[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 161 (Thursday, December 15, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1290-D1292]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 2012, to authorize appropriations to the Secretary of Commerce for the 
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act for fiscal years 
2006 through 2012, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1608, to enhance Federal Trade Commission enforcement against illegal 
spam, spyware, and cross-border fraud and deception; and
  The nomination of one officer in the Coast Guard.
NEW ORLEANS LEVEES
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee held a 
hearing to examine New Orleans (Louisiana) levees relating to Hurricane 
Katrina, focusing on storm damage reduction projects in metropolitan New 
Orleans, federal, state, and local responsibility for operation, 
maintenance, and inspection of the levees, the role of the Army Corps of 
Engineers in response to a hurricane, and support of the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency, receiving testimony from Colonel Richard P. Wagenaar, 
Commander and District Engineer, Alfred C. Naomi, Senior Project Manager, 
and Gerard A. Colletti, Operations Manager for Completed Works, all of the 
New Orleans District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Edmond J. Preau, Jr., 
Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, Baton Rouge; and 
James P. Huey and Max L. Hearn, both of New Orleans, Louisiana, on behalf of 
the Orleans Levee District.

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  Hearing recessed subject to the call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 1445, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 520 Colorado Avenue in Arriba, Colorado, as the ``William H. 
Emery Post Office'';
  S. 1792, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 205 West Washington Street in Knox, Indiana, as the ``Grant W. 
Green Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 3770, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 205 West Washington Street in Knox, Indiana, as the ``Grant W. 
Green Post Office Building'';
  S. 1820, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 6110 East 51st Place in Tulsa, Oklahoma as the ``Dewey F. 
Bartlett Post Office'';
  S. 2036, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 320 High Street in Clinton, Massachusetts, as the ``Raymond J. 
Salmon Post Office'';
  S. 2064, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 122 South Bill Street in Francesville, Indiana, as the ``Malcolm 
Melville `Mac' Lawrence Post Office'';
  S. 2089, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 1271 North King Street in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, as the ``Hiram 
L. Fong Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 2113, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 2000 McDonough Street in Joliet, Illinois, as the ``John F. 
Whiteside Joliet Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 2346, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 105 NW Railroad Avenue in Hammond, Louisiana, as the ``John J. 
Hainkel, Jr. Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 2413, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 1202 1st Street in Humble, Texas, as the ``Lillian McKay Post 
Office Building'';
  H.R. 2630, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 1927 Sangamon Avenue in Springfield, Illinois, as the ``J.M. 
Dietrich Northeast Annex'';
  H.R. 2894, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 102 South Walters Avenue in Hodgenville, Kentucky, as the 
``Abraham Lincoln Birthplace Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 3256, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 3038 West Liberty Avenue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as the 
``Congressman James Grove Fulton Memorial Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 3368, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 6483 Lincoln Street in Gagetown, Michigan, as the ``Gagetown 
Veterans Memorial Post Office'';
  H.R. 3439, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 201 North 3rd Street in Smithfield, North Carolina, as the ``Ava 
Gardner Post Office'';
  H.R. 3548, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located on Franklin Avenue in Pearl River, New York, as the ``Heinz 
Ahlmeyer, Jr. Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 3703, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 8501 Philatelic Drive in Spring Hill, Florida, as the ``Staff 
Sergeant Michael Schafer Post Office'';
  H.R. 3825, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 770 Trumbull Drive in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the ``Clayton J. 
Smith Memorial Post Office'';
  H.R. 3830, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 130 East Marion Avenue in Punta Gorda, Florida as the ``United 
States Cleveland Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 4053, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 545 North Rimsdale Avenue in Covina, California as the ``Lillian 
Kinkella Keil Post Office'';
  H.R. 3989, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 37598 Goodhue Avenue in Dennison, Minnesota, as the 
``Albert H. Quie Post Office''; and
  The nominations of George W. Foresman to be Under Secretary of Homeland 
Security for Preparedness, and Mary M. Rose to be a Member, Merit Systems 
Protection Board.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
consider pending intelligence matters.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.
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