISITION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland concluded a 
hearing to examine defense acquisition issues related to tactical 
aviation and Army programs, after receiving testimony from Katherine V. 
Schinasi, Managing Director, Acquisition and Sourcing Management, 
Government Accountability Office; Frank J. Anderson, Jr., President and 
Chief Executive Officer, Defense Acquisition University, Department of 
Defense; John J. Hamre, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 
Washington, D.C.; and Gene H. Porter, Institute for Defense Analyses, 
and Gary Christle, Center for Naval Analyses, both of Alexandria, 
Virginia.
NOMINATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Ben S. Bernanke, of New Jersey, 
to be a Member and to be Chairman of the Board of Governors of the 
Federal Reserve System, after the nominee testified and answered 
questions in his own behalf.
ALTERNATIVE AUTOMOTIVE FUEL TECHNOLOGIES
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine public policy options for encouraging alternative 
automotive fuel technologies, focusing on gasoline consumption, 
vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel cells, and the Corporate Average Fuel 
Economy (CAFE), after receiving testimony from Jeffrey N. Shane, Under 
Secretary of Transportation for Policy; Steven E. Plotkin, Argonne 
National Laboratory, Department of Energy; and Fred Webber, Alliance of 
Automobile Manufacturers, David Friedman, Union of Concerned

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Scientists, and Jason Grumet, National Commission on Energy Policy, all 
of Washington, D.C.
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine a status report on the Environmental Protection 
Management programs of the Department of Energy, focusing on status of 
progress at DOE cleanup sites, after receiving testimony from Senator 
Allard; James A. Rispoli, Assistant Secretary of Energy for 
Environmental Management; and Nancy Tuor, Kaiser-Hill Company, LLC, 
Broomfield, Colorado.
NATIONAL PARKS BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks concluded a hearing to examine S. 431, to establish a program to 
award grants to improve and maintain sites honoring Presidents of the 
United States, S. 505, to amend the Yuma Crossing National Heritage 
Area Act of 2000 to adjust the boundary of the Yuma Crossing National 
Heritage Area, S. 1288, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
enter into cooperative agreements to protect natural resources of units 
of the National Park System through collaborative efforts on land 
inside and outside of units of the National Park System, S. 1544, to 
establish the Northern Plains National Heritage Area in the State of 
North Dakota, S. Con. Res. 60, designating the Negro Leagues Baseball 
Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, as America's National Negro Leagues 
Baseball Museum, S. 748 and H.R. 1084, bills to authorize the 
establishment at Antietam National Battlefield of a memorial to the 
officers and enlisted men of the Fifth, Sixth, and Ninth New Hampshire 
Volunteer Infantry Regiments and the First New Hampshire Light 
Artillery Battery who fought in the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 
1862, and H.R. 2107, to amend Public Law 104-329 to modify authorities 
for the use of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial 
Maintenance Fund, after receiving testimony from Donald W. Murphy, 
Deputy Director, National Park Service, Department of the Interior; New 
Hampshire State Senator Bob Letourneau, Concord; John Jordan O'Neil, 
The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Kansas City, Missouri; and Emily 
Wadhams, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported an original 
bill entitled ``Tax Relief Act of 2005''.
TREATIES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the Treaty Between the United States of America and Japan on 
Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters, signed at Washington on 
August 5, 2003; including a related exchange of notes (Treaty Doc. 108-
12), Treaty Between the United States of America and the Federal 
Republic of Germany on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters, 
signed at Washington on October 14, 2003, and a related exchange of 
notes (Treaty Doc. 108-27), Extradition Treaty Between the United 
States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern 
Ireland, and related exchanges of letters, signed at Washington on 
March 31, 2003 (Treaty Doc. 108-23), and Protocol between the 
Government of the United States of America and the Government of the 
State of Israel, signed at Jerusalem on July 6, 2005 (Treaty Doc. 109-
3), after receiving testimony from Samuel M. Witten, Deputy Legal 
Adviser, Department of State; and Mary Ellen Warlow, Director, Office 
of International Affairs, Criminal Division, Department of Justice.
NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and 
International Security concluded an oversight hearing to examine the 
current nuclear situation in Iran and the response of the United 
States, focusing on the relationship between Iran's pursuit of nuclear 
weapons and its status as a state-sponsor of terrorism, after receiving 
testimony from former Representative Gingrich; former Senator D'Amato; 
R. James Woolsey, former Director, Central Intelligence Agency; Gary 
Samore, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, 
Illinois; and Ray Takeyh, Council on Foreign Relations, and Ilan 
Berman, American Foreign Policy Council, both of Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Virginia Mary Kendall, to be United States District 
Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, who was introduced by 
Senators Durbin and Obama, Kristi Dubose, to be United States District 
Judge for the Southern District of Alabama, and W. Keith Watkins, to be 
United States District Judge for the Middle District of Alabama, who 
were introduced by Senators Shelby and Sessions, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.