[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 160 (Wednesday, December 14, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1282-D1283]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SPILL PREVENTION CONTROL
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the Environmental Protection Agency's spill prevention control and 
countermeasure program, focusing on methods and equipment requirements for 
non-transportation-related onshore and offshore facilities with a specified 
aboveground storage capacity, after receiving testimony from Thomas M. 
Sullivan, Chief Counsel for Advocacy, Small Business Administration; Thomas 
P. Dunne, Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste and 
Emergency Response, Environmental Protection Agency; Brent Cummings, 
Cummings Oil Company, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; James Coyne, National Air 
Transportation Association, Alexandria, Virginia; Richard G. Owen, 
Geraldine, Montana, on behalf of the Agriculture

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Coalition on Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure, and CHS, Inc.; 
Riki Ott, Cordova, Alaska; and James J. Corbett, University of Delaware 
Graduate College of Marine Studies, Newark.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
nominations of Antonio Fratto, of Pennsylvania, to be Assistant Secretary of 
the Treasury for Public Affairs, David M. Spooner, of Virginia, to be 
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Vincent J. 
Ventimiglia, Jr., of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of Health and Human 
Services for Legislation, who was introduced by Senator Gregg, Richard T. 
Crowder, of Virginia, to be Chief Agricultural Negotiator, Office of the 
United States Trade Representative, with the rank of Ambassador, and Jeffrey 
Robert Brown, of Illinois, to be a Member of the Social Security Advisory 
Board, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
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